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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. 

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. 

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

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 

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: 

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. 

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.

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. 

Melissa Siegel has a new video on her YouTube channel: 

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).’ 

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.