Publications
Call for Papers IMISCOE 2022: Discrimination and Racism in Temporal Perspective
Deadline: 1 December, 2021
Thematic Focus Racism is still mostly studied without explicit references to discrimination and many contributions continue to conceive it as a specific expression of prejudice. While the most blatant forms of racism are barely tolerated in contemporary...
Call for Papers IMISCOE 2022: contested categories in the context of migration
Deadline: 30 November, 2021
Thematic Focus This panel will examine contested categories in the context of migration. We consider migration and related phenomena as especially fruitful sites for unpacking existing categories and categorization systems of all kinds and for...
Call for Papers IMISCOE 2022: Migrant Entrepreneurship in times of migrant-led diversity
Deadline: 1 December, 2021
Thematic Focus Diversity is becoming the context through which researchers can account for different aspects of increasingly complexifying conditions of both entrepreneurship and migration. Taking a superdiversity perspective, we are editing the...
CFP IMISCOE 2022 Cultural and artistic organisations as spaces of belonging for young refugees and asylum-seekers
Deadline 24 Novembre 2021
CALL FOR PAPERS, 19 TH IMISCOE ANNUAL CONFERENCE, June 29 - July 1, 2022, Oslo, Norway Cultural and artistic organisations as spaces of belonging for young refugees and asylum-seekers. Panel convenors: Mattias De Backer (KU Leuven & University of...
Research Fellows (Postdoctoral Level) at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
Deadline: 5 December, 2021
Applicants should have a degree and a PhD in sociology, political science, anthropology, geography, or with a related interdisciplinary profile. Their research experience and publications should be relevant to the research areas of the department of...
Call for Papers: Age as a vantage point on time and migration
Deadline: 30 November, 2021
Thematic Focus This panel at the 19th IMISCOE annual conference engages with an emerging ‘temporal turn’ in the social sciences in recent years. Specifically, it reflects on how temporal experiences of migration and the life course intersect. We follow...
One year after the adoption of the EU anti-racism action plan: A panel conversation with Michaela Moua, EU Anti-Racism Coordinator
Where do we stand a good year after the adoption of the EU Anti-Racism Action Plan? Are we still convinced that 2020 created a momentum for change? What EU policy changes are on track? What are the biggest challenges and hurdles for implementing real...
Call for Papers for IMISCOE's Spring Workshop: Citizenship from Paper to Practice - Perspectives on the Implementation Gap
Deadline: 10 December, 2021
The gap between citizenship law and policy practice has long been identified: from outright dissonance between legal norms and arbitrary practices to “milder” forms of deviation, as in the spaces opened for interpretation and discretion of the...
Research Group Leader at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
10 November, 2021
In support of the IIASA Strategic Plan 2021-2030 and its research programs, we invite applications for two Research Group Leader opportunities for 1) the Migration and Sustainable Development (MIG) research group and 2) the Social Cohesion, Health, and...
New episode: on ways to explore migrants' transnational connections
Milena Belloni speaks to Valentina Mazzucato about how she explores the minute details of everyday migrant transnationalism. Click here to listen to the episode.