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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...
- Category: Research Initiatives
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...
- Category: Research Initiatives
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,...
- Category: Research Initiatives
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...
- Category: Standing Committees
Coordinator
Agata Górny
a.gorny@uw.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...
- Category: Standing Committees
Coordinator
Dr. Elif Keskiner
e.keskiner@vu.nl
25 September 2020
Education has been one of the earliest topics dealt with comparatively across countries in the IMISCOE network. The Standing Committee aims at stimulating international comparative research on the intersections between education, (international)...
- Category: News from Members
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....
- Category: Standing Committees
Coordinator
Maria Schiller
schiller@essb.eur.nl
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...
- Category: Standing Committees
Coordinator
Anders Neergaard
anders.neergaard@liu.se
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...
- Category: Standing Committees
Coordinator
Sarah Scuzzarello
S.Scuzzarello@sussex.ac.uk
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...
- Category: Standing Committees
Coordinator
Tineke Fokkema
fokkema@nidi.nl