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
GenSeM at IMISCOE 2020
24 July 2020
On July 1 st and 2 nd , researchers working on and interested on how migration and integration are shaped by gender and sexuality met at the 2020 IMISCOE conference . After launching the Standing Committee on Gender and Sexuality in Migration Research...
MIGCITPOL Panels- 17th IMISCOE Annual Conference
06 July 2020
MIGCITPOL Panels- 17 th IMISCOE Annual Conference - https://www.imiscoe.org/events/imiscoe-events/1027-17th-imiscoe-annual-conference Panel 51: Transnational political mobilisation: linking diaspora’s electoral leverage, homeland political...
MIGCITPOL Inaugural Workshop
06 July 2020
Our Inaugural Workshop – entitled “Regulating and Experiencing Immigrant Status Transition: Comparing Entry, Settlement, and Naturalization” – was planned to take place in May 2020 at GIGA in Berlin. Unfortunately, due to COVID-19, we had to cancel the...
Special REMI issue Music, Dance and (Trans)nationalisms online
29/6/2020
Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales (REMI), New publication (in French) edited by Alice Aterianus-Owanga , Elina Djebbari and Monika Salzbrunn, available at: https://journals.openedition.org/remi/13169 .
Kick-off Workshop @ Neuchâtel
23 June 2020
On 24 January, 2020, 34 migration researchers from all over Europe gathered in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, for the kickoff-workshop of IMISCOE’s Standing Committee “Reflexive Migration Studies”. The objective of the workshop was not only to get to know each...