Nanneke Winters is an Assistant Professor in Migration and Development at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague, which is affiliated with Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her work has been published in a variety of journals including Population, Space and Place, International Migration Review, and the Journal of Latin American Studies. Before joining ISS, she held research positions in the Department of Anthropology and African Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and in the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning at Utrecht University.

Heike Drotbohm is a Professor for Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. She was a fellow at the International Research Center "Work and Life Course in Global Perspective" (Re: Work), Berlin, and at the Department of Anthropology at the New School for Social Research (NYC) and was invited guest professor at the state university of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). She has contributed work to the volume, An Anthropology of Disappearance (Berghahn Books, 2013), co-edited a theme section of the journal Focaal, and sits on the board for the Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology.

Yaatsil Guevara González is a Junior Professor of Migration and the Americas at the Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies, Germany, previously working for the Department of Anthropology and African Studies (Mainz), the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence and the Center for InterAmerican Studies (Bielefeld). She was a fellow at the Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (Costa Rica). Specializing in refugee studies, displacement, and the anthropology of everyday life, her contributions include Material Culture and (Forced) Migration (UCL, 2022) and Report Global (Fisherman, 2023).