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Dr. Bonfanti is a social anthropologist, specialized in gender studies, with expertise on South Asian diasporas. From a background in cultural studies, she gained a PhD in Anthropology of Migrations for her multi-sited ethnography conducted between Italy and India in 2012-15, where she analyzed generational change among Punjabi transnational families. Keen on participatory methods, her research interests include kinship, religious pluralism and media cultures, approached through intersectionality and life stories. Former visiting fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen (DE), since 2017 she has collaborated within the comparative ERC HOMInG Project based at University of Trento (IT), exploring the home-migration nexus across European cities with a multiscale lens and mixed qualitative methods. Dr. Bonfanti has published widely in Italian and English, and recently co-authored “Shifting Roofs: Ethnographies of Home and Mobility”, Routledge 2020. Currently, while co-editing a collection of migrants’ life stories for Berghahn Books, she is also engaged in filmmaking, co-directing an ethnographic movie on minority houses of worship in times of pandemic.

Gladys F. Bongapat is a recipient of the MEXT Scholarship for a Ph.D. program at the Graduate School of International Development at Nagoya University. Her research focuses on irregular Filipino migrants in Japan. She also took her master’s degree at the same department with a major in Inclusive Society and State, and with minors in Poverty and Social Policy and Peace and Governance. For her master’s degree, she was a recipient of the Mitsubishi UFJ Trust Scholarship Foundation and a beneficiary of the Kamenori Foundation.

Saskia Bonjour is senior lecturer in political science. She teaches mostly in the field of gender & politics and intersectionality. Her research focuses on the politics of migration and citizenship in the Netherlands and in Europe. She is especially interested in family migration, civic integration, gender and migration, and Europeanisation.

Through her study of the politics and policies of migration and citizenship, Saskia Bonjour explores how political actors define identities and communities, that is how they distinguish between ‘us’ and ‘them’. Her research is about how these actors define criteria of membership as well as the rights and resources which flow from different degrees of membership and deservingness, and thus what it means to belong. A crucial line of inquiry in her work is the relation between the politics of intimacy and the politics of belonging, i.e. the way in which gender and family norms shape the politics of migration and citizenship.Other aspects of migration politics that she has published about include the impact of law and courts, Europeanisation, party politics, and the impact of news media on policymaking. Saskia Bonjour's research approach is comparative and interdisciplinary, drawing not only from political science but also from history, law, and sociology.

Richard is the founder and President of OMANIAE Global Network Organization. As an Architect, He has participated in several research and projects on migration, Irregular Migration, asylum and refugee programs. He is responsible for providing leadership, direction and the coordinating of major activities in accordance with the goals and objectives of the Organization.
His role is to direct strategy and create sustainability in order to grow the activities of the Organization to meet its aims and objectives. He is also responsible for programme development, key partnerships, Government and public relations and the overall day to day management of OMANIAE Global Networks.
Through his qualitative and quantitative research on issues relating to irregular migration, failing identities and border crossing, His research fields include Asylum & Refugees, Migration Studies (African migration, Asia migration, transnational perspective and gender, new Mobilities, asylum and gender) and Development Studies. He has conducted fieldwork in Belgium, Senegal, Ghana, Guinea, Organizational capacities of regional infrastructures and migrant’s empowerment, socio-economic, Humanity as well as environmental dynamics of internal displaced undocumented migrants. Richard holds a Bachelor of Education, Arts (English, Religion and Human Values) from University of Cape Coast, Ghana.

Rintu Borah is a PhD candidate of Sociology and Philosophy at the department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. He did his M.phil in Planning and Development from Indian Institute of
Technology Bombay, and Masters in Development Studies from Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. After completion of his M.A he was engaged as a Research Associate in the Centre for Development and Peace Studies, North East India for one year. His public writings have appeared in Indian Cultural Forum, The Wire, The Telegraph and Firstpost. Currently, he works on migration theory, caste in India, indigeneity, borderland, and development in global South with special interest on India's Northeast.

Borch was educated sociologist at the University of Oslo and took her Ph.D. degree at the University of Helsinki on gambling and gambling problems in households. Today, Borch holds a position as Research Professor and Head of Research for the research group Consumption Policy and Economy at Consumption Research Norway (SIFO). She also leads a group entiteled 'inclusive consumption' adressing consumer barriers of people with disabilities and immigrants at the same institute. Borch has worked at SIFO since 1994 and has throughout her career studied a number of subjects, such as obesity, food insecurity, environmental sustainability, responsible research and innovation, RRI, Christmas gift giving, consumer litteracy amongs youth, digital media, and children and commercials.

Much of my work focuses on contributing to the development of concepts and methods for the spatial assessment of vulnerability and risk in the context of environmental transformation. I have conducted research in Congo, Senegal, Algeria, India & Ethiopia and I have significant experience in population-based surveys and data analysis in the Global South. I am currently working on the role of environmental and climate change in driving migration in Ethiopia.

My research in this field is based on studies on coaches' migration. Over the past years, I have been studying the perceptions of migrant coaches in relation to their recruitment process, motivations to migrate and migration experience as a whole. I have also investigated the patterns and networks of Portuguese coaches’ migration and examined how foreign coaches are viewed through media discourse. I have been studying the coaches’ immigration to the United Kingdom by analysing the foreign and native coaches’ views on migration. With the support from the UEFA Research Grant 2017/18, my research in sports migration also provided insight for cultural intelligence in the sports context and informed about the cross-cultural training needs of football coaches to work with people from different countries. I was awarded with the FIFA Scholarship 2022/23 to implement and evaluate a cross-cultural training programme for football coaches. My research interests are also in coach education, learning and professional development by examining the sports coaches knowledge and competences.

Susana Borràs Pentinat holds a degree in Law from the Rovira i Virgili University (URV), where she also obtained her Master's degree in Environmental Law and the title of Doctor with European mention and the Extraordinary Doctorate Award. Associate Professor of International Public Law and International Relations in the Department of Public Law at the URV (with advanced research accreditation from AQU Catalunya). Assistant to the Vice-Rector for Institutional Relations, Culture and Social Commitment URV. From 2008 -2022, she has been the coordinator of the URV's Master's Degree in Environmental Law.

Currently she holds a Marie Skłodowska-Curie position (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020) no. 101031252, at the Università degli Studi di Macerata, with the project "CLIMOVE: gender CLImate Migration: innOvatiVe European Union socio-legal avenues".

Her main teaching and research areas are Public International Law and International Relations, European Union Law and Environmental Law.

Visiting professor at several universities and international institutions: in Brazil at Universidade de Marília (UNIMAR), Universidade de Fortaleza (UNIFOR), Escola Superior Dom Helder Câmara, Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL), Pontificia Universidade Católica, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Universidade Federal Fluminense. In Colombia: Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga (UNAB) and Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS). In Italy: Università di Torino, Italy; International Center for Climate Governance. And in Japan: Hiroshima University.

Member of the Research Group on Environmental Law, Citizenship and Sustainability and the Centre for Environmental Law Studies (CEDAT) of the URV, associated with the Centre de Recherche en Droit Public of the University of Montreal (Canada) and the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law (University of Maryland, USA).

Researcher at the Jean Monet Chair on Environmental Policy of the European Union, coordinated by the University of Barcelona.

She has participated in several national, regional and international research projects. Her research and transfer activity has mainly focused on climate change, climate justice and human rights, environmental and climate shelter, human rights defenders and the environment and the rights of Nature.

The results of his research have been published in various national and international indexed journals, as well as in books and book chapters in prestigious publishing houses.

She has given lectures, seminars and courses in many Spanish and foreign universities in more than ten different countries, as well as in several Masters and PhD courses.

She participates as a legal expert in several international networks: the United Nations in the platform "Harmony with Nature"; the Academic Network on Climate Change, Energy and Human Rights (RICEDH); the RED Empresas y Derechos Humanos, (REDH-EXATA); the Asociación Iberoamericana Derecho Cultura y Ambiente (AIDCA); the South American Network for Environmental Migration (RESAMA); the Earth Law Center; and the Brazilian Institute of Human Rights.

Member of the Editorial Board of: Revista Catalana de Dret Ambiental; Revista Argumentum, Universidade de Marília, UNIMAR, Brazil; Ius Gentium, UNINTER, Brazil; Editora Mucuripe, Fortaleza, Brazil; Fundamental Laws and Democracy Journal of UniBrasil; 'Revista de Direito da Unochapecó (RDUno)', Brazil. Universidade Comunitária da Regiáo de Chape

Member of the Advisory Board of the following journals: Ecological Citizen Journal, London, UK; European Scientific Journal (ESJ), Macedonia; The Open Ecology Journal, Bentham Science Publishers, Sharjah, U.A.E; Revista Chilena de Derecho y Ciencia Política, Universidad Católica de Temuco, Chile; Revista Internacional de Direito ambiental" (RIDA) editora Plenum, Caxias do Sul, Brazil and Revista da Faculdade de Direito Candido Mendes, Rio Janeiro, Brazil.

Web of Science InvestigatorID: AAB-2577-2019
ScopusID: 56268809500

Monique Borsenberger works as a researcher at LISER in Luxembourg and is currently doing her PdD at UCL IOE. Her main research interests include social cohesion, values, attitudes, religion, cross-country comparisons.