Call for Papers

In recent years, cultural, social, political and economic life in Turkey has undergone radical changes due to increasing international migration and a diversified migration profile.

The Journal of Refugee Studies (JRS) is accepting proposals for special issues. JRS is a peer-reviewed journal featuring original, high-quality research related to diverse aspects of forced migration. We welcome proposals that engage with and significantly advance scholarly debates in the field of refugee and forced migration studies. 

On 13 and 14 November 2025, the Leuphana University Lüneburg is organizing the workshop The Role of Law and Courts in Migration Politics. 

We are pleased to share our Call for Papers for a proposed special issue titled “Contested Categories: Rethinking Labels, Recognition, and Protection.

We are pleased to share the Call for Abstracts for the upcoming interdisciplinary workshop: “Local Jobs, Global Lives? High-skilled migrants navigating transnational mobility and local embeddedness”, taking place 11–12 December 2025 at Radboud University, Nijmegen. 

The proposed volume focuses on migrant farmworker resistances in the last five years of the polycrisis. It seeks contributions that examine the roots and forms, evolution and role, consequences and prospects of solidarities, alliance building, and resistances against the exploitation, control, and precarization of racialized migrant labour. 

On behalf of the organizing team of the Migratory Movements Group (University of Girona), we are honored to welcome you all to the 23^rdIMISCOE Annual Conference at the University of  Girona (Spain) and online!

The Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies (CEDEM) of the University of Liège is delighted to announce that it will host the 2026 IMISCOE Spring Conference in Liège between 16-18 March 2026. We would like to extend a friendly reminder to submit your paper proposals. The Call for Papers can be found below. 

We are pleased to share the call for the Annual Dutch Association for Migration Research (DAMR) Pitch & Mix event with you, taking place on October 30 2025 from 13.00-17.00, at the Ministry of Asylum and Migration in the Hague.

The Dutch Association for Migration Research (DAMR) will hold its next next Annual Conference on November 27 at the University of Groningen.