The IMISCOE Standing Committee „Reflexivities in Migration Studies” is calling for applications for the role of PhD representative in the governing board, to begin in October 2024. Being a PhD representative gives you the opportunity to shape the future directions of the SC through taking an active part in board meetings (4 times a year online) and in coordinating current and future PhD-targeted activities of the SC (such as peer feedback sessions and writing retreats). In addition, you will have a say in the broader IMISCOE PhD community where you will represent our SC in the PhD Network meetings (during annual and spring conferences). This is an exciting opportunity for anyone who wants to be more involved in the IMISCOE network, sees the importance of critical and reflexive research methods, and has ideas on how to enhance migration-related knowledge production through reflexivity. The ideal candidate will be in at least the second year of their PhD and have at least one year before finishing their PhD.
If you are interested and/or have any further inquiries regarding the role as PhD representative, please send a brief letter describing your background, motivation and – ideally – some ideas on future activities relevant for our PhD members to
About us: SC Reflexivities in Migration Studies seeks to raise awareness that Migration Studies as a research field is shaped by wider societal and power relations rooted in colonial and nationalist histories. Given the political hype around migration and the parallel growth, relevance and impact of Migration Studies, we draw attention to the role we, as researchers, have in cementing or challenging harmful societal discourses that see migration through the prism of “crisis”, “threat”, or a problem to be “managed”. Our principal focus is to rethink and critically investigate the embeddedness of migration research in specific epistemological, methodological and political modes of knowledge production. The objectives of this SC are to:
- promote reflexive migration scholarship
- provide a platform for research on knowledge production, circulation and utilization in migration research
- address the risk of Migration Studies reproducing and cementing hegemonic discourses, harmful categories and problem definitions
- develop alternative, emancipatory ways of producing knowledge on mobility and diversity.