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Three new postdoctoral fellows will be recruited as members of the HOMInG ERC research team (deadline: November 2). These post-doctoral positions are full-time and fixed-term – one year, renewable up to three years overall. Application online The new postdoctoral fellows will actively contribute to a multi-sited and multi-method study of homing practices within migration flows from Latin America...

The 4th special issue of the journal Comparative Cultural Studies: European and Latin American Perspectives (University of Florence) welcomes articles on the following: • Modes of interculturality. • Critical approaches to the intercultural paradigm. • New logics in the functioning of racism. • Epistemological and methodological challenges in research on racism. • Migration, interculturality and...

The Gendered Experiences of Colombian Migrants in Europe Authors: Bermudez, Anastasia This book makes a timely contribution to debates surrounding transnational political participation, the relationship between diasporas and conflict, and the gendered experiences of migrants. It fills a significant lacuna in research by analysing how migrants relate to and become involved in the politics of...

IMISCOE's research group: International student mobility and migration will organize a small workshop entitled: Gendered perspectives on International Student Mobility and Migration Location: Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI / KNAW), The Hague - 5-6 October 2017

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS 27th LATIN AMERICAN CONFERENCE ON RELIGION AND ETHNICITY TORO (Spain) 9-13 July 2018. PANEL: RELIGION AND POLITICS AMONG LATIN AMERICAN MIGRANTS IN DIVERSE MIGRATORY CONTEXTS. Latin American migrants carry with them, create and participate in religious experiences, mainly Christian. Studies have looked at the socio-cultural aspects, but in this panel we want to focus on...

Sessions of the Research Committee 31 Sociology of Migration at the 19th ISA World Congress of Sociology, July 15-21, 2018, Toronto . 1. Including Skilled Refugees into the Labour Market – Understanding the “Paradox” between Labour and Humanitarian Migration Session Organizers: Anja Weiss (University of Duisburg-Essen - Germany; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need...

1st of December 2017, located at the University of Antwerp (Centre for Migration and Intercultural Studies), workshop, with an edited book as main finality. This workshop will be organized by the IMISCOE Standing committee: “ Changing migration dynamics in the world and their impact on the diversification of migration around Europe ”. Call for papers Migration aspirations are central in...

The winner was René Kreichauf's paper, ‘From Forced Migration to Forced Arrival: The Campisation of Refugee Accommodation Centres in European Cities’.

Conference at Centre for Advanced Migration Studies (AMIS), University of Copenhagen, 4-6 October, 2017.

On June 28th, keynote speaker Steven Vertovec was invited to open IMISCOE’s 14th Annual Conference, held at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. Due to an unfortunate illness his keynote-lecture was canceled. However, given the importance of his speech – both IMISCOE and Steven Vertovec decided to distribute his talk through a video-lecture , filmed at the Max-Planck Institute (attended by his...