Amba Pande is associated with the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her research interests include Indian Diaspora, International migration, Transnationalism and Gender/ women studies. She has been a visiting faculty/scholar at the University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands), University of South Pacific (Fiji), and Otego University (New Zealand). Her research papers have appeared in journals such as Migration Letters, South Asian Diaspora, Internal Studies, Diaspora studies, Round Table and Strategic Analysis. Her edited volumes include Women in the Indian Diaspora: Historical Narratives and Contemporary Challenges (Springer, Singapore, 2018); Indentured and Post Indentured Experiences of the Women in Indian Diaspora (Springer Singapore, 2020); and co-edited Women, Gender and the Legacy of Slavery and Indenture (Routledge UK). She is a regular reviewer for many international journals, books and book series published with Taylor and Francis, Sage, Cambridge, and Edinburgh University Press. Dr Pande has received several fellowships and has conducted major projects on the Indian Diaspora in Fiji, Myanmar, and Southeast Asia. She has presented papers in around seventy-five international conferences and has been invited to as independent speakers and panel discussants. Dr Pande is a member of several diaspora organizations and is part of the editorial board of a number of journals. She is the founder co-editor of Migration and Diaspora: Interdisciplinary Journal. Camelia Tigau is a full researcher at the Center for Research on North America, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Prof. Tigau teaches migration and international studies at the same university, at a graduate and undergraduate level. She holds a PhD in Social and Political Sciences (2007) and a Masters in Communication (2004) from UNAM. She also studied journalism and communication at the University of Bucharest and the Schools of Journalism in Utrecht (Holland) and Aarhus (Denmark). She served as the Coordinator of the Area of Integration Studies of the CISAN (2020-2022). In 2022, she received the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Award for outstanding women scientists at UNAM. Camelia Tigau is a regional vice-president Global Research Forum on Diasporas and Transnationalism (GRFDT, India). She was a visiting researcher at the University of Toronto, (Global Migration Lab), Rice University (The Baker Institute for Public Policy) and the University of York, Canada. At present, she coordinates the collective research project ]Diaspora Communication and Diplomacy. Perspectives From the Receiving contexts in the Americas, Europe and Asia], funded by the General Department of Academic Personnel (DGAPA, UNAM). She has published in the journals Migration and Development, Migration Letters , Education Policy Analysis Archives, Migration and Diasporas: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Place Branding and Public Diplomacy and Norteamérica, among others. Her last authored book is called Discriminación y privilegios de la migración calificada: el caso de los profesionistas mexicanos en Texas (Discrimination and privileges of skilled migration: the case of Mexican professionals in Texas), 2020, CISAN - UNAM. She also co-edited the volume Trump's Legacy in Migration Policy and Postpandemic Challenges for Biden with Mónica Verea, CISAN/UNAM, 2022.
