Publications
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...
Register to participate online in MIGCITPOL's Annual Workshop on "Migrant Regularization: Processes, Pathways, and Mechanisms Linking Status to Citizenship"
Scholars from across the world and several social sciences disciplines are meeting in person in Mexico City, and in hybrid mode, to present their original research on migrant regularization, the liminality of citizenship and legal status. The works to...
Call for Papers: panel proposal for the IMISCOE Annual Conference 2025, Paris-Aubervilliers “Return Migration and Reverse Transnationalism”
Return Migration and Reverse Transnationalism: Reimagining Home, Identity, and Belonging Panel convenors: Russell King (University of Sussex) and Nilay Kılınç (University of Helsinki) Abstract Return migration has often been seen as the ‘final’ phase of...
Call for Papers: panel proposal for the IMISCOE Annual Conference 2025, Paris-Aubervilliers "Decentring research on deportation governance programs, practices and experiences from the Global North"
Panel proposal IMISCOE 2025, 1-4 July 2025 Paris-Aubervilliers Call for Papers: Decentring research on deportation governance programs, practices and experiences from the Global North (on site) Chairs: Rossella Marino (UGent) & Laura Cleton (EUR)...
bicc's 30th anniversary conference: The Missing Peace, Why Field Research Matters to Policy and Practice
What do we know about the local realities of violent conflict? And how can we use what we know for peacebuilding? There are often considerable gaps between beliefs and practices “on the ground” and national and multilateral peacebuilding, development...
Call for Abstracts "New directions in queer and trans migration research", IMISCOE 2025
Call for Abstracts: New directions in queer and trans migration research IMISCOE Annual Conference "Decentering Migration Studies" in Paris–Aubervilliers, 1st–4th July 2025 Panel organizers: Francesca Stella, University of Glasgow This email address is...
Masculinities at the Margins: (De)Centering Migrant Men in a Globally Interconnected World
Panel Convenors: Dr. Rik Huizinga (Utrecht University) and Abu Saleh Mohammad Sowad (Concordia University) Although significant progress has been made in understanding migrant men and masculinities in a relatively short period since the initial...