Publications
CfP: Ethnic Discrimination and Brain Waste - University of Neuchâtel (online)
Deadline: 20 September, 2020
We are organizing an online workshop on ethnic discrimination and brain waste. The body of research on discrimination against ethnic minorities, immigrants and their descendants in Europe has grown significantly in the last twenty years, documenting...
How to Navigate the Hot Seats of PhD life?
Take-Aways from this Year’s IMISCOE PhD Network Interactive Discussion Forum at IMISCOE’s First Online Conference 2020 has thrown a lot of curve balls at us, forcing us to rethink how we manage our personal and professional lives during a pandemic....
Most popular/and cited articles published in 2019 in Comparative Migration Studies
How do refugees affect social life in host communities? The case of Congolese refugees in Rwanda by Veronika Fajth et al. How the different policies and school systems affect the inclusion of Syrian refugee children in Sweden, Germany, Greece, Lebanon...
IMISCOE adds 56th member - RUNOMI - to the network
These unprecedented times have been challenging across the globe. New “normal” have surfaced to be able to cope with the new situation and IMISCOE wasn’t foreign to this. The renowned annual conference has been conducted online with over 800...
Writing in community: The GenSeM committee first online writing retreat
GenSeM is organising an online writing retreat day on Thursday 20 August to support PhD researchers and Early Career Researchers particularly, although scholars at any level are welcome to attend. In this blog post, our GenSeM PhD/ECR representatives...
The Floating Population in China
Jolynna Sinanan spoke to Xinyuan Wang about her work with temporary, low-wage workers in Chinese factory towns, looking at, what she calls “the human face of Made in China”.
Writing in community: GenSeM first online writing retreat
GenSeM PhD/ECR representatives Marianela and Nicola will hold an online writing retreat day on Thursday 20 August to support PhD researchers and Early Career Researchers particularly, although scholars at any level are welcome to attend. Why are writing...
Misconceptions about migration and development
In this episode I speak to Melissa Siegel about the aspirations that drive people's decisions to live elsewhere. Through her research, Melissa debunks the idea that people migrate only to escape poverty and conflict, and that development in sending...
2019: IRN Best Paper Award
Congratulations to MPI MMG researcher Elisabeth Badenhoop and her co-authors Mike Slaven (University of Lincoln, UK) and Sara Casella Colombeau (EHESS/CNRS, French Collaborative Institute on Migration, France) for receiving the 2019 Council for European...
GenSeM at IMISCOE 2020
On July 1 st and 2 nd , researchers working on and interested on how migration and integration are shaped by gender and sexuality met at the 2020 IMISCOE conference . After launching the Standing Committee on Gender and Sexuality in Migration Research...