Kristy A. Belton is a writer and storyteller whose work focuses on issues of belonging, human rights, and social justice, especially as pertains to the Caribbean. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Connecticut and serves as Director of Professional Development for the International Studies Association. Belton is the recipient of numerous awards for her work on statelessness and migration, and she is the author of Statelessness in the Caribbean: The Paradox of Belonging in a Postnational World (Penn Press, 2017), among other publications.

Jacqueline Bhabha, JD, MSc, is Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and the Director of Research at the François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University. She also serves as the Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School and adjunct lecturer in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. She is the author of Child Migration and Human Rights in a Global Age (Princeton University Press, 2014) and Can We Solve the Migration Crisis? (Polity Press, 2018), and is the editor or coeditor of books on statelessness, adolescence, child migration, Roma rights, access to higher education, and reparations.

Brad K. Blitz is Professor of International Politics and Policy and Head of the Department of Education, Practice and Society at University College London. He was previously Director of the British Academy/DFID Programme on Modern Slavery. His research focuses on displacement, citizenship, governance, and human rights. He is currently Co-Investigator on a £15 million “hub” on Gender, Justice and Security, funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF); and Co-Investigator on Life after Deportation, a study of refused and current asylum-seekers returned to Mexico and Guatemala from the United States. His publications include Migration and Freedom: Mobility, Citizenship, and Exclusion (Edward Elgar, 2016).

Tendayi Bloom is a political and legal theorist with a particular interest in dimensions of noncitizenship. She engages on these topics in UN and civil society processes relating to migration governance. She is the author of Noncitizen Power: Agency and the Politics of Migration (Bloomsbury, forthcoming) and Noncitizenism: Recognising Noncitizen Capabilities in a World of Citizens (Routledge, 2018). Her coedited works include Statelessness, Governance, and the Problem of Citizenship (Manchester University Press, 2021; with L. Kingston) and Understanding Statelessness (Routledge, 2017; with K. Tonkiss and P. Cole). She lectures in Politics and International Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Yajaira Ceciliano-Navarro is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Merced. She has a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and a master’s degree in Labor Psychology from the University of Costa Rica (UCR). She worked at Academic Latin American Faculty of Social Science (FLACSO) in Costa Rica, where she was a coordinator of projects related to immigration, education, youth, and gender in countries such as Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, and the Central American region. As a doctoral candidate, she is researching the effects of deportations in Latin American countries and incarceration in the Central Valley.

Jillian Chambers is a Juris Doctor candidate at the University of Connecticut School of Law, where she is the Symposium Editor of Volume 53 of the Connecticut Law Review and Executive Brief Writer for the Connecticut Moot Court Board. Her student note, “Carpenter, the Fourth Amendment, and Third-Party Workarounds,” is being published in the Connecticut Law Review. Following graduation, she will be clerking at the Connecticut Supreme Court for the 2021–2022 term.

Eleni Coundouriotis is Professor of English and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Connecticut. Her scholarship focuses on the engagement of literature with history in the postcolonial novel and human rights narratives. She is the author of Narrating Human Rights in Africa (Routledge, 2021), The People’s Right to the Novel: War Fiction in the Postcolony (Fordham University Press, 2014), and Claiming History: Colonialism, Ethnography and the Novel (Columbia University Press, 1999).

Susan Bibler Coutin holds a PhD in anthropology from Stanford University and is Professor of Criminology, Law and Society and Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, where she also is Associate Dean for Academic Programs in the School of Social Ecology. She is the author of Exiled Home: Salvadoran Transnational Youth in the Aftermath of Violence (Duke University Press, 2016), Nations of Emigrants: Shifting Boundaries of Citizenship in El Salvador and the United States (Cornell University Press, 2007), Legalizing Moves: Salvadoran Immigrants’ Struggle for U.S. Residency (University of Michigan Press, 2000), and The Culture of Protest: Religious Activism within the U.S. Sanctuary Movement (Westview Press, 1993).

Azadeh Dastyari is Associate Professor in the School of Law at Western Sydney University. She researches in the areas of human rights, refugee rights, the law of the sea and constitutional law, with a particular focus on the experiences of vulnerable groups such as older persons, Indigenous Australians, and children. Her articles have been published in the International Journal of Refugee Law and the Human Rights Law Review among other places, and her most recent book is United States Migrant Interdiction and the Detention of Refugees in Guantanamo Bay (Cambridge University Press, 2015).

Tanya Golash-Boza is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Merced, and the author of several books and dozens of articles on immigration, race, and racism. Her latest book Deported: Immigrant Policing, Disposable Labor and Global Capitalism (New York University Press, 2016) was awarded the Distinguished Contribution to Research Book Award from the Latino/a Studies Section of the American Sociological Association. In 2010, she won the Distinguished Early Career Award from the Racial and Ethnic Minorities Studies Section of the American Sociological Association. In 2019, she received the UC Merced Senate Award for Excellence in Faculty Mentorship.

Asher Hirsch is Senior Policy Officer with the Refugee Council of Australia, the national umbrella body for refugees and the organizations and individuals who support them, and is completing a PhD at Monash University in refugee and human rights law focused on Australia’s migration control activities in Southeast Asia. He holds a Bachelor of Arts, a Master of Human Rights Law, a Juris Doctor, and a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice. His articles have been published in the Human Rights Law Review, Refugee Survey Quarterly, and Human Rights Review, among other places.

Daniel Kanstroom is Professor of Law and Thomas F. Carney Distinguished Scholar at Boston College, Faculty Director of the Rappaport Center for Law and Public Policy, and Co-Director of the Center for Human Rights and International Justice. His work has appeared in the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Journal of International Law, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. His recent books include Aftermath: Deportation Law and the New American Diaspora (Oxford University Press, 2012) and Deportation Nation (Harvard University Press, 2007), and he has edited volumes with M. Brinton Lykes (New York University Press, 2015) and Cecilia Menjivar (Cambridge University Press, 2013). His forthcoming book is Deportation World (Harvard University Press, 2022).

Molly Land is the Catherine Roraback Professor of Law and Human Rights at the University of Connecticut School of Law. Her research focuses on the intersection of human rights, science, and technology. She has authored more than twenty-five articles or book chapters and coedited or coauthored three books, including New Technologies for Human Rights Law and Practice (with Jay Aronson, 2018), available under an open access license from Cambridge University Press. A former Fulbright Scholar at the University of Bonn, Professor Land earned her JD at Yale Law School.

Kathryn Libal is Director of the Human Rights Institute and Associate Professor of Social Work and Human Rights at the University of Connecticut. Her publications have focused on human rights, social work, and the rights of refugees and asylum seekers, including contributory volumes on Human Rights in the United States: Beyond Exceptionalism (with Shareen Hertel, Cambridge University Press) and Refugees and Asylum Seekers: Interdisciplinary and Comparative Perspectives (with S. Megan Berthold, Praeger). She examines the localization of human rights norms and practices in the United States and the politics and practices of voluntarism and social activism to support the rights of refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants.

Jamie Chai Yun Liew is an immigration and refugee lawyer and Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law. She has appeared in front of the Immigration and Refugee Board, the Federal Court of Canada, and the Supreme Court of Canada. Her research focuses on how law and public policy marginalize immigrants, migrants, refugees, refugee claimants and stateless persons. Her current research examines how law constructs stateless persons in Canada and Malaysia. Her forthcoming book “Ghost Citizens” examines the post-colonial construction of in situ stateless persons as foreigners.

Luis Rubén González Márquez is a PhD student of Sociology at the University of California, Merced. Previously he studied History and Sociology in El Salvador and Ecuador. He has worked as a researcher in the National Teachers Training Institute (INFOD) of El Salvador and as Adjunct Professor in the University of El Salvador. For his doctoral studies in 2019–2021, he was awarded a Fulbright-LASPAU scholarship for the development of higher education in the Americas. His current research is about labor mobilization, political violence, and transnational production in Latin America.

Serena Parekh is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Northeastern University in Boston, where she is the director of the Politics, Philosophy, and Economics Program. Her primary philosophical interests are in social and political philosophy, feminist theory, and continental philosophy. She is the author of three books, including her most recent book No Refuge: Ethics and the Global Refugee Crisis (Oxford University Press, 2020). Her other books include Refugees and the Ethics of Forced Displacement (Routledge, 2017) and Hannah Arendt and the Challenge of Modernity: A Phenomenology of Human Rights (Routledge, 2008).

Jaya Ramji-Nogales is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and the I. Herman Stern Research Professor at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law. Her recent publications include Migration Emergencies, which uncovers the role of international law in constructing migration emergencies, and Undocumented Migrants and the Failures of Universal Individualism, which critiques human rights law as insufficiently attentive to the interests of undocumented migrants. She is the coauthor, with Andrew I. Schoenholtz and Philip G. Schrag, of The End of Asylum, a forthcoming book that analyzes changes to the US asylum system under the Trump administration.