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...that are always there, in our research, but hardly ever spelled out. From there, this series invites migration scholars to engage with and develop new or alternative visions and narratives.

We invite 200-word abstracts by 31 October 2025. Find the full call here: www.imiscoe.org/news-and-blo...

Call for Contributions: Visions and Narratives in Migration Studies 🚨 🔭

As researchers, we often have an idea of what "migration" and "society" are and ought to be, but we usually do not make it explicit. With this call, we invite you to reflect upon and make explicit the narratives and visions...

...that are always there, in our research, but hardly ever spelled out. From there, this series invites migration scholars to engage with and develop new or alternative visions and narratives.

We invite 200-word abstracts by 31 October 2025. Find the full call here: www.imiscoe.org/news-and-blo...

Call for Contributions: Visions and Narratives in Migration Studies 🚨 🔭

As researchers, we often have an idea of what "migration" and "society" are and ought to be, but we usually do not make it explicit. With this call, we invite you to reflect upon and make explicit the narratives and visions...

Don't forget to register for the upcoming PhD Sessions! 🥳

Find all information below and here:
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Please register and join me this semester! We are looking forward to reading through works in progress at various stages and helping each other improve and develop our research and writing.

We are excited to have another round of PhD sessions 🥳 Early career researchers present their work, exchange feedback, debate methodological and theoretical challenges with regards to reflexivity in migration studies. Find the call below and register by 15 October here:
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We are excited to have another round of PhD sessions 🥳 Early career researchers present their work, exchange feedback, debate methodological and theoretical challenges with regards to reflexivity in migration studies. Find the call below and register by 15 October here:
forms.gle/MWWnZUj8hc6D...

New post in the blog series „10 years after the Long Summer of Migration“! Janine Dahinden, Sélim Clerc and Gesa Teigelkötter write on "The ‘permanentification’ of a regime of crisis: Reinforced and enduring bordering and normalization of right-wing narratives".

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Reproduction of (Un)-modernity at the site of the everyday: Knowledge production practices on ‘migrant families’ in the Netherlands This paper examines how the everyday doing of ‘migrant families’ is described, problematized, and disciplined within knowledge production practices. Through a critical discourse analysis of researc...

Excited to share my latest #openaccess publication in the Journal of Occupational Science! We analyze how integration studies often frame ‘everyday doing’ as an expression of vague, unmeasurable values—justifying harmful categorizations and intervention all in the name of science.

Moving through crisis into spaces of solidarity: Experiences of international students By Gunjan Sondhi

Blog alert: Moving through crisis into spaces of solidarity: Experiences of #internationalstudents
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It is related to a keynote I gave in June 2024 at Freiburg University, entitled: Repairing infrastructures of (im)mobility: lessons from the Covid-19 crisis.

Reversing the Gaze: Gendered Experiences of Migrants in the UK IT Sector This article reverses the gaze on research on highly skilled migrant (HSM) women by analysing how the patriarchy of the destination country impacts their experience within the workplace. Most literat...

Delighted to share our new #openacess paper in Global Networks. Reversing the gaze: Gendered Experiences of Migrants in the UK IT Sector. #womenintech #migrants
@parvatiraghuram.bsky.social and Clem Herman

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New publication, open access: Happy to see this last and maybe most important article of my PhD research published. I argue that liberal democracies cannot require 'shared values', neither of migrants (only), as is the case for the integration requirement... (1/4)
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A Society Never Finished: Rethinking Integration through Civic’s Manifesto - Stichting Civic “De samenleving is nooit af” – Society is never finished. This simple yet profound claim lies at the heart of Stichting Civic’s recent manifesto. At first

“De samenleving is nooit af” – Society is never finished.

Happy to contribute this blog with @nadineblankvoort.bsky.social for Stichting Civic and their important manifesto to fundamentally question integration discourse and policies in the Netherlands and beyond.

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What a wonderful way to launch the #IMISCOE Annual Conference in Paris-Aubervilliers and online with the SC Reflexivities Special Session 'Decentring and/or Reflexivity – a critical conversation', in collaboration with The Global (De)Centre. Many thanks to all the speakers and the full room!

What a wonderful way to launch the #IMISCOE Annual Conference in Paris-Aubervilliers and online with the SC Reflexivities Special Session 'Decentring and/or Reflexivity – a critical conversation', in collaboration with The Global (De)Centre. Many thanks to all the speakers and the full room!

💥 Very excited about the upcoming 22nd IMISCOE Research Network Annual Conference next week in Aubervilliers–Paris & online 💥 Our Standing Committee features no less than 27 sessions 🤩 Have a look at the conference programme and join us 👇 🤓
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💥 Very excited about the upcoming 22nd IMISCOE Research Network Annual Conference next week in Aubervilliers–Paris & online 💥 Our Standing Committee features no less than 27 sessions 🤩 Have a look at the conference programme and join us 👇 🤓
www.imiscoe.org/conference/p...

Integration for whom? New publication mit @lutzphilipp.bsky.social 🙌

🎯 In diesem Paper untersuchen wir typische "Integrationsnormen" in der Gesellschaft. Dabei stellen wir fest, dass gewisse soziale Normen für "Ausländer" stärker gelten als für die Gesellschaft als ganzes. (1/3)

Just published! I was invited by Comparative Migration Studies (CMS) to contribute a short article on ‘categorization’ and ‘technologies of migranticization’ to their anniversary special issue.

I warmly thank CMS for this invitation and..... Congratulations on your 10th birthday!

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What a wonderful, stimulating and caring two-day workshop on the future of Reflexivities in Migration Studies and our Standing Committee. Thank you Warsaw and everyone for their contributions!

What a wonderful, stimulating and caring two-day workshop on the future of Reflexivities in Migration Studies and our Standing Committee. Thank you Warsaw and everyone for their contributions!

Wonderful first day of discussions on Reflexivities in Migration Studies and future directions of our Standing Committee at the Centre for Migration Research in Warsaw! Special thanks to Anna Amelina and @kudavan.bsky.social for your stimulating inputs. To be continued tomorrow 🔥

Wonderful first day of discussions on Reflexivities in Migration Studies and future directions of our Standing Committee at the Centre for Migration Research in Warsaw! Special thanks to Anna Amelina and @kudavan.bsky.social for your stimulating inputs. To be continued tomorrow 🔥

New publication of my PhD research on il/liberal integrationism in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies: 'Integration as a totalizing institution: a moral economy of street-level knowledge production on immigrant integration' (Open Access):
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... (1/3)

We are thrilled to launch another round of PhD Peer Feedback Sessions on Reflexivities in Migration Studies! We warmly invite PhDs and early career researchers to present, discuss or just participate in our online sessions.

Registration deadline: 31.03.2025.
Register here: forms.gle/pnYWcq4cuK5v...

We are thrilled to launch another round of PhD Peer Feedback Sessions on Reflexivities in Migration Studies! We warmly invite PhDs and early career researchers to present, discuss or just participate in our online sessions.

Registration deadline: 31.03.2025.
Register here: forms.gle/pnYWcq4cuK5v...

The episode explores the cultural, political and legal ways in which people become ‘migrantized’, and what this tells us about both migration and citizenship.

Check out this episode of the MMB podcast ‘Migration Unboxed’. Janine Dahinden and Manoj Dias-Abey join Bridget Anderson to discuss the question of how people become ‘migrants’.
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The episode explores the cultural, political and legal ways in which people become ‘migrantized’, and what this tells us about both migration and citizenship.