Publications
Job opening at IESA-CSIC
2022/07/08
The Institute for Advanced Social Studies (IESA), a unit of Spain’s Research Council (CSIC) based in Córdoba, invites highly qualified candidates to apply for a tenured research position in the domain of “Political sociology of contemporary nativism and...
IMISCOE Competitive Call for Book Proposals 2022
Manuscripts invited now! The Annual COMPETITIVE CALL FOR BOOK PROPOSALS for the IMISCOE Springer Series is now open until 31 October 2022. The Call 2022 will close on 31 October 2022 at 23:59 CET. Submit your proposal now using the IMISCOE Books...
Call for papers - Thanatic Ethics: The Circulation of Bodies in Migratory Spaces International Conference #2 Response, Repair, Transformation
Venue: Centre for the Study of Social Sciences (CSSSC) Jadunath Bhavan Museum and Resource Centre, Kolkata, India Dates: December 12-14, 2022 Language: English Deadline for submitting proposals: July 10, 2022 Notification of acceptance: August 10, 2022...
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....