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  • Call for papers: Workshop on The Role of Law and Courts in Migration Politics

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

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    Call for applications: Charlemagne Prize Fellowship 2024/25

    As a contribution to European integration and for the exchange of the young generation in Europe, the Charlemagne Prize Academy aims to identify future challenges and problems of European society and, by awarding research fellowships annually, to develop approaches to solutions at an early stage, which are discussed in dialogue with representatives from science, politics, business, and the public to determine their feasibility and practicability. 

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    Vacancy: Postdoctoral researcher REGENDERING research project (University of Copenhagen)

    The Saxo Institute, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen (UCPH), invites applications for a postdoctoral position in international migration studies from 1 January 2026. 

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    New publication: When Governments Deliver: Migrant Remittances and the Willingness to Pay Higher Local Taxes

    This article deviates from prior research which considers only national-level and formal taxes when examining tax attitudes and behaviours in migrant-sending countries.

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    Vacancy: PhD Researcher on “Sustaining Borders and Displacement Through Refugee Entrepreneurship” (Maastricht University)

    Are you interested in joining an interdisciplinary team of migration researchers to study entrepreneurship programs for refugees and their effects on refugee livelihoods in the Global South? Passionate about ethnographic research? Self-motivated and ready to learn new research skills? 

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    Vacancy: Postdoctoral Researcher on “Women Migrants in Postwar Germany” (Maastricht University)

    Are you interested in joining a collaborative team to study women’s migration from Southern Europe and Turkey to France and Germany in the post-World War II era, and the role of work in their trajectories? Passionate about archival research and research innovation and collaboration? Self-motivated and ready to learn new research skills? 

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    Vacancy: Two Postdoctoral Researchers – ‘Transnational Encounters and Inequalities in the Wellness Industry in Southeast Asia’ (Maastricht University)

    Are you interested in joining an interdisciplinary team to study transnational mobilities and wellbeing in Asia? Passionate about ethnographic research? Self-motivated and ready to learn new research skills? 

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    Highly Commented Article Award for MACIMIDE Researchers – GenSem IMISCOE 2025 Conference

    We are delighted to share that Karlien Strijbosch and Valentina Mazzucato’s article, “I could have married if I wanted to”: How Black migrant men challenge moralizing and racializing discourses when returning to Senegal, published in Ethnic and Racial Studies, has been selected as a Highly Commended Article by the GenSeM Best Article Award Committee of the Gender and Sexuality in Migration Research Standing Committee at the IMISCOE 2025 Conference. 

     

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    New publication: Tools for collecting information on irregular migration estimates and indicators

    This paper discusses the tools used to collect quantitative data related to irregular migration stocks and flows of the Measuring Irregular Migration and Related Policies (MIrreM) project.

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    Vacancy: Postdoctoral researcher on the Migration-Class Nexus (Radboud University Nijmegen)

    How does social class shape the migration journey before, during, and after mobility? Through a mixed-methods case study, you will contribute to a deeper understanding of the ‘class-migration nexus’ — a crucial but often overlooked dimension of migration research. 

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    Call for papers: Special Issue on Contested Categories: Rethinking Labels, Recognition, and Protection

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

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