Standing Committee
Deadline 3 December 2021
CALL FOR PAPERS, 19TH IMISCOE ANNUAL CONFERENCE, June 29 - July 1, 2022, Oslo, Norway Informal urban inclusion dynamics – Welcome groups’ inclusion activities for newcomers of various migratory statuses Panel conveners: Shannon Damery (CEDEM, University...
Deadline: 30 November, 2021
Positionality and power of migration researchers: Searching for reflexive ways of knowledge production The IMISCOE Standing Committee “Reflexivities in Migration Studies” calls for contributions which critically reflect on positionalities of migration...
16 November, 2021
Dear all, we virtually sat down with IMISCOE’s new vice-chair of the Board of Directors Wiebke Sievers (Austrian Academy of Sciences). We talked about her IMISCOE history, conference memories, research and goals for the future. Enjoy this insightful read!
Deadline: 1 December, 2021
Thematic Focus Racism is still mostly studied without explicit references to discrimination and many contributions continue to conceive it as a specific expression of prejudice. While the most blatant forms of racism are barely tolerated in contemporary...
Deadline: 30 November, 2021
Thematic Focus This panel will examine contested categories in the context of migration. We consider migration and related phenomena as especially fruitful sites for unpacking existing categories and categorization systems of all kinds and for...
Deadline: 1 December, 2021
Thematic Focus Diversity is becoming the context through which researchers can account for different aspects of increasingly complexifying conditions of both entrepreneurship and migration. Taking a superdiversity perspective, we are editing the...
Deadline 24 Novembre 2021
CALL FOR PAPERS, 19 TH IMISCOE ANNUAL CONFERENCE, June 29 - July 1, 2022, Oslo, Norway Cultural and artistic organisations as spaces of belonging for young refugees and asylum-seekers. Panel convenors: Mattias De Backer (KU Leuven & University of...
Deadline: 5 December, 2021
Applicants should have a degree and a PhD in sociology, political science, anthropology, geography, or with a related interdisciplinary profile. Their research experience and publications should be relevant to the research areas of the department of...
Deadline: 30 November, 2021
Thematic Focus This panel at the 19th IMISCOE annual conference engages with an emerging ‘temporal turn’ in the social sciences in recent years. Specifically, it reflects on how temporal experiences of migration and the life course intersect. We follow...
Deadline: 10 December, 2021
The gap between citizenship law and policy practice has long been identified: from outright dissonance between legal norms and arbitrary practices to “milder” forms of deviation, as in the spaces opened for interpretation and discretion of the...