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During the conference jury members decided unanimously that the winners of the Award were Asaf Augusto, Elisa Alves, Russell King & Jorge Malheiros, for their work on “Reciprocal migration: the coloniality of recent two-way migration links between...
- Category: Rinus Penninx Best Paper Award
Deadline: 29th of May 2024 (23:59 CEST)
This announcement concerns our renowned Rinus Penninx Best Paper Award, the winner of which will be announced on the last day of our upcoming IMISCOE Annual Conference “ Migration as a Social Construction: A Reflexive Turn ” hosted at the Centre for...
- Category: Network News

In this episode, Roos Derrix chats with Gerasimos Tsourapas and Kamal Sadiq about their latest project on the politics of South-South labour migration, and the development of a transnational social contract between states and their migrant populations.
- Category: Podcasts
“We are Black, Indian, Mestiza, Sudaka, racialised flesh. We reject your PDFs and your disembodied lectures. We deny every trend of being and return to listening to each other, looking each other in the eye, telling each other stories, and building from...
- Category: PhD Blog

Dr. Lea Müller-Funk was awarded the IMISCOE - Rinus Penninx Best Paper Award 2019 for her paper "Investigating mobility aspirations of refugees in fragile political contexts: Ethical reflections and methodological choices.” Dr. Lea Müller-Funk was...
- Category: Rinus Penninx Best Paper Award

The long awaited SC RACED (Race, Racism and Discrimination) has been created in July 2023 to make visible the emerging and dynamic field of research on race, racism and discrimination in IMISCOE. This new Standing Committee aims at structuring the...
- Category: Member in Focus
This multidisciplinary one week (17-21 June) course will provide participants with insight into relevant issues on the topic of migrant inclusion in a digitalized society. Through engagement with experts from a variety of disciplines, you will gain a...
- Category: News
Utrecht University has a job opening for a PhD candidate interested in country ownership perceptions of immigrant-origin minorities in the Netherlands and USA. The successful candidate will be based at the department of Interdisciplinary Social Science,...
- Category: News
In this episode, Gosha, a Polish artist who arrived in Lancashire twenty years ago, recollects her story of adaptation to and integration with the local society. In her early twenties, Gosha left Poland hitchhiking, with the goal to go to Portugal for a...
- Category: News
The Potential of a Novel Research Agenda on the Return of the Native (and what to do about these illiberal narratives)

In years to come, the past decade will be characterized as one of revolt against liberalism. With the election of Barack Obama in 2008, liberalism appeared to reach new heights. But the year also marked what to many seemed like the beginning of the end....