Announcements

Forced Migration Review’s call for article proposals for our issue on ‘Climate change: choices for displaced people’ is now live: https://www.fmreview.org/climate-change-cfa/ 

Max Stephenson and Ariel Otruba at the Virginia Tech Institute for Policy and Governance are co-editing a special issue for the International Journal of Population Studies examining responses and negotiations of refugee-host conflicts.

IMISCOE is looking for seven (7) new members for the Training Committee (including 2 members who are currently PhD students and 3-5 members who have completed PhDs – both early-career and more senior researchers among them). 

We are pleased to announce the conference ‘Labour migration towards the Netherlands and the EU: solution, challenge, or necessity?’ of the European Migration Network Netherlands (EMN Netherlands) on 11 June in The Hague.

Mori, G., Puigdomènech Vidal, J.  and M. Siegel (2025) Diaspora Engagement Report: Case Studies and Best Practices for Ukraine, International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD). https://www.icmpd.org/file/download/63969/file/CORE%2520UA%2520Diaspora%2520Engagement%2520Report_EN.pdf 

Fürstenau, S. & L.J. Ogden. (2025) “Migration und Transnationalisierung.” In Handbuch Erziehungswissenschaftliche Migrationsforschung, edited byIsabell Diehm, Merle Hummrich, Wolfgang Meseth, Galina Putjata. 

Melissa Siegel has two new videos on her YouTube channel

You are cordially invited to the next UNU-MERIT Migration Seminar Series with Dr. Jasmin Lilian Diab.

You are invited to the next RECSM-UPF open webinar happening on Thursday, 15 May 2025, 15:00 CET with Prof. Burak Sonmez from the Centre for Quantitative Social Science at UCL, who will lead a thought-provoking session on public reactions to border enforcement and the conditions under which people justify violence. 

As the focus on returning failed asylum seekers and other migrants to their countries of origin remains high, there is a commensurate need to consider reintegration support that assists returnees in rebuilding their lives.