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  • IMISCOE MITRA Standing Committee PhD Training & Symposium

    For a long time, countries in the Global North and their higher education institutions (HEIs) have focused on attracting international students through various advantageous policies. However, recent sociological, political, geopolitical, and economic...

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  • IMISCOE MITRA Standing Committee PhD Training & Symposium

    Deadline: February 20
    International Student Mobility in Changing Sociopolitical Landscapes For a long time, countries in the Global North and their higher education institutions (HEIs) have focused on attracting international students through various advantageous policies....

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  • SC MITRA: Writing Retreats

    MITRA is organizing writing retreats for PhD students throughout the academic year. The first sessions for 2023 are happening on Feb 6 th and Feb 20 th from 9.00 GMT to 14.00 GMT . For more information, please send an email to This email address is...
  • Call for Papers: Symposium and PhD Training - Lived transnationalism in times of violent conflict – Cross-border connections and mobilities of people, goods and capital

    27-28 March 2023, Bonn, Germany Violent conflicts set people into motion and change existing social relations. More specifically, large-scale wars and localised conflicts not only force people to flee from violence but transform pre-existing mobility...
  • Call for abstracts: MigranTea

    Deadline: 19th November, 2021
    The Standing Committee on Migrant Transnationalism (MITRA) provides an arena within IMISCOE for exchange on migrant transnationalism. In this spirit, we are happy to announce MigranTea – informal sessions for PhDs candidates, working on the field of...