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.

Arts, culture and migration

The "Arts, culture and migration" (DIVCULT) standing committe 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 migration researchers because they prove to be a means of moving beyond ethnic differences towards narratives of identity and belonging that are more apt to capture the current post-migrant reality in many cities and countries.

We intend to cover a wide range of artistic and cultural activities in our analyses ranging from music, literature, cinema and theatre to sports, fashion, clothing, design and food.

The idea is to jointly work on the following dimensions: 

  • Theoretical and conceptual issues
  • Methodologies
  • Relevance and social impact

These dimensions constitute the general framework in which the researchers involved can initiate joint research activities, organise workshops and conferences and prepare publications.

DIVCULT builds on previous work carried out in the IMISCOE Standing Committee on Popular Art, Diversity and Cultural Policies in Post-Migration Urban Settings (POPADIVCIT) founded in 2010. POPADIVCIT focussed on the political and institutional framework of immigrant artistic activities, the social relations between all actors involved as well as on their impact in particular in terms of political participation and mobilisation. The work has resulted in several special issues of journals.  

For further information on DIVCULT activities, you can contact Elsa Mescoli (Assistant Coordinator) at the following address: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

The application document describing the aims and functioning of our Standing Committe is available default here(210 KB) .

The current DIVCULT PhD representative (2022-2024) is Joanna Jurkiewicz (Technische Universität Darmstadt, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). An overview of the role of the DIVCULT PhD representative is available pdf here(88 KB) .

Names of coordinators

Marco Martiniello

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Wiebke Sievers

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Executive board members (beside the coordinators)

Elsa Mescoli

CEDEM - FaSS, ULiege, Belgium

Joanna Jurkiewicz

Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany

alessandra venturini

University of Turin, Jean Monnet Chair in European Migration Studies, Italy

Berndt Clavier

Diana Duarte Bernal

Universidad de Chile, Chile

 

Selected publications

Standing Committees News

  • [SC FamWeLC] Webinar: Migrants as Migration Researchers

    Date: 20.05.2025 14:00-16:00 CEST
    The IMISCOE Standing Committee on Families, Welfare, Care and the Life Course (FamWeLC) invites migration researchers at all career stages to a webinar entitled “Migrants as Migration Researchers”. The event is being facilitated by PhD and Early Career...
  • DIVCULT Spring Workshop - 24.–26.03.2025 Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna & Online

    24./26.03.25
    The DIVCULT Spring Workshop will be held from 24 to 26 March 2025 at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, and online. The programme includes session on "Locating postmigration in English-speaking debates on migration, arts and culture" and on...
  • Data Visualisation Workshop for Migration Researchers (online)

    April 7, 2025
    To be held on Zoom o n 7 th April 2025, 4 pm – 6 pm CET The IMISCOE Standing Committee Methodological Approaches and Tools in Migration Research (Meth@Mig) , Centre of Migration Research at University of Warsaw , and Multiple migrations: Quantitative...

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  • IMISCOE MITRA Standing Committee PhD Training & Symposium

    Deadline: February 20
    International Student Mobility in Changing Sociopolitical Landscapes For a long time, countries in the Global North and their higher education institutions (HEIs) have focused on attracting international students through various advantageous policies....

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  • Elgar Encyclopedia of Global Migration: New Mobilities and Artivism

    23/1/2025
    Edited by Laura Oso, Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology and Communication Sciences, Universidade da Coruña (UDC) and Deputy Director, CISPAC, Natalia Ribas-Mateos, Senior Researcher, TRANSMENA (Research Group), Universitat Autònoma de...

Coming up

17-19 March 2025, University for Continuing Education Krems, Austri

2025 IMISCOE Spring Conference

The Regularity of Irregularity: Rethinking Migration Paradigms

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