Berna safak Zülfikar Savci is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Sociology at Ruhr University Bochum, with a PhD in Demography. She has expertise in development studies topics and currently works as the project coordinator for research on biographical projects of forced migrants. Her specific research interests include forced migration, international migration, and poverty. Ludger Pries is a Sociologist and Senior Professor in the Department of Social Science at Ruhr University Bochum in Germany. Since the 1980s he has been doing research and teaching in Germany, Brazil, Mexico, Spain, Turkey, the USA, and other countries. His research interests include (international comparative) sociology of migration, work and organization, life-course research, transnationalism, and evolutionary sociology. M. Murat Erdogan is Director of Mülkiye Migration Research Center at Ankara University and President of IGAM Academy.

He worked in Turkish German University and in Hacettepe University as both faculty member and director of Migration Research Centers. Erdogan is a member of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)-Turkey, board member of International Steering Committee (ISC) of Metropolis International, and expert at the Foreign Policy Institute in Turkey.