@demigkrems.bsky.social
at University for Continuing Education Krems, Austria (www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/mig) We want to contribute to a better understanding of migration and integration with our research and teaching activities.
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10.10.2025 03:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0🔬 Lower Austria Research Festival 2025 – we’re in!
📍 Swing by our booth to explore how global movements shape food & society. Dive into our latest projects!
📹 Can’t make it? Watch our videos on YouTube:
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🗓️ 10 Oct | 1–9 PM
📍 Palais Niederösterreich, Vienna
🎟️ Free entry!
🎙️ Happening today!
Join us at 14:00 CEST for the launch of this year’s DEMIG hybrid talk series with Katharina Natter:
Between Knowledge and Assumptions: The Migrant in the Eyes of the Policymaker
💻 Attend in Krems or online via Zoom: donau-uni.zoom.us/j/6554235641...
The analysis shows how “the migrant” is portrayed in fundamentally different ways across policy areas, with clear consequences on whether knowledge is used, cherry-picked, disregarded, or even distorted. Find out more about Katharina's research at: katharinanatter.com
11.09.2025 08:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Drawing on a comparative analysis of reforms in Austria, Italy, and the Netherlands, Katharina Natter will examine how migrants are portrayed across three key policy areas: counter-smuggling, asylum reception, and migrant worker attraction.
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Japan Azusa Express train at Otsuki station platform under warm sunlight in winter | Photo Credit: PixHound / Adobe Stock
🚦 This year's DEMIG Online talk series launches Sept 18!
🎙️ First speaker: @knatter.bsky.social (Leiden University)
on how expert knowledge is used, ignored or misused in European migration policymaking.
📍 Hybrid format – join us online or in Krems
🕑 2–3pm CEST
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11.09.2025 06:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The analysis shows how “the migrant” is portrayed in fundamentally different ways across policy areas, with clear consequences on whether knowledge is used, cherry-picked, disregarded, or even distorted.
10.09.2025 15:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Drawing on a comparative analysis of reforms in Austria, Italy, and the Netherlands, Katharina will examine how migrants are portrayed across three key policy areas: counter-smuggling, asylum reception, and migrant worker attraction.
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🚦 This year's DEMIG Online talk series launches Sept 18!
🎙️ First speaker: @knatter.bsky.social (Leiden University) on how expert knowledge is used, ignored or misused in European migration policymaking.
📍 Hybrid format – join us online or in Krems
🕑 2–3pm CEST
www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/universit...
Autumn view of Danube river and Krems town in Wachau region Austria (sunrise atmosphere) | Photo By Richard Semik /Adobe Stock
📣 We’re pleased to share the full program for this year’s Annual Conference of the Austrian Economic Association.
🗓️ September 23–24, 2025
📍 @unikrems.bsky.social
Theme: Migration as an Economic Reality,
22 panels, 2 keynotes, 1 roundtable.
Register by Sept 10
👉 www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/universit...
📣 Vacancy for PhD position! 📣 I am looking for a qualitative PhD researcher (3 years, 30 hours/week) to join my ERC project #RESTATE (Refugees’ Political Participation and State-(Re)Making in Displacement), starting preferably on 1 January 2026.
13.08.2025 13:02 — 👍 9 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0📣 Postdoc vacancy! I am looking for a qualitative postdoc (3 years, 100%) to join my ERC project #RESTATE (Refugees’ Political Participation and State-(Re)Making in Displacement, 85%) and my project #SYREALITY (Syrian Imaginations of Europe meet Reality, 15%) starting preferably on 1 January 2026.
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🔎 #RURALITIC historians and sociologists traced the changing #rural landscapes of the 19th and 20th centuries during the workshop - Transformations of the rural world from a socio-historical perspective - on 30 June.
💡Curious about the takeaways?
www.ruralitic.eu/new/revisiti...
#HorizonEU
🔍 New Data Portal on Irregular Migration 🔎
📊 Estimates (2008–2023) for 20 countries in Europe, North America & North Africa
🌍 Interactive map & country profiles
📖 Key findings, publications & full dataset
🔗 Explore the MIrreM Data Portal: irregularmigration.eu/data-portal/
🌍 Join our info session on the part-time program Circular & Return Migration Management, starting November 2025 with a Middle East focus.
📅 July 30, 4 PM (CEST)
🤝 In partnership with Munich Forum for Dialogue & @jasminldiab.bsky.social
🎓 Scholarships available
ℹ️ www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/studies/c...
🔍 Learn more about the project and explore all resources: donau-uni.ac.at/en/universit...
#MigrationPolicy #GovernanceThroughFunding #MigFund
#EUfunding #MigrationGovernance @fwf-at.bsky.social sky.social @unikrems.bsky.social
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💶 New on scilog:
How does EU funding shape migration policy? The project MigFund reveals a growing focus on border control and externalization.
🗃️ The research is led by political scientist Federica Zardo (@federicazardo.bsky.social).
📖 Read more: scilog.fwf.ac.at/en/magazine/...
Yesterday was World #RuralDevelopment Day!
📣And what better way to mark the occasion than by announcing the launch of the #RURALITIC website?
Curious about the project's main objectives and more?
🔗Visit now & bookmark the website so you don't miss any updates: www.ruralitic.eu
#HorizonEU
📣 New on the Meth@Mig blog: @josefneubauer.bsky.social reflects on fieldwork & fieldlife in Nepal— more than six months of research, insights, and lessons from Kathmandu, Barpak & Inaruwa. A instuctive look at doing research and living it.
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#MigrationResearch
Anna Triandafyllidou (CERC in Migration & Integration, @researchtmu.bsky.social) & Blanca Garcés Mascareñas (@cidobbarcelona.bsky.social), Alejandra Rodríguez Sánchez (@unipotsdam.bsky.social) & @albertkraler.bsky.social (@unikrems.bsky.social, @demigkrems.bsky.social)
24.06.2025 15:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Laura Peitz (@bamf.de), Michele LeVoy (@picumofficial.bsky.social), Amparo González Ferrer (Spanish Government), Ann Singleton (@bristoluni.bsky.social), @jasmijnslootjes.bsky.social (@migrationpolicy.bsky.social), Maegan Hendow (@icmpd.org),
24.06.2025 15:58 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Together with Michail Moschovokos (@ec.europa.eu - Research and Innovation), Giulio Maria Mancini (@euhomeaffairs.bsky.social), Fabian Bach (Eurostat), @deniskierans.bsky.social (@compasoxford.bsky.social), @flaczko.bsky.social (former @iom.int), @bircantuba.bsky.social (Vrije Universiteit Brussel),
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Animated GIF showing the word 'MIRREM' with a gradient effect transitioning from light blue to dark blue. Below it, the text reads 'Measuring Irregular Migration' in white font against a solid blue background. Information on the MIrreM research project is available at: https://irregularmigration.eu/
Join us at the MIrreM final conference:
📆 11 September 2025, 9 AM – 2 PM
🌍 Residence Palace, Brussels & online
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We will discuss:
❓ How can we measure irregular migration?
❓ What are the policy responses to irregular migration?
❓ What is the impact of regularisation policies?
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Join us for a seminar on June 25th at the Korean Cultural Center in Vienna. In anticipation of the eventual unification of Korea, researchers will discuss the social integration of immigrants, with insights from Central and Eastern Europe. No registration needed. www.donau-uni.ac.at/dam/jcr:4088...
23.06.2025 14:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Really looking forward to this talk based on my recent paper with the amazing @dorinadamsa.bsky.social
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