Migrant transnationalism (MITRA)

How responsibility towards transnational family impacts displaced people lives when they are unable to provide sufficient responses to requests for care, and how this in turn impacts activities to promote settlement? Read article by Hanna Svensson: academic.oup.com/jrs/article/...

Gendered Temporalities and Transnational Care in Indonesian and Tanzanian Student Migration and Return This article examines the often-overlooked roles of gender, caregiving, and family in shaping the experiences of international student migration, focusing on Indonesian and Tanzanian postgraduate stu...

Read article by Marta Moskal published in Population, Space and Place. Author discusses how gender, caregiving, and family shape the experiences of international student migration. Read here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

UNPACK: vacancies for seven PhD positions We are hiring 7 PhD researchers in anthropology, social work/educational sciences, linguistics, interpreting and law.

‼️ Vacancies for seven PhD positions ‼️

‘Unpacking the asylum procedure in its intersecting linguistic, sociocultural, psychological and legal dimensions’ (UNPACK) at Ghent University

⚠️ Deadline for applications: 15 March 2026 (23:59 CET).

👀 All details here: www.ugent.be/re/epir/en/n...

Love across borders: Ross’ story Approximately one third of all foreign-born adults in the UK entered the country through family reunification, while many others who arrived for different reaso

✨ Release of a new podcast series: Migration in Focus - Voices from the UK🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

The first episode is on air! 👏

🎙️To listen to the episode 👉 saspod.com/voicesoflanc...

‼️ Tenured research positions at the Institute for Advanced Social Studies (IESA-CSIC), Córdoba (Spain)

🗓️ Deadline for application: January 30

👉 More info here: www.imiscoe.org/news-and-blo...

YouTube video by nccr – on the move Decentring Migration and Mobility Studies: Public Lecture by Peggy Levitt

Watch the lecture by Peggy Levitt on the nccr - on the move YouTube channel about decentering migration and mobility studies & transnational social protection: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZYq...

Check out article by Fethi Mansouri, Lori Beaman, and Serena Hussain. By authors, youth engage in transnationalism in agentic ways that create and strengthen multiple expressions of cultural identity, political attachment, and social belonging. Read here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Read new article. Using a translocal lens, Benjamin Etzold and Marie Godin show how social ties across places transform (im)mobility and bridge debates in (forced) migration and peace and conflict studies: bicc.de/Publications...

Call for 2026 @imiscoe.bsky.social Forum at Ibn Zohr University in Morocco & online (28-30 October 2026). Deadline for submission 6 February 2026. More info here: www.imiscoe.org/events/imisc...

CESSMIR conference 'Looking back, moving forward: migration studies in times of societal transformation' - Cessmir

Call for Contributions - Looking back, moving forward: Migration studies in times of societal transformation. CESSMIR, Universiteit Gent, 14 -16 September 2026 Deadline is 31 January 2026. All details here: cessmir.be/en/activitei...

YouTube video by Peace Research Institute Oslo Book conversation: ‘Migrant transnationalism'

Book Conversation on Migrant #Transnationalism is now online! Özge Bilgili together with Marta Bivand Erdal hosted a webinar to celebrate their publication. The link is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQYc... @imiscoe-phdnetwork.bsky.social @imiscoe.bsky.social

REMINDER - BOOK LAUNCH: 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

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...