Standing Committee
21.06.2022
by {expert}Stefan Manser-Egli|||{/expert} ‘Respecting the values of the constitution’ is one of the most recent requirements in Swiss integration law. In the last decades, academic voices reproducing narratives of ‘cultural distance’ have contributed to...
23.06.2022
by Calogero Giametta Migration research has historically conceived migrants as heterosexual, and rendered gender and sexual identity invisible. It is only recently that the intersection of queer and migration studies has produced critical knowledge...
The Standing Committee Education and Social Inequality is involved in a number of sessions at the IMISCOE Annual Conference 2022 in Oslo - below is a list. We look forward to interesting papers and debates! We want to highlight especially the open...
To kickstart our new series of episodes, we invited Steven Vertovec to speak about ways of studying and understanding one of the consequences of migration, that is social complexity.
Research around migration and the arts has abundantly demonstrated how music can help immigrants mobilize and raise awareness. Tammam Al-ramadan, is a 28-year old Syrian musician who fled Aleppo in 2014 and settled in Belgium. He is a Ney player who...
IMISCOE (International Migration Research Network) wants to express its deep concern about lives in Ukraine.
‘Introduction to Migration Studies’ has been published! This new volume does not only bring together work on key themes in migration studies, but it also offers an interactive guide connecting readers to work published on various themes. It starts with...
We sat with Ida Tolgensbakk and Justyna Bell to discuss the long-awaited 19th Annual conference that will take place in Oslo from the 29th of June to the 1st of July. Ida is a cultural historian at NOVA, and together with Justyna, a sociologist also...
16.06.2022
by Rama Srinivasan Integration policies are often perceived in academic works as gatekeeping instruments but, while they can certainly be deployed as such, this framing does not fully represent the variety of immigrant perspectives in my study. My own...
The IMISCOE PhD Academy aims to support the IMISCOE PhD network community and is geared toward providing targeted migration research specific training and networking opportunities for PhD students within the broad field of migration studies. The...