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Finally, one of the most important contributions and achievements of our relatively young Standing Committee has seen the light of day! 🤩

📖 'Reflexivities and Knowledge Production in Migration Studies' (open access)

We will introduce you to each chapter 🚀

👉 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Finally, one of the most important contributions and achievements of our relatively young Standing Committee has seen the light of day! 🤩

📖 'Reflexivities and Knowledge Production in Migration Studies' (open access)

We will introduce you to each chapter 🚀

👉 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

📢 New Open Access Publication Alert!
Decolonising This, Decolonising That: Beyond Rhetorical Decolonisation in Migration Studies
with @parvatiraghuram.bsky.social

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Practicing Double Reflexivity. Producing Knowledge on the Production of Knowledge on Migration In this article, we explore what it can mean to think with care and do (no) harm as migration researchers investigating the knowledge practices of other migration researchers. We propose an approach t...

How to think with care and do (no) harm as migration researchers who investigate the knowledge practices of other migration researchers?
New open-access article with Inken Bartels and @phischaefer.bsky.social. Thanks to the editors @janinedahinden.bsky.social and Andreas Pott!
tinyurl.com/mypzts7p

Integration Dispensation: Why Immigrants Face Stronger Social Norms | nccr – on the move Migrants in Switzerland face stricter social norms than citizens, exposing a double standard in integration and differing regional views on belonging.

Hanna runs into Sue. Sue asks: ‘Do you want to stop by for a coffee some time?’ What is the best thing Hanna can do?

Maybe you know the right answer to this question. Maybe you don’t. And maybe you don’t have to know it.

While social norms shape all our... (1/3) 🧵
nccr-onthemove.ch/blog/integra...

🚨 👇 Don't miss the deadline for submission TODAY 👇 🚨

Check out this brandnew podcast with our board members Maissam Nimer and @janinedahinden.bsky.social on de-migranticization of migration and integration research👇 🤩

The episode explores the concept of demigranticization in migration research, exploring how the label “migrant” is shaped by politics and power, often reinforcing exclusionary narratives. This season also dives deeper into the researchers themselves, highlighting what shaped their paths today. 2/2

Check out this brandnew podcast with our board members Maissam Nimer and @janinedahinden.bsky.social on de-migranticization of migration and integration research👇 🤩

🎧 The Borders & Belonging Podcast is back for another season and a brand new episode is out now!

Episode 1 of Season 4 features:

- Janine Dahinden (Professor, University of Neuchâtel)
- Maissam Nimer (Sociologist, Akdeniz University)

www.torontomu.ca/cerc-migrati...

1/2 🧵

Only some days left to submit your proposal for our series on Visions and Narratives in Migration Studies! Find the full call and the central questions to be addressed below and here: www.imiscoe.org/news-and-blo... Send us your abstract by 31 October 🚀

Why do you engage in migration studies? What influences the questions you ask?

There's still time to participate in the IMISCOE @reflexivities.bsky.social Blog Series.
Lead Editor: @s-manser-egli.bsky.social

More details on our Visions call 👇

📅 Deadline Friday 31 October

Only some days left to submit your proposal for our series on Visions and Narratives in Migration Studies! Find the full call and the central questions to be addressed below and here: www.imiscoe.org/news-and-blo... Send us your abstract by 31 October 🚀

...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:
www.imiscoe.org/news-and-blo...

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:
forms.gle/MWWnZUj8hc6D...

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".

fluchtforschung.net/the-permanen...

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
www.routedmagazine.com/post/moving-...

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

dx.doi.org/10.1111/glob...

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)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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.

stichtingcivic.nl/a-society-ne...

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 👇 🤓
www.imiscoe.org/conference/p...