Despite the polarization in public and policy debates generated by the post-2014 fluxes of refugees, asylum applicants and migrants, European countries need to work out an evidence-based way to deal with migration and asylum rather than a...
The Euro-Mediterranean Research Network on Migration is an independent interdisciplinary network of research institutions working on Mediterranean Migration in all its aspects (migration in the Mediterranean, across the Mediterranean, from and to the...
While evidence-based approaches to asylum, integration and migration issues are increasing, synergies among different groups of experts remains underdeveloped. Researchers and stakeholders are well-connected within their own communities but, despite an...
IMISCOE’s Interactive research database brings publications, datasets and projects together under one roof. Here you can find relevant literature, data and other information structured according to the taxonomy of migration studies, which helps...
Questions of norms and values have become increasingly more salient over the last decade in political, and increasingly also a wide area of public debates. While academic scholarship on legal norms and obligations with regard to refugee and migrant...
Coordinator
Brigitte Suter
Brigitte.suter@mau.se
Recent developments around the world are indicating that the symbolic and the instrumental positioning of return migration within public discourse and migration agendas is changing. Return can be leveraged to serve specific geopolitical goals as it is a...
Coordinator
Zana Vathi
zana.vathi@edgehill.ac.uk
Transnational mobility by migrants who are relatively privileged by citizenship, class, ‘race’ and investment capacity is on the increase. PRIMOB brings together researchers working on diverse forms of privileged migration – retirement, lifestyle,...
Coordinator
Jennifer McGarrigle
jcarvalho@campus.ul.pt
The Standing Committee Meth@Mig provides a forum for discussing methodological approaches and tools in migration research and assessing the best options available for tackling manifold methodological challenges. The Standing Committee takes on a...
Coordinator
Justyna Salamońska
jsalamonska@kozminski.edu.pl
The Standing Committee Education and Social Inequality aims at stimulating international comparative research on the intersections between education, (international) mobility and social inequality. It combines the research interests and experiences of...
Coordinator
Dr. Elif Keskiner
e.keskiner@vu.nl
The Migration Politics and Governance (MigPoG) Standing Committee (SC) takes a broad and comprehensive approach to the study of migration policy, one which aims at promoting dialogue between scholars focusing on the politics and governance of migration....
Coordinator
Emanuela Roman
emanuela.roman@fieri.it
The center of the focus of the IILME Standing Committee are the links between increasing migration, labour market dynamics and access to welfare resources. These are central to the discourse on both immigration and integration policies of newly arrived...
Coordinator
Anders Neergaard
Neergaard
The Standing Committee “Gender and Sexuality in Migration Research” (GenSeM) brings together and supports IMISCOE-affiliated scholars whose research focuses on the areas of gender, sexuality and migration. GenSeM wants to create an infrastructure that...
Coordinator
Sarah Scuzzarello
S.Scuzzarello@sussex.ac.uk
In 2010, when then the Research initiative ‘Ageing Migrants’ started its activity, this was a little studied topic. The research projects conducted by members of the group and the publications have been growing along with the development of our network...
Coordinator
Tineke Fokkema
fokkema@nidi.nl
DIVCULT aims to better understand the relevance of arts and culture in the theoretical and policy debates about immigrant incorporation and diversity in Europe and beyond. Over the last years, artistic activities have found increasing interest among...
Coordinator
Marco Martiniello
M.Martiniello@uliege.be
The Migration, Citizenship and Political Participation Standing Committee (MIGCITPOL) offers a unique forum to researchers working in the fields of migrants’ access to citizenship and political participation in sending and receiving societies....
Coordinator
Gianni d’Amato
Gianni.damato@unine.ch
The objective of the Standing Committee on Migrant Transnationalism (MITRA) is to provide an arena within IMISCOE for academic exchange on migrant transnationalism. The transnational turn was an innovation in migration studies and offered a new...
Coordinator
Brigitte Suter
brigitte.suter@mau.se
Key Questions For what underlying structural reasons did migration research have such a success these last decades? Why is migration so often presented in politics, in public or in the media as a direct threat to sovereignty and national identity and...
Coordinator
Anna-Lisa Müller
reflexstudies@uni-osnabrueck.de
Over the past decade, IMISCOE has established and structurally supported different Standing Committees that cover significant topics within migration studies. Every year, the network has a fixed sum available for all Standing Committees, to support...
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Standing Committees involve research clusters that have been established for a longer period of time, and have a broad programme of activities and a broad audience that they serve within IMISCOE. Overview Standing Committees
