20/01/2025 – Invitation – Launch of special journal issue ‘Migration Governance Through Funding: Theoretical, Normative, and Empirical Perspectives’

Please find below information on the next lecture (panel event) in the Jean Monnet EU Migration Law and Governance Lecture series convened at the Law Faculty by Lilian Tsourdi. The series is organised in cooperation with the research centers and…

28/01/2025 – PhD Defence of Karlien Strijbosch on Senegalese men returning from Europe to Senegal under conditions of deportability

Karlien Strijbosch will defend her Ph.D. dissertation ‘Challenging masculinities? Senegalese men returning from Europe to Senegal under conditions of deportability’ in the Aula of Maastricht University, MBB 4-6, on Tuesday 28 January 2025, 13.00. You are all invited to attend….

05/02/2025 – Brainstorm event on INCENTIVE Grant for Maastricht University MACIMIDE researchers

MACIMIDE is offering one or more incentive grants to Maastricht University migration researchers to work collaboratively across faculties. The funding of 10,000 euros has generously been made available by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of Maastricht University. The…

ERC Consolidator Grant awarded to MACIMIDE researcher Brigitte Le Normand

Brigitte Le Normand has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant for her project ‘Women Migrants from the Northern Mediterranean and Work in Postwar Northwestern Europe’ (FeMMiWork). The common belief about postwar migration in Europe is that it was predominantly men…

New publication: Conditionality, Compensation, or Both? Comparative Experiences of Third-Country Cooperation on Migration with the EU

McGregor, E., Godin, M., Jumbert, M. G., & Ike, N. (2025). Conditionality, Compensation, or Both? Comparative Experiences of Third-Country Cooperation on Migration with the EU. Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/15562948.2024.2431067 Abstract: Since the late 1990s, the EU…

New publication: Migration Governance Through Funding: Theoretical, Normative, and Empirical Perspectives

Tsourdi, E. (Lilian), & Zardo, F. (2025). Migration Governance Through Funding: Theoretical, Normative, and Empirical Perspectives. Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/15562948.2024.2407584 Abstract: This special issue explores migration governance through funding while providing unique empirical insights into its…

New publication: Phoning Home: Migrant Youths’ Digital Mediations of Embodied Mobility

Ogden, L. J. (2024). Phoning Home: Migrant Youths’ Digital Mediations of Embodied Mobility. Current Anthropology, 65(6). https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/733416. Abstract: This collection of images explores how migrant youth digitally mediate the embodied experience of transnational mobility. Emerging from multisited and multimodal ethnographic…

New publication: Navigating contradictions: justifications and imaginaries of the initiators of European migration information campaigns

Schenetti, C., Mazzucato, V., Wyatt, S., & Schans, D. (2024). Navigating contradictions: justifications and imaginaries of the initiators of European migration information campaigns. International Migration. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/imig.13366 Abstract: European states employ migration information campaigns (MICs) to discourage irregular migration to Europe…

15/01/2025 – Webinar: The Canada-United States safe third country agreement: A critical legal perspective (MPC)

You are invited to EUI Migration Policy Centre’s seminar, The Canada-United States safe third country agreement: A critical legal perspective. Join Hélène Mayrand as she examines whether this agreement successfully processes refugee claims in an orderly manner while protecting the…

23/01/2025 – Webinar: Reaching Irregular Migrants in Europe: Harnessing the Value of Counselling (MPI)

This webinar will bring together policymakers, practitioners, and other experts to explore the value of outreach and counselling to irregular populations and the policy goals and approaches used. The conversation will include key findings from an MPI Europe brief being…