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  • Request: New online survey of migration researchers in Africa and Europe

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

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    Getting into the flow – what do we know now, 15 years since CLANDESTINO?

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

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    Caring at the margins: exploring informal care practices for unaccompanied minors in the Dutch asylum system

    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

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    The Digitally Mediated ‘Homeland’ Mobilities of West African Diaspora Youth: Diversifying Grounded Engagements, Peer Networks and Leisure Practices

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

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    Returns to (non)retirement: Ageing migrant domestic workers linking pasts and futures

    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.

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    Reimagining social protection: financialised futures among ageing migrant domestic workers in Asia

    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.

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    New YouTube migration videos by Melissa Siegel

    Melissa Siegel has two new videos on her YouTube channel

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    Invitation – Workshop: The Transformation of EU Borders in the Era of Artificial Intelligence (AI): Challenges for Fundamental Rights and the Rule of Law

    The Moebius Project invites everyone to workshop on the theme “The Transformation of EU Borders in the Era of Artificial Intelligence (AI): Challenges for Fundamental Rights and the Rule of Law.” It will be held online on septembre 18th 2025 from 2pm to 5 pm CEST. 

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    Invitation – Conference: Food Production and Institutionalised Exploitation

    The conference is the final results-sharing event of the project: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Mig. Pro. Migrants’ protests: how the borders of citizenship are conceived, mobilized and constructed by migrants’ farm workers protests. 

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    Call for papers: Climate Mobilities – Redefining Statehood, Citizenship, and Refugeehood in Times of Climate Crisis

    Recent literature has provided evidence that six of nine planetary boundaries have been transgressed since 2015.

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    Call for applications: Practitioners in Residence (PIR) program – DePaul Migration Collaborative

    The DePaul Migration Collaborative has opened a new call for applications for our Practitioners in Residence (PIR) program.

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    Call for abstracts: Meanings and Measures of Migration Aspirations

    We invite abstracts for a workshop that seeks to explore the forefront of research on the nature of migration aspirations and related concepts. That is, how can we conceptualize and empirically examine people’s thoughts and feelings about potentially migrating? 

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