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Hacer Gören is a researcher at MiReKoc and a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology, Koç University, Turkey. She completed her MA in 2017 on socioecological impacts of renewable energy transition. From 2009-2018, she worked as a conference interpreter, translator, and researcher at public and private institutions. Her research interests include the sociology of climate change, climate change adaptation, climate-migration nexus, sustainability, climate change narratives, climate change governance, disaster studies, and Anthropocene/Capitalocene. She has translated four books, including world classics, and presented at various international conferences on the climate crisis. She has publications on climate change adaptation and climate-migration nexus.

Research Associate and Lecturer at the Justus Liebig University of Giessen.

I am currently completing my Ph.D. in Sociology at Koç University in Istanbul and am affiliated with the Migration Research Center at Koç University (MiReKoc). My research focuses on studying the linkages between migration and urbanization processes, particularly in Istanbul and Beirut. Previously I completed my Master’s in Urban Planning and Policy at the American University of Beirut and received a Fulbright Research Grant to complete research at Utrecht University. Additionally, I have worked as a practitioner and a researcher in the humanitarian and development sector with MENA and European-based organizations.

Shannon Gouppy is a PhD Candidate at CEDEM, University of Liège (Belgium). She is currently working on a thesis on contemporary antiracist mobilizations in francophone Belgium,, under the supervision of Marco Martiniello. Her research interests include the following themes : migrants and minorities’ political participation, processes of minoritization and othering, racialization and anti-racisms, unconventional forms of activism (including through arts and culture), and positionality and knowledge-production.

Elżbieta M. Goździak is a Visiting Professor at the Center for Migration Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University and Adjunct Lecturer in the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. Her research agenda focuses on migrant mobility and integration, migration and trafficking, medicalization of human suffering, and migrancy and childhoods. From 2002 to 2018, she was Research Professor at the Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM) at Georgetown. She also served as an editor-in-chief of International Migration, a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal on migration policy and research. In 2016, she was the George Soros Chair of Public Policy at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, Hungary.

Elżbieta is a recipient of several Fulbright grants as well as a residential fellowship at the Rockefeller Center in Bellagio, Italy. Her recent books include: Human Trafficking as a New (In)Security Threat (Palgrave 2020) and Europe and the Refugee Response A Crisis of Values? (Routledge 2020) (editor with Izabella Main and Brigitte Suter).

Elżbieta received her doctorate from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland in 1984.

Els de Graauw (she/her/hers) is Professor of Political Science at Baruch College, CUNY, and Deputy Director of the International Migration Studies MA Program at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is an affiliate faculty of Black and Latino Studies and the Austin W. Marxe School of Public and International Affairs at Baruch College, as well as of the International Migration Studies MA Program and the Political Science MA and PhD Program at the CUNY Graduate Center. Els is interested in immigration, civil society organizations, urban politics, government bureaucracies, and public policy, with a focus on understanding how governmental and nongovernmental organizations build institutional capacity for immigrant integration and representation.