IMISCOE - International Migration Research Network

📖 Coming up! IMISCOE FORUM The first edition of the IMISCOE Forum kicks off tomorrow, 28 October! 💡 The IMISCOE Forum emerges as a new space for exchange within our network, complementing the IMISCOE Annual and Spring Conferences. #imiscoeagadir2026

📰 Just released! IMISCOE Bulletin #16 The 16th edition of our Bulletin is out now, just ahead of the IMISCOE Forum in Agadir, Morocco! 👉 Check out the full bulletin here: www.imiscoe.org/news-and-blo...

🚨 Applications for the 2027 IMISCOE PhD School are now open! The PhD School will take place from 13–17 September 2027 at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Barcelona. 📆 Interested in applying? Submit your application by 15 November 2026! 👉 Find all details here: www.imiscoe.org/events/imisc...

💡Conference | Réfugiés Académiques et Savoirs en Exil : Dialogues, Afrique, Europe, Amérique latine Taking place in Dakar, Senegal, from 3 to 5 November 2026, the third edition of the conference will bring together researchers and civil society representatives from around the world. 👇Programme below

📖 PhD Workshop | Rethinking knowledge production The Center for Migration and Societal Change - Eurac Research in Bozen/Bolzano, Italy, is now accepting applications for its PhD Workshop from 3 to 7 May 2027. 📆 Apply by 15 December 2026 👉 More: www.eurac.edu/en/institute...

📢 2027 IMISCOE PhD School | Regional Migration Studies: Dynamics of Human Mobility, Governance and Socioeconomic Transformations, from 13–17 September 2027 at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Barcelona. 💡Submit your application by 15 November 2026! 📲 Details here: www.imiscoe.org/events/imisc...

🔹 Mini-conference | “Migrant Workers’ Pathways to Recourse: Dependence, Restriction, and the Remaking of Labour Markets Through Migration” at the 39th Annual SASE Conference, from 30 June to 3 July 2027 in Glasgow, Scotland. 📆 Submission deadline: 1 November 2026 More: sase.org/events/2027-...

📢 Call for Papers | Lived Experiences in Contested Places: Governance and Humanitarianism Send your abstract (approximately 300 words) and a short biography (100 words) by 11 December 2026. 👉 Workshop: 11-12 March 2027 📍 Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. 👇 More below!

🎓 PhD Academy | New members announced! The IMISCOE PhD Academy is excited to welcome and introduce its 15 new members! 📲 Learn more about the new members here: www.imiscoe.org/training-phd...

🚨 Opportunity Alert! Applications are now open for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor at Concordia University in the field of migration politics, with a specialization in Canadian politics, public policy or public administration. 📲 More: www.concordia.ca/jobs/artsci/...

🚨 You have only hours left to submit! | 2027 IMISCOE Annual Conference This is your last chance to submit your individual paper, panel, or workshop proposal to the 24th IMISCOE Annual Conference. 🗓️ Submit your proposal today, 12 October 2026, by 23:59 CEST. 📲 More: www.imiscoe.org/events/imisc...

🚨 Deadline approaching! | 2027 IMISCOE Annual Conference Only three days remain to submit your individual paper, panel, or workshop proposal to the 24th IMISCOE Annual Conference. 🗓️ Submit your proposal by 12 October 2026 (23:59 CEST) 📲 Read the full call here: www.imiscoe.org/events/imisc...

⏰ Only one week left! | 2027 IMISCOE Annual Conference Submit individual paper, panel, and workshop proposals to the 24th IMISCOE Annual Conference. 🗓️ Submit your contribution by 12 October 2026 (23:59 CEST) 📲 Read the full call here: www.imiscoe.org/events/imisc...

⏰ The clock is ticking ... 10 days to submit your contributions! 💡To participate in the 24th IMISCOE Annual Conference you can submit: 🔹 Individual paper proposals 🔹 Panel proposals 🔹 Workshop proposals 🗓️ Deadline: 12 October 2026 (23:59 CEST) 📲 Full call here: www.imiscoe.org/events/imisc...

✍ ALF Knowledge for Action: Research Call | Anna Lindh Foundation 📆 Application deadline: 24 October 2026 at 23:59 CET 📲 Full call and application details: alf.website/en/alf-knowl...

📢 2027 IMISCOE PhD School | Regional Migration Studies: Dynamics of Human Mobility, Governance and Socioeconomic Transformations From 13–17 September 2027 at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Barcelona. 📆Apply by 15 November 2026 📲 Check all the details here: www.imiscoe.org/events/imisc...

💡 The Fall School and Staff Training, titled "From Unrecognized Talent to Shared Prosperity: Social Investment in Refugees and Newcomers through Higher Education", is organized by UCLL and will take place in Leuven, Belgium, from 16-20 November. 📲More here: research-expertise.ucll.be/en/education...

📣 Call for Papers | Resettlement and Active Refugee Admission Programmes: Exploring Challenges, Networks, and Integration The conference will take place from 14–15 April 2027, Nuremberg, Germany. 📅 Deadline: 15 November 2026. 📲 Full call here: www.bamf.de/SiteGlobals/...

⏰ Deadline extended! | 24th IMISCOE Annual Conference You now have extra time to submit individual papers, panel and workshop proposals! 📆 New deadline: 12 October 2026 (23:59 CEST) 📢 Find the detailed call here: www.imiscoe.org/events/imisc...

👥 Do Employers Matter?” – A @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social seminar around the new IMISCOE Research Series book on employers’ impact on labour migration 📅 When: 16 October 2026 📍 Where: Warsaw University Library + YouTube livestream 🚨Register here by 8 October: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/do-employe...

🚨 Opportunity alert! Praedoc at the Vienna Institute of Demography The candidate will investigate the psychology of fertility behaviour among young adults, focusing on how fertility intentions develop and change during early adulthood. 👉More: www.oeaw.ac.at/jobs?jh=wrt3... 📆Deadline: 30 September

🚨You have one week to submit your contribution! The deadline for submitting your contributions to the 2027 IMISCOE Annual Conference is approaching! ⚠️ Submissions close on 28 September 2026 (23:59 CEST). 📲 More here: www.imiscoe.org/events/imisc...

🚨Deadline approaching | 24th IMISCOE Annual Conference Following the theme "United for Human Rights and Global Equity", the event will take place from 6–9 July 2027 in Brussels and online. ⚠️ Submissions close on 28 September 2026 (23:59 CEST)! 👉More here: www.imiscoe.org/events/imisc...

📣 Call for Papers | Languages and Trajectories in Migration The collection examines the symbolic and material dimensions of language in relation to migrants’ trajectories across multiple dimensions of their lives. 🗓️ Deadline: 1 November 2026 🔗 More details here: journals.openedition.org/remi/32191

📢 Call for Papers The SC on Forced Migration and Refugees proposes a workshop for the 2027 IMISCOE Annual Conference in Brussels under the theme “From Recognition to Representation: Refugees and Refugee-Led Organisations in Forced Migration Governance.” 📆Deadline: 21 September 2026 👇Full call below

💡International Working Symposium The event invites people with lived experience of forced displacement to share their voices and insights for this study. Link to the symposium website: griffith.recollective.com/keeping-refu.... Link to the information sheet: bit.ly/3REt8kf 👇Read more below

📢 Call for Papers | Deportations as Forced Migration (panel) The Standing Committee on Forced Migration and Refugees (SC-FMR) proposes the panel “Deportations as Forced Migration” for the 2027 IMISCOE Annual Conference in Brussels. 📆 Deadline: 21 September 2026 Check out the call below 👇

🔈Call for Panel Proposals The IMISCOE Standing Committee on Gender and Sexuality in Migration Research (GenSeM) is now accepting panel proposals for the 2027 IMISCOE Annual Conference under two themes. 👇Read the full call below!

📖 Seminar series The University of Oulu (@oulu.fi) is hosting the seminar series "Integration Through Contribution: Refugees in Science and Society", which aims to generate evidence and foster exchange on how refugees' and migrants' contributions advance integration and social inclusion. Read more👇

📢 Call for Papers | 2027 IMISCOE Annual Conference The panel “Ageing on the Move: Welfare Access, Rights, and Inequalities in Later Life,” to be held during the IMISCOE 2027 Annual Conference (in Brussels and online), is now accepting contributions! 👉 Read more about the panel below:

🔊Call for Paper Abstracts The panel "Storytelling on ‘Migrants’, Storytelling in Migration Research" at the 24th IMISCOE Annual Conference, 6–9 July 2027, in Brussels and online, is now accepting submissions. Send your abstract to nilay.kilinc@helsinki.fi Read the full call below!

🎙️ The Migration Podcast In the fourth episode of season 6, Silindile Mlilo speaks with Masoud Kianpour about his research on “migrant micro-influencers”, whose content on social media platforms targets new or prospective immigrants to Canada. 🎧 Listen here: www.imiscoe.org/news-and-blo...

📢 Call for Papers The International Workshop "The Golden Age of Rural-Urban Migrations? Grassroots Perspective on Global Phenomenon 1930s – 1980s" hosted by @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social, from 18–20 February 2027, is accepting contributions! 📅 Deadline: 1 October 2026. Check out the call below!

📚 Call for Book Chapters | “Life in Limbo: Survival Techniques and Technologies in the Rohingya Refugee Camps in Bangladesh” 📅 Interested authors may submit abstracts by 30 September 2026! 📧 Submission email: edited.volume.rohingya@gmail.com Check out the details below!

🚨 Opportunity alert! The Department for Migration and Globalisation (@demigkrems.bsky.social) at the University for Continuing Education Krems is recruiting a Research Project Assistant (m/f/d) and two postdoctoral researchers. 👇More details below!

🚨 Opportunity alert The Institute of European Studies and International Relations at the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, @comeniusuni.bsky.social, is accepting applications for a full-time Postdoctoral Researcher position. 📆Deadline: 31 August 2026 🔗Apply: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/445720

💡 Apply now for the IMISCOE PhD Academy, which offers you the opportunity to: 🌐 Expand your network 👥 Engage with leading researchers 📚 Strengthen your academic journey 📅 Deadline: 31 August 2026 🔗 Check out the full call here: www.imiscoe.org/training-phd... @imiscoe-phdnetwork.bsky.social

💡 Summer School on Migration Studies | Last places available! A limited number of late applications may still be considered. Send your CV and a short motivation letter to migrationpolicyexpert@email.cz More: migrationschoolprague.com 📅 August 30–September 5 2026 📍 Prague 🔗 migrationschoolprague.com

📣 Call for Papers | The 14th International Conference Synergies in Communication Organized by the Department of Modern Languages and Business Communication at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies (ASE), Romania, the hybrid conference will take place on October 29–30 2026. 👉 Full call below!

📚 Call for book chapters Theme: Transnational spaces, transnational practices and transnational identities in Southern Africa 📅 Abstract submission deadline: 31 August 2026 💡 Check out the full call below!

📣 Refugee Studies Centre’s International Online School Applications are now open for the Refugee Studies Centre’s (@refugeestudies.bsky.social) International Online School in Forced Migration, running 7–11 December 2026 and 21–25 June 2027. 👉 Full details here: www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/study/intern...

📣 2026 Vienna Migration Conference (VMC) This year's Vienna Migration Conference, organised by the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (@icmpd.org), will take place in Vienna and online on 16–17 November 2026. 👉 Further details are available here: vienna-migration-conference.org

✍ Call for Papers The call for the Special Issue “Mediating Migration: Representation, Inequality, and the Politics of Difference in Contemporary Communication Environments”, to be published in the open-access journal Media and Communication, is open. 💡 More: www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...

🎧 Podcast | Production Site The Collaborative Research Centre "Production of Migration" at Osnabrück University has launched a new podcast, "Production Site." 📣 The first six episodes of Season 1 are already out. Tune in here: www.uni-osnabrueck.de/sfb1604/prod... @imisosnabrueck.bsky.social

🚨 Last Reminder | 2027 IMISCOE Spring Conference Submit your paper proposal by today, 15 July 2026, at 23:59 EDT (Toronto time). The event will take place from 10–12 March 2027 (on-site and online). 📣 There are no registration fees for the conference! 👉 More: www.imiscoe.org/events/imisc...

🚨 Last Days to Submit | 2027 IMISCOE Spring Conference in Toronto ‼️ The deadline for submitting paper proposals is 15 July 2026 at 23:59 EDT (Toronto time). 👉 Check the full call here: www.imiscoe.org/events/imisc...

🚨Opportunity Alert! Doctoral student position The Department of Global Political Studies at @mau.se is recruiting a doctoral student in International Migration and Ethnic Relations. 👉 More in English: web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/101... 👉More in Swedish: web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/101...

🚨 Opportunity Alert! Doctoral Researcher in the Anthropology of Humanitarianism 📅 Application deadline: 24 July 2026 at 23:59 (EEST) 🔗 Full call here: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

🚨 Opportunity Alert! Applications are open for a Research Officer position within the ERC Starting Grant POSTCOLCIT, hosted at CESDIP (CY Cergy Paris Université). 📅 Application deadline: 17 July 2026 👉More details here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/445326