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Karlien Strijbosch will defend her Ph.D. dissertation ‘Challenging masculinities? Senegalese men returning from Europe to Senegal under conditions of deportability’ in the Aula of Maastricht University, MBB 4-6, on Tuesday 28 January 2025, 13.00. You are all invited to attend. 

Naami, M., Mazzucato, V., & Kuschminder, K. (2024). Alternating temporalities experienced by North African unaccompanied minors in The Netherlands: a story of waiting and hypermobility. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2024.2432445 

You are cordially invited! 

This new MIrreM policy brief has been published and launched jointly with MPI-Europe on Dec 10. Drawing on data from various MIrreM stakeholder workshops, this policy brief highlights challenges such as the political nature of data collection, limited accessibility, and the lack of data literacy among users.

Border & Belonging podcast episode on ‘Irregular not Irrelevant’ 

The Lite version of the JOINclusion app is now available for download on Google Play, providing educators and trainers with an accessible tool to initiate meaningful activities that foster empathy and cultural understanding.

The Global Citizenship Observatory (GLOBALCIT), a global research network committed to fact-based and non-partisan analysis of citizenship laws and electoral rights around the world, is soliciting submissions for the second edition of the GLOBALCIT – Rainer Bauböck 2025 Essay Award on the Global State of Citizenship, by early-career researchers (recent graduates with a master or equivalent degree, current doctoral researchers, or those within 3 years after the award of the doctorate). 

We are delighted to announce that the call for participants for the MIrreM Spring School 2025 is now open!

The documentary Mamadou Kouassi Pli Adama: la lotta della migrazione, directed by Andrea Fantino in collaboration with DignityFIRM and FIERI is now available for viewing on the DignityFIRM YouTube channel. We encourage you to watch it, share it, and use it as a resource for discussions or educational purposes. 

The next European Conference on African Studies (ECAS) will take place in Prague on 25-28 June 2025. Since the CfP is open for a few more days, this is a friendly reminder to please consider submitting a paper to our panel on digitally-mediated youth mobilities, networks and positionings (details below). The submission deadline is on 15 December 2024. Paper proposals can be submitted via this link. 

Immigration has been a central issue for the Biden presidency, with the administration challenged by record levels of arrivals of asylum seekers and other migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border while also seeking to modernize the bureaucracy that manages the U.S. immigration system and rebuild a refugee resettlement system that had plunged to a record low under the prior administration.

We are delighted to inform you that the Ethics Guidelines of the German Network for Forced Migration Studies (Netzwerk Fluchtforschung e.V.) are now available in German and English as Open Access publications.