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The ERC Starting Grant project GIVE RIGHTS is currently recruiting a PhD student. Deadline for application is 18 January 2026. 

The Marie Sklodowska-Curie Doctoral Network (MSCA-DN) “Entanglements of Migration and Time in Post-Industrial Urban Europe (MITIME)” is seeking applications from motivated doctoral researchers to join its PhD training programme.

The 6th Conference of the German Network for Forced Migration Studies takes place between 28–30 September 2026 at the University of Hildesheim. We would like to kindly invite you for submissions. 
 

The Human Trafficking Research Network (HTRN) is inviting abstracts for its 2026 conference on the theme of “Reframing Trafficking – Knowledge, Policy, and Practice at a Crossroads”.

This special issue seeks to address the societal challenges in relation to digital inclusion faced by migrant and refugee women as this is a group that is disproportionately affected by intersecting forms of exclusion and marginalization.

This Handbook provides key information about the design, implementation and analysis of the Link4Skills Migrant Survey.

In the history of urban planning in Rabat, Morocco, the force most often referred to is the French Protectorate period, effectively driven by a single person: Hubert Lyautey.

At a long overdue lunch the other day, my friend Gili and I got to talking about coding and analysis. We are both on the same page: frustrated with the lack of guidance, in textbooks and the like, for how qualitative analysis actually works. 

We are pleased to share information on the in-person short course on Research Methods in the Refugee and Forced Migration Field by the Refugee Law Initiative (RLI), University of London, that will run in March 2026. Please note the deadline to apply for a place is 6th February 2026. 

We would like to inform you about the CESSMIR conference  ‘Looking back, moving forward: Migration Studies in times of societal transformation’ that will take place from 14 to 16 September 2026 in Ghent. You can find the call attached, a short version is at the end of this e-mail. 

Abstracts are now being invited for the Mini-Conference (08) Between dependence and exclusion: labour migration and the contradictions of globalisation (https://sase.org/events/2026-bordeaux/#mini-conferences) at the SASE 2026 Conference in Bordeaux, July 1–3, 2026. See call for papers below, please. 

Empty, unfinished, or ‘ghost’ houses are common sights around the world, where aspirational investment in housing outpaces the potential to physically occupy it.