SC Education and Social Inequality
Newsletter
As part of the SC’s ongoing activities, we have developed a semestral newsletter to share updates from our members and coordination team. The newsletter features calls for papers, conferences and events, ongoing projects, recent publications, and opportunities for collaboration. It also highlights the SC’s presence at IMISCOE conferences and other academic forums, as well as forthcoming initiatives and ways to participate in the SC’s coordination and activities.
Forthcoming Special Issue in Ethnic and Racial Studies
Following the workshop on anti-racism in education held in Amsterdam in April 2024, the SC submitted a proposal for a Special Issue to the journal Ethnic and Racial Studies. The issue builds on the discussions initiated during the workshop and aims to contribute to ongoing debates on anti-racist pedagogies and practices in education.
Workshop at the 2025 IMISCOE Annual Conference: “Decentring Teaching on Migration and Race"
At the upcoming IMISCOE Annual Conference, the SC will host a workshop titled “Decentring Teaching on Migration and Race”. This session invites participants to reflect critically on their teaching practices in higher education. Key questions include:
- How can we incorporate critical, reflexive, and (post-/de)colonial perspectives into our teaching?
- What are effective strategies for embedding these perspectives in curricula, course design, and classroom engagement?
- What challenges do we face, and how might we address them?
Date: Thursday, July 3, 2025
Time: 16:50–18:20
We warmly welcome all interested colleagues to join this hands-on and reflective session.
New Board Members
As part of our recent activities, we held a selection process for new board members of the Standing Committee on Education and Social Inequality. We are pleased to announce that the following members were selected:
- Gulsah Turk-Yigitalp – Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
- Tamila Carvalho (PhD Representative) – Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-Iscte), Portugal
- Cristina Mazzero (PhD Representative) – University of Trento, Italy
Forthcoming Activities
Workshop: Language Diversity, Education and Learning in the Context of Migration and Diaspora
Location: Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal
Dates: Thursday–Friday, November 13–14, 2025
Organised by: EduSocial and CIES-Iscte
This workshop invites scholars to reflect on how language functions not only as a tool for integration but also as a site of resistance, adaptation, and identity negotiation. Topics will include the linguistic educational, and sociocultural dimensions of migration and diaspora, with a focus on multilingual learners and transnational educational contexts.
Webinar Series on Language Diversity in Migration Contexts
Building on the November workshop, the SC will launch a quarterly webinar series beginning in January 2026 (exact date to be announced). These webinars aim to sustain and deepen discussions on language, education, and migration featuring contributions from scholars and practitioners across various disciplines.
Writing Retreats for PhD and Early Career Researchers
In the upcoming semester (Fall 2025), the SC will relaunch its online writing retreats for PhD candidates and early career researchers. These sessions are designed to provide structured support and community for those engaged in academic writing. Further details, including dates and registration information, will be shared in the coming months.
Social Media
The SC has launched a new LinkedIn page to increase visibility for its initiatives and those of its members. We warmly invite you to follow us here: https://www.linkedin.com/company/edusocial-imiscoe/
SC Arts, Culture and Migration (DIVCULT)
The Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna hosted a DIVCULT workshop between 24-26 March 2025. The event brought together scholars from the group for a series of dynamic hybrid sessions. The first part of the programme focused on post-migration, comprising four dedicated sessions, coordinated by Michael Parzer and Wiebke Sievers. Joanna Jurkiewicz, Diana Duarte Bernal and Varvara Kobyshcha led a special PhD session where PhD researchers presented their work. The final part of the workshop explored civic and political engagement within festivals thematizing migration and ethnic diversity across four sessions organised by Ivana Rapoš Božič, Mark Simon and Joanna Jurkiewicz. They are planning to prepare a special issue on this topic. The workshop also included a general meeting of DIVCULT members to discuss topics such as membership updates, support for PhD students, upcoming webinars etc. One of the key agenda items was the upcoming change in the coordination team. A formal call for nominations has been issued to elect at least two new coordinators to serve a fixed four-year term, starting from January 2026.
During the 2025 IMISCOE Annual Conference, the DIVCULT Standing Committee will be hosting nine sessions that explore the intersection between arts, culture, and migration. These will include panels focusing on decentring the understanding of migrant integration by exploring immigrant participation in the arts, the role of sound in migration dynamics and challenging norms from the margins by examining foodscapes, identity through the arts and migrant artivism. Other highlights include a pre-launch workshop for an upcoming book on cultural participation, as well as a two-part session (onsite and online) that will address global representations and practices of migration in the arts.
SC Gender and Sexuality in Migration Research (GenSeM)
Panels on ‘Decentering Migrant Men and Masculinities’
On Tuesday July 1, GenSeM members Abu Saleh Mohammad Sowad and Rik Huizinga will convene two panels on ‘Decentering migrant men and masculinities’ at the 2025 IMISCOE Annual Conference in Paris. By thoroughly examining the interplay between masculinities, migration processes, and social structures, the panels illuminate how men navigate expectations, redefine identities, and potentially contribute to broader societal shifts in gender roles. Including contributions from both senior researchers and early career researchers as well as a discussion led by Professor Gökçe Yurdakul (Humboldt University), the panels seek to further understand and expand the progressive potential of studying men, masculinities and migration.
ECR Workshop on Intersectional Migration Research
On 3 July, Laura Morosanu (Sussex) and Gökçe Yurdakul (Humboldt) will organise a Workshop for Early Career Researchers at the IMISCOE Annual Conference in Paris. This is a joint initiative of the GenSeM and Forced Migration Standing Committees, and builds on an activity organised at Sussex, where Gökçe Yurdakul was Visiting Professor in March 2024. The workshop offers opportunities for early career researchers (ECRs) to present and receive feedback from experienced IMISCOE members on original work in the area of ‘Intersectional Migration Research’. It aims to be a first step towards establishing an ECR mentoring scheme, providing collegial networking opportunities with peers and senior scholars, a platform to present original research, and discuss with senior scholars possibilities to develop the conference paper into an article of publishable quality. The organising team includes: Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot (ULB), Tunay Altay (Humboldt), Sarah Scuzzarello (Sussex), and Zeynep Yanaşmayan (DeZIM).
SC Race, Racism and Discrimination (RACED)
The Standing Committee on Race, Racism, and Discrimination (RACED) was established in July 2023 to highlight the emerging and dynamic field of research on race, racism, and discrimination within IMISCOE. This Standing Committee aims to structure research on these topics among IMISCOE members while fostering dialogue and partnership within the scientific community. We currently have 187 registered members. We are continuously accepting new members and have also reached out to non-members who chose to present through SC RACED at the annual conference. Please fill in the form here to become a member. We also launched a LinkedIn page in November, which is gaining traction and have already reached 785 followers. You can follow us on LinkedIn here.
During the spring, we held a successful joint webinar between SC IILME and RACED on March 28, hosted by the Work and Equalities Institute at the University of Manchester: “The Silence Around ‘Race’ in the Discourse of Equality and Inclusion in the Labour Market.” We had around 40 participants join us online and engaged in a vibrant discussion. We are also continuing our conversations with the IMISCOE Network Office and the Executive Committee on Diversity, Equality and Inclusion to advance our work on conducting an IMISCOE-wide survey.
Annual Conference in Paris
At the IMISCOE Annual Conference in Paris, we are excited to host a total of 22 sessions—including 3 online and 1 hybrid—which you are all warmly welcome to attend. In addition, there will be two special sessions organized by the steering group:
- July 2, 09:00–10:30
- July 3, 15:00–16:30
We also encourage everyone interested in SC RACED to join the Annual SC RACED Meeting on July 1, 16:40–17:40. This is a great opportunity for us to connect, share ideas, and network. The room details will be announced soon on the conference website.
Announcement from SC PhD network
Before the IMISCOE Conference in Paris starts, we have booked a table at the restaurant “LA FA BRICK” (Address: 20 rue Myrha, 75018 Paris France) where our SC junior scholars can meet and mingle. This is on Monday the 30th of June at 7 p.m. Each one pays for their own food and drinks. If you are coming, please let one of our PhD-representatives know:
Upcoming in Fall 2025
We are happy to announce the preliminary schedule for the in-person symposium on the 26-27 November: Cross-Sectoral Symposium Addressing Structural Racism, Diversity and Inclusion. This event is a collaboration between and co-financed by Malmö Institute for Migration Studies (MIM), Center for Modern European Studies and IMISCOE SC RACED.
The first day, organized by SC RACED, will feature a series of cross-sectoral panel discussions addressing structural racism from policy, academic, and civil society perspectives. The second day, organized by MIM, will mark the official launch of the Diversity Survey conducted by MIM, providing an up-to-date analysis of diversity and inclusion in Malmö.
You can find the preliminary program and the registration form from the links below:
SC Forced Migration and Refugees (FMR)
The SCFMR was set up in July 2024. Our ambition is to provide a home to forced migration and refugee researchers within IMISCOE, complementary but not in competition to other networks and associations. Within the first year we managed attracting 130 members, many also from outside IMISCOE and at least 20 percent from non-EU institutions.
At the beginning, we defined our governance and membership ambitions. We aim at maximum reach and diversity as well as equitable partnerships. This means involving local partners, refugee-led organisations and refugee researchers from all quadrants of the world and on equal terms. For this we take inspiration from the Global Compact on Refugees, the Global Refugee Forum 2023 (GRC) and the Global Academic Interdisciplinary Network (GAIN). At the GRC, a range of universities and institutions made a pledge regarding locally produced knowledge and quality partnerships. Accordingly, we opted for a trio of chairs representing Global East, South and North. But we also wanted refugees in the front row of our committee and succeeded attracting a colleague with refugee background as chair Global South. All but one other coordinator roles are covered by two colleagues to increase diversity, share responsibilities and enhance team-building. Also, one of our PhD representatives is from the Global South. We are in the midst of analysing our membership to identify shortcomings of our diversity and on that basis develop an outreach strategy. Thus, we aim to decentre forced migration and refugee studies and develop an events and research strategy that reflects and represents the full width and breadth of the field.
The first activity we organised within the 2025 IMISCOE Spring Conference: we held a workshop on the nexus of irregular migration, the focus of the conference, and forced migration. At the 2025 Annual Conference we organise two SC special workshops. With regards to our (forthcoming) events, we take a fairly systematic and scientific approach in that we first run a round table on geographic, thematic, methodological and other knowledge gaps in forced migration and refugee research. This is meant to inform our future programme and shall help advancing the field. Our second workshop is devoted to immobility, the elephant in the room of migration studies that is, however, hardly recognised as majoritarian behaviour. Despite developing scholarship that study unequal access of forced migrants to mobility or periods of involuntary immobility in the experience of forced migration, we believe that more systemic and interdisciplinary discussion incorporating various geographical perspectives is still needed. This, we hope, will further stimulate the theoretical, methodological and geographical de-centring of forced migration studies and simultaneously mainstream them within migration/mobility studies, one the goals of our committee.
In doing so, we aim to present actual case studies from countries that rank among the highest in terms of the number of refugees, returnees, and those hosting the largest populations of migrants including refugees. A perspective from the Global South offers a valuable and often underrepresented contribution to the field of migration studies. It provides a more nuanced understanding of how migration and forced displacement are conceptualized, governed, and practiced at national and regional levels across the Global South, while also highlighting the complexities, contradictions and ambiguities embedded between existing international frameworks, policy instruments and actual practices. These include international conventions, multilateral and bilateral agreements, and national policies concerning refugees, asylum seekers, and return migration. By grounding theoretical discussions in lived experiences and policy realities, studies from the Global South reveal how such frameworks operate in practice, and the extent to which they shape, support, or constrain the lives and rights of migrants and displaced populations. In doing so, this perspective questions dominant narratives shaped by Global North discourses and contributes to a more inclusive, pluralistic, and context-sensitive body of migration scholarship. It thus offers an alternative lens rooted in the experiences and realities of the Global South.
SC Migration Politics and Governance (MIGPOG)
MIGPOG Writing Retreat – ‘From Policy to Practice: Local Governance in the Polycrisis Age’ 8-9th of May 2025, University of Hildesheim
In May, the Standing Committee MigPog co-organized a writing retreat with the Migration Policy Research Group (MPRG) at the University of Hildesheim. Here PhD students, Early Career and Senior Researchers affiliated with universities across Egypt, Albania, Spain, Iceland, Netherlands and Germany came together. Two-days-long, the participants had the chance to get to know each other, while also followed a structured writing programme to ensure efficient writing. And according to the participants, the retreat was a big success! The idyllic Culture Campus of the University of Hildesheim provided just the right atmosphere for a nice, social and productive retreat.
SC Migration, Citizenship and Political Participation (MIGCITPOL)
Last March, MIGCITPOL enlarged its coordination team. Through an open call procedure, we incorporated a new PhD representative: Great Udochi, from Université de Neuchâtel. Reach out to him via
We resumed our Online Café under a new format in May. This time, two recent publications were presented and discussed. We will pause during the summer. Stay tuned for the announcement of the next meeting and contact us if you would like to make a presentation.
We are looking forward to the upcoming IMISCOE Annual Conference in Paris. MIGCITPOL has organized and/or sponsored 13 onsite panels, including one follow-up panel from our last Annual MIGCITPOL workshop held in Mexico City, and 4 online panels, among which is a publication workshop on a Special Issue coming from our previous workshop in Buenos Aires. As usual, there will also be an SC Business Meeting, date and time to be announced on the conference portal.
We continue working on publications derived from our collective work and networking as well as planning the organization of the MIGCITPOL 2025 SC Annual Workshop. Details to be announced soon.
SC Methodological Approaches and Tools in Migration Research (Meth@Mig)
Among recent Meth@Mig activites, these three deserve special mention:
The 4th Meth@Mig Annual Workshop, titled Between Data and Dialogue: Focusing on Participants in Migration Research took place on-site in Chemnitz (Germany) on April 3-4, 2025. Co-organized by the Meth@Mig SC and the Junior Professorship Intercultural Practice with a focus on Digital Cultures, Chemnitz University of Technology, the workshop featured a keynote speech by Tuba Bircan (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) on “Bridging Algorithmic Insight and Participant Agency in Migration Research.” About two dozen scheduled presentations, clustered into four thematically coherent sessions, formed the basis of vivid debates about cross-cutting methodological issues.
The “Data Visualization Workshop for Migration Researchers” took place online on April 7, 2025. This event was co-organized by the Meth@Mig SC, the Centre of Migration Research at University of Warsaw, and the MultiData project (Multiple Migrations: Quantitative Data Approach Project) at Kozminski University, Warsaw. This well-received workshop provided targeted training on data visualization to about 80 doctoral students and early-career researchers.
Finally, Meth@Mig released a new blog post, titled “What Research Ethics Boards Know and Don’t Know About Research with Refugee Populations,” authored by Dr. Lori Wilkinson (Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada), based on her presentation at the 3rd Annual Meth@Mig Workshop in Mannheim in April 2024. The post offers critical reflections on ethical oversight in research involving refugee communities and the challenges researchers often face when navigating institutional review processes.
Looking ahead, the Meth@Mig SC is getting ready for organizing its 5th Annual Workshop. The SC will be organizing dedicated sessions at the 2025 IMISCOE Annual Conference, continuing its strong presence and contribution. Moreover, Meth@Mig will maintain two of its initiatives: the Meth@Mig Trouble Shooting Session, which provides peer-to-peer methodological support, and the Meth@Mig Research Roundtables, which offer an open forum for exchanging experiences, challenges, and ideas related to migration research methodologies.
SC Reflexivities in Migration Studies
On May 9-10, 2025, the SC Reflexivities and several critical friends gathered in Warsaw to collectively shape its future priorities. The two-day meeting focused on updating the SC’s mission by reaffirming its commitment to interrogating knowledge production and its entanglement with power (this time also turning the gaze inwards to examine what the paradigm of reflexivity achieved thus far); promoting reflexivity not only as a methodological tool but also as a practice; and offering the SC as a platform for supporting researchers in their critical and reflexive research through an ethics of care. Participants proposed concrete next steps including the creation of working groups on topics such as reflexivity in teaching, collaborations within and beyond IMISCOE, the link between reflexivity and activism, and engagement with broader debates such as abolition and social justice. A concept note and collaborative projects are underway—marking a new phase of critical reflexive engagement within and beyond IMISCOE. Stay tuned for more information on this discussion, at best through subscribing to our newsletter!
Moreover, the SC continues to host the "Online Writing Retreat on Reflexivities in Migration Studies" for people working on a project in the field of migration studies and who seek a supportive and collaborative space to boost their writing productivity. This online writing retreat offers a unique opportunity for researchers, scholars, and students to come together and engage in focused writing sessions. Key Features are a 24/7 Online Space, Weekly Online Sessions, Once a month Sessions with extended inputs focusing on topics such as writing support, tools, and materials, and Resource Sharing through an exclusive online material sharing platform. If you are interested in participating, simply contact Paul (Paul.Schreiber[at]ipu-berlin.de) or Orsolya (Orsolya.Polyacsko[at]uni-corvinus.hu).
In addition, the Reflexivities PhD Sessions Vol. V (Spring & Summer 2025) is a collaborative platform where early-career researchers can present their work, exchange feedback, debate methodological and theoretical challenges, and expand their networks with peers interested in reflexive migration research. This is a supportive environment for young scholars eager to explore alternative research approaches mindful of the power dynamics in knowledge production about migration and striving to de-nationalize and de-migranticize studies of mobility and diversity. PhDs and early-career researchers contributing to Reflexivities in Migration Studies are warmly invited to express their interest in presenting, discussing, or participating in other capacities in our online sessions. For information on how to participate, please contact Paul (Paul.Schreiber[at]ipu-berlin.de).
Subscribe to the SC Reflexivities Newsletter via this link: https://imiscoe.us22.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=cc19b00be43245064f59d1d5f&id=efaa0b60a6. The purpose of the newsletter is to share the latest activities of SC Reflexivities in Migration Studies, as well as relevant publications, events, academic jobs and other news from within and beyond the standing committee.
SC Families, Welfare, Care and the Life Course (SC FamWeLC)
The Standing Committee on Families, Welfare, Care and the Life Course (SC FamWeLC) was officially launched at the IMISCOE Annual Conference in Lisbon last year. Since then, we are pleased to report that our group has grown significantly, with nearly 100 members now on our mailing list (you can join here). Much of the last year’s activity has been spent on organisational aspects, so that our standing committee has a sound and sustainable basis. We established four thematic working groups to act as focal points for the SC’s activities: (i) Financial welfare and welfare regimes; (ii) Healthcare and social services; (iii) Informal care and social support; (iv) Migration and life-course transitions. We also created a SC Board to supervise and advise the work of the coordinators and to provide strategic guidance. Our call for colleagues to join this Board met an enthusiastic response, with a diversity of experience and backgrounds being represented, including substantial PhD and early-career involvement. Being a new group with many colleagues who have not collaborated before, we have invested time to get to know each other better and to establish agreed ways of working.
This effort culminated in the first event hosted by SC FamWeLC, a webinar entitled “Migrants as Migration Researchers”. The event was facilitated by our PhD and Early Career representatives (Maria Izzo Myra Mufti and Anu Abraham) and the co-leads for the Informal Care and Social Support thematic working group (Martha Montero-Sieburth and Basak Bilecen). During the first hour, each of the speakers introduced themselves and shared how their positionality as migrants has influenced their own field research. In the second hour, guided by prompting questions, a stimulating discussion ensued between the facilitators and webinar participants, ranging from insider/outsider fluidity to ethical issues and activist trajectories in research careers.
Looking ahead, we are pleased to be able to confirm at least two further events hosted by the SC before the end of the year. On 24 September, we will welcome Weronika Kloc-Nowak and Louise Ryan to give a webinar on grandparenting in geographically dispersed families (more details on the SC FamWeLC webpage). In November (date TBC), we look forward to a book launch to celebrate the English translation of the graphic novel Au-delà l'exil ('Exile and After'), a collaboration between artist Gaspard Njock and anthropologist Félicien de Heusch.
SC Migration, Migrants and Labour Markets (IILME)
IMISCOE Annual Conference in Paris. IILME Highlights
Let’s meet at IMISCOE: The annual meeting of our Standing Group IILME will take place on 2 July, at 18.30-19.30. This is an opportunity to meet fellow researchers in our field, exchange and discuss future research possibilities.
SC IILME Special Session: “The future of research is in the hand of early career researchers” on 2 July, 15:00-16:30.
IILME PhD workshop: “Navigating theoretical, methodological, and career challenges in labor migration research” on 3 July, 10:50-12:20.
IILME sessions at IMISCOE
The future of research on migration and agriculture. Tue July 1, 14:50–16:20, Session #30 workshop, on-site | organizer Blanca Garcés-Mascareñas
Reception policies for asylum seekers and labour market integration of refugees: contradictory elements of regulation. Tue July 1, 14:50–16:20, Session #38 panel, on-site | chair Nahikari Irastorza
Drivers and Patterns of Temporary Employment in Manufacturing and Services and Circular Labour Migration in 6 EU countries. Wed July 2, 16:50–18:20, Session #138 panel, on-site | chairs Tibor Meszmann & Sonila Danaj
Migrant workers’ experiences of exploitation, regulation, and resistance. Wed July 2, 09:00–10:30, Session #56 panel on-site | chair Lisa Berntsen
HorizonEurope sister projects on challenging the EU-centric paradigms in skills shortages and labor migration research. Wed July 2, 15:00–16:30, Session #108 workshop | organizer Ksenija Ivanović & Tesseltje de Lange
SC IILME Special Session: The future of research is in the hand of early career researchers. Wed July 2, 15:00–16:30, Session #112 workshop | organizer Lisa Berntsen
Global Migration Skill Corridors and Talent Partnerships – joint collaboration of origins and destinations. Wed July 2, 10:50–12:20, Session #98 panel, on-site | chairs Godfried Engbersen & Izabela Grabowska
The role of employers in labour migration processes. Wed July 2, 16:50–18:20, Session #141 panel, on-site | chair Sara Bojarczuk
Assessment of and employment opportunities for highly skilled migrants. Wed July 2, 15:00–16:30, Session #118 panel, on-site | chair Esteban Pérez Gnavi
Sustainable skills development: breaking with traditional binaries in knowledge production. Thu July 3, 16:50–18:20, Session #256 panel, on-site | chair Vidmantas Tūtlys
Decentering research into policymaking on migrant labour in farm-to-fork industries. Thu July 3, 15:00–16:30, Session #213 workshop | organizers Nora Dalia Gottlieb & Pascal Beckers
Book Discussion on “Fair Migration Skill Flows. Focus on Origins”. Thu July 3, 10:50–12:20, Session #188 workshop | organizers Izabela Grabowska & Mary Boatemaa Setrana
SC IILME Special Session: PhD Workshop: Navigating theoretical, methodological, and career challenges in labor migration research. Thu July 3, 10:50–12:20, Session #191 workshop | organizer Esteban Pérez Gnavi
Migration, skills, status, and employment trajectories. Thu July 3, 10:50–12:20, Session #210 panel, online | chair Oana Ruxandra Ciobanu
Migration and the labour market: new evidence regarding employment dynamics among migrant communities. Thu July 3, 09:00–10:30, Session #183 panel, on-site | chair TBC
Food Delivery and Irregular Migrant Workers: Navigating Precarity, Rights and Resistance. Thu July 3, 15:00–16:30, Session #229 panel, on-site | chair Ilse van Liempt
Migration and job mobility. Thu July 3, 09:00–10:30, Session #171 panel | chair TBC
At the Intersection of Work, Health, and Migration. Fri July 4, 09:00–10:30, Session #278 panel, on-site | chairs Anne Gosselin & Marwân-al-Qays Bousmah
Studying the production of skilled migration: actors, contexts, sites. Fri July 4, 09:00–10:30, Session #282 panel, on-site | chairs Johanna Ullmann & Christine Lang
Call for papers
Organised by RUNOMI, 13-14 November 2025, Radboud University Netherlands. “Labor markets and the ‘migrant worker’ in light of technological transformation.” Abstract deadline, 22 June. Click for details
SC Migrant Transnationalism (MITRA)
For more than 10 years, the SC MITRA has been organizing a PhD Training & Symposium annually. Over the years, we have covered issues ranging from return migration to humanitarian migration and the interactions between integration and transnationalism. Our PhD Trainings & Symposium have led to inspiring discussions, supported the PhDs writing process, functioned as networking events and excellent publications, including special issues and open-access books. This year, the IMISCOE MITRA Standing Committee organised a PhD Training & Symposium on 12–13 May 2025 at Utrecht University (the Netherlands) on the topic of “International Student Mobility in Changing Sociopolitical Landscapes”. To achieve this we collaborated with the Special Interest Group: Student Mobility: Imaginaries, Temporalities and Regimes at Utrecht University, as part of Migration and Societal Change Focus Area. We are now working on a Special Issue proposal.
We are finalizing before the annual conference, our IMISCOE Research series book entitled “Translocal Lives in Times of Conflict. Understanding People’s (Im)Mobilities and (Dis)Connections under Conditions of Violence and War” (to be published in 2026 and edited by Benjamin Etzold & Marie Godin, both MITRA members). This book gathers more than 40 scholars who come from very diverse backgrounds, including countries in Europe, Africa and Asia, and are in different stages of their academic careers (from PhD candidates to established professors).