Announcements

This collective volume, co-edited by Prof. Lilian Tsourdi together with Dr. Niovi Vavoula and Prof. Valsamis Mitsilegas, offers a contemporary understanding of the state of the art of ‘crimmigration’ with a focus on the European Union and challenges this paradigm of intersecting criminal justice and immigration control.

You are cordially invited to attend the upcoming UNU-MERIT Migration Seminar featuring Senija Mehmedovic, a survivor of the Srebrenica Genocide, who will share her journey from war and displacement to resilience, exploring trauma, identity, and the power of healing through storytelling. 

We would like to inform you about the CESSMIR conference  ‘Looking back, moving forward: Migration Studies in times of societal transformation’ that will take place from 14 to 16 September 2026 in Ghent. You can find the call attached, a short version is at the end of this e-mail. 

Abstracts are now being invited for the Mini-Conference (08) Between dependence and exclusion: labour migration and the contradictions of globalisation (https://sase.org/events/2026-bordeaux/#mini-conferences) at the SASE 2026 Conference in Bordeaux, July 1–3, 2026. See call for papers below, please. 

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the workshop “Citizenship in Displacement: Policies, Practices and Lived Experiences”, to be held on 25-26 June 2026 in Tangier, Morocco. 

Europe’s demand for workers is growing across a wide range of skill levels, with more than three-quarters of small- and medium-sized enterprises struggling to find workers with the right skills.

You are invited to attend the Sixth WHO Global School on Refugee and Migrant Health, under the theme: “Leadership in Health and Migration: Policies and Actions Across Countries.” 

We are pleased to share information on the in-person short course on Research Methods in the Refugee and Forced Migration Field by the Refugee Law Initiative (RLI), University of London, that will run in March 2026. Please note the deadline to apply for a place is 6th February 2026. 

In this anniversary issue we reflect on the past of the journal Comparative Migration Studies in order to better understand the journal’s present and to shape the future of the journal.

Empty, unfinished, or ‘ghost’ houses are common sights around the world, where aspirational investment in housing outpaces the potential to physically occupy it.