Standing Committee
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
DIVCULT 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, artistic activities have found increasing interest among...
Coordinator
Marco Martiniello
M.Martiniello@uliege.be
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
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
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
The winner of the 2019 Maria Ioannis Baganha Dissertation Award is Dr. Kristina Bakkær Simonsen. Her dissertation entitled: “Do They Belong? Host National Boundary Drawing and Immigrants’ Identificational Integration” was defended at Aarhus University...
The Rinus Penninx Best Paper Award 2018 has been awarded to Sarah Nimführ and Buba Sesay for their paper entitled: “Lost in Limbo? Moving Contours and Practices of Settlements of Non-Deportable Refugees in the Mediterranean Area.”
The winner was René Kreichauf's paper, ‘From Forced Migration to Forced Arrival: The Campisation of Refugee Accommodation Centres in European Cities’.
The Rinus Penninx Best Paper Award was awarded to Ali Chaudhary at the 13th Annual IMISCOE Conference, held in Prague on 30 June-2 July 2016 for his paper entitled: 'Voting "Here" and "There": Interrogating Immigrant Political Integration and...
The researcher from the University of Manchester received the award for his paper “When Numbers Count: Community Ethnic Composition, Prejudice, and the Moderating Role of Inter-Ethnic Segregation for the Contact and Threat Hypotheses.”