Announcements

The Horizon Europe MIrreM Project (Measuring Irregular Migration and Related Policies) just published two brand new Handbooks for key insights on irregular migration data and on regularisation policies. Both are open access so do check them out. 

How do you think about the drivers of international migration? Take our survey of researchers in Africa and Europe!  

Policymakers often point to data to justify their decisions, particularly in contested policy spaces, such as immigration. Irregular migration, while a point in case, poses distinct challenges to this practice.

Immigration, particularly irregular migration, has become increasingly politicised, largely due to its entanglement with debates over national security, economic pressures, and cultural identity.

For unaccompanied minors seeking asylum in Europe, the formal care they are offered can be rigid and bureaucratic, lacking the flexibility necessary to adapt the care to their needs

Diaspora youth engage with their ‘homelands’ both through online interactions and in-person visits.

Migrant domestic workers in Singapore and Hong Kong who have worked for decades on restrictive, temporary contracts are mandated by the states in which they work to return to their countries of origin upon retirement.

Based on ethnography with long-term migrant domestic workers in Singapore and Hong Kong, this article examines the increasing appeal of financial education courses in the face of precarious futures, limited state-based forms of social protection and uncertainties around kinship care in later life.

Melissa Siegel has two new videos on her YouTube channel

We would like to announce that the deadline for submitting your panel, workshop and paper proposals for the for the 23rd  IMISCOE Annual Conference, hosted by the team of the Migratory Movements Group (University of Girona) at the University of  Girona (Spain) and online, HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL 8 October 2025 (23:59 CEST)!