The Annual MITRA Standing Committee meeting at the 23rd IMISCOE Annual Conference will take place on June 30 from 18:30 to 19:30 at the Faculty of Education and Psychology, Ground Floor, Rooms 19–20. We are also looking for new PhD representatives. Everyone is welcome!

The volume "Translocal Lives in Times of Conflict has finally been released! Book is co-edited by Benjamin Etzold and Marie Godin and published in the @imiscoe.bsky.social Research Series with Springer. Download it freely here - lnkd.in/dyvTNPMd

🤩 This is your chance to be part of the IMISCOE PhD Academy! The call for applications for the admission of new members to the IMISCOE PhD Academy is now open and closes on 31 August 2026. 💡 Check the full call here: www.imiscoe.org/training-phd... 📅 Deadline: 31 August 2026

🌐 In one week, we will come together in Girona and online for the 2026 IMISCOE Annual Conference! We recommend checking the pages of our Standing Committees to keep up to date with their activities during the conference: @methatmig.bsky.social @reflexivities.bsky.social @migcitpol.bsky.social

Save the date for MITRA second special session! Jill Ahrens and Hilda Gustafsson are organizing the workshop “Transnationalism, Community Engagement and the Co-Production of Knowledge” at the 23rd IMISCOE Conference in Girona (Wed, 1 July, 9:00-10:30 on-site).

MITRA Special Session at 23rd Annual IMISCOE Conference in Girona "Understanding transnational family life through historical and other sources"(June 30, 10:50–12:20).Chaired by Karlijn Haagsman and Brigitte Suter, the session explores historical transnational family engagements.

There are 20 Migrant Transnationalism (MITRA) sessions at the 2026 IMISCOE Annual Conference in Girona, taking place from 29 June to 2 July 2026. Sessions are on-site and online. You are warmly invited!

New MITRA Board member 👏 !Jill is a Senior Researcher in the Department of Interdisciplinary Social Science at Utrecht University and a Visiting Researcher at Radboud University on Migrant Inclusion (RUNOMI). Jill co-edited book Onward Migration and Multi-Sited Transnationalism.

🚨 Opportunity alert! The Department for Migration and Globalisation at the University for Continuing Education Krems invites recent graduates in a social science discipline to apply for a short-term research fellowship. 📅 Deadline: June 15th 💡 Full call here: www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/universit...

🚨Opportunity alert! The Department for Migration and Globalisation at the Universität für Weiterbildung Krems accepts applications for two vacancies PhD student | Deadline: 29 June 2026 Postdoctoral Researcher in Migration Studies | Deadline: 24 August 2026 👉More: www.donau-uni.ac.at/de/universit...

📣 REMINDER | Call for papers Submit paper proposals to the 2027 IMISCOE Spring Conference, organised by @torontomet.bsky.social and @globalmigrationtmu.bsky.social, exploring the digital transformations shaping migration governance and migration research! 💡More: www.imiscoe.org/news-and-blo...

🚨Opportunity alert Research Associate (Post-doc, f/m) in Regional Studies, Migration Studies, or Communication Sciences at the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER). 📆 Deadline: June 28th, 2026 at midnight CET 🔗Check the full job description here: jobs.liser.lu/job/Esch-sur...

📣 Hard-to-Reach: Applied Research Methods with Hidden, Marginal and Excluded Populations This Summer School introduces applied research methods for conducting research with marginalized, hidden, and excluded groups. 📍University of Oxford, Nuffield College 📅24-28 August 2026 🔗 hard2reachresearch.org

📣 Call for Expressions of Interest – Postdoctoral Fellowships Researchers can apply for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Department of Intercultural Mobility Studies, Jagiellonian University in Kraków. 📅 Deadline: 15 June 2026 👉 More: ism.uj.edu.pl/en_GB/depart...

Marie Godin, Giorgia Dona and their colleagues published article in Qualitative Inquiry. Article demonstrates the value of creative visual methodologies across sites and borders through long-term, interdisciplinary collaboration. Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

CfP for Special Issues of the new journal Transnational Mobility. The Special Issues are dedicated to “Voluntary Forms of (Im)mobility" and "Migration within Current Global Transformations: Aspirations, Constraints, and Unequal Choices.” More info here: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/tran...

Read article by Brigitte Suter, Cody Green and Paul Lafond "Families Across Borders: Prevalence and Characteristics of Transnational Families in Malmö." Study states that transnational family is not marginal, but embedded in Malmö’s social fabric. Here: ojs.mau.se/index.php/ci...

🗣️ Call for Editorial College Members for the journal Migration Politics Migration Politics publishes peer-reviewed scholarly contributions on the politics involved in representing, controlling and managing migration. ❗ Deadline: 30 June 2026 Full call: migrationpolitics.org/2026/04/21/c...

📣 CfP for the 2027 IMISCOE Spring Conference (10-12 March) 💫 Studying Migration in the Digital Era: Innovation, Regulation, Ethics, and Rights 📍Global Migration Institute atT oronto Metropolitan University Full call: shortlink.uk/1pfd0 @globalmigrationtmu.bsky.social @researchtmu.bsky.social

👉CfP for 15th Conference of the Committee for Migration Research in Gdańsk/Gdynia, Poland (September 23–25, 2026). 👉Call for Papers also includes panels on transnationalism. 🎯 Submission deadline: 15 May 2026 👍More info here: czrug.ug.edu.pl/en/15th-conf...

📣 Job annoucement: Research and Development Specialist in European Migration Network (EMN) Luxembourg The Research and Development Specialist will join the team of EMN Luxembourg in the Department of Geography and Spatial Planning - DGEO 👉 All details here: www.uni.lu/en/jobs/rese...

Join the RUNOMI annual congress on Migrant Inclusion and Inequality 🗓️ 24 June 2026, 10 am - 5:30 pm ➡️ Details and registration here: www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...

🗣️ Call for papers international seminar- "Remote work and emergent mobility regimes. Return, multilocality and processes of re-territorialisation” 📍 November 5–6, Cádiz (Spain) ❗ Submit your abstract by June 5, 2026 Registration here: forms.gle/rAEnLPodWSdx...

We have new MITRA Board members! Rohini Mitra is a postdoc researcher at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Göttingen. Julia Reinold is a researcher at the Department of Migration at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg.

Call for Papers: Expert Workshop "Degrees in Transition: Higher Education and Labour Market Integration of Newcomers and Refugees" (11–12 June 2026 at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels). Deadline: 29 April 2026. Info here: brispo.research.vub.be/en/extended-...

A newly released journal "Transnational Mobilities"! Interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal dedicated understanding of the complex dynamics of transnationalism and mobility in a globalized world. More info here: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/tran...

Summer School "Multiple Migrations and Transnationalism: Legal, Social, Linguistic and Educational Implications" held at Venice International University (29 June - 3 July 2026). Suitable for master and doctoral students! More info here: www.univiu.org/images/aauni...

We are excited to announce that a new Open Access book, co-edited by MITRA board members Benjamin Etzold and Marie Godin, will be published in summer in the IMISCOE Research Series with Springer. Info here: link.springer.com/book/9783032...

From transnational lifeworlds, through remittances to extraterritorial politics and diaspora crisis response. But also novels, religion and families - and frought questions on interactions between migrant transnationalism & integration. Listen the podcast! open.spotify.com/episode/38FG...

Photos from conference in Budapest,Hungary (5-6 March 2026). Young researchers from MITRA and members of the COST Action CA21143-TraFaDy discussed TraFaDy’s work on transnational families and policy that support them. It was wonderful meeting with a friendly atmosphere!

How responsibility towards transnational family impacts displaced people lives when they are unable to provide sufficient responses to requests for care, and how this in turn impacts activities to promote settlement? Read article by Hanna Svensson: academic.oup.com/jrs/article/...

Read article by Marta Moskal published in Population, Space and Place. Author discusses how gender, caregiving, and family shape the experiences of international student migration. Read here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

‼️ Vacancies for seven PhD positions ‼️ ‘Unpacking the asylum procedure in its intersecting linguistic, sociocultural, psychological and legal dimensions’ (UNPACK) at Ghent University ⚠️ Deadline for applications: 15 March 2026 (23:59 CET). 👀 All details here: www.ugent.be/re/epir/en/n...

✨ Release of a new podcast series: Migration in Focus - Voices from the UK🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 The first episode is on air! 👏 🎙️To listen to the episode 👉 saspod.com/voicesoflanc...

‼️ Tenured research positions at the Institute for Advanced Social Studies (IESA-CSIC), Córdoba (Spain) 🗓️ Deadline for application: January 30 👉 More info here: www.imiscoe.org/news-and-blo...

Watch the lecture by Peggy Levitt on the nccr - on the move YouTube channel about decentering migration and mobility studies & transnational social protection: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZYq...

Check out article by Fethi Mansouri, Lori Beaman, and Serena Hussain. By authors, youth engage in transnationalism in agentic ways that create and strengthen multiple expressions of cultural identity, political attachment, and social belonging. Read here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Read new article. Using a translocal lens, Benjamin Etzold and Marie Godin show how social ties across places transform (im)mobility and bridge debates in (forced) migration and peace and conflict studies: bicc.de/Publications...

Call for 2026 @imiscoe.bsky.social Forum at Ibn Zohr University in Morocco & online (28-30 October 2026). Deadline for submission 6 February 2026. More info here: www.imiscoe.org/events/imisc...

Call for Contributions - Looking back, moving forward: Migration studies in times of societal transformation. CESSMIR, Universiteit Gent, 14 -16 September 2026 Deadline is 31 January 2026. All details here: cessmir.be/en/activitei...

Book Conversation on Migrant #Transnationalism is now online! Özge Bilgili together with Marta Bivand Erdal hosted a webinar to celebrate their publication. The link is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQYc... @imiscoe-phdnetwork.bsky.social @imiscoe.bsky.social

REMINDER - BOOK LAUNCH: Özge Bilgili and Marta Bivand Erdal will discuss their recently published book "Migrant #Transnationalism: IMISCOE Short Reader" Event will be held on 28 October, 14:00-15:00. Registration and info here: www.prio.org/events/9249

Are you interested in how the relationship between migrant parents and caregivers in country of origin is important for care and wellbeing of migrants′ children? New article by Valentina Mazzucato and Bilisuma B. Dito in Population, Space and Place.Read here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🔥EXCITING NEWS🔥 📢The IMISCOE PhD Academy is excited to announce 15 new members as the fifth cohort of the Academy‼️ 🫂Find out more about the PhD students and their researches: www.imiscoe.org/news-and-blo...

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.

We invite you to book conversation. Özge Bilgili and Marta Bivand Erdal will discuss their recently published book "Migrant #Transnationalism: IMISCOE Short Reader" Event will be held on 28 October, 14:00-15:00. Registration and info here: www.prio.org/events/9249 @imiscoe.bsky.social

EXTENDED deadline until 5th of October! CfP for second MITRA Special Session for 23rd IMISCOE Annual Conference in Girona! Panel organized by Luděk Jirka and Hilda Gustafsson will focus on perceptions of #transnational engagement as (non)deserving. @imiscoe-phdnetwork.bsky.social

CfP for MITRA Special Session for 23rd IMISCOE Annual Conference in Girona! Panel organized by Luděk Jirka and Hilda Gustafsson will focus on perceptions of #transnational engagement as (non)deserving. Deadline is 24 September 2025!

CfP for MITRA Special Session for 23rd IMISCOE Annual Conference in Girona! Organized by Brigitte Suter and Karlijn Haagsman, this panel will focus on #transnational family life explored through historical and other sources. Deadline is 23 September 2025! @imiscoe-phdnetwork.bsky.social

Deadline for 23rd Annual IMISCOE Conference in Girona and online (29 June - 2 July 2026) is approaching soon. Submit your panel proposals, individual paper proposals, or workshop proposals by 25 September 2025. More information here: www.imiscoe.org/events/imisc...