Publications
Shifting the Focus of Ethnic Villages
In the past couple of months, I did fieldwork in Vienna for my PhD project Becoming a Minority, where I also joined a course in Urban Sociology. One of the topics discussed in the course was “Ethnic Villages”; an academic sub-field mainly concerned with...
Division between Doctoral Studies in Eastern Europe and Western Europe: Precarity in Eastern Europe
Thirty years after the fall of the Iron Curtain, differences between the East and West of Europe still exist which often disqualify the “Easterners.” Discrepancies are structural and economical, with consequences for doctoral students.
Dr Lucy Mayblin on her New Book ‘Impoverishment and Asylum: Social Policy as Slow Violence’
This month we had the pleasure of talking to Dr Lucy Mayblin, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Sheffield about her new book ‘Impoverishment and Asylum: Social Policy as Slow Violence’ and the importance of history in contemporary...
Why You Don't Want to Miss out on the Activities Organised by the IMISCOE PhD Network for the 17th IMISCOE Conference
I found out about the IMISCOE PhD Network during the 15th annual IMISCOE conference in Barcelona. It wasn’t really clear to me what it was about.
Value-Laden Ideal Types? ‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ Nationalism in Academic Research
Studying nationalism and national identity has become an academic discipline in its own right. That is no surprise. Nationalism and national identity remain among the most relevant categories for organising daily life and therefore lend themselves to...
Family Reunification as a Right or a Strategy to Limit Migration?
Brazil and Europe’s control of refugee’s family migration
Call for Seed Funding Research Initiatives CANCELLED for 2020
IMISCOE encourages scholars from the network to explore new opportunities for research, collaboration and publications. Each year, IMISCOE announces its call for seed funding of research initiatives as a way of contributing to the development of new...
Meet the team
{expert}Fiona Seiger|483|2|{/expert} Production (currently on leave) Fiona is a sociologist by training who worked with women, children, and youth in Japan and the Philippines. She holds a PhD from the National University of Singapore. Her education and...
About the Podcast
The field of migration and mobility studies is vast and has grown exponentially over the past decades. To make sense of the movement of people, this podcast explores the latest in migration and mobility research globally.
