Migrant transnationalism (MITRA)

Transnational Relationships Between African Migrant Parents in Europe and Caregivers in Africa Research shows the quality of the relationship between migrant parents and local caregivers is important for the care and wellbeing of migrants′ children who stay behind. Yet what exactly constitutes...

Are you interested in how the relationship between migrant parents and caregivers in country of origin is important for care and wellbeing of migrants′ children? New article by Valentina Mazzucato and Bilisuma B. Dito in Population, Space and Place.Read here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🔥EXCITING NEWS🔥

📢The IMISCOE PhD Academy is excited to announce 15 new members as the fifth cohort of the Academy‼️

🫂Find out more about the PhD students and their researches: www.imiscoe.org/news-and-blo...

Read the newly released book by Eva Loreng. This book takes a look at matrix of socio-economic and political factors, both internationally and domestically, which contribute towards the evolution of #diaspora as a source of soft power.

We invite you to book conversation. Özge Bilgili and Marta Bivand Erdal will discuss their recently published book "Migrant #Transnationalism: IMISCOE Short Reader" Event will be held on 28 October, 14:00-15:00. Registration and info here: www.prio.org/events/9249 @imiscoe.bsky.social

EXTENDED deadline until 5th of October! CfP for second MITRA Special Session for 23rd IMISCOE Annual Conference in Girona! Panel organized by Luděk Jirka and Hilda Gustafsson will focus on perceptions of #transnational engagement as (non)deserving. @imiscoe-phdnetwork.bsky.social

CfP for MITRA Special Session for 23rd IMISCOE Annual Conference in Girona! Panel organized by Luděk Jirka and Hilda Gustafsson will focus on perceptions of #transnational engagement as (non)deserving. Deadline is 24 September 2025!

CfP for MITRA Special Session for 23rd IMISCOE
Annual Conference in Girona! Organized by Brigitte Suter and
Karlijn Haagsman, this panel will focus on #transnational family life explored through historical and other sources. Deadline is 23 September 2025! @imiscoe-phdnetwork.bsky.social

Deadline for 23rd Annual IMISCOE Conference in Girona and online (29 June - 2 July 2026) is approaching soon. Submit your panel proposals, individual paper proposals, or workshop proposals by 25 September 2025. More information here: www.imiscoe.org/events/imisc...

Call for MITRA Board Members!As two of our members have stepped down,SC MITRA is looking for new board members who will be involved in organizing our activities.If interested, please send your motivation letter + CV to r.haagsman@maastrichtuniversity.nl by September 19

Call for abstracts for the "Conference on Belongingness, Connectedness, and Embeddedness in Migrant and Refugee Entrepreneurship", 29-30 January 2026 in Bremen, Germany. More info here: www.iat.eu/en/appointme...

Read the new article by Viorela Ducu, Iulia Elena Hossu, and Áron Telegdi-Csetri in Global Networks about collective, relational and processual sense of family well-being within Ukrainian and Moldovan transnational families: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Call for Papers for the 2026 IMISCOE Spring Conference “Governing and Experiencing Migration in Contentious Times” (16-18 March 2026 Liège, Belgium & Online). Deadline on the 5th September 2025. See here for more information: www.imiscoe.org/events/2393-...

CfP for international workshop "Ukrainian Forced Migration, Transnational Family Processes and Co-Agency." Workshop will be held on 4.-5. of November 2025 in Cluj-Napoca. Deadline is 15. of August 2025. More info here:

And that is a wrap from MITRA Standing Committee meeting! 👋

Our MITRA PhD Representatives - Hilda Gustafsson and Yichi Zhang - organized their panel on transnational intimacies at
IMISCOE Annual Conference in Paris.

Second MITRA Special Session on "Translocal Lives in Times of Conflict" with Benjamin Etzold and Marie Godin.

First Special Session MITRA just finished! Marta Bivand Erdal and Özge Bilgili introduced their new book.

Do you want to know more about new forms of technology-mediated diaspora humanitarianism? Read the new article about Congolese refugee community in Nairobi by
Marie Godinand Cadeau Heritier published in Fennia: fennia.journal.fi/article/view...

A new book "Migrant Transnationalism" by
Marta Bivand Erdal and Özge Bilgili is out! Book launch will be held at Annual IMISCOE Conference in Paris. See the content of the book here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Vacancy for a postdoc researcher in the ERC project ‘FeMMiWork: Women Migrants from the Northern Mediterranean and Work in Postwar Northwestern Europe’ at Maastricht University. The application deadline is September 1,2025.Look here: vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

PhD vacancy at Maastricht University under the supervision of Mahardhika (Dhika) Sjamsoe’oed Sadjad on 'Sustaining Borders and Displacement Through Refugee Entrepreneurship.' Application deadline is August 31, 2025. More info here: vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

New Special Issue "Transnationalism, Superdiversity and New Horizons: a Festschrift in Honour of Steven Vertovec" in Ethnic and Racial Studies was released! See more: tandfonline.com/toc/rers20/4...

Two Ph.D. positions on transnational retirement at Utrecht University within ERC project RETIREWEL! Deadline for application on 15th of August, 2025. Read more here: www.uu.nl/en/organisat... and www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

Annual meeting of MITRA Standing Committee takes place at 22th Annual IMISCOE Conference in Paris on July 2, 2025 from 18:30 to 19:30. This meeting is open for everyone, and we would be delighted if you would join us. Room and Webex link will be announced.

At the 22nd Annual IMISCOE Conference,it will be great to attend panel "Transnational Intimacies: Migrating Emotions Across the Border", organized by MITRA PhD Representative
Yichi Zhang. Our second PhD Representative, Hilda Gustafsson, will also present paper in this panel.

And don´t forget & attend second MITRA Special Session "#Translocal Lives in Times of Conflict" at 22nd IMISCOE Annual Conference in Paris. The workshop will be held on Wednesday, July 2, from 10:50 to 12:20.

You are warmly invited on MITRA Special Session "Migrant #Transnationalism: IMISCOE Short Reader Launch: Reflections across disciplines and contexts" at 22nd IMISCOE Annual Conference in Paris. The event takes place on Tuesday, July 1, from 13:00 to 14:30.

We are looking forward to seeing you in Paris in a month!

New issue of Current Issues in Migration Research (CIMR) is out. This issue features a Special Section on "Borders and Bordering Processes". Read here: ojs.mau.se/index.php/ci...

Read the new article about transnational resources by
Laura J. Ogden, Gladys Akom Ankobrey, Sarah Anschütz and Valentina Mazzucato: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....