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Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies, University of Sfax, Tunisia, Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences (English Department) and Member of the Laboratory on Approaches to Discourse (LAD).
Research: Cultural Studies, Media studies, Migration Studies, with particular focus on immigration and its impact on host societies. Other research interests include ethnicity, minority groups, and national identities.
Teaching: American and British Studies focused on the social makeup of the US and Britain, emphasizing the main trends of immigration and paying attention to white immigration, political institutions, elections, political parties, the Anglo-American relationship, the British colonies, the American Revolutionary War, the American Civil War and so on. Other courses cover Historiography, with particular attention to the main trends and schools, as well as the use of the past.

Dr Hassan BOUSETTA (1970) is doctor in Social Sciences from the Katholieke Universiteit Brussel (Belgium). He is currently a FNRS (National Fund for Scientific) Research Associate at the University of Liège (Belgium). He joined the CEDEM at the university of Liège in February 2003. He was previously at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and is a former Marie Curie Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship in the Department of Sociology of the University of Bristol (UK). Hassan BOUSETTA holds an MA in Political Science and Public Administration and an MA in the Sociology of Developing Countries, both from the University of Liège (Belgium). Between 1994 and 1997, he was a visiting fellow at the European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations at the University of Utrecht (Netherlands) and held a Human Capital and Mobility Fellowship from the European Commission. From January 1997 till September 2000, he was involved in the Institue for Political Sociology and Methodology of the Katholieke Universiteit of Brussel where he completed his PhD on the political mobilisation of Moroccans in European cities. His work focuses on the political participation of immigrant minorities and on local multicultural policies. Hassan Bousetta has also collaborated to a number of consultancy projects both for private foundations (King Baudouin Foundation), international organisation (Council of Europe), cities (Paris, Antwerp, Bristol) and networks of cities (Eurocities).

I am a Research Fellow at Ined (the French Institute for Demographic Studies) in the Mortality, Health, and Epidemiology Research Unit, and an Associate Researcher at the Ceped research unit (Université Paris Cité, IRD, Inserm). My work aims to describe, quantify and explain social inequalities in health, and examine the conditions for fighting these inequalities through public health policies or specific interventions for and with the populations directly concerned.

I am an early career researcher working in the Monash Migration and Inclusion Centre at Monash University, Australia, and the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University. My research focuses on the intersections of digital media, belonging, migration and refugee studies, and digital and social inclusion.

Doctoral student at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne - Institut of Demography and data analyst at the World Food Programme; focusing on the refugee demographics and how reproductive preferences change for refugee populations particularly for the case of Syrian refugees in the MENA region from a gendered perspective.

I previously worked with the UN, Netherlands Government and NGO’s across Asia and Eastern Africa focusing on mixed migration, protection, human rights and shelter, before returning to academia with a MSc in International Animal Health (Edin), writing a thesis on animal health in complex humanitarian emergencies. For my PhD in Veterinary Medicine sI study zoonoses - diseases transmitted between animals and humans - in displaced populations, with a focus on the Greater Horn of Africa, the Middle East and South Asia.

Benedicte Brahic is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University where she co-convenes the Migration and Interdisciplinary Global Studies (MIGS) research group - https://www.mmu.ac.uk/research/research-centres/rcass/groups/migration-….
Her research interests concern the intersections of gender, migration and, bordering. Her recent published work explores the impact of uncertain migratory contexts and citizenship status on migrant families.