Announcements

The Centre for Migration Law (RU), together with Institute for European Law (KU Leuven) and the Amsterdam Centre for Constitutional. Culture and Democratic Governance (UvA) are pleased to invite paper proposals for the one-day workshop “The Promise of the Pact? What the EU promised but the Pact on Migration and Asylum does not deliver”, that will take place at Radboud University on 22 May 2026. 

Submit your entry for the 2026 GLOBALCIT – Rainer Bauböck Essay Award on the Global State of Citizenship 

We are pleased to invite you to our conference titled: The Future of Return: Towards Long-Term Solutions for Ukrainians Abroad and in Ukraine

In this talk, dr. Marta Rawłuszko, assistant professor at the Institute of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Warsaw, will examine contemporary feminist tactics by introducing the concept of ‘illegitimate care’. In particular, she will focus on two case studies: feminist support for migrants at the Polish-Belarusian border and assistance in accessing abortion in Poland. 

1. One in thirty people in Amsterdam is an undocumented immigrant. They are denied the right to health insurance, but they do have the right to healthcare. Nonetheless, many undocumented people do not receive the healthcare they are entitled to. 
2. Health care is a basic human right, so how can it be that undocumented people are regularly denied access to care? Who cares explores the harsh reality of undocumented people living in Amsterdam. A reality in which you can be terminally ill, but still faced with closed hospital doors. 
3. Understanding the need for awareness on this topic, AT5 aired this documentary on their TV-channel multiple times. You can also watch this at: https://beyondbordersmedia.com/portfolios/documentary-who-cares. 

Abstract: The correlation between rising asylum immigration and the electoral success of far-right anti-immigration parties has sparked concerns about a potential “Democratic Dilemma” – namely, a trade-off between a country’s openness to immigrants and the preservation of democratic institutional quality.

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.