Publications
“I Had to Go to Greece in Order to Keep Respect for Myself”
A Swiss Volunteer’s Experiences in Idomeni and Lesvos Refugee Camps
The Academic Equivalent of Downhill Skiing: Let’s TryY Pecha Kucha
Are you often bored by people talking endlessly about their slides whereas their audience is slowly falling asleep – the so-called “death by PowerPoint”? So you might want to try out Pecha Kucha .
How to Teach Migration?
The idea behind organizing a PhD workshop on teaching at the IMISCOE Conference 2016 in Prague was twofold: First, we wanted to create a platform for PhD students, who are based at different universities in different countries, to exchange on and...
Successful Second Edition of the IMISCOE PhD Workshop
The IMISCOE PhD Network forms a network of actively engaged PhD students within the IMISCOE network. This blog is one of the projects of the PhD Network, furthermore the network organizes an annual workshop at the IMISCOE conference.
‘There is no Such Thing as One Single Mainstream'
The first transatlantic IMISCOE Summer School was a big success. In a stimulating Princeton environment a group of 30 PhD candidates from the US and Europe followed a five-day program with lectures by Maurice Crul, Marco Martiniello, Karen Pren and...
Migrants in the City: a Quest for a New Citizenship and a Challenge for Urban Planning
This post focuses on the role urban planning can play in the management of diversity in the city. In European countries, migration policies have failed to create a common and shared space to deal with the numerous questions raised by the so called...
The Open/Closed Border Dilemma: Tertium Datur?
The Case of Border Controls (Legal and Moral)
3 Lessons from Social Pedagogy for Migration Studies
Social pedagogy: asking questions about implicit choices
What is Behind the Decision to Come to the Czech Republic for Study?
The Case of Russian Speaking Students from Russia ad Kazakhstan
3 Books and Movies on Migration Recommended by Maurizio Ambrosini
Maurizio Ambrosini is Professor of Sociology of Migration at the University of Milan, Italy. He has over 150 publications which include a book in English, “Irregular Migration and Invisible Welfare”, Palgrave, 2013.