Publications
Comparative Migration Studies : Web of Science Impact Factor score
The journal of Comparative Migration Studies ( https://comparativemigrationstudies.springeropen.com/ ) has of June 2022 received its first Web of Science Impact Factor score. We are happy to report Journal Citation Report (JCR) rating of 4.417! The...
Visiting Research Fellowship for two prospective PhD students in Migration Studies (Danube University Krems)
Visiting Research Fellowship for two prospective PhD students in Migration Studies with focus on (i) (Im)mobilities in displacement contexts, or (ii) EU migration policy making. The Department of Migration and Globalization at University for Continuing...
PhD Student Vacancy in Geography (University of Luxembourg)
The University of Luxembourg is an international research university with a distinctly multilingual and interdisciplinary character. The University was founded in 2003 and counts more than 6,700 students and more than 2,000 employees from around the...
Conference invitation: Contesting Violent Border Regimes - asylum rights activism and solidarity in Europe.
Welcome to The Asylum Commission’s final conference! Since 2015, the Asylum Commission in Sweden has brought together people with experiences of seeking asylum, researchers, civil society activists and professionals, to examine the migration regulations...
On Eastern Europeans in the UK
In a 2016 referendum, the British public voted to exit the European Union. Xenophobia played an important role in the outcome of that vote, and a lot of that antipathy against migrants was directed towards Eastern Europeans.
How can the ethnic majority (not) feel like an outsider?
Diversity & Inclusion efforts and in particular efforts to increase the feeling of belonging in different social spaces are predominantly focussed on minoritized groups such as people with a migration background. But do members of the ‘other group’–...
A Reflexive Perspective on Privileged Migration Studies. What’s the Point?
14.06.2022
by Sophie Cranston and Karine Duplan In political and popular discourse, migration is alternately portrayed as a problem to be managed or a danger to be fought. Consequently, the term appears to carry with it a set of social and political issues....
The Complicity of Culturalist Knowledge Production
21.06.2022
by {expert}Stefan Manser-Egli|||{/expert} ‘Respecting the values of the constitution’ is one of the most recent requirements in Swiss integration law. In the last decades, academic voices reproducing narratives of ‘cultural distance’ have contributed to...
What’s Sex Got to Do With It? Migration Studies Meets Sexualities
23.06.2022
by Calogero Giametta Migration research has historically conceived migrants as heterosexual, and rendered gender and sexual identity invisible. It is only recently that the intersection of queer and migration studies has produced critical knowledge...
SC EduSocial at the IMISCOE Conference 2022
The Standing Committee Education and Social Inequality is involved in a number of sessions at the IMISCOE Annual Conference 2022 in Oslo - below is a list. We look forward to interesting papers and debates! We want to highlight especially the open...