Publications
Migration Politics and Governance
The Migration Politics and Governance (MigPoG) Standing Committee (SC) takes a broad and comprehensive approach to the study of migration policy, one which aims at promoting dialogue between scholars focusing on the politics and governance of migration....
Coordinator
Maria Schiller
Migration, Migrants and Labour Markets
The center of the focus of the IILME Standing Committee are the links between increasing migration, labour market dynamics and access to welfare resources. These are central to the discourse on both immigration and integration policies of newly arrived...
Coordinator
Anders Neergaard
Gender and Sexuality in Migration Research
The Standing Committee “Gender and Sexuality in Migration Research” (GenSeM) brings together and supports IMISCOE-affiliated scholars whose research focuses on the areas of gender, sexuality and migration. GenSeM wants to create an infrastructure that...
Coordinator
Sarah Scuzzarello
Families, Welfare, Care and The Life Course
The Standing Committee's objectives are to: Draw wider attention in migration studies to the inter-connections between families, welfare and care, and their changing contexts. Advance a life-course perspective in migration studies, by facilitating...
Coordinator
Tineke Fokkema
Arts, culture and migration
The "Arts, culture and migration" (DIVCULT) Standing Committee aims to better understand the relevance of arts and culture in theoretical and policy debates on immigrant incorporation and diversity in Europe and beyond. In recent years, artistic and...
Coordinator
Elsa Mescoli
Migration, Citizenship and Political Participation
The Migration, Citizenship and Political Participation Standing Committee (MIGCITPOL) offers a unique forum to researchers working in the fields of migrants’ access to citizenship and political participation in sending and receiving societies....
Coordinator
Gianni d’Amato
Migrant Transnationalism
The objective of the Standing Committee on Migrant Transnationalism (MITRA) is to provide an arena within IMISCOE for academic exchange on migrant transnationalism. The transnational turn was an innovation in migration studies and offered a new...
Coordinator
Brigitte Suter
Reflexivities in Migration Studies
SC REFLEX seeks to raise awareness that Migration Studies as a research field is shaped by wider societal and power relations rooted in colonial and nationalist histories. Given the political hype around migration and the parallel growth, relevance and...
Coordinator
Iva Dodevska
IMISCOE Standing Committees
Over the past decade, IMISCOE has established and structurally supported different Standing Committees that cover significant topics within migration studies. Every year, the network has a fixed sum available for all Standing Committees, to support...
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