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The Rinus Penninx Best Paper Award of the 2025 Annual Conference in Girona was awarded to Sebastián Umpierrez de Reguero and Mari-Liis Jakobson for their paper How Sidestreaming Works: A Conjoint Experiment on Minority; Responses to Radical Right...
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The winners of the 2026 Maria Ioannis Baganha Dissertation Award are: Dr. Emilia Helen Melossi with a dissertation entitled “Red gold and black labour: Sub-Saharan migrants’ struggles for survival in the rural ghettos of Southern Italy”, defended at the...
- Category: Maria Ioannis Baganha Dissertation Award
The Rinus Penninx Best Paper Award of the 2025 Annual Conference in Paris–Aubervilliers was awarded to Fabio Santos for his paper “Decolonizing the Migration Archive: Haitian Refugees in Puerto Rico.” The jury's verdict on the paper highlights the...
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The winner of the 2025 Maria Ioannis Baganha Dissertation Award is Dr Kurt W. Kuehne with the work “Lives in Limbo: Precarity, Control and Temporary Migrant Workers in the Global City”, defended at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in August 2023....
- Category: Maria Ioannis Baganha Dissertation Award
Deadline: 29th of May 2026 (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 “ Strengthening Migration Studies through...
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The Standing Committee Forced Migration and Refugees (FMR) seeks to critically reflect on the conventional dichotomy of voluntary / forced migration, avoid silo-isation of forced migration studies and instead seek debates across various fields and...
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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...
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The winners of the 2024 Maria Ioannis Baganha Dissertation Award are Dr. Iva Dodevska and Dr. Uzair Ahmed. Dr. Dodevska’s dissertation entitled “Europe and its Others: Migrant Integration in Research and Policy”, was defended at Charles University,...
- Category: Maria Ioannis Baganha Dissertation Award
In 2023, we received 63 applications for the Maria Ioannis Baganha Distinguished Dissertation Award. After due deliberation, the Award Committee decided to award prizes to two outstanding theses which received the highest scores after two rounds of...
- Category: Maria Ioannis Baganha Dissertation Award
The Rinus Penninx Best Paper Award 2023 has been awarded to Naiara Rodriguez-Pena for her paper on "Aspiring to be ‘here’ and ‘there’: Conflicting intrinsic and instrumental migration aspirations". Naiara is an early stage researcher within the EJD...
- Category: Rinus Penninx Best Paper Award