Publications
Call for Proposals "Whither categorisation? State logics and the practices of bordering"
06.09.2024
Dear migration researchers, Hannah Bowman (Trinity College Dublin) and I (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) are preparing to co-submit a proposal for an in-person panel at the IMISCOE 2025 summer conference in Paris. More details about the conference can be...
Call for proposals "Decentring and Recentring: Changing Agendas and Practices of Migration Studies"
16.09.2024
Call for Papers "Decentring and Recentring: Changing Agendas and Practices of Migration Studies" IMISCOE Annual Conference "Decentering Migration Studies" Paris–Aubervilliers, July 1-4, 2025 Panel organisers: Gunjan Sondhi, The Open University UK, This...
Call for proposals "Colonial Logics in Knowledge Production on Migrant Integration"
18.09.2024
CALL FOR PAPERS: 22nd IMISCOE Annual Conference, Paris Panel organizers: Nadine Blankvoort, Iva Dodevska, Stefan Manser-Egli Colonial Logics in Knowledge Production on Migrant Integration In academic discussions and public discourse, ‘integration’ is...
Final conference of REFUFAM (23-24 April 2025, Brussels) - Call for abstracts “Navigating the politics of (dis)integration: Refugee families’ pathways to inclusion”.
This is the final conference of REFUFAM , an interdisciplinary consortium examining the impact of Belgian migration-related policies on the social inclusion of refugees and their family members. The consortium is funded by Belspo Brain.be 2.0, and...
Next GenSeM Dialogue (19 Sept, 1pm, UK): Middle-aged migrants, gender and the life course
Next GenSeM Dialogue on 19 September , 1pm (UK time) , online: Middle-aged migrants: exploring a new research agenda on gender and life course Guest speaker: Dr Aija Lulle (University of Eastern Finland) Discussant: Dr Megha Amrith (Max Planck Institute...
Next GenSeM Dialogue (19 Sept, 1pm, UK): Middle-aged migrants, gender and the life course (2)
Next GenSeM Dialogue on 19 September , 1pm (UK time) , online: Middle-aged migrants: exploring a new research agenda on gender and life course Guest speaker: Dr Aija Lulle (University of Eastern Finland) Discussant: Dr Megha Amrith (Max Planck Institute...
Call for Papers: Exploring the Challenges and Opportunities of International Student Mobility for Students with Parenting Responsibilities
Dear colleagues, We are excited to remind you about the upcoming opportunity to submit an abstract to our panel at two significant conferences in 2025: the 22nd IMISCOE Conference, taking place in Paris (France) both physically and online from July 1-4,...
Call for Expressions of Interest - positions within SC Families, welfare, care and the life course
Deadline: 27.09.2024
The newly-formed Standing Committee (SC) on Families, Welfare, Care and the Life Course was approved at a meeting of the IMISCOE Board of Directors on 17th April 2024. The SC objectives are to: Draw wider attention in migration studies to the...
Nourishing the Belly of the Beast: Creative Food Practices for Critical Migration Studies
In the ongoing effort to disrupt oppressive relations in academia, there is a call to centre the body as a departure point from where to situate (and unsettle) the interweaved relationship between knowledge and power. Considering the body as an...
IMISCOE 2025 CfP Challenging the norms from the margins: migrants’ practices of (counter)culture
Deadline 15.09.2024
In view of the next IMISCOE conference to be held in Paris in July 2025, we are collecting papers for the panel below. For those interested in presenting a paper in this panel, please send us ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You...