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For the 2025 edition of the IMISCOE PhD school, we aim at training PhD candidates and early career researchers affiliated at institutions around the world to develop visual and sensory methodologies in migration research.

The Women in Refugee Law (WiRL) online seminar on Climate Change, Displacement and Gender, is taking place on Zoom on Monday 28 October 3:00pm-4:15pm (UK & UTC). 

This seminar will feature a presentation based on Chiara Berneri’s book ‘Private Sponsorship of Refugees in Europe’, which focuses on the European experiences of private sponsorship of refugees.

 Wednesday 30 October, 5-6pm, Online 
Protection in the UK: the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill 

This policy brief, produced as part of the Horizon Europe MIrreM Project, is aimed at those engaged in evidence-based policymaking on irregular migration, providing an assessment and tips for use of available data on irregular migration. 

There’s much interest in the Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni’s deal with Albania to offshore asylum procedures, which started this week, in an attempt to tackle the rise of irregular migration.

TRACES: Words and images tell stories in different and sometimes complementary ways. This photo-ethnography on young people of Burundian heritage in Belgium and the Netherlands, explores traces of the war in Burundi.

OECD’s International Migration Division has published two vacancies for: 

Andreina De Leo, an Early-Stage Researcher within the LIMES doctoral programme’s project “EU’s Shifting Borders – Scrutinizing Externalization of Migration Management and International Protection Responsibilities” has recently published a contribution to the REALaw.blog.

The Refugee-Led Research Hub (RLRH) is looking for seasoned and dynamic leaders who are eager to make a splash in the global refugee higher education space (particularly at the graduate level), and in opening advanced professional opportunities for 500+ displacement-affected RLRH affiliates  – in research, academia, and practitioner spaces

The latest set of UNHCR’s Guidelines on International Protection No. 14: non-penalization of refugees on account of their irregular entry or presence and restrictions on their movements in accordance with Article 31 of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees has been published.

Forced Migration Review (FMR) will publish an issue on ‘Dangerous journeys: Saving lives and responding to missing migrants and refugees’ in May 2025