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In dominant Western European discourse, migration continues to be framed through the language of emergency: as a humanitarian crisis, a geopolitical threat, or an exception to the “norm.” This framing narrows the horizon of analysis and response. From oral testimony and archival recovery, to embodied methods, health justice and beyond, we invite researchers across disciplines to submit papers that challenge migration as a permanent state of emergency. We welcome contributions that explore the lived and collective experiences of migration as sites of knowledge production, cultural formation and political struggle, through the following themes: 

We are delighted to announce the track “From Geopolitics to Digital Frontiers: Rethinking HRM and Global Mobility of Labour” as part of The 14th Biennial International Conference of the Dutch HRM Network 2026, taking place on 9-11 November 2026 in Ghent, Belgium. 

The ASEAN Research Center at the Asia School of Business is pleased to announce the sixth ARC-UNHCR Conference on Refugee Studies and Forced Displacement (REFCON 2026), organised in collaboration with UNHCR Malaysia, the UN Refugee Agency. The 2026 conference is tentatively scheduled for 9–11 June 2026 and will be held at the Asia School of Business in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 

This doctoral project explores the links between African migration, genetics, and public health, by focusing on chronic kidney disease (CKD), a major and growing global health burden. 

You are invited to submit a paper proposal for the conference ‘Identities and Law: How the Law Shapes the Senses of Belonging.’ 

Yonsei University, Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale (Y-RISE), Bank of Korea and the Asian Development Bank, together with the World Bank Development Economics Group and the French Development Agency (AFD) request paper submissions for the 19th International Conference on Migration and Development to be held on 16-17 April 2026 in Seoul, South Korea. 

We’re delighted to announce the launch of the Call for Papers, Panels, and Workshops for the IRIS 2026 international conference, titled Unsettling Communities: Diversity, Mobility and Displacement in an Age of Growing Authoritarianism. 

The Research and Expertise Centre for Survey Methodology (RECSM) is now accepting expressions of interest for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship in Survey Methodology. All details are available here. 

A call for proposals to field a module of questions in Round 14 (2029/30) of the European Social Survey (ESS) is now open until Monday 27 April. This open competition offers teams of researchers the chance to include up to 30 questions on a single academic area and/or policy concern within Europe. 

The Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at KU Leuven University is a vibrant community of 8 lecturers, 12 postdoctoral scholars, and 40 PhD students. 

Join the Transport Studies Unit in the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford to help shape the future of youth-centric mobility research.

We would like to inform you that the two 2025 issues of the Zeitschrift für Migrationsforschung / Journal of Migration Studies (ZMF) were published at the end of 2025. Vol 2025 (1) is a special issue dealing with Jochen Oltmer’s concept of Negotiating Migration (an introduction, one essay and five discussion papers):