Nuty Cárdenas-Alaminos is a Research Professor in the Division of International Studies at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), Mexico, and a member of the Mexican National Research System. She specializes in migratory policies and governance, along with integration policies in North America.

Karla A. Valenzuela Moreno is a full-¿time professor in the Department of International Studies at Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, where she teaches in the Master's program in Migration Studies. A member of the Mexican National Research System, her research interests include international migration, diaspora studies, immigrant integration, and bordering practices.

Liliana Meza-González was an economist who graduated from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), Mexico, and from the University of Houston, where she got her PhD with a specialization in labor economics. Liliana was a fellow researcher at the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University, as well as a visiting scholar at the American University in Washington, DC. She has more than 60 publications on the Mexican labor market and on migration to and from Mexico, among other topics. She was a part of the Mexican National Research System since 1999. She was a full-¿time professor and researcher in the Department of International Studies at Universidad Iberoamericana, where she coordinated the Master's program in Migration Studies.