Announcements

Melissa Siegel has a new video on her YouTube channel: 

On 03 June 2025, MACIMIDE Researcher and Assistant Coordinator Lalaine Siruno successfully defended her PhD project titled, Agents of human development? The strategies of (irregular) Filipino migrant domestic workers in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. 

The updated AIDA Country Report on Ukraine provides a detailed overview on legislative and practice-related developments in asylum procedures, reception conditions, detention of asylum applicants and content of international protection in 2024. 

It is our great pleasure to share with you the IMISCOE Activity Report for the year 2024. We hope that this report, while unavoidably reflecting only parts of the incredibly rich activities that our Network developed in 2024, will provide an indication of how active our community was in the past year.

We want to bring the Short Reader on Migrant Transnationalism to your attention, published within the IMISCOE Research Network series with Springer. It’s a co-authored monograph by Özge Bilgili & Marta Bivand Erdal. 

Drawing on 40 interviews, this article advances understanding of how Filipino undocumented migrant domestic workers (UMDWs) in the United Kingdom (UK) and the Netherlands navigated the pandemic by undertaking a comparative analysis of their resilience strategies

This report maps the variety of ways in which states regulate citizenship. It identifies the obstacles that individuals face in being recognised as citizens that arise from different and uncoordinated approaches of states around the world: 

Recently, scholars have been combining mobility and migration studies but what are the implications and what’s to be gained? Here is a brief commentary setting a research agenda: 

Mazzucato, V., Schapendonk, J. Migration through a mobilities lens: considerations for a future research agenda. Comparative Migration Studies 13, 42 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-025-00463-x 

The Worldwide Universities Network WUN is announcing another webinar especially targeting early career researchers including PhD candidates at WUN member institutions (including Maastricht University). 

How does social class shape the migration journey before, during, and after mobility? Through a mixed-methods case study, you will contribute to a deeper understanding of the ‘class-migration nexus’ — a crucial but often overlooked dimension of migration research.