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This report maps the variety of ways in which states regulate citizenship. It identifies the obstacles that individuals face in being recognised as citizens that arise from different and uncoordinated approaches of states around the world: 

The updated AIDA Country Report on Ukraine provides a detailed overview on legislative and practice-related developments in asylum procedures, reception conditions, detention of asylum applicants and content of international protection in 2024. 

It is our great pleasure to share with you the IMISCOE Activity Report for the year 2024. We hope that this report, while unavoidably reflecting only parts of the incredibly rich activities that our Network developed in 2024, will provide an indication of how active our community was in the past year.

We want to bring the Short Reader on Migrant Transnationalism to your attention, published within the IMISCOE Research Network series with Springer. It’s a co-authored monograph by Özge Bilgili & Marta Bivand Erdal. 

Recently, scholars have been combining mobility and migration studies but what are the implications and what’s to be gained? Here is a brief commentary setting a research agenda: 

Mazzucato, V., Schapendonk, J. Migration through a mobilities lens: considerations for a future research agenda. Comparative Migration Studies 13, 42 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-025-00463-x 

The Worldwide Universities Network WUN is announcing another webinar especially targeting early career researchers including PhD candidates at WUN member institutions (including Maastricht University). 

Utrecht University invites applications for two PhD research positions at the Faculty of Geosciences that will investigate transnational retirement mobilities as part of the of the ERC-funded project ‘Retirement across countries: A tripartite analysis of the welfare state, family care networks, and the retirement industry (RETIREWEL).’ 

Melissa Siegel has a new video on her YouTube channel: 

The Journal of Refugee Studies (JRS) is accepting proposals for special issues. JRS is a peer-reviewed journal featuring original, high-quality research related to diverse aspects of forced migration. We welcome proposals that engage with and significantly advance scholarly debates in the field of refugee and forced migration studies. 

In this seminar, Friedrich Poeschel will present findings from a study that examines how essential workers in Italy responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, compared to other workers.

You are warmly invited to the lecture “Mobility of International Students and Trainees into the EU Cosmopolitanism meets Migration Management” delivered by Prof. Tesseltje de Lange (Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands), a member of the Link4Skills Advisory Board. 

On 03 June 2025, MACIMIDE Researcher and Assistant Coordinator Lalaine Siruno successfully defended her PhD project titled, Agents of human development? The strategies of (irregular) Filipino migrant domestic workers in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.