News

Prof. Dr. Melissa Siegel has two new videos on her YouTube channel: 

It is our pleasure to announce that MACIMIDE researcher Cecilia Schenetti will defend her PhD thesis entitled “Creating and contesting the message – The lifecycle of EU migration information campaigns from Europe to Senegal” on Tuesday, 16 December, at 13:00 in the Aula of Maastricht University. 

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the workshop “Citizenship in Displacement: Policies, Practices and Lived Experiences”, to be held on 25-26 June 2026 in Tangier, Morocco. 

You are invited to attend the Sixth WHO Global School on Refugee and Migrant Health, under the theme: “Leadership in Health and Migration: Policies and Actions Across Countries.” 

Europe’s demand for workers is growing across a wide range of skill levels, with more than three-quarters of small- and medium-sized enterprises struggling to find workers with the right skills.

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. 

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. 

This is to share the news about an exciting Roundtable on the Images of Migration and the Ethics of Visual Research on Migration and Social Exclusion that the (B)OrderS Centre will be hosting. 

How is knowledge produced, mobilised and acted on in African migration debates? We invite contributions from researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to examine questions that lie at the crossroads of migration research, policy, practice, mobilisation, and engagement. 

A Black Feminist Summer School will take place in Amsterdam in July 2026. Speakers include artists, scholars, and activists. We welcome applications from students, early career scholars, and community organizers. Funding is partially provided by the Amsterdam Research Centre for Gender and Sexuality (ARC-GS) and the Amsterdam Research Centre for Migration (ARC-M). 

Where and how does power operate in the governance of international migration? 

This collective volume, co-edited by Prof. Lilian Tsourdi together with Dr. Niovi Vavoula and Prof. Valsamis Mitsilegas, offers a contemporary understanding of the state of the art of ‘crimmigration’ with a focus on the European Union and challenges this paradigm of intersecting criminal justice and immigration control.