Announcements

We’re delighted to announce the launch of the Call for Papers, Panels, and Workshops for the IRIS 2026 international conference, titled Unsettling Communities: Diversity, Mobility and Displacement in an Age of Growing Authoritarianism. 

Yonsei University, Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale (Y-RISE), Bank of Korea and the Asian Development Bank, together with the World Bank Development Economics Group and the French Development Agency (AFD) request paper submissions for the 19th International Conference on Migration and Development to be held on 16-17 April 2026 in Seoul, South Korea. 

You are invited to submit a paper proposal for the conference ‘Identities and Law: How the Law Shapes the Senses of Belonging.’ 

This book chapter provides an overview of trends in high-skilled migration policy in 31 European countries, elucidating how these policies, along with other drivers of migration, shape high-skilled migration using a multi-disciplinary approach.

Transformations in the world of work have been supported by technological advances and, most recently, changing socio-cultural norms accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Expanded acceptance of – and desires for – remote working have underpinned the growth of ‘location-independent’ work, or ‘anywhere jobs’: skilled and relatively well-paid jobs that can be done from any location, facilitated by digital technologies. 

Multilingual Challenges: Empirical Social Research in Migration Societies, Transnational Spaces, and International Contexts (2026, Volume 14) 

We are delighted to announce the extension of the Call for Proposals for the new event – the 2026 IMISCOE Forum on Promoting Afro-European Mediterranean Dialogue – Shifting Geographies of Migration. The DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS is EXTENDED to 20 February 2026 

David Ramírez Plascencia (Universidad de Guadalajara, México) and Sonia Parella Rubio (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain) invite abstracts for the edited collection “Anti-migration contemporary narratives in America and Europe,” which will be submitted to Edward Elgar Publishing. 

We would like to draw your attention to a call for papers for a conference organized by the interdisciplinary research group “Human Rights Discourse in Migration Societies” (MeDiMi). 

We are delighted to invite you to submit a paper proposal for the international conference “Young People’s (Self-)Positioning in the World: Subjectivities, Discourses, and Inequalities”, which will be held from September 8–10, 2026, at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.