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🚨 Vacancy alert 👇

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*Pierre-Georges Van Wolleghem*

➡️ Research Associate Professor, NORCE | University of Bergen 🇧🇻 & Ottawa 🇨🇦

➡️ Research: asylum, migration, and integration governance.

➡️ Plans: support SG events, communication, & collaborative spaces.

*Andrea Pettrachin*
@andreapettrachin.bsky.social

➡️ Assistant Professor, University of Padua 🇮🇹

➡️ Research: migration policymaking and governance; mixed methods.

➡️ Plans: contributing to PhD support and mentoring initiatives.

*Carles Pamies* @chalsito.bsky.social

➡️ Assistant Professor, UNED 🇪🇸 | Visiting Professor, Sciences Po 🇫🇷

➡️ Research: migrant inclusion, representation, political trust, political behaviour.

➡️ Plans: strengthen interdisciplinary dialogue, innovative panels, and PhD mentoring.

*Pau Palop-García* @pau-palop.bsky.social

➡️ Senior Researcher, DeZIM | Research Associate, GIGA 🇩🇪

➡️ Research: comparative migration, diaspora policies, & transnational representation.

➡️ Aims: bolster the SG as an inclusive and internationally relevant forum.

*Sebastián Umpierrez de Reguero*
@sumpierrez.bsky.social

➡️ Researcher, Tallinn University 🇪🇪 | Nebrija University 🇪🇸

➡️ Research: migration, citizenship & political participation

➡️ Active in ECPR: SG Co-Convenor

➡️ Aims: increase SG’s international visibility, diversity, & interdisciplinary reach.

*Daniela Vintila* @danielavintila.bsky.social

➡️ Associate Professor, University of Liège 🇧🇪 | Coordinator, IMISCOE.

➡️ Research: migration governance, intra-EU mobility, migrants’ rights.

➡️ Active in #ECPR: SG Chair

➡️ Aims: strengthen methods training, mentoring & collaboration within the SG.

*Verena Wisthaler*

➡️ Head, Center for Migration and Societal Change, EURAC Research 🇮🇹

➡️ Research: sub-state migration politics and policymaking.

➡️ Active in #ECPR: SG co-convenor.

➡️ Aims: outreach to under-represented scholars, early-career researchers, and a welcoming, dynamic SG.

🗳️ Meet the candidates for the ECPR SG #Migration & #Ethnicity Steering Committee

Over the next posts, this thread will introduce the nominated candidates, highlighting their profiles, research interests, and engagement with the field.

⬇️ Thread below

Migration Politics In Autocratizing Contexts Seminar Series (Feb-March 2026) This WiP Seminar Series is an online space to learn about and discuss ongoing research on migration in autocratizing contexts. Each 90-minute session will feature two presenters and include time for a...

📢 Online Seminar Series (Feb–Mar 2026)

*Migration Politics in Autocratizing Contexts*

Hosts: K. Natter, N. Zakharchenko & L. El Euldj (
@unileiden.bsky.social)

#migrant #activism, #refugee #return, & #citizenship across 🇹🇭 🇮🇳 🇦🇫 🇱🇧 🇹🇷 🇦🇷 🇵🇭 🇷🇺

📝 + info:
forms.gle/f2GGn9qSoCnq...

Last days to submit a proposal for our @ecpr.bsky.social Joint Sessions Workshop on #Migration, #Governance & #Politics 👇.

Contemporary Approaches to Migration Governance and Inclusion: Policies, Actors, and Everyday Practices European Consortium for Political Research

📢 CfP: Panel on #citizenship #restitution as #state #policy and #individual #opportunity).

Send 📝 title + 250-word abstract by 18/12/25 to:
📧 rschweitzer@uao.es | fuchs@dezim-institut.de

Notifications by 22 Dec 2025.

+ info on our Section: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

#ECPR2026 #Migration #Ethnicity

Our study on public immigration misperceptions is out! Prior research overstated their prevalence due to flawed measurement. Our new approach separates real misperceptions from uninformed guessing — showing they’re less common than widely assumed and ideologically motivated.
doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

Migrant Electoral Rights (MER) New Data from 165 Countries and Six Decades - Globalcit Sebastian Umpierrez de Reguero, Klaudia Wegschaider and Rainer Bauböck Migrant Electoral Rights (MER) New Data from 165 Countries and Six Decades, Nature, 2025. Read More ...

Want to know more about the MER dataset 🤔

Read Sebastian Umpierrez de Reguero, Klaudia Wegschaider and Rainer Bauböcks explain in their new publication ⚡

MER maps migrant voting and candidacy rights in 165 countries across 60 years 🗳️🌍📊

⚡ tinyurl.com/mtm2rp53

Events European Consortium for Political Research

‼️CfP‼️ Beyond the City: #Migration, #Governance and #Politics in Non-Urban and Peripheral Spaces

🪑Verena Wisthaler & Giorgia Zogu

ECPR Joint Sessions in Innsbruck, April 2026

⏳10 Dec 25
Further info & submission portal: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

@ecpr.bsky.social
#ecprjs26

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.

Title: Incongruent Suffrage Authors: Klaudia Wegschaider, Rainer Bauböck, Sebastián Umpierrez de Reguero Abstract: Candidacy rights and voting rights are not always congruent. Although voting rights are extensively studied, historical and contemporary incongruencies in suffrage have been widely overlooked. We propose a typology of suffrage incongruency that we apply to the enfranchisement of non-citizen residents and non-resident citizens—two categories recently at the center of enfranchisement scholarship and reform efforts. Using an original dataset that covers 165 countries and 61 years (1960-2020), we identify past and present voting-only incongruencies and candidacy-only incongruencies. Existing theories of suffrage extension focus on the voteshare maximizing logic of incumbents. However, these explanations cannot account for why only one part of suffrage is extended. With two exploratory case studies of Switzerland and the United Kingdom, we inductively arrive at potential explanations for why voting-only and candidacy-only incongruencies arise and resolve in democracies. We conclude with a research agenda on the causes and consequences of suffrage incongruencies.

🚨 New Working Paper with R.Bauböck + @sumpierrez.bsky.social

We introduce the concept of incongruent suffrage.

This describes when there are voting rights but no candidacy rights for a group. Or vice versa.

The paper includes descriptive data & exploratory case studies.

doi.org/10.33774/aps...

📢 Call for papers 🌎 Rethinking Complex Migration: Flows, Frames, and Futures. April 15-17, 2026 at Toronto Metropolitan University. Deadline: November 2, 2025 (11:59 PM). Submit your proposal: www.torontomu.ca/cerc-migrati...

Do languages open doors? A theoretical model of linguistic capital and (im)mobility and its application in Spanish youth migration Language skills have demonstrated their significance in migration decisions; however, their role as a potential cause of immobility has been largely overlooked. In this paper, I first propose a the...

Under what circumstances can linguistic capital operate as an enabler of mobility or as a spatial constraint? I theorize about this in my PhD chapter, now published in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New from #Identities, by Russell King:

'Memory, place and the human geology of #migration: further thoughts on migratory stratifications'

Part of our upcoming #SpecialIssue on Migratory Stratifications:
doi.org/10.1080/1070...

@nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social

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...

Excited to share that the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies has released a special issue: "Decentring Migration Governance: The Role of Narratives." Featuring contributions from several CERC Migration Researchers. 🔗: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

2025 Call for Special Issue Proposals Deadline: 15 December 2025 Migration Studies is now accepting Special Issue proposals. The journal typically publishes one call for special issues pe

Our call for Special Issues is now live! We welcome collections that advance theoretical debates, offer comparative insight, and push methodological boundaries. Deadline: 15 December 2025. Questions: get in touch with @mkoinova.bsky.social. Details: academic.oup.com/migration/pa...

Beyond police encounters: everyday racism and trust in the police Trust in the police is essential for democratic legitimacy, yet it is declining across Western Europe. Immigrants and their descendants, who face disproportionate levels of discrimination, report p...

Me & my very able former colleague and now doctoral candidate Lisa Walter (not on Bluesky yet) just published a new article in @ersjournal.com
We examine how discrimination shapes immigrants and their descendants’ trust in the police in Germany.
👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The wait is over! We have published the call for contributions for the 5th Annual Meth@Mig workshop!

Visit: t1p.de/ebe7f

"Methodological Approaches in Cross-Cultural and Cross-National (Migration) Research"

Where?👉Doha (Qatar)
When? 👉 2026/03/30-31

Subm. deadline: 2025/11/07

#MethAtMigWS

🚀 Applications are now open for the 2026 Migration Policy Centre Winter Academy

⭐ Fair Work and Safe Opportunities for People on the Move ⭐
🗓️ February 2-6 2026
🇮🇹 Florence, Italy

All the relevant application information can be found here: exed.eui.eu/open-courses...