PhD Blog
Migration toward the Global North introduces us, Global South researchers, to a challenging dance of global immigration policies. Our mobility becomes constrained, hindering access to scientific opportunities concentrated in the Global North. Upon...
In this blog post, I argue that limited livelihood rights extended to Rohingya refugees in India restrict their basic needs and blur their future, thereby violating the right to life in the host country. This argument is based on the analysis drawn from...
Moving to Ireland as a student was more than just a change in geography for me—it was a profound shift in my cultural and spiritual life. While planning my departure, there was one thing I didn’t plan for, the need to recreate a sense of home in a...
In the journey towards a PhD, experiences of (presumed) recurring ‘failures’ are constant companions. As members of the IMISCOE PhD Network Board, we began to talk about failure two years ago, united by a shared struggle with imposter syndrome, feelings...
In the ongoing effort to disrupt oppressive relations in academia, there is a call to centre the body as a departure point from where to situate (and unsettle) the interweaved relationship between knowledge and power. Considering the body as an...
In this blog piece, Hazar Deniz Eker , a PhD student at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, interviews Léopold Lambert , a trained architect and editor-in-chief of the Funambulist Magazine . The interview focuses on how multimodal research can contribute to...
Special Issue "Towards Engaged Migration Research 2024
The Kabyle, the Indigenous Amazigh people of Algeria, face unique challenges in contributing to the ongoing research on migration. It is a rarity to encounter a paper about Kabyle migrants in established migration studies journals authored by a Kabyle...
“We are Black, Indian, Mestiza, Sudaka, racialised flesh. We reject your PDFs and your disembodied lectures. We deny every trend of being and return to listening to each other, looking each other in the eye, telling each other stories, and building from...
My PhD project combines participatory visual methods with ethnography and archival research to understand the meaning of the border for its inhabitants. As a sub-study of the Reel Borders ERC project, I hosted Participatory Filmmaking (PF) workshops to...