Publications
Call for abstracts for the workshop: Local Jobs, Global Lives? High-skilled migrants navigating transnational mobility and local embeddedness
7 September 2025
High-skilled migration has become a defining feature of the global knowledge economy. Yet high-skilled migrants’ lived experiences, strategies of belonging, and impact on both local and transnational social spaces remain insufficiently understood. Often...
Call for Papers: “Co-creating knowledge in linguistically-diverse educational settings: amplifying the voices and agency of teachers, pupils and caregivers”
Deadline: 8 September 2025
We invite paper submissions for the panel “ Co-creating knowledge in linguistically-diverse educational settings: amplifying the voices and agency of teachers, pupils and caregivers ” to be held at the IMISCOE Annual Conference 2026 in Girona, 29 June –...
Call for Papers: power, reflexivity, responsibility: Research ethics in practice
Deadline: 8 September 2025
We invite paper submissions for the panel “ power, reflexivity, responsibility: Research ethics in practice ” to be held at the IMISCOE Annual Conference 2026 in Girona, 29 June – 2 July 2026 .
Postdoctoral position in international migration studies at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen
Application Deadline: September 7, 2025
The Saxo Institute, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen (UCPH), invites applications for a postdoctoral position in international migration studies from 1 January 2026. The posistion is a fixed-term position for 24 months. The postdoc will...
Postdoc Position: “Governing Migration Across Borders. Diplomacy, Cooperation and Externalisation”
Application Deadline: August 1, 2025
Job Title Postdoctoral Researcher (M/W) 24 months Employer Description The French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD) is a public and multidisciplinary research institution that, for nearly 80 years, has fostered equitable...
Call for proposals for the Thematic Call special issue – 2025 ‘Regional perspectives on migration’
Deadline: 01.10.2025
Comparative Migration Studies (CMS) welcomes proposals for the Thematic Call special issue – 2025 with as thematic ‘Regional perspectives on migration’. Special issues can cover perspectives on migration and migration-related diversities from one...
Navigating Fieldwork and Fieldlife: Reflections from Nepal
01.07.2025
by {expert}|3185|1|{/expert} Field research is the process of collecting data and developing theory through direct interaction with people and their lifeworlds. It is a unique and often intensive, challenging experience. In this note, I reflect on half...
The Annual Report 2024 is now available!
This Annual Report is the third one that we publish since the Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies (CEDEM) of the University of Liège assumed the coordination of IMISCOE in April 2022. After three years in this role, we believe it is now a good...
2026 IMISCOE Spring Conference
Paper submissions Deadline: 05.09.2025
The Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies (CEDEM) of the University of Liège is proud to announce that it will host the 2026 IMISCOE Spring Conference in Liège between 16-18 March 2026.
The 2025 Annual Conference booklet is now available!
The booklet for the 2025 Annual Conference is now available!