IMISCOE Research Series

Call for book proposals 2019 final RESULTS - The winners!

The IMISCOE Springer competitive call for proposals closed on 20 November and thanks to the Editorial Committee’s hard work we already have the three winners of the call. The first prize went to Elif Keskiner, Michael Eve and Louise Ryan for their forthcoming edited volume “Revisiting ‘strong’ and ‘weak’ ties: migrants and their children in the labour market”.

Contributions to this volume critically review the well known theory of Granovetter on the importance of strong and weak ties among migrants or between migrants and natives in helping or undermining socio economic integration processes. Reinhard Schweitzer was awarded the second prize for his authored book “The Micro-management of irregular migration” which looks at how street level bureaucrats react to knowing that one of their ‘customers’ is an irregular migrant. The book is innovative in distinguishing between knowing the information and deciding to act upon it. It compares the role of different organizational and civic cultures in London and Barcelona, looking at health, education and social assistance. Alice Massari won the third prize with her single authored book “Humanitarian Representations and Migration Governance” which critically reviews the ways in which four major NGOs (CARE, Save the Children, Médecins Sans Frontier, and Oxfam) campaigned to raise support and donations for Syrian refugees. Alice takes a critical look at these campaigns which aim to support refugees but may end up, Alice warns us, victimizing and infantilizing them.

Books to be published in 2020

Comparative Migration Studies

Recently 2 Special Issues have been published

• Externalization at Work: Responses to Migration Policies from the Global South, edited by: Inka Stock, Ayşen Üstübici & Susanne U. Schultz.
  The term “externalization” is used by a range of migration scholars, policy makers and the media to describe the extension of border and migration controls beyond the so-called ‘migrant receiving nations’ in the Global North and into neighboring countries or sending states in the Global South.

• Gendered dynamics of migration and transnational social protection, edited by: Başak Bilecen, Karolina Barglowski, Thomas Faist, and Eleonore Kofman.
  This special collection aims to advance the current debates on transnational social protection further by showing the ways in which formal and informal social protection, which usually are treated as separate entities, intersect and reinforce inequalities on a transnational level.