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During a workshop at the 2023 MACIMIDE conference, participants identified a need to better connect the research conducted by MACIMIDE members with the work of practitioners and policymakers.

European states fund Migration Information Campaigns (MICs) to curb irregular migration from West Africa. MICs mobilise emotions to influence decision-making and govern people’s mobility.

In this video, Prof. Melissa Siegel does a little something different and takes us along with her while she teaches a migration summer school in Armenia for the International Center for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) sponsored by the EU. 

The Refugee-Led Research Hub (RLRH) at the University of Oxford is once again launching Graduate Horizons – an application support programme for students affected by displacement who are applying for master’s degrees anywhere in the world. 

Melissa Siegel has a new video on her YouTube channel

In Germany, newcomer students are usually directed toward lower-track schools due to perceived language deficiencies, commonly attending preparatory classes primarily offered in such schools. 

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

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 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. 

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 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. 

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.