Publications
2024 IMISCOE Spring Conference Portal
Please check out the Conference Portal for the 2024 IMISCOE Spring Conference in Istanbul and online! "Mobilities and Immobilities in an Era of Polycrisis" Event organised by: Migration Research Center at Koç University (MiReKoç), Koç University,...
Standing Committe GenSeM workshop: "Meet the Editors: How to Peer Review for Journals"
Join the Standing Committee GenSeM online workshop "Meet the Editors: How to Peer Review for Journals". The event is tailored for PhD students and ECSs, so we hope you can share it with your network and with anyone that could be interested! When: April...
Panel discussions on Colonised Flows: a Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Migration and Urban Infrastructure- University of Amsterdam & online
PhD researchers from the University of Amsterdam & University College London are organizing a panel discussion on "Colonised Flows: a Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Migration and Urban Infrastructure" . The event is funded by the Ducth Association for...
Extension: 2024 Rinus Penninx Best Paper Award - Nominations open
Deadline: 29th of May 2024 (23:59 CEST)
This announcement concerns our renowned Rinus Penninx Best Paper Award, the winner of which will be announced on the last day of our upcoming IMISCOE Annual Conference “ Migration as a Social Construction: A Reflexive Turn ” hosted at the Centre for...
The transnational social contract in the Global South

In this episode, Roos Derrix chats with Gerasimos Tsourapas and Kamal Sadiq about their latest project on the politics of South-South labour migration, and the development of a transnational social contract between states and their migrant populations.
Towards Engaged Migration Research: Unpacking Positionality, Inequalities and Access
“We are Black, Indian, Mestiza, Sudaka, racialised flesh. We reject your PDFs and your disembodied lectures. We deny every trend of being and return to listening to each other, looking each other in the eye, telling each other stories, and building from...
RUNOMI's summer school on Migrant Inclusion: Policies, Practices in the Age of Digitalization
This multidisciplinary one week (17-21 June) course will provide participants with insight into relevant issues on the topic of migrant inclusion in a digitalized society. Through engagement with experts from a variety of disciplines, you will gain a...
Job opening: PhD Candidate at the Utrecht University
Utrecht University has a job opening for a PhD candidate interested in country ownership perceptions of immigrant-origin minorities in the Netherlands and USA. The successful candidate will be based at the department of Interdisciplinary Social Science,...
A new episode of Voices of Lancashire is out now. Gosha: the journey of a Polish artist who became a Pol-Lancs lass.
In this episode, Gosha, a Polish artist who arrived in Lancashire twenty years ago, recollects her story of adaptation to and integration with the local society. In her early twenties, Gosha left Poland hitchhiking, with the goal to go to Portugal for a...
The Potential of a Novel Research Agenda on the Return of the Native (and what to do about these illiberal narratives)

In years to come, the past decade will be characterized as one of revolt against liberalism. With the election of Barack Obama in 2008, liberalism appeared to reach new heights. But the year also marked what to many seemed like the beginning of the end....