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.
Education has been one of the earliest topics dealt with comparatively across countries in the IMISCOE network. The Standing Committee aims at stimulating international comparative research on the intersections between education, (international)...
Coordinator
Dr. Elif Keskiner
e.keskiner@vu.nl
The new Standing Committee “Gender and Sexuality in Migration Research” (GenSeM) brings together and supports IMISCOE-affiliated scholars whose research focuses on the areas of gender, sexuality and migration. GenSeM wants to create an infrastructure...
Coordinator
Sarah Scuzzarello
S.Scuzzarello@sussex.ac.uk
The center of the focus of the IILME Standing Committee are the links between increasing migration, labour market dynamics and access to welfare resources. These are central to the discourse on both immigration and integration policies of newly arrived...
The Standing Committee Meth@Mig provides a forum for discussing methodological approaches and tools in migration research and assessing the best options available for tackling manifold methodological challenges. The Standing Committee takes on a...
Coordinator
Justyna Salamońska
jj.salamonska@uw.edu.pl
The objective of the Standing Committee on Migrant Transnationalism (MITRA) is to provide an arena within IMISCOE for exchange on migrant transnationalism. The transnational turn was an innovation in migration studies and offered a new perspective for...
Coordinator
Marta Bivand Erdal
marta@prio.org
The Migration, Citizenship and Political Participation Standing Committee (MIGCITPOL) offers a unique forum to researchers working in the fields of migrants’ access to citizenship and political participation in sending and receiving societies....
Coordinator
Gianni d’Amato
Gianni.damato@unine.ch
The Migration Politics and Governance (MigPoG) Standing Committee (SC) takes a broad and comprehensive approach to the study of migration policy, one which aims at promoting dialogue between scholars focusing on the politics and governance of migration....
Coordinator
Tiziana Caponio
tiziana.caponio@eui.eu
In 2010, when then the Research initiative ‘Ageing Migrants’ started its activity, this was a little studied topic. The research projects conducted by members of the group and the publications have been growing along with the development of our network...
Coordinator
Tineke Fokkema
fokkema@nidi.nl
Key Questions For what underlying structural reasons did migration research have such a success these last decencies? Why is migration so often presented in politics, in public or in the media as a direct threat to sovereignty and national identity and...
Coordinator
Anna-Lisa Müller
reflexstudies@uni-osnabrueck.de
DIVCULT aims to better understand the relevance of arts and culture in the theoretical and policy debates about immigrant incorporation and diversity in Europe and beyond. Over the last years, artistic activities have found increasing interest among...
Coordinator
Marco Martiniello
M.Martiniello@uliege.be
Standing Committees News
Consumption of Cultural Goods for Migrants Integration
Seminar: 8 April 2021
The Satellite Seminar Jean Monnet Chair European Migration Studies on “Consumption of Cultural Goods for Migrants Integration” will take place online from 9 to 29 April. It includes presentations from renowned culture and migration scholars, the...
SAVE THE DATE : 20 mars 2021_Conference How to counter racism in professional football?
04 March 2021
On Saturday 20 March 2021 between 10.00 and 17.30, the Standard de Liège and the CEDEM are organising an international online conference entitled "How to counter racism in professional football?". Registration is free but compulsory. The full programme,...
Special issue "Cultural and Artistic Participation of Migrants: A Pathway Towards Sociopolitical Integration"
2/2/2021
We are very happy to announce the publication of the Special issue on the " Cultural and Artistic Participation of Migrants: A Pathway Towards Sociopolitical Integration " published on the AmeriQuests Vol. 16(1), and edited by Robert F. Barsky...
Webinar: Migration Governance and Politics in the Face of the Pandemic
Event: 27 January, 2021
Join this webinar where the Standing Committee on Migration Politics and Governance (MigPoG) will explore how a perspective on both the governance and politics of migration can enrich our understanding of policymaking processes vis-à-vis the challenges...
Scale Shifting: New Insights into Global Literary Circulation
01 December 2020
Journal of World Literature, Volume 5 (2020): Issue 4 (Nov 2020): Special Issue: Scale Shifting: New Insights into Global Literary Circulation, edited by Wiebke Sievers and Peggy Levitt This special issue on scale shifting brings into sharper focus the...