Karolina Nikielska-Sekula is Associate Professor in Human Geography at the University of South-Eastern Norway. Her current scholarly research focuses on migration studies (Central and Western Europe, and Turkey), urban sociology, heritage studies, ethnographic methods, and visual and sensory sociology. She received MA degree in Sociology from AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, and her PhD in interdisciplinary Culture Studies from the University of South-Eastern Norway. She was also affiliated with the Migration Research Center at Koç University (MiReKoc) in Istanbul and the Pedro Arrupe Human Rights Institute at the University of Deusto.

Amandine Desille is a Marie Curie Individual Fellow at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning at the University of Lisbon, where she conducts a project entitled 'MigRural: Return mobilities to rural Portugal, an assessment of the production of place'. Her research interests include return migration, localgovernance and small and mid-sized cities. Among her most recent publications is the co-editedvolume International Migrations and Local Governance: a Global Perspective published by Palgrave in 2018. She holds a PhD in geography from the University of Poitiers (France) and the University of Tel Aviv (Israel). Previously, she has worked with NGOs and UN agencies on topics related to immigration, local economic development and urban planning.