Standing Committees

Standing Committees involve research clusters that have been established for a longer period of time, and have a broad programme of activities and a broad audience that they serve within IMISCOE.

The Standing Committee Education and Social Inequality aims at stimulating international comparative research on the intersections between education, (international) mobility and social inequality. It combines the research interests and experiences of...

Coordinator

Dr. Elif Keskiner
e.keskiner@vu.nl

The Standing Committee “Gender and Sexuality in Migration Research” (GenSeM) brings together and supports IMISCOE-affiliated scholars whose research focuses on the areas of gender, sexuality and migration. GenSeM wants to create an infrastructure that...

Coordinator

Sarah Scuzzarello
S.Scuzzarello@sussex.ac.uk

The center of the focus of the IILME Standing Committee are the links between increasing migration, labour market dynamics and access to welfare resources. These are central to the discourse on both immigration and integration policies of newly arrived...

Coordinator

Anders Neergaard
Neergaard

The Standing Committee Meth@Mig provides a forum for discussing methodological approaches and tools in migration research and assessing the best options available for tackling manifold methodological challenges. The Standing Committee takes on a...

Coordinator

Justyna Salamońska
jsalamonska@kozminski.edu.pl

The objective of the Standing Committee on Migrant Transnationalism (MITRA) is to provide an arena within IMISCOE for academic exchange on migrant transnationalism. The transnational turn was an innovation in migration studies and offered a new...

Coordinator

Brigitte Suter
brigitte.suter@mau.se

The Migration, Citizenship and Political Participation Standing Committee (MIGCITPOL) offers a unique forum to researchers working in the fields of migrants’ access to citizenship and political participation in sending and receiving societies....

Coordinator

Gianni d’Amato
Gianni.damato@unine.ch

The Migration Politics and Governance (MigPoG) Standing Committee (SC) takes a broad and comprehensive approach to the study of migration policy, one which aims at promoting dialogue between scholars focusing on the politics and governance of migration....

Coordinator

Maria Schiller
schiller@essb.eur.nl

In 2010, when then the Research initiative ‘Ageing Migrants’ started its activity, this was a little studied topic. The research projects conducted by members of the group and the publications have been growing along with the development of our network...

Coordinator

Tineke Fokkema
fokkema@nidi.nl

The SC Race, racism and discrimination (RACED) will be a forum for researchers to engage in interdisciplinary conversations with an ambition to more adequately conceptualize and empirically study racial inequalities and racial exclusion, and to...

Coordinator

Patrick Simon

Key Questions For what underlying structural reasons did migration research have such a success these last decades? Why is migration so often presented in politics, in public or in the media as a direct threat to sovereignty and national identity and...

Coordinator

Anna-Lisa Müller
reflexstudies@uni-osnabrueck.de

DIVCULT aims to better understand the relevance of arts and culture in the theoretical and policy debates about immigrant incorporation and diversity in Europe and beyond. Over the last years, artistic activities have found increasing interest among...

Coordinator

Marco Martiniello
M.Martiniello@uliege.be

Standing Committees News

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IMISCOE SC EduSocial –On-line Writing Retreat 21 November 2023, 10.30am-14.15pm (CET)

10 November 2023
IMISCOE SC EduSocial –On-line Writing Retreat 21 November 2023, 10.30am-14.15pm (CET) Writing together to beat the ‘PhD blues’! Why a writing retreat? Inspired by many uplifting writing retreat initiatives that have been taking place lately, like the SC...
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Fostering South-North connection among migration studies scholars working on the topic of education and social inequalities!

06 November 2023
IMISCOE SC EduSocial – I Online matchmaking session, February 2024 Fostering South-North connection among migration studies scholars working on the topic of education and social inequalities! Why connect with different regions? Although migration is a...
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SC EduSocial is looking for a new PhD representative! Join us.

03 November 2023
We are pleased to inform you that our SC EduSocial is expanding its coordination board, hence we are looking for a second PhD representative to join us. We believe that this is a valuable chance for doctoral researchers to enhance their networking with...
Meth@Mig

New submission deadline - Participant recruitment strategies and sampling methods in migration research (Workshop)

New submission Deadline: January 5, 2024
*** The submission deadline for the 3 rd Annual Meth@Mig Workshop has been extended to January 5, 2024. *** 3 rd Annual Meth@Mig Workshop Call for Contributions Participant recruitment strategies and sampling methods in migration research Workshop to be...
EduSocial

Call for Papers: Anti-Racism in Education

7-8 November 2023
Call for Papers: Workshop on Anti-Racism in Education, 7-8 November 2023, Amsterdam The ongoing and pervasive impact of intersectional and multilayered racism on the members of minoritized communities has recently opened wider public, media, and...