Announcements

The ERC Starting Grant project GIVE RIGHTS is currently recruiting a PhD student. Deadline for application is 18 January 2026. 

The Marie Sklodowska-Curie Doctoral Network (MSCA-DN) “Entanglements of Migration and Time in Post-Industrial Urban Europe (MITIME)” is seeking applications from motivated doctoral researchers to join its PhD training programme.

The 6th Conference of the German Network for Forced Migration Studies takes place between 28–30 September 2026 at the University of Hildesheim. We would like to kindly invite you for submissions. 
 

The Human Trafficking Research Network (HTRN) is inviting abstracts for its 2026 conference on the theme of “Reframing Trafficking – Knowledge, Policy, and Practice at a Crossroads”.

This Handbook provides key information about the design, implementation and analysis of the Link4Skills Migrant Survey.

Join the Transport Studies Unit in the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford to help shape the future of youth-centric mobility research.

There is an open PhD position at Leuphana University Lüneburg in the research area “Climate Futures in Digital Migration and Border Control” as part of the larger “Embracing Transformation” PhD and scholarship programme, consisting of 8 research projects in the context of climate futures and digital cultures at the school of culture and society, and in total 36 PhD students across our faculties. 

The Arnold Bergstraesser Institute Freiburg (Germany) is seeking to fill the position of Post-Doc Researcher (Salary Level TVL 13/75%). 

We would like to inform you that the two 2025 issues of the Zeitschrift für Migrationsforschung / Journal of Migration Studies (ZMF) were published at the end of 2025. Vol 2025 (1) is a special issue dealing with Jochen Oltmer’s concept of Negotiating Migration (an introduction, one essay and five discussion papers): 

The Laboratory for Studies and Research on Gender, Environment, Religion, and Migration (GERM) at Gaston Berger University in Saint-Louis, Senegal, would like to invite you participate in the International Symposium to be held in Saint-Louis on March 27 and 28, 2026, on the theme: “Migration and Climate in Africa: Emerging Dynamics and Challenges for the Future.”