Sharvari Karandikar is a professor of social work at Ohio State University, USA. She is a member of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in Mumbai, and did her PhD project in social work at the University of Utah, where she focused her research efforts on issues related to sex workers and sex trafficking victims, particularly on issues of gender-based violence, health, and mental health. Her research currently focuses on the areas of sex work and sex trafficking in Asia, egg donation, international gestational surrogacy, and medical tourism and its impact on women.

Jean-Michel Lafleur is Research Professor at the University of Liège and the Associate Director of its Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies (CEDEM). He is also a Research Associate with Belgium’s National Science Foundation (FRS-FNRS). He currently holds a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) to work on a project entitled “Migration and Transnational Social Protection in Post-crisis Europe”.