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The chapters address subjects ranging from the Global Compact for Migration, migration laws, fundamental human rights discourse and principles, colonial violence, environmental migrants, and internal displacement. The book additionally delves into the interplay between such notions as the role of women in migration trends, the Kafala System, unaccompanied minors, and family dynamics. Along with tackling border practices, transnational governance, return migration, and complementary protection, the chapters featured in this volume discuss the notions of belonging, stigma, discrimination, and racism. v Acknowledgments This edited collection would not have been possible without the brilliant insights from its contributing authors, and their incomparable experience and grasp of the human spirit. I would like to take the opportunity to thank Stephen McGlinchey and Bill Kakenmaster at E-International Relations, and the wider E-IR Team. Without your support and platform, this book would not have materialized. --- Jasmin Lilian Diab is an Assistant Professor of Migration Studies at the Lebanese American University (LAU)’s Department of Social Sciences. Previously, she served as the Refugee Health Program Coordinator at the American University of Beirut’s Global Health Institute (GHI) and as a Research Associate under GHI’s Political Economy of Health in Conflict Workstream. Prior to assuming her roles at AUB and LAU, she served as the Research and Project Manager of the Lebanese Research Center for Migration and Diaspora Studies at Notre Dame University-Louaize’s Faculty of Law and Political Science, as well as the MENA Regional Focal Point on Migration of the UN General Assembly-mandated UN Major Group for Children and Youth. She is a Senior Consultant on Refugee and Gender Studies at Cambridge Consulting Services, a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University, a Junior Scholar in Forced Displace- ment at University of Ottawa’s Human Rights Research and Education Centre, and a Junior Fellow and Program Lead at the Global Research Network’s ‘War, Conflict and Global Migration’ Think Tank. Dr. Diab is a Founding Member of the ‘Migration and International Law in Africa, Middle East and Turkey International Network’ (MILAMET), and has served as an International Consultant to UNHCR, WHO, Danmission, KAICIID Dialogue Center, Terre des Hommes, ECODIT, AMURT, the Arab Foundation for Freedoms and Equality, the International Domestic Workers Federation, Justice Without Frontiers and Relief & Reconciliation for Syria. She has been a Reviewer to the Journal of Internal Displacement, a Reviewer and Copy- Editor to the journal ‘Refugee Review’, and an Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Applied Professional Studies at Marywood University since 2020. She holds a PhD in International Relations and Diplomacy with an emphasis on Asylum, Refugees and Security from the Center for Diplomatic and Strategic Studies of the School of Advanced International and Political Studies at INSEEC U. in Paris, and is the recipient of the CLS 2021 Bursary Award to complete her Postdoctoral research at LAU-University of Oxford’s Centre for Lebanese Studies. vi Dignity in Movement Contributors Fiore Bran Aragón holds a Master’s with honors in Latin American Studies from the University of New Mexico (USA). Since 2016 she has worked as a researcher and humanitarian affairs officer for migrant and refugee issues in Central America and Mexico, and more recently in the United States. She is co-founder of the Migration narratives project “Me lo contó un migrante” and has served as a South America focal point and research staff member at the United Nations Major Group for Children and Youth (MGCY) on Migration. Her research interests include forced migration, migrant women’s rights, and wellbeing, and integration policies in Central America and Mexico. Sabrina Andrea Avigliano holds a law degree from the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina) and is a Master’s student in Criminal Law at the University of Palermo (Argentina). She has published analytical pieces on migration law and gender-based violence. Keshav Basotia is a Master’s graduate of Diplomacy, Law and Business from Jindal School of International Affairs (India). He currently works as a Geopolitical Intelligence Analyst for a multinational bank. He is interested in South Asian Geopolitics and World Foreign Policy, with particular interests in the geopolitics of Israel in the Middle East and its implications when linked with Indian Foreign Policy. Hadjer Belghoul is a Lecturer of English Literature and Didactics at the Abdelhamid Ibn-Badis University (Algeria) and a researcher at the University of Mustapha Stambouli-Mascara (Algeria). Pat Rubio Bertran is an LLM Candidate in Human Rights Law at the University of Kent, specialising in legal research and advocacy regarding migration and border violence. Simultaneously, Pat is the Program Lead at the search and rescue NGO Refugee Rescue, working in the Mediterranean. Anna Closas Casasampera holds an M.A. in International Conflict Studies at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London (UK). She has collaborated with and worked for various NGOs, particularly on gender and migration issues. She previously studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Pompeu Fabra University, Carlos III and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain). Her research interests focus on Political Theory, International Relations, Migration Studies, as well as Gender and Critical Security Studies. Diotima Chattoraj is currently working as a Research Assistant at the department of Public Health in National University of Singapore. She holds a vii PhD from the Department of International Development Studies (IEE), Ruhr- University Bochum (Germany). She is a social scientist with over 8 years of research experience in the field of Migration and Development Studies. Her areas of research interests include Asia, Sociology of Migration, Theories of Migration, Refugee Studies, Trafficking, Globalization, Climate Change, Development, Gender Studies, Security, Border Studies and International Re- lations. She serves as a peer reviewer for a number of international refereed journals including, South Asia Research and Comparative Migration Studies. Guadalupe Chavez is a PhD student at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford (UK). She previously worked for the Center for Migration Studies (CMS) as the Interim Editorial and Production Assistant, where she managed the administrative and editorial process of CMS’s peer-reviewed journals including the