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Helena Wray is Professor in Migration Law at the University of Exeter. She has taught, researched and published extensively on migration law, especially family migration and citizenship, and is editor of the Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law. She has led or been involved in several research and consultancy projects and led teams that provided expert evidence in two test cases heard in the Supreme Court relating to family migration law. 

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Elena Isayev is Professor of Ancient History and Place at the University of Exeter, with research interests in migration, belonging, displacement, encounter, politics of exception and constructions of place. She is currently involved with the collaborative projects Knowledge in Transit and Imagining Futures through Un/Archived Pasts. She is the co-founder, with Isshaq AlBarbary and Diego Segatto, of the 'living learning environment', Al Maieshah, which explores concepts of neighbourhood and hospitality. 

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Ben Hudson is a Senior Lecturer in Law and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Exeter Law School. His doctoral research identified, examined and elucidated a series of pertinent challenges in law and practice that impact upon the effective realisation and requisite conceptualisation of return as a durable solution to internal displacement. Aside from his work on internal displacement, Ben has also published in the area of cross-border migration, notably examining the concept of vulnerability as utilised by the European Court of Human Rights in its case law pertaining to migrant journeys across the Mediterranean Sea.

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