YOUNG MIGRANTS: Vulnerabilities, Boundaries, Protection and Integration

Ana VILA-FREYER holds a PhD in political science from Université de Montréal and is professor-researcher at Universidad Latina de México. Her research focuses on composed identities and multiple belongings developed by young Mexicans settled regularly or irregularly in the US or returning to Guanajuato, central Mexico. She has been part of the National Research System (S.N.I.) since 2017.

Mehmet Gökay ÖZERİM is a member of the International Relations Department, and the Director of the European Union Research Center at Yaşar University, Turkey. His main study fields are international migration, youth, security and European integration process. Dr Özerim was awarded the Chevening Scholarship of UK Government in 2010 and carried out a part of his researches in the University of Oxford. In 2014, he was at the Institute of European Studies in University of California, Berkeley as a visiting scholar. He has also been working in several European Union funded projects and delivering training on youth participation and project management since 2006. In 2019, Dr Özerim was awarded a Jean Monnet Chair on migration by the European Commission.