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When individuals from a migration background travel ‘home’, they may be motivated by grand and important intentions to maintain connections.

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This session aims to critically reflect and take stock of major policy achievements and failures in developing cooperative migration policies between European and African countries over the past two decades.

Are you (or have you been) a remote worker, living in the European (either EU or non-EU) country in which you were born or grew up, whilst working remotely for a company based in a (different) EU country?

Melissa Siegel has a new video on her YouTube channel

Mazzucato, V. (2025) Teamwork as the key to mixing methods: lessons from multi-sited research designs, in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2025.2487746 

We are delighted to announce that the Call for Papers for “Navigating Return Migration: What Next? Diplomacy, Infrastructures, and Pathways Beyond” Conference is now open and can be found here. (Deadline for submission: May 31, 2025) 

Are you interested in the role of social contacts for inclusion of vulnerable groups?

This initiative is a response to the current asylum situation in Europe and aims to provide refugee students with the opportunity to attend the Odysseus Summer School on EU immigration and asylum law.

The Centre for Migration Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań invites you to this month’s webinar given by Agata Kochaniewicz titled ‘Practices of migrant commoning in Trondheim’.

You are cordially invited to the launch of the Missing Migrants Project (MMP) MENA 2024 Report, titled Lives in Transit: Towards Safer Migration Routes 

Hillenbrand, T., Martorano, B., & Siegel, M. (2025). Not as innocent as it seems? The effects of “neutral” messaging on refugee attitudes (UNU-MERIT Working Paper Series #2025-011). UNU-MERIT. Retrieved from https://unu-merit.nl/publications/abstract.php?id=9918 

As the focus on returning failed asylum seekers and other migrants to their countries of origin remains high, there is a commensurate need to consider reintegration support that assists returnees in rebuilding their lives.