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As a graduate student in Governance of International Relations at Sciences Po Toulouse, in France, Sonia foresees to pursue a Ph.D. in migration and refugee studies. During a one-year exchange at Yeditepe University, Sonia has conducted research in Istanbul and Gaziantep as part of both her undergraduate thesis and course of Applied Research. Her latest work deals with the years following the 2016 EU-Turkey deal and the Syrian refugee response implemented by varying actors in Turkey. As a former Policy and Research Intern at the Istanbul Policy Center (IPC) in Spring 2019, she participated in the elaboration of quantitative analysis of Turkey’s economic trade with the Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraq and, Syria.

Dr. Svetlana Chachashvili-Bolotin is a Head of the Institute for Immigration and Social Integration and a senior lecturer at the Ruppin Academic Center in Israel. In early 2011, she founded the Research Department in the Education Division and served as its head in 2011-2015. Beginning from 2015 she has been a member of the professional committee of Israel Ministry of Education. Since 2021 she is an Associate Editor of Hagira (Migration in Hebrew) Journal. Her main areas of research include migration and inequality, migration and education, economic and social integration of immigrants. Dr. Chachashvili-Bolotin published more than 30 articles in international journals as well as professional and applied studies and reports. Her long-term goal is to strengthen connections between the academy and practice. She considers herself as an applied sociologic researcher-practitioner whose research is affected by practice and practice is informed by research.

I am a researcher whose work lies at the cross section of gender,
migration and diasporic studies from a postcolonial feminist perspective. I am Principle
Investigator of a five-year Irish Research Council project on migrant South Asian women’s
experience of accessing support services in Ireland. I am specifically interested in looking at
how ideas around gender, masculinities, and caste migrate transnationally and how it effects
migrant women of colour in Europe. I have actively sought to collaborate with civil society
partners outside academia, narrowly defined, in the co-production of knowledge and the
communication of research findings for societal impact My work has been published and
accepted for publication in leading international peer-reviewed publications including
International Feminist Journal of Politics, Economic and Political Weekly, Religion and
Gender, Routledge, and Cambridge University Press. Since finishing my PhD in 2019, I have
led three research projects worth more than €500,000 funded by the Irish Research Council,
and Ireland India Institute, and collaborated on international research projects with colleagues
at Goldsmiths, University of London, Tampere University, Lucerne University, ActionAid
Ireland, ActionAid Nepal. As a Postdoctoral Fellow in Dublin City University’s School of Law
and Government, I have created and taught modules on postcolonial politics, gender studies
and masculinity studies to DCU’s undergraduate and postgraduate students. In my former role
as an Editor, I have been in charge of the production of 13 top rated academic journals from
Sage Publications.

I’m a sociologist and I hold a PhD in Criminology (Panteion University -GR). I’'ve been working at the Greek Asylum Service since 2013, first as an Asylum Expert then as a Head of Asylum Units in Leros and in Athens. Currently, I’m course coordinator and instructor at the interdepartmental MSc in Media and Refugee / Migration Flows (National Kapodistrian University of Athens & University of the Aegean). My last research which is conducted jointly by the National Center for Social Research and the Center for the Study of Crime concerns integration issues of refugees, cultural norms, identities and ties.

I am a Lecturer based in the Lincoln Academy of Learning and Teaching at the University of Lincoln.

My key areas of interest are gender, work and migration. My current doctoral research looks at the aspirations and lived experiences of women migrants in the UK. I am supervised by Dr Anna Tarrant, Dr Agnieszka Rydzik, and Dr Ana Jordan.

I am the current GenSeM IMISCOE standing committee co-Representative for PhD students and Early Career Researchers.

I also work part-time on the Nuffield-funded project, ‘Caregiving Dads, Breadwinning Mums: Transforming Gender in Work and Childcare?’, which is being conducted at the University of Lincoln.

I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Structured Writing Retreat Facilitator trained by Prof. Rowena Murray.

I have 13 years’ work experience (including consultancy) in a range of organisations including local government bodies, grassroots charities, international aid agencies and social enterprises.

I began my career on the National Graduate Development Programme working at the London Borough of Islington in Housing Aid, Children’s Services, Policy and Programme Management, and the Refugee and Asylum Seekers team. I then moved to the voluntary sector, managing the Stronger Communities Programme at the Community Works in Brighton & Hove, which engaged local grassroots NGOs serving minority communities. After completing my Masters I worked for the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), where I held a Research Officer position, acting as representative of Japanese ODA to DfID and British NGOs, and as JICA’s Gender Focal Point for the UK.

Ching-An Chang is an associate professor from the Department of Arabic Language and Culture at the National Chengchi University in Taiwan (R.O.C.). His research interests include 1) Middle East studies (with a special focus on the Levant), 2) refugee, migration, and diaspora in the Middle East, and 3) transnationalism. His work has appeared in International Migration, Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, Social Inclusion, and Insight Turkey.