Publications
Migration Politics and Governance
The Migration Politics and Governance (MigPoG) Standing Committee (SC) takes a broad and comprehensive approach to the study of migration policy, one which aims at promoting dialogue between scholars focusing on the politics and governance of migration....
Coordinator
Maria Schiller
schiller@essb.eur.nl
Migration, Migrants and Labour Markets
The center of the focus of the IILME Standing Committee are the links between increasing migration, labour market dynamics and access to welfare resources. These are central to the discourse on both immigration and integration policies of newly arrived...
Coordinator
Anders Neergaard
anders.neergaard@liu.se
Gender and Sexuality in Migration Research
The Standing Committee “Gender and Sexuality in Migration Research” (GenSeM) brings together and supports IMISCOE-affiliated scholars whose research focuses on the areas of gender, sexuality and migration. GenSeM wants to create an infrastructure that...
Coordinator
Sarah Scuzzarello
S.Scuzzarello@sussex.ac.uk
Families, Welfare, Care and The Life Course
The SC objectives are to: Draw wider attention in migration studies to the inter-connections between families, welfare and care, and their changing contexts. Advance a life-course perspective in migration studies, by facilitating dialogue between...
Coordinator
Tineke Fokkema
fokkema@nidi.nl
Arts, culture and migration
The "Arts, culture and migration" (DIVCULT) standing committe aims to better understand the relevance of arts and culture in the theoretical and policy debates about immigrant incorporation and diversity in Europe and beyond. Over the last years,...
Coordinator
Marco Martiniello
M.Martiniello@uliege.be
Migration, Citizenship and Political Participation
The Migration, Citizenship and Political Participation Standing Committee (MIGCITPOL) offers a unique forum to researchers working in the fields of migrants’ access to citizenship and political participation in sending and receiving societies....
Coordinator
Gianni d’Amato
Gianni.damato@unine.ch
Migrant Transnationalism
The objective of the Standing Committee on Migrant Transnationalism (MITRA) is to provide an arena within IMISCOE for academic exchange on migrant transnationalism. The transnational turn was an innovation in migration studies and offered a new...
Coordinator
Brigitte Suter
brigitte.suter@mau.se
Reflexivities in Migration Studies
Key Questions For what underlying structural reasons did migration research have such a success these last decades? Why is migration so often presented in politics, in public or in the media as a direct threat to sovereignty and national identity and...
Coordinator
Anna-Lisa Müller
reflexstudies@uni-osnabrueck.de
IMISCOE Standing Committees
Over the past decade, IMISCOE has established and structurally supported different Standing Committees that cover significant topics within migration studies. Every year, the network has a fixed sum available for all Standing Committees, to support...
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