Patrícia is a Lecturer in International Relations and co-director of the Migration Research Group at the University of Sheffield, UK. She has a PhD in Political Science from the Universidade de São Paulo (USP) (2019), Brazil. Patrícia has a Bachelor’s degree (2014) and a Master’s degree (2015) in International Relations from the Universidade de Brasília (UnB), Brazil. Before joining Sheffield, Patrícia was a Social Science Research Fellow in Conflict and Migration at the Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction at the University College London. In the last few years, Patrícia was a Visiting Scholar at the Zukunftskolleg (University of Konstanz, Germany), the Jacobs Centre for Productive Youth Development (University of Zurich, Switzerland), and the Carolina Population Centre (University of North Carolina, the USA). Patrícia develops research on children in International Relations and on asylum and migration politics in Latin America. 

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Svetlana is a professor in the Department of Sociology and the Graduate Program in Sociology at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar). She was a visiting researcher at the Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (2023-2024) and at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) at the University of London-UCL (2023). She holds a PhD in Sociology from the Department of Sociology at the Faculty of Philosophy, Languages, and Human Sciences at the University of São Paulo (FFLCH-USP). She holds a degree in Sociology from Lomonosov Moscow State University (2008), a Master 1 in Sociology from the Collège Universitaire Français de Moscou (2008), and a Master 2 in Social Sciences from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales – EHESS – Paris (2010). She is the Academic Coordinator of the Sérgio Vieira de Mello Chair (UNHCR/UFSCar) and the research group InterMob. Research focus: historical and contemporary international migration processes, mobility regimes, migration governance, refuge, and transformations in citizenship and nationality. 

Dr Natalia Cintra is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Politics and International Relations Department at the University of Southampton, with the project 'Racial Politics of Forced Displacement in Latin America'. She holds a PhD in Law from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and was previously Research Fellow in the ESRC-funded ReGHID (Redressing Gendered Health Inequalities of Displaced Women and Girls in Situations of Protracted Displacement in Central and South America) project, also at the University of Southampton, where she had a leading role in the planning, conduction and analysis of qualitative fieldwork and data. Natalia’s research interests lie at intersections of forced mobility, race and gender, with a specific focus on Latin America. She is particularly interested in if and how the governance of the forcibly displaced operates in racial and gendered lines, both historically and in current times. Dr Natalia has also held legal and advocacy roles in refugee and migrant non-profit organisations in the UK and Brazil. She has published in various international journals in the area of migration and asylum, and access to her publications can be found here. She is a Latin American immigrant in the UK, a place she has been trying to call home since 2019.

Ana Maria studies Social Sciences at UFSCar since 2021. She researches migration with a gender perspective. Recently, she completed a research, funded by CNPq, titled "Migrant Incorporation and Social Reproduction: An Analysis from Social Maps of Migrant Women in the countryside of São Paulo'. She is currently funded by FAPESP with a Technical Training Scolarship 1 and a member of the research group InterMob.

Rafael is a master's student in the Graduate Program in Sociology at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), with a CAPES research scholarship and member of the research group InterMob. He holds a bachelor's degree in Social Sciences from the University of São Paulo (2023) and in Journalism from Faculdade Cásper Líbero (2013). He studies the connection between religion and migration, researching the involvement of a network of churches in the displacement of hundreds of Ukrainians to Brazil in 2022.