IMISCOE - International Migration Research Network

Report Launch: Non-Religious (Apostasy) Asylum Claims in the UK Join us for a deep dive into the complexities of non-religious asylum claims in the UK - a crucial report launch not to be missed!

👀 Launch of research report

Freedom of Religion or Belief for All: Recognising and Protecting the Non-Religious in the Asylum System.

Event details:
📍Online Event
📅March 24th, 1-2.30pm GMT
➡️Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/report-lau...

‼️ Join the online seminar taking place now ➡️

"Indian Transnational Families in Northern Ireland" presented by Dr. Anik Nandi from Woxsen University.

Date: February 25, 2026
Time: 5 PM (Central European Time)
Location: Online via Zoom

Link here: sites.google.com/view/entangl...

🗣️ Call for papers: international seminar at Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Mythical Archipelagos: Islands, Narratives, and Imaginaries Across Cultures and Media

🗓️ 14–15 May 2026, Hybrid format

⏰ Deadline for submissions: 30 March 2026

All details here: dfmti.ulpgc.es/app/pages/in...

Last chance to submit your proposals for the IMISCOE Forum in Agadir!

‼️ Deadline Today ‼️

All info here: www.imiscoe.org/events/imisc...

💫 New IMISCOE Event- 2026 IMISCOE Forum

⚠️ Deadline extended 👉 20 February

Promoting Afro-European Mediterranean Dialogue: Shifting Geographies of Migration

👀 Find out all details about paper submissions: www.imiscoe.org/.../imiscoe....

👀 Join the 28th Canadian Ethnic Studies Association (CESA) Biennial Conference

"Ethnic Dynamics and Immigration in a World in Flux"

Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Alberta, October 9-10, 2026

⏰ Deadline for submissions: March 1st

👉 All details here: cesa-scee.ca/2026-confere...

✨ New episode of the Migration Podcast: "A Conversation with the 2025 GenSeM Best Paper Winners"

🔗 Listen now on the IMISCOE website: www.imiscoe.org/news-and-blo...
🔗 Or catch it on SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/themigration...

🗣️ Call for Papers: “Young People’s (Self-)Positioning in the World: Subjectivities, Discourses, and Inequalities”

🗓️ Sep. 8-10 at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

⚠️ Deadline for abstract submissions: March 15, 2026

More info: www.uni-due.de/imperia/md/c...

📣 Open call - the biennial Expatriate Archive Centre (EAC) Thesis Award (2026)

❗ The submission deadline is 31 March 2026.

All details here: xpatarchive.com/initiatives/...

Seminar series “Entangled Histories: Borders and Cultural Encounters from the Medieval to the Contemporary Era”

👉 Next seminar - “Beguinal Echoes in a Poem by Thomas Hoccleve”

🗓️ Date: February 11, 5:00 pm (CET)

📍 Online via Zoom

Full programme: sites.google.com/view/entangl...

💫 New IMISCOE Event- 2026 IMISCOE Forum

⚠️ Deadline extended 👉 20 February

Promoting Afro-European Mediterranean Dialogue: Shifting Geographies of Migration

👀 Find out all details about paper submissions: www.imiscoe.org/.../imiscoe....

‼️TODAY- Seminar series Entangled Histories

“Double Abandonment: Transpacific Borders of Erasure and Resistance (1942–1965)” with Dr. Naoko Kato

Date: February 4, 2026

⏰ Time: 5:00 pm (Central European Time)

Location: Online via Zoom
🔗 Zoom link for all meetings: tinyurl.com/aumv88jz

🔈 Listen to the second episode of Migration in Focus: Voices from the UK

"Growing between worlds: Lilo’s story"

🎙️To listen to the episode 👉https://saspod.com/voicesoflancashire/179/3388

UNPACK: vacancies for seven PhD positions We are hiring 7 PhD researchers in anthropology, social work/educational sciences, linguistics, interpreting and law.

‼️ Vacancies for seven PhD positions ‼️

‘Unpacking the asylum procedure in its intersecting linguistic, sociocultural, psychological and legal dimensions’ (UNPACK) at Ghent University

⚠️ Deadline for applications: 15 March 2026 (23:59 CET).

👀 All details here: www.ugent.be/re/epir/en/n...

‼️ Reminder ‼️

🗣️ Call for proposals for our new IMISCOE Event 👉 the 2026 IMISCOE Forum

"Promoting Afro-European Mediterranean Dialogue: Shifting Geographies of Migration"

⏰ Deadline for submissions: February 6th

All details here: www.imiscoe.org/events/imisc...

@euromedmig.bsky.social

Join the next session of the seminar series,

“Entangled Histories: Borders and Cultural Encounters from the Medieval to the Contemporary Era”

🗓️ January 28, 2026, 5:00 PM (CET)

👀 All info about upcoming seminars: sites.google.com/view/entangl...

Join the UBC Centre for Migration Studies Speaker Series with Prof. Delphine Nakache

@migration.ubc.ca
@delnakache.bsky.social

Monday, February 2, 2026
🕚 11:45 AM – 1:45 PM
📍 Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Dodson Room (302) / Online

➡️ Registrations: migration.ubc.ca/events/event...

Love across borders: Ross’ story Approximately one third of all foreign-born adults in the UK entered the country through family reunification, while many others who arrived for different reaso

✨ Release of a new podcast series: Migration in Focus - Voices from the UK🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

The first episode is on air! 👏

🎙️To listen to the episode 👉 saspod.com/voicesoflanc...

‼️ Reminder ‼️

🗣️ Call for proposals for our new IMISCOE Event 👉 the 2026 IMISCOE Forum

"Promoting Afro-European Mediterranean Dialogue: Shifting Geographies of Migration"

⏰ Deadline for submissions: February 6th

All details here: www.imiscoe.org/events/imisc...

@euromedmig.bsky.social

LGBTQ+ refugees in the welfare state – Kulturgeografiska institutionen – Uppsala universitet

International conference "LGBTQ+ refugees in the welfare state: Research, policy and practitioners in dialogue"

🗓️ 21st and 22nd of May 2026

❗ Deadline for poster submission: 25 March

📍 Uppsala University

All details here: www.uu.se/institution/...

‼️ Tenured research positions at the Institute for Advanced Social Studies (IESA-CSIC), Córdoba (Spain)

🗓️ Deadline for application: January 30

👉 More info here: www.imiscoe.org/news-and-blo...

🤩 Apply to the International Conference

"Migrations and Climate in Africa: Emerging Dynamics and Future Challenges"

📍Université Gaston Berger, Saint-Louis (Senegal) and online

🗓️ 27 and 28 March

⚠️ Deadline for submissions: 23 January

All details here: www.imiscoe.org/news-and-blo...

🙌 New IMISCOE Event| 2026 IMISCOE Forum

Promoting Afro-European Mediterranean Dialogue: Shifting Geographies of Migration

📅 28–30 Oct 2026, Agadir, Morocco & Online

⏰ Deadline: 6 Feb 2026

Details here: www.imiscoe.org/events/imisc...

@euromedmig.bsky.social
@upf.edu
@gritim-upf.bsky.social

🎉 Comparative Migration Studies turns 10!

Special anniversary issue, “Critical Transitions in Migration Studies,” is now online—open access and reflecting on the field’s past, present, and future.

👉 link.springer.com/collections/...

#MigrationStudies #OpenAccess #CMS10

Call for Papers: Citizenship in Displacement (25–26 June 2026, Tangier, Morocco)

Submissions are invited for the workshop “Citizenship in Displacement: Policies, Practices, and Lived Experiences”, taking place on 25–26 June 2026 in Tangier, Morocco.

📣CfP Panel “Migrant Organisations Under Pressure”, 2026 ECPR General Conference (8-11 September) Jagiellonian University, Kraków

❗Deadline for submission: December 22

For more details ➡️ www.imiscoe.org/news-and-blo...

@ecpr.bsky.social
@ecpr-migration.bsky.social

📢 PhD position available
The ERC Starting Grant project GIVE RIGHTS is recruiting a PhD student!

🏫 Based in Malmö, with research time in the Netherlands

🗓️ Application deadline: 18 January 2026

More details here 👉 web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/101...

@mau.se

🗣️Call for Papers Special Issue: Demographic perspectives on migration

⚠️Deadline for submissions: 15 May

👉Find out more: viennayearbook.org/call

@vypr.bsky.social
@dyildiz.bsky.social
@claudiamasferrer.bsky.social
@mussino.bsky.social

A fully funded European PhD training programme (2026–2029) MITIME is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network focusing on how time shapes migration, inequality, and urban life in post-industrial Europe. We train early-stage researchers in cutting-edge theory...

The MSCA Doctoral Network MITIME is recruiting motivated PhD researchers for its international training programme.

🗓️ Deadline: 1 February 2026

🔗 All details: www.migrationtime.eu
#PhDPositions #MSCA #DoctoralNetwork #MigrationStudies #AcademicJobs #MITIME

🥳 10th anniversary of CESSMIR

Call for Contributions - Looking back, moving forward: Migration studies in times of societal transformation

📍CESSMIR, Ghent University, 14 -16 September 2026

⚠️Deadline: 31 January 2026

All details here: cessmir.be/en/activitei...