Standing Committees

Standing Committees involve research clusters that have been established for a longer period of time, and have a broad programme of activities and a broad audience that they serve within IMISCOE.

Standing Committees News

  • Call for Papers: Writing Retreat Barcelona – Street-Level Bureaucracy in Migration Policy

    Deadline: 15.03.2026
    We invite submissions for the upcoming Writing Retreat. The event will be held on 25th–26th June 2026 in Cerdanyola Del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain. The retreat offers a dedicated and supportive environment for migration researchers to engage in intensive...
  • GenSeM Migration Dialogue - Dr Altay: Building and Breaking Trust

    We are pleased to announce our forthcoming hybrid Migration Dialogue, organised in collaboration with the SCMR at Sussex on January 28th, 1-2.30 (UK time). We will welcome Dr Tunay Altay, a long-standing GenSeM member, who will present his work on...
  • Special Issue "Reflecting on the Geographies of Migration Research" out now!

    It is our pleasure to announce that another Special Issue addressing key topics of the Standing Committee Reflexivities in Migration Studies has just been published: the Special Issue "Reflecting on the Geographies of Migration Research", published in...
  • [SC FamWeLC] Online book forum: "Stuck at Home" by Yasmin Ortiga

    4 February 2026, 15:00-16:30 CET
    What happened to migrants when they were encouraged to seek opportunities across borders but then suddenly couldn't live a transnational life at will? Yasmin Ortiga's new book, Stuck at Home: Pandemic Immobilities in the Nation of Emigration (Stanford...
  • out now: Special Issue on Reflexivity in Migration Studies

    Exciting new from the Standing Committee "Reflexivities in Migration Studies"! The Special Issue "Towards reflexivity in the study of mobility and diversity: Theories, positionality, and the political economy of knowledge production", published in the...

Coming up

16-18 March 2026, University of Liège, Campus Pitteurs, Liège

2026 IMISCOE Spring Conference

Governing and Experiencing Migration in Contentious Times
Spring Conference

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