Training & Awards
Rinus Penninx Best Paper Award
The IMISCOE - Rinus Penninx Best Paper Award, in honour of the founding father of IMISCOE, is an annual award for the best paper submitted to and presented at the IMISCOE conference. A review jury decides on the allocation of the award. Besides the honour of receiving the award, the prize winner also receives €750,-- and the opportunity to publish the paper in the journal Comparative Migration Studies.
10 July 2018
The Rinus Penninx Best Paper Award 2018 has been awarded to Sarah Nimführ and Buba Sesay for their paper entitled: “Lost in Limbo? Moving Contours and Practices of Settlements of Non-Deportable Refugees in the Mediterranean Area.”
01 September 2017
The winner was René Kreichauf's paper, ‘From Forced Migration to Forced Arrival: The Campisation of Refugee Accommodation Centres in European Cities’.
10 July 2018
The Rinus Penninx Best Paper Award was awarded to Ali Chaudhary at the 13th Annual IMISCOE Conference, held in Prague on 30 June-2 July 2016 for his paper entitled: 'Voting "Here" and "There": Interrogating Immigrant Political Integration and...
10 July 2018
The researcher from the University of Manchester received the award for his paper “When Numbers Count: Community Ethnic Composition, Prejudice, and the Moderating Role of Inter-Ethnic Segregation for the Contact and Threat Hypotheses.”
10 July 2018
The first Rinus Penninx Best Paper Award has been awarded to Marie-Laurence Flahaux and Hein de Haas for their paper “Migration from, to and within Africa: the role of development and states.”