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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? 

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? 

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. 

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. 

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: 

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). 

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. 

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. 

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: