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In 2009, when I first visited Shatila, a Palestinian refugee camp on the outskirts of Beirut, I was nineteen years old. I went there to volunteer in a Palestinian youth centre. In preparation for my trip, I had read extensively about the camp and its...
The 23rd IMISCOE Annual Conference is hosted by the Migratory Movements Group (Grup de Recerca sobre Moviments Migratoris) at the University of Girona (UdG). Our group is multidisciplinary — bringing together researchers from sociology, education,...
Event organised by: The Global Migration Institute at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), Canada Conference days: 10-12 March 2027 EXTENDED deadline for paper submissions: 15 July 2026 (23:59 Toronto time zone) The Global Migration Institute at...
Over the past two decades, Latin America has undergone a profound transformation in its migratory dynamics. Transitioning from a region primarily characterised by emigration — particularly towards the United States and Europe — the territory has...
The Faculty of Sociology, University of A Coruña (Spain), announced a Call for Papers for the International Research Seminar Mobilities, Social Reproduction and Global Inequalities: New Approaches to Feminist Studies on International Migration , which...
A non-academic path is a perfectly valid option after completing a PhD. Yet, throughout the doctoral journey, a quiet assumption often lingers: that the “real” destination is academia. The script tends to be familiar – a postdoc, a lectureship, a...
Application Deadline: July 1, 2026
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS International Winter School 2027 ( 8th Edition ) “Migrant Communities in an Age of Resurgent Nativism: Rethinking the Questions of Citizenship and Belonging” January 9–14, 2027 | Doha, Qatar Organized by the Arab Center for...
How development and migration are linked in policy today is narrow and starts from the premise that migration is problematic
This post is part of the blog series titled Visions for migration, published by the Standing Committee Reflexivities in Migration Studies (SC REFLEX), and edited by Sorina Carstea, Iva Dodevska, Stefan Manser-Egli and Anna-Lisa Müller. The series...
SC Arts, Culture and Migration (DIVCULT) The SC DIVCULT has recently been involved in different activities and events. One of them was the Spring Event, held in Lisbon from 4–6 May 2025 in collaboration with the ARTIVES project at the Universidade de...