New publications: JEMS Special Issue on Transnational Youth Mobility through Trajectories and Temporalities
Several MACIMIDE researchers have published articles in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (JEMS) as part of a Special Issue on Transnational Youth Mobility through Trajectories and Temporalities: Mazzucato, V., & Ogden, L. J. (2025). Transnational youth mobility through…
New blog: Reforms welcome?! This is where Germans agree on refugee and asylum migration
On International Day of Human Fraternity, Tobias Hillenbrand and Melissa Siegel explore whether refugee policy can unite rather than divide in Germany. The International Day of Human Fraternity offers a valuable opportunity to reflect on what unites, rather than divides,…
New publication: The Italy–Albania Protocol: A new model of border-shifting within the EU and its compatibility with Union law
This article critically examines the extraterritorial asylum processing model established by the Italy–Albania deal, arguing that it departs from traditional EU externalization strategies and presents new legal challenges. By analysing the criteria used by the EU Court of Justice to…
New publication: ‘It’s the same path, just another direction’: Ghanaian newcomers’ strategic navigations of a German two-pillar model for secondary schooling
The different school forms within Germany’s tracked education system have traditionally led to different diplomas and thus future education and work prospects. Tracking has persistently disadvantaged migrant youth, who are over-represented in lower tracks. Since a 2010 reform introduced a…
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…
New publication: Alternating temporalities experienced by North African unaccompanied minors in The Netherlands: a story of waiting and hypermobility
Naami, M., Mazzucato, V., & Kuschminder, K. (2024). Alternating temporalities experienced by North African unaccompanied minors in The Netherlands: a story of waiting and hypermobility. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2024.2432445 Abstract Migration regimes in the Global North…
New publication: Migrant money and political unrest: Remittances and Support for Protest in Latin America and the Caribbean
López García, A.I. (2024) Migrant money and political unrest: Remittances and Support for Protest in Latin America and the Caribbean. International Migration, 00, 1–20. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.13351 Abstract How does receiving remittances from abroad influence support for protest participation in…