Magdalena Perkowska holds a PhD in Spanish and Hispanic Literatures from Rutgers, The State University of New Jeresey, USA, and a Full Professor of Latin American Literature at Hunter College and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her areas of specialization include Latin American narrative of the 20th twentieth and 21st twenty-first centuries, with emphasis on Central America, literary and cultural theory, visual and memory studies, and affect theories.

Rosa Cañente Alonso is an economist with 22 years of experience; specialized in the measurement, analysis and design of public policies to address inequality and poverty. She has developed research on power, democracy, inequality and poverty, elites, gender, taxation, tax systems, and social policies, especially in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Carmen Guadalupe Fernández Casanueva received her master’s degree and PhD in Sociology from the University of Essex, Great Britain. She had previously completed a degree in Communication Sciences from ITESM CEM. She currently works as a professor-researcher at the Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS) Southeast campus, where she has also been regional director until 2020. It belongs to the National System of Researchers of Mexico, level III.

Yulexis Almeida Junco holds a PhD in Sociological Sciences, a Master’s Degree in Gender Studies and is a Full Professor in the Department of Sociology of the University of Havana, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, History and Sociology, Vice-president of the gender section of the Cuban Society of Psychology. She is one of the coordinators of the CLACSO Working Group (GT): Civilizing Crisis, Reconfigurations of Racism and Afro-Latin American Movements and the Cuban Afro-feminist Articulation (AAFC).

Mustafa Aksakal holds a PhD in sociology and development studies. He currently works as a scientific coordinator and researcher-teacher in the sociology department of the University of Bielefeld. Its empowerment project focuses on the multidimensional analysis of international migration of highly qualified people promoting social inequalities in different ways. In a second research project, Mustafa, in collaboration with Leticia Calderón, studies the institutional and civil society practices in their efforts to treat and integrate migrants trapped in Mexico or deported from the U.S.

Leticia Calderon Chelius is a Professor-Researcher at the Mora Institute. PhD in Social Sciences with a major in Political Science from FLACSO-Mexico. She belongs to the National System of Researchers (SNI) Level 2. Is specialist in Migratory Processes, specifically in Political Rights of Migrants (pioneer of studies on the vote of Mexicans abroad), Mexico-United States Relations, forced migration, experiences of displacement by violence and intercultural and hospitable cities (experience of Mexico City).