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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 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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    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 papers: 2026 IMISCOE Spring Conference (University of Liège)

    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. 

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    Call for papers: Workshop on high-skilled migration (Radboud University)

    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

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    A Week in the Life of University Professor: Summer School in Armenia

    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. 

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    New publication: The affective registers of migration information campaigns: emotional violence and responses from Senegalese youth

    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.

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    New publication: Framing embodied mobility through video calls: Migrant youth’s digital media practices during ‘home’ visits to Ghana

    This paper explores the intersection of two themes in recent research on transnational youth mobility. 

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    New publication: Humanitarian concerns and threat perceptions: An analysis of the key drivers of refugee attitudes in Germany

    Public perceptions of humanitarian migration are shaped by conflicting sentiments, balancing perceived threats against humanitarian responsibilities.

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    Call for papers: Edited volume on migrant labour resistance and struggles in agriculture in an era of polycrisis

    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. 

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    Call for papers/proposals: 2026 IMISCOE Annual Conference (University of Girona)

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

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    Invitation to join: Local network of migration researchers, practitioners and policymakers

    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.

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