Kristy A. Belton holds a PhD in political science from the University of Connecticut (UConn). She currently serves as the Director of Professional Development for the International Studies Association and is a research affiliate of the Human Rights Institute at UConn. She is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on statelessness and migration and was the recipient of UNHCR's 2015 Award for Best Doctoral Research on Statelessness. Her forthcoming book, Statelessness in the Caribbean: The Paradox of Belonging in a Postnational World, argues for the reconceptualization of statelessness as forced displacement. kbelton@isanet.org
Linda Bosniak is Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University School of Law. She is the author of The Citizen and the Alien: Dilemmas of Contemporary Membership (2006), as well as numerous articles and book chapters on borders, equality, territoriality, and transnational migration in legal and political theory. Currently at the Institute for Advanced Study, she is working on a book to be titled Justifying Immigrant Justice: Wrongs, Rights, and the Liberal National Imaginary. bosniak@law.rutgers.edu
Dan Bulley is senior lecturer in international relations at Queen's University Belfast. His research focuses on the ethics of foreign policy and the ethico-political practices of hospitality that produce post-sovereign spaces in international politics, such as refugee camps and global cities. His work has been published in Security Dialogue and Foreign Policy Analysis, and he is the author of two books: Ethics as Foreign Policy (2009) and Migration, Ethics & Power: Spaces of Hospitality in International Politics (2016). d.bulley@qub.ac.uk
Alise Coen is assistant professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Sheboygan. Her research focuses on global governance, human rights, and U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East. Her work has recently appeared in Global Change, Peace & Security, and The International Journal of Human Rights. Her most recent article, “Securitization, Normalization, and Representations of Islam in Senate Discourse” is forthcoming in Politics and Religion. She is currently working on a book manuscript on global governance, the responsibility to protect, and refugee crises. alise.coen@uwc.edu
Carmen Gómez Martín is professor and investigator of the sociology program at Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Ecuador (Flacso-Ecuador). Her fields of interest include international migration, refugee studies, forced migration, human rights, globalization, and social inequalities; and her geographical areas of research include Latin America, the Maghreb, and the Middle East. Gómez Martín is the author of several papers and books (in Spanish and French) about the Sahrawi, including “Saharauis: Una migración circular entre España y los campamentos de refugiados de Tinduf” in Mediterráneo migrante: Tres décadas de flujos migratorios; “Les ‘dissidences non dissidentes’ du Front Polisario dans les camps de réfugiés et la diaspora sahraouis” in L'Année du Maghreb; and “La migración saharaui en España: Estrategias de visibilidad en el tercer tiempo del exilio” in Editorial Académica Española. cgomez@flacso.edu.ec
Michael Ignatieff is a university professor, writer, and former politician. His major publications are The Needs of Strangers (1984), Scar Tissue (1992), Isaiah Berlin (1998), The Rights Revolution (2000), Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry (2001), The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror (2004), and Fire and Ashes: Success and Failure in Politics (2013). Between 2006 and 2011 he served as an MP in the Parliament of Canada and then as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and leader of the Official Opposition. He is a member of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada and holds eleven honorary degrees. Between 2012 and 2015 he served as Centennial Chair at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs in New York. Between 2014 and 2016 he was Edward R. Murrow Professor of the Practice of the Press, Politics, and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is currently Rector and President of Central European University in Budapest. ignatieffm@ceu.edu
