Announcements

Annual Global Hybrid Conference with local event in Bonn/Germany of the Global Labor Organization (GLO) with support of the Journal of Population Economics (JOPE).

Thanks to generous funding from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS) at Maastricht University (UM), MACIMIDE successfully organised a series of events that brought together migration researchers from across the university. 

• 12 September 2025: Listening workshop by sound artist I. Nakhla 

A new book edited by Fabio Perocco, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Venice and Editor-in-Chief of Inequalities: Journal of Critical Inequality Studies has been published by Routledge. 

This paper, written by migration researcher Muhammad Wajid Tahir, applies OpenAI and NLP techniques in Migration Studies.

The European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) has published a policy note which assesses the state of play of the implementation of the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum.

The Africa Migration Report Poetry Anthology Series is inviting poems and short prose focusing on the escalating tragedy of refugee deaths in the English Channel (La Manche).

This research webinar will present the preliminary findings of the Research Project “European Birds of Passage – An Empirical Legal Theory of Temporary Labour Migration in Europe” (European Research Council Starting Grant, 2022-2027) which examines how European Union law and national frameworks shape social rights and perceptions of temporary migrant workers.

In this article published by the Lowy Institute, Prof. Dr. Khalid Koser and Dr. Lilla Schumicky-Logan discuss how leaving detainees stranded in Syria doesn’t reduce risk but instead, can export the very insecurity governments hope to prevent. 

In this article, Prof. Dr. Khalid Koser, Founding Executive Director at Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund (GCERF) and Professor of Conflict, Peace and Security at Maastricht University discusses the Global Investment Risk and Resilience Index.  

Are you interested in joining a collaborative team to study women’s migration from Southern Europe and Turkey to France and Germany in the post-World War II era, and the role of work in their trajectories? Passionate about archival research and oral history? Self-motivated and ready to learn new research skills?