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.
The Standing Committee Education and Social Inequality aims at stimulating international comparative research on the intersections between education, (international) mobility and social inequality. It combines the research interests and experiences of...
Coordinator
Dr. Elif Keskiner
e.keskiner@vu.nl
The 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 that...
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
jsalamonska@kozminski.edu.pl
The objective of the Standing Committee on Migrant Transnationalism (MITRA) is to provide an arena within IMISCOE for academic exchange on migrant transnationalism. The transnational turn was an innovation in migration studies and offered a new...
Coordinator
Brigitte Suter
brigitte.suter@mau.se
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
Emanuela Roman
emanuela.roman@fieri.it
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 decades? 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
COCUMINT 2022-23: Consumption of cultural goods as driver of migrant integration
April 2023
April 13 – 28, 2023 Programme and access link available default here ( 4.02 MB ) .
Workshop: Detecting and Mitigating Bias in Migration Research
March 28, 2023
The workshop Detecting and Mitigating Bias in Migration Research will be held on March 30 and 31 at the Institute for Advanced Social Studies (IESA-CSIC), Córdoba (Spain). The keynote speech will be given by Melanie Revilla (IBEI, Institut Barcelona...
CFP Geographies of Migration and Art: Intersections and Imaginaries, Flows and Controls
Deadline 15/3/2023
Organised by Dr Saskia Warren (The University of Manchester) and Dr Amanda Rogers (Swansea University) Human Geographers have made a sustained, but perhaps under-recognised, contribution to understanding the relationship between migration and art...
Invitation: Join the first Migration Studies Methods Trouble Shooting session
February 28 (5-6pm CET)
You are having a methodological challenge you can’t resolve? You are stuck in your methods framework? You are looking for input and inspiration? Whether it's the qualitative interviews that aren’t working out as you had thought or the sampling issue you...
SC MITRA: Writing Retreats
31 January 2023
MITRA is organizing writing retreats for PhD students throughout the academic year. The first sessions for 2023 are happening on Feb 6 th and Feb 20 th from 9.00 GMT to 14.00 GMT . For more information, please send an email to This email address is...