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.

Migration, Migrants and Labour Markets

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 migrants and their children. Negative views on the socio-economic effects of migration, often based on scarce scientific or empirical evidence, influence the political debate around these themes. However, little knowledge exists on the role of labour market actors in influencing immigration and integration policies and practices, as well as the migrants’ labour market positions and experiences.

Building up on the work carried out within the previous IITUE research group (Immigration, Integration and Trade Unions in Europe), IILME aims at exploring the complexities and contradictions of the interaction between migration phenomena and the labour market in a time of rapidly changing migration, integration and labour market policies. The originality of the program lies in its theoretical framework. We seek to combine the tradition of industrial relations, political economy especially research on segmented labour market(s) and gender studies to explore multiple intersectional inequalities as well as the precarization of migrant and ethnic workers within labour markets.  

Names of coordinators

Lisa Berntsen

University of Amsterdam

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Katarina Hollan

Stefania Marino

Work and Equalities Institute, University of Manchester, United Kingdom

Rinus Penninx

IMES, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Judith Roosblad

Anders Neergaard

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Names and institutional affiliations of (key) members

Tesseltje de Lange

Asya Pisarevskaya

Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands

Katarina Mozetic

Malmö University, Sweden

Per Andersson

Ferruccio Pastore

FIERI- Forum of International and European Research on Immigration, Italy

Leila Giannetto

Olga Jubany

Helen Schwenken

University of Osnabrück, IMIS (Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies), Germany

Mai Lundemark

Ilana Nussbaum Bitran

Johanna Ullmann

University of Osnabrück, Germany

Arjan Keizer

Miguel Martinez Lucio

Deborah Milly

Micheline van Riemsdijk

Uppsala University, Sweden

Franca van Hooren

Pascal Beckers

Linn Axelsson

Flavia Fossati

University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Rosa Lázaro

Nathan Lillie

University of Jyväskylä, Finland

Sonila Danaj

European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research, Austria

Cécile Navarro

Franziska Laudenbach

PhD Researcher, Germany

Jeremy Kuhnle

The University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Eva Zschirnt

Univeristy of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Samaneh Khaef

Erica Consterdine

Lancaster University, United Kingdom

Marta Pachocka

SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland

Kamal Kassam

Valentine Ibeka

University of Auckland, New Zealand

Marleen van der Haar

Nils Witte

Federal Institute for Population Research, Germany

Sandra Mantu

Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands

Anja M. Weiß

University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Isabella Stingl

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Agenda of activities

Project development meetings. The long-term aim of IILME is to produce research which has the potential to have high impact in academia, as well as in society as a whole. The Standing Committee facilitates, supports and actively works for the preparation of research projects including small research initiatives and more ambitious grants. Meetings open to all members are regularly organized to facilitate the exchange of ideas and discuss the progression of joint work.

Dissemination and communication activities. IILME has a continuous and active presence during the annual IMISCOE conference. Open calls and special panels are organized on an annual basis and advertised trough the IMISCOE and IILME channels. Members also disseminate IILME research trough the participation at other relevant conferences and non-academic events with the aim of contributing to the social and policy debate.

Publication. IILME facilitates and support members’ initiatives aimed at publishing in academic journals and non-academic outlets. The writing up of short-pieces and blogs is also an important part of our publication plan.

Providing supporting facilities. IILME provides support to both scholars (especially to PhD students and early career-researchers) and stakeholders working on migration issues interested in deepening labour market related issues within their own research. This is done through several activities (e.g. the provision of a forum in which IMISCOE members can present papers and research projects and receive detailed feedback) but also in the long run through the organization of training activities which will also see the participation of invited experts.

 

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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