- 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: 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: 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
- Category: Standing Committees
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
Agata Górny
- Category: Standing Committees
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
- Category: Standing Committees
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
Maria Schiller
- Category: Standing Committees
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
- Category: Standing Committees
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
- Category: Standing Committees
The Standing Committee's objectives are to: Draw wider attention in migration studies to the inter-connections between families, welfare and care, and their changing contexts. Advance a life-course perspective in migration studies, by facilitating...
Coordinator
Tineke Fokkema
- Category: Standing Committees
The "Arts, culture and migration" (DIVCULT) Standing Committee aims to better understand the relevance of arts and culture in theoretical and policy debates on immigrant incorporation and diversity in Europe and beyond. In recent years, artistic and...
Coordinator
Elsa Mescoli
- Category: Standing Committees
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
- Category: Standing Committees
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
- Category: Standing Committees
Where we started - and where we are heading to: the aims and scopes of the Standing Committee The Standing Committee "Reflexivities in Migration Studies" started its work in January 2020. You find a summary of the discussions at the kick-off workshop at...
Coordinator
Iva Dodevska
- Category: Research
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...
- Category: Research
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