Publications
How can the ethnic majority (not) feel like an outsider?
Diversity & Inclusion efforts and in particular efforts to increase the feeling of belonging in different social spaces are predominantly focussed on minoritized groups such as people with a migration background. But do members of the ‘other group’–...
A Reflexive Perspective on Privileged Migration Studies. What’s the Point?
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....
The Complicity of Culturalist Knowledge Production
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...
What’s Sex Got to Do With It? Migration Studies Meets Sexualities
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...
SC EduSocial at the IMISCOE Conference 2022
The Standing Committee Education and Social Inequality is involved in a number of sessions at the IMISCOE Annual Conference 2022 in Oslo - below is a list. We look forward to interesting papers and debates! We want to highlight especially the open...
On understanding Social Complexity
To kickstart our new series of episodes, we invited Steven Vertovec to speak about ways of studying and understanding one of the consequences of migration, that is social complexity.
Tammam Al-ramadan, Syrian Musician and Refugee
Research around migration and the arts has abundantly demonstrated how music can help immigrants mobilize and raise awareness. Tammam Al-ramadan, is a 28-year old Syrian musician who fled Aleppo in 2014 and settled in Belgium. He is a Ney player who...
IMISCOE Statement in Support of Ukraine and Scholars at Risk
IMISCOE (International Migration Research Network) wants to express its deep concern about lives in Ukraine.
‘Introduction to Migration Studies’ is out now!
‘Introduction to Migration Studies’ has been published! This new volume does not only bring together work on key themes in migration studies, but it also offers an interactive guide connecting readers to work published on various themes. It starts with...
Ida Tolgensbakk & Justyna Bell
We sat with Ida Tolgensbakk and Justyna Bell to discuss the long-awaited 19th Annual conference that will take place in Oslo from the 29th of June to the 1st of July. Ida is a cultural historian at NOVA, and together with Justyna, a sociologist also...