New Publications

In the history of urban planning in Rabat, Morocco, the force most often referred to is the French Protectorate period, effectively driven by a single person: Hubert Lyautey.

At a long overdue lunch the other day, my friend Gili and I got to talking about coding and analysis. We are both on the same page: frustrated with the lack of guidance, in textbooks and the like, for how qualitative analysis actually works. 

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): 

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) 

This short contribution, written by MACIMIDE researcher Prof. Dr. Khalid Koser, is situated at the intersection of three global contradictions.