Reflexivities in Migration Studies Blog
16.09.2024
Call for participation in the panel proposal "Methodological creativity in transnational settings: Approaches to study the production of skilled migration" On-site at the IMISCOE Annual Conference "Decentering Migration Studies" in Paris–Aubervilliers,...
06.09.2024
Dear migration researchers, Hannah Bowman (Trinity College Dublin) and I (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) are preparing to co-submit a proposal for an in-person panel at the IMISCOE 2025 summer conference in Paris. More details about the conference can be...
16.09.2024
Call for Papers "Decentring and Recentring: Changing Agendas and Practices of Migration Studies" IMISCOE Annual Conference "Decentering Migration Studies" Paris–Aubervilliers, July 1-4, 2025 Panel organisers: Gunjan Sondhi, The Open University UK, This...
18.09.2024
CALL FOR PAPERS: 22nd IMISCOE Annual Conference, Paris Panel organizers: Nadine Blankvoort, Iva Dodevska, Stefan Manser-Egli Colonial Logics in Knowledge Production on Migrant Integration In academic discussions and public discourse, ‘integration’ is...
22.09.2024
The IMISCOE Standing Committee „Reflexivities in Migration Studies” is calling for applications for the role of PhD representative in the governing board, to begin in October 2024. Being a PhD representative gives you the opportunity to shape the future...
07.07.2022
by {expert}Christine Lang|||{/expert} Reflexive approaches in migration studies have revealed the problems of traditional constructions of the objects of migration research. Much less attention has been paid to the subjects doing the research and the...
14.06.2022
by Sophie Cranston and Karine Duplan In political and popular discourse, migration is alternately portrayed as a problem to be managed or a danger to be fought. Consequently, the term appears to carry with it a set of social and political issues....
21.06.2022
by {expert}Stefan Manser-Egli|||{/expert} ‘Respecting the values of the constitution’ is one of the most recent requirements in Swiss integration law. In the last decades, academic voices reproducing narratives of ‘cultural distance’ have contributed to...
23.06.2022
by Calogero Giametta Migration research has historically conceived migrants as heterosexual, and rendered gender and sexual identity invisible. It is only recently that the intersection of queer and migration studies has produced critical knowledge...
16.06.2022
by Rama Srinivasan Integration policies are often perceived in academic works as gatekeeping instruments but, while they can certainly be deployed as such, this framing does not fully represent the variety of immigrant perspectives in my study. My own...