SC FamWeLC is a relatively new group within IMISCOE (former SC Older Migrants it was renamed and reshaped in 2024). Our aims are to advance a life-course perspective in migration studies and to draw wider attention to the interconnections between families, welfare and care, and their changing contexts. The SC has an active PhD and ECR representation, as well as four thematic working groups:
- Informal care and social support;
- Healthcare and social services;
- Financial welfare and welfare regimes;
- Migration and life-course transitions.
Events so far in 2026:
4 February: Online Book Forum on Stuck at Home: Pandemic Immobilities in the Nation of Emigration (Stanford University Press, 2025) by Yasmine Ortiga (Singapore Management University). Discussant: Anju Paul (NYU Abu Dhabi), Kerilyn Schewel (UNC-Chapel Hill), and Ken Chih-Yan Sun (Villanova University).
20 May: Webinar. Decolonization and Critical Intercultural Education: Bridging Practices from the Global South to the Global North, facilitated by Tatiana Edith Vergara (Universidad Nacional del Chaco Austral, Argentina), Eduardo Andrés Martin (Universidad Católica del Maule, Chile), Julio Cesar Tovar Galvez (Universidad a Distancia de Madrid, Spain), and Martha Montero-Sieburth (UMass-Boston, USA). Co-hosted with Thais França and Jens Schneider, coordinators of the Standing Committee on Education and Social Inequality. [Watch recording here]
Upcoming activities:
Autumn (date TBC): Webinar showcasing IPUMS, the world’s largest accessible database of census microdata and health survey data, co-hosted with the Gerontological Society of America (GSA).
Further information about these events will be posted on the SC FamWeLC webpage: https://www.imiscoe.org/research/standing-committees/families-welfare-care-and-the-life-course
Fill in the form here to join SC FamWeLC and stay updated with our activities.
You can also follow the SC LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/famwelc-imiscoe/
SC Gender and Sexuality in Migration Research (GenSeM)
Activities at the 2026 IMISCOE Annual Conference
The
SC GenSeM is delighted to welcome all GenSeM members and IMISCOE attendees who are interested in our Standing Committee to the hybrid Annual Meeting that will take place on 29 June at 16:40 (CEST). At the Meeting, the SC will announce the
Best Paper Award and the
Seedcorn Funds Award, as well as discuss with all members plans for the coming year. Room and Webex link will be confirmed closer to the time.
On June 30 from 18h30 onwards, the SC will have a social get-together (own tab) for all GenSeM members and friends. Please feel free to join!
Furthermore, GenSeM will host two special sessions, in addition to 12 regular panels and workshops.
Special Session 1: Where is Girlhood in Migration? Organised by Rachel Larking and Tatiana Avignone. June 30th, 9-10.30 CET
Special Session 2: Critical Intersections: Migration, Gender, and Sexuality in Global Perspective. Launch of the Oxford Handbook of Migration, Gender and Sexuality. Session Organiser: Sarah Scuzzarello, with Tanja Bastia, Jean Beaman, Dounia Bourabain, Laura Cleton, Rik Huizinga, Liza Mugge and Gökce Yurdakul. July 1, 16:50–18:20 CEST
Other activities
GenSeM Migration Dialogue with Professor Louise Ryan, Professor María López and Mursal Rasa discussing the paper Walking with Afghan women: using mobile methods to understand differentiated embedding within different places across England. 19 June 15.00-16.30 CEST
GenSeM PhD "Shut Up & Write" series. This is a session for and with GenSeM PhD student members that aims to create a space for writing and support. It will start on 26 June, and it will be a recurring activity happening every month.
GenSeM Migration Dialogue with Dr B Camminga, Dr John Marnell and colleagues discussing East African Queer and Trans Displacements. September 2026
ECR members - Forthcoming online series about navigating the job market as ECR/post doc with invited academic and professional consultants planned for autumn/winter 2026.
SC Migration, Migrants, and Labour Markets (IILME)
Over the years, the SC IILME has sought to advance research on migrant labour and labour markets across a wide range of European and transnational contexts. IILME’s work has engaged with questions concerning migrant workers and trade union representation, migrant and refugee entrepreneurship, and the relationship between migration, labour precarity and changing welfare and migration regimes. More recently, the SC has extended its focus towards cultures of rejection, racialised labour formations, digitalised labour markets and increasingly mobile and fragmented forms of labour organised across borders. As the SC continued to follow developments within the field, its activities and academic engagements within the IMISCOE Network and beyond expanded to address the ways in which labour, employment, and work are being reconfigured within increasingly stratified neoliberal labour markets. Particular attention was given to how migration intersects with emerging forms of labour to produce new hierarchies of power, deepen social inequalities, and generate complex challenges concerning the legal recognition and representation of workers’ rights
Building upon this renewed research agenda, several IILME panels and workshops will be organised during the conference, so please do join us to continue our exchanges. IILME will organise a special workshop at the 23rd Annual IMISCOE Conference in Girona & Online, entitled “Participatory and Activist Approaches to Migrant Labour, Precarity and Resistance”, convened by Nilay Kılınç (University of Helsinki). The workshop features a distinguished group of participants whose work spans migration studies, labour research, political sociology and activist scholarship. Contributors include Domenica Farinella (University of Messina), Laura Stielike (Osnabrück University), Giacomo Solano (Radboud University), Maizi Hua (University of Oslo), Lisa Berntsen (De Burcht, Scientific Research Institute for the Dutch Labour Movement) and Mai Lundemark (Linnaeus University). Situated within ongoing debates in migration studies and critical labour research, the workshop seeks to explore how participatory and activist methodologies may reshape the ways migrant labour is studied, represented and politically engaged under conditions of neoliberal globalisation.
Those interested in contributing to discussions on the future activities of IILME are warmly invited to attend the Standing Committee meeting. Date and place to be found here. IILME looks forward to welcoming colleagues in Girona!
SC Reflexivities in Migration Studies (Reflexivities)
The
SC Reflexivities has had several activities taking place in the last months and is looking forward to the IMISCOE Annual Conference in Girona.
The SC is happy to share that its blog series
VISIONS FOR MIGRATION has been launched and, over the next weeks, a total of twelve contributions will be published on the SC Reflexivities website and social media channels. The blog series addresses the burning question:
How does who we are shape how we do migration research, and what kind of world do we hope our research can contribute towards? The SC warmly invites you to read and share the contributions.
The SC working group on Activism has also been engaged in a collaborative reflection process. Through a dialogical writing exercise, the group has been exploring the concepts of activism in relation to reflexive migration studies. The discussions around this writing continue, also in light of the upcoming workshop at the Annual Conference (see below). If anyone would like to join in this activity, please reach out to the SC.
Looking forward to the IMISCOE Annual Conference 2026 in Girona, the SC Reflexivities has the pleasure to invite you to two SC Reflexivities Special Sessions:
Bottom-up Epistemologies: Decentering and Reflexivity in Knowledge Production through Community-Based Research?, jointly organised with The Global (De)Centre: Diversity, Mobility and Culture. (July 1, 09:00–10:30)
Beyond Exceptionalism: Normalizing Engaged Research and Questioning Its ‘Non-Engaged’ Counterpart, organised by the SC working group Activism (July 2, 09:00–10:30)
If you filter the sessions in the conference programme by standing committee (“reflex studies”), you will find a total of 25 sessions that are hosted by and affiliated to the SC Reflexivities and its members. You can find the full list of our sessions
here.
Please remember that subscription to the SC Reflexivities Newsletter is available via the following link. Please keep an eye on the newsletter, as a new call is expected to be announced in the fall for funding to support the organisation of events related to the aims of the SC.
Thank you, and see you in Girona!
SC Migrant Transnationalism (MITRA)
Through a wide range of academic activities and publications, the SC MITRA contributes to theoretical, conceptual and methodological discussions around transnationalism from an open and reflective standpoint. To promote such exchanges, is SC organizing various sessions at the 2026 IMISCOE Annual Conference in Girona, including the special workshop “Transnationalism, community engagement and the co-production of knowledge: A workshop for early-career scholars” organized by MiTRA PhD representatives Hilda Gustafsson (Malmö University) and Yichi Zhang (University of St Andrews); the panel “Understanding transnational family life through historical and other sources”; and the SC annual gathering.
Regarding the SC's latest publications, since the last bulletin, MITRA has been involved in supporting and disseminating/launching the Short Reader “Migrant transnationalism” and the edited volume “Translocal lives in times of conflict: Understanding People’s (Im)Mobilities and (Dis)Connections under Conditions of Violence and War”. For those interested in the themes discussed within the SC, you can subscribe to the SC newsletter and follow the MITRA page on the IMISCOE website and social media channels (LinkedIn, Bluesky, Facebook).
For more information on SC MITRA, please visit: https://www.imiscoe.org/research/standing-committees/migrant-transnationalism
