13TH IMISCOE ANNUAL CONFERENCE (PRAGUE, JUNE 30-JULY 2, 2016)

This year’s conference received more than 400 proposals. After a rigorous review, the Conference Committee (chaired by Dušan Drbohlav of GEOMIGRACE) has accepted about 200 proposals for 84 sessions, including research panels, policy workshops, book workshops and a number of working sessions for IMISCOE’s research clusters and standing committees. 

A first outline of the conference program is now available: you can download the program overview and the programming of all 84 conference sessions.  Besides the plenaries and the conference sessions, the conference will also host 3 semi-plenaries: 

• Richard Alba and Nancy Foner: Comparing the Integration of Immigrants in North America and Western Europe 
• Franck Düvell: Massive refugee influx, collapsed borders, and humanitarian crisis: Quo Vadis EU? 
• Agata Górny: Central and Eastern Europe – duality of emigration and immigration regimes? 

These will be held on Friday July 1st, 13.30-15.00. When you register for the conference you will be asked to select the session that you would like to attend. 

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN (deadline 1 June): Registration for the 13th IMISCOE Annual Conference in Prague is now open. Registration can be completed via the online conference portal. The conference fee is € 200. Deadline for registration is 1 June.