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(Forced) Migration matters east of the EU and beyond the Global South are rarely covered at IMISCOE and other western migration conferences or in mainstream migration and refugee studies journals. Even though forced migration, first, from Belarus and...
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Deadline: 02.10.2024
The IMISCOE Network is calling for nominations for its 2025 Maria Ioannis Baganha Dissertation Award. Named in honour of Maria Ioannis Baganha, a prominent scholar and one of the founders of IMISCOE, the Network has awarded this prize annually since...
- Category: Network News
Moving to Ireland as a student was more than just a change in geography for me—it was a profound shift in my cultural and spiritual life. While planning my departure, there was one thing I didn’t plan for, the need to recreate a sense of home in a...
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Accounting for Racialization: Legitimacy, Visibility, and Discursive Practices Panel convened by the working group “Speech and Normativity on matters of race and racism” French Collaborative Institute on Migration (ICM-Integer) The concept of...
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Panel description: As the climate crisis intensifies, climate migration is becoming an increasingly important phenomenon. However, migration caused by climate change is not sufficiently recognised and these disasters are often referred to as "natural...
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Panel organizers: - Melissa Blanchard, Centre Norbert Elias, CNRS, Marseille - Zeynep Yanaşmayan, DeZim Institut, Berlin - Zeynep Kaşlı, Institute for Social Sciences, Erasmus University, Rotterdam Panel Abstract: This panel explores the nexus between...
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Call for workshop participation: Decentring teaching on migration and race | IMISCOE Conference 2025
30 September 2024
Workshop proposal: Decentring teaching on migration and race 22 nd IMISCOE Annual Conference, 1-4 July 2025, Paris/Aubervilliers Organisers: Fanny D’hondt (Gent) and Christine Lang (Osnabrueck), Standing Committee Education and Social Inequality...
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Panel abstract: From a public health perspective, immigrants in high-income countries represent a vulnerable - albeit heterogeneous - population, whose living and working conditions are often more precarious than those of the general population, and...
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GESIS (Mannheim, Germany) is seeking to appoint a doctoral and a postdoctoral researcher ( 4-year positions ) to join their team Family Surveys on the project Family Research and Demographic Analysis (FReDA) Monitoring current social developments is a...
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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: Rinus Penninx Best Paper Award