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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...
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Coordinator
Anders 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...
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Coordinator
Sarah Scuzzarello
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...
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Coordinator
Tineke Fokkema
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...
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Coordinator
Elsa Mescoli
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....
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Coordinator
Gianni d’Amato
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...
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Coordinator
Brigitte Suter
SC REFLEX seeks to raise awareness that Migration Studies as a research field is shaped by wider societal and power relations rooted in colonial and nationalist histories. Given the political hype around migration and the parallel growth, relevance and...
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Coordinator
Iva Dodevska
The winner of the 2019 Maria Ioannis Baganha Dissertation Award is Dr. Kristina Bakkær Simonsen. Her dissertation entitled: “Do They Belong? Host National Boundary Drawing and Immigrants’ Identificational Integration” was defended at Aarhus University...
- Category: Maria Ioannis Baganha Dissertation Award
The Rinus Penninx Best Paper Award 2018 has been awarded to Sarah Nimführ and Buba Sesay for their paper entitled: “Lost in Limbo? Moving Contours and Practices of Settlements of Non-Deportable Refugees in the Mediterranean Area.”
- Category: Rinus Penninx Best Paper Award
The winner was René Kreichauf's paper, ‘From Forced Migration to Forced Arrival: The Campisation of Refugee Accommodation Centres in European Cities’.
- Category: Rinus Penninx Best Paper Award