Dr Mastoureh Fathi is Lecturer in Sociology at University College Cork (UCC), Ireland. Her research revolves around everyday experiences of migration within intersectional framework, identity, home-making and belonging in diaspora and the importance of objects in displacement. Her monograph “Intersectionality, Class and Migration: Narratives of Iranian Women Migrants in the U.K.” was published in 2017.
Dr Caitríona Ní Laoire is Senior Lecturer in Applied Social Studies at University College Cork (UCC), Ireland and is Cluster Leader of the interdisciplinary Migration & Integration Research Cluster of the Institute for Social Sciences in the 21st Century at UCC. Her research interests coalesce around the themes of migration/diaspora, return mobilities, childhood/youth, intergenerational relations, gender, rurality and the use of qualitative research methods such as life-narrative and children-centred methods.