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Human Rights and Human Mobility in Asia and the Pacific

Edna Co
University of the Philippines
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Andrea Luisa Canolin
Director, National Reintegration Center for OFWs
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Ms. Aileen Constantino-Peñas
Atikha Overseas Workers and Communities Initiative Inc.
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Mr. Jose da Costa
Migrant/Refugee from East Timor
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Keneth Gadian
DAKILA Philippines
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Maurizio Ambrosini
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Maurizio Ambrosini is professor of Sociology of Migration at the university of Milan, Department of Social and Political Sciences, and gave courses on Sociology of Migrations in other European universities.
He is also the editor of the journal “Mondi Migranti”, and the Director of the Italian Summer School of Sociology of Migrations.
His research regards mainly irregular immigration, labour markets, migration policies at national and local level, transnational families, asylum seekers and refugees.
In English he has published Irregular Immigration and Invisible Welfare (Palgrave, 2013), Irregular migration in Southern Europe (Palgrave 2018), Irregular immigration- a short reader (Springer 2023, with M. Hajer), and several articles on leading international journals.

Rose Jaji
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Rose Jaji is originally from Zimbabwe and holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Bayreuth, Germany.
She is currently a Professor and Researcher at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability.
Her doctoral dissertation focused on the integration of refugee women in Nairobi, Kenya.
Her research interests include migration and refugee studies, gender, conflict, and peacebuilding.

Angelo A. Jimenez
University of the Philippines
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Angelo A. Jimenez is a labor lawyer and expert on international labor migration whose work contributed to the establishment of the Philippines’ Department of Migrant Workers and to migration governance frameworks across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.
He previously served as Deputy Administrator of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration and as Labor Attaché in Japan, Kuwait, and Iraq, with extensive experience in migrant protection and crisis response.
Jimenez has also lectured and published on migration governance, ethical recruitment, and overseas labor law. He holds a Master in Public Management from the National University of Singapore and was a Lee Kuan Yew Fellow at Harvard University.
He earned his law and sociology degrees from the University of the Philippines Diliman and has held several leadership positions within the UP system.

Luciana Gandini
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Luciana Gandini holds a PhD in Social Sciences, with a concentration in Sociology, from El Colegio de México (COLMEX).
She is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Legal Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), specializing in the sociology of law.
She is also Coordinator of the University Seminar on Internal Displacement, Migration, Exile and Repatriation (SUDIMER), which brings together and promotes research on migration and human mobility at UNAM.
She specializes in migration and refugee policies in Mexico and Latin America, as well as the labor and socio-legal integration of people on the move within South–South and South–North migration flows. Her most recent research interests include international migration, development and human rights; voluntary and involuntary migration; the Venezuelan exodus and Central American caravans; and qualitative and quantitative research methods.
Insight

In December 2018, CSEM, in collaboration with Weltkirche (Hauptabteilung Weltkirche der Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart – Germany), the Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of St. Charles Borromeo,

As a continuation and development of the first conference, between 2019 and 2023, CSEM worked intensively to prepare and organize the second international conference. Marked

The III International Conference of CSEM, titled Dialogues to Understand, Humanize, and Value People in Mobility, aimed to analyze and discuss migration trends from multiple perspectives:

Edna Co
University of the Philippines
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Andrea Luisa Canolin
Director, National Reintegration Center for OFWs
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Ms. Aileen Constantino-Peñas
Atikha Overseas Workers and Communities Initiative Inc.
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Mr. Jose da Costa
Migrant/Refugee from East Timor
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