- Category: Rinus Penninx Best Paper Award
The Rinus Penninx Best Paper Award of the 22nd Annual Conference 2025 in Paris–Aubervilliers was awarded to Fabio Santos for his paper “Decolonizing the Migration Archive: Haitian Refugees in Puerto Rico.” The jury's verdict on the paper highlights the...
- Category: Maria Ioannis Baganha Dissertation Award
The winner of the 2025 Maria Ioannis Baganha Dissertation Award is Dr Kurt W. Kuehne with the work “Lives in Limbo: Precarity, Control and Temporary Migrant Workers in the Global City”, defended at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in August 2023....
- Category: Rinus Penninx Best Paper Award
Deadline: 29th of May 2026 (23:59 CEST) This announcement concerns our renowned Rinus Penninx Best Paper Award, the winner of which will be announced on the last day of our upcoming IMISCOE Annual Conference “ Strengthening Migration Studies through...
- Category: Rinus Penninx Best Paper Award
The Rinus Penninx Best Paper Award of the 21st Annual Conference 2024 in Lisbon was awarded to Christine Lang and Elisabeth Badenhoop for their paper on “Civil society organisations and local politics of migration: how funding contexts matter”. This...
- Category: Maria Ioannis Baganha Dissertation Award
The winners of the 2024 Maria Ioannis Baganha Dissertation Award are Dr. Iva Dodevska and Dr. Uzair Ahmed. Dr. Dodevska’s dissertation entitled “Europe and its Others: Migrant Integration in Research and Policy”, was defended at Charles University,...
- Category: Standing Committees
The Standing Committee Forced Migration and Refugees (FMR) seeks to critically reflect on the conventional dichotomy of voluntary / forced migration, avoid silo-isation of forced migration studies and instead seek debates across various fields and...
Coordinator
Franck Düvell
- Category: Maria Ioannis Baganha Dissertation Award
In 2023, we received 63 applications for the Maria Ioannis Baganha Distinguished Dissertation Award. After due deliberation, the Award Committee decided to award prizes to two outstanding theses which received the highest scores after two rounds of...
- Category: Rinus Penninx Best Paper Award
The Rinus Penninx Best Paper Award 2023 has been awarded to Naiara Rodriguez-Pena for her paper on "Aspiring to be ‘here’ and ‘there’: Conflicting intrinsic and instrumental migration aspirations". Naiara is an early stage researcher within the EJD...
- Category: Rinus Penninx Best Paper Award
During the conference jury members decided unanimously that the winners of the Award were Asaf Augusto, Elisa Alves, Russell King & Jorge Malheiros, for their work on “Reciprocal migration: the coloniality of recent two-way migration links between...
- Category: Rinus Penninx Best Paper Award
Dr. Lea Müller-Funk was awarded the IMISCOE - Rinus Penninx Best Paper Award 2019 for her paper "Investigating mobility aspirations of refugees in fragile political contexts: Ethical reflections and methodological choices.” Dr. Lea Müller-Funk was...
- Category: Maria Ioannis Baganha Dissertation Award
The winner of the 2022 Maria Ioannis Baganha Dissertation Award is Hannah Pool. Her dissertation entitled “Doing the Game”. The Moral Economy of Coming to Europe, was defended at the University of Cologne, in June 2021. Drawing on multi-sited...
- Category: Maria Ioannis Baganha Dissertation Award
The winner of the 2020 IMISCOE Maria Ioannis Baganha Dissertation Award is Dr. Simone Cremaschi. His dissertation is entitled: "Sheltered: Life and Work in Italy’s Immigrant Ghettos ". The award ceremony took place online during the 18th Imiscoe Annual...
- Category: Standing Committees
The SC Race, racism and discrimination (RACED) will be a forum for researchers to engage in interdisciplinary conversations with an ambition to more adequately conceptualize and empirically study racial inequalities and racial exclusion, and to...
Coordinator
Patrick Simon
- Category: Research Associations
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...
- Category: Research Associations
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...
- Category: Maria Ioannis Baganha Dissertation Award
The winner of the 2020 IMISCOE Maria Ioannis Baganha Dissertation Award is Dr. Gerhild Perl. Her dissertation, entitled: "Traces of death. Exploring affective responsiveness across the Spanish- Moroccan Sea" was defended on 28 February, 2019.
- Category: Research
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...
- Category: Research Initiatives
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
- Category: Research Initiatives
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
- Category: Research Initiatives
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
