Luna Vives is a political geographer and associate professor in the Department of Geography, Université de Montréal. She has a background in sociology, geography and social work.
Arnaud Banos is CNRS research director and head of the UMR Géographie-cités (CNRS –Panthéon-Sorbonne University – Paris Diderot University, France). As a geographer, has an interdisciplinary approach to complex spatial systems.
Ċetta Mainwaring's research interests include migration, borders, solidarity work, and the Mediterranean. She was awarded a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship to research immigration detention, the way this failed policy travels internationally, and resistance to it in the UK, US, and Australia.
Lucy Mayblin is a political sociologist working on the politics, public policy, and political economy, of borders and asylum.
Petra Molnar is a lawyer and anthropologist specializing in migration and human rights. She co-runs the Refugee Law Lab at York University and is a faculty associate at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society.
Álvaro Ramírez March holds a PhD from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and serves as a lecturer of Social Psychology at the Universitat de Barcelona. His research focuses on migrations, borders, and collective memory seen from a transdisciplinary point of view.
Maurice Stierl leads the German Research Foundation project The Production of Spaces of Migrant Disappearance at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies, Osnabrück University. His research focuses on migration struggles in contemporary Europe and Africa.
Kira Williams is a critical human geographer who is a data scientist at University of Toronto Scarborough. Her research focuses on international migration, borders, political geography, analytical methodology and statistics
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Elizabeth Rose Hessek is a PhD student in Geography at the Université de Montréal. Her research is situated at the intersection of migration studies and queer geography.
Camille Martel is pursuing a PhD in geography at the University of Le Havre Normandy, focusing on the maritime nature of migration in the English Channel and the challenges of rescue operations. She is also a volunteer contributor to the Refugee Camps Observatory.
Itziar Murillas is a PhD student in Geography at the Université de Montréal. Her research examines EU migration governance and human rights, with a particular focus on maritime migration routes in the Mediterranean.