Publications
Scale Shifting: New Insights into Global Literary Circulation
Journal of World Literature, Volume 5 (2020): Issue 4 (Nov 2020): Special Issue: Scale Shifting: New Insights into Global Literary Circulation, edited by Wiebke Sievers and Peggy Levitt This special issue on scale shifting brings into sharper focus the...
Arts and Antiracism in post-migration societies
11 December 2020
An online scientific event organised by the University of Padova and CEDEM as part of the DIVCULT SC activities. The event includes panel discussions and film screening. The complete programme including access links is accessible here: pdf Arts and...
SAVE THE DATE: online conference - Migration and the Future of Work - Ryerson University
Join the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration program for its second annual international conference. Our 2021 conference will investigate the impact of technological change on the future of work and how this is transforming...
CfP: Discrimination and Racism in Cross-National Perspective
Deadline: 27 November, 2020
For a long time, racism has been studied without references to discrimination and was mainly conceived as a specific expression of prejudice. The retreat from blatant form of racism that were not tolerate any more to more subtle and systemic forms of...
University of Luxembourg (UL) - Luxembourg
An interview with Professor Birte Nienaber and Nicole Holzapfel-Mantin On September 22, 2020, I met with Professor Birte Nienaber and Nicole Holzapfel-Mantin from the University of Luxembourg (UL) online. The UL was supposed to host the IMISCOE 2020...
CfP Standing Committee Methodological Approaches and Tools in Migration Research
Deadline: 1 December, 2020
The Standing Committee (SC) aims to contribute to the 18th IMISCOE Annual Conference ‘Crossing borders, connecting cultures’, with themed panel sessions highlighting: methodological challenges of doing research during the COVID-19 pandemics, and,...
Intertwining research and arts in migration studies: experiences from the field
27 November 2020
An online scientific event organised by CEDEM as part of the DIVCULT SC activities and hosted by the Global Migrant Festival 2020 The research presented in this panel offers the opportunity to study how migrants – and/or people with migrant backgrounds...
RESPOND's final conference: "Governing Migration in Europe and Beyond: New Perspectives and Lessons Learned
Deadline: 18 November, 2020
This event is the final conference of the Horizon 2020 RESPOND project which has studied the multilevel governance of migration in Europe and beyond from 2011 onwards along the so called eastern Mediterranean route/Balkan route.
PRIM Study “Developing Lifeworld Oriented Perspectives for Return Migration”
Return takes place in a transnational social space. To fulfill this perspective, a concept for sustainable return and reintegration must be further developed. The PRIM (“Project Migrants Interested in Return”) study uses the lifeworld approach to shed...
Coronavirus and the impact of school closures on refugees and asylum seekers in the United Kingdom
Social distancing measures introduced around the world have pushed all of us into isolation to some extent. UK schools were closed on 20 March 2020 to help decrease the spread of Covid-19. School closures and social distancing, while necessary measures,...