We are please to announce that the section call for panels and papers for LASA 2026 (Paris, France, May 26-30, 2026) is open. More information at: sections.lasaweb.org/sections/int... @lasabluesky.bsky.social | @asamigration.bsky.social | @isa-rc31.bsky.social

Thank you, RC31 members, for attending the Business Meeting at the ISA Forum in Rabat, Morocco! Here are some photos from the day #sociology #migration #SociologyOfMigration #MigrationStudies

#RC31_Award #best_book in #migration studies Sharon M. Quinsaat’s Insurgent Communities, published by @uchicagopress.bsky.social, provides a sweeping history of #Filipino transnational social #activism in the #Netherlands and US from 1970s to the present day. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

#RC31_Award Phi Hong Su’s The Border Within, published by @stanfordpress.bsky.social, is an exciting and novel account of the lasting Cold War divisions found among contemporary #Vietnamese #German communities. www.sup.org/books/sociol... #migration #socioology #border #coldwar

Best Book Award Announcement Huge thanks to all the RC31 members who submitted their nominations for the #RC31_Award for Best Book! All the submissions were of exceptionally high quality, making the reading and judging a true joy for the committee members. #migration #sogiology #isa

#RC31 SPECIAL LECTURE All That is Solid Melts into Mobility: Understanding #Climate related #Migration as the Socio-Ecological Question Lecture to be delivered by: Thomas FAIST (Bielefeld) Location: SJES024 Mon, Jul 7, 13:00 - 14:45 isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/foru... #isaforum2025 #sociology

ISA members! We will be in Rabat this week! Check out the RC31 program here: isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/foru... #ISA #migration #sociology #migrants #immigration

We thank all RC31 members who submitted their nominations for the #RC31_Award for Best Article! We received a large number of submissions this year and chose two co-winners, reflecting our main criteria of theoretical robustness and contribution to the field of international migration.

Congratulations to Deisy Del Real for co-winning this year's #RC31_Award for Best Article! The article, Gradations of Migrant Legality: The Impact of States’ Legal Structures and Bureaucracies on Immigrant Legalization and Livelihoods is available here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Congratulations to Karolina Nikielska-Sekuła for co-winning this year's #RC31_Award for Best Article! Her article, Embodied Transitional Belonging, was published in International Migration Review. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

The link to the latest newsletter (Dec 2024) below seems to be broken. You can check it out at this link for news on RC31 events, members' awards, publications, events, and more! www.isa-sociology.org/uploads/imge...

Welcome to the ISA 31 page on BlueSky! Here is a link to our most recent newsletter! #ISA_RC31 @isa-rc31.bsky.social /id/urn:aaid:sc:US:d2d9d02b-6c91-403c-b99e-1502c0814f86

Happy to see our work w Natalie Welfens published in the Journal of Refugee Studies “UNHCR–state relations: transfer of authority over refugee status determination”👇 academic.oup.com/jrs/advance-...

#ISA_RC31_New_book Zülfikar Savcı, B. Ş., Pries, L., & Erdoğan, M. M. (Eds.). (2024). Forced migration in Turkey: Refugee perspectives, organizational assistance, and political embedding. Routledge. www.routledge.com/Forced-Migra... #forcedmigration #Turkey #refugee #belonging #migrationstudies

#ISA_RC31_New_book Zhao, X. (2023). Social Media in the Lives of Young Connected Migrants: Making and Unmaking Boundaries. Routledge. www.routledge.com/Social-Media... #socialmedia #youngmigrants #digitalage #migrationstudies

#ISA_RC31_New_book Timcke, S., & Gomes, S. (Eds.). (2024). #Race, #class, and #nationalism in the twenty-first-century #Caribbean. The University of Georgia Press. ugapress.org/book/9780820... #multidisciplinary #migrationstudies

#ISA_RC31_New_book Sciortino, G., Cvajner, M., & Kivisto, P. J. (Eds.). (2024). Research Handbook on the Sociology of Migration. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/han... #SociologyOfMigration #CurrentResearch #methods #migrationstudies #sociology

#ISA_RC31_New_Book Roth, S., Purkayastha, B., & Denskus, T. (Eds.). (2024). Handbook on humanitarianism and inequality. Edward Elgar Publishing. www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/han... #migrationstudies #inequalities #humanitarianism #colonialism #researchethics #ethodologies

#ISA_RC31_New_Book Pries, L., Schütze, S., Alba Villalever, X., & Zülfikar Savci, B. S. (2024). #ForcedMigration in transit: Migrant experiences of organized #violence in #Mexico and #Turkey. Routledge. www.routledge.com/Forced-Migra... #migrationstudies #transitcountries #sociology

New book! Pries, L., & Bohlen, R. (2024). Forced Migration: An integrative perspective for the 21st century. Edward Elgar Publishing. www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/for... #forcedmigration #transnationalperspectives #migration #sociology

New book! Merla, L., Murru, S., Orsini, G., & Vuckovic Juros, T. (Eds.). (2024). Excluding #diversity through #intersectional #borderings: Politics, policies, and daily lives. IMISCOE Research Series. link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #migrantexclusion #Europe #NorthAmerica #race #gender #sexuality

New Book! Mahmud, H. (2024). Remittance as #belonging: Global #migration, #transnationalism, and the quest for home. Rutgers University Press. www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/templeton-pr... argues that migrants' #remittances express their sense of belonging&connectedness to their country of origin.

Member's new book! García Cabeza, M., & Faist, T. (Eds.). (2024). Encyclopedia of citizenship studies. Edward Elgar Publishing. www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/enc... #migration #CitizenshipStudies #encyclopedia

Member's new book! Desmet, E., Belloni, M., Vanheule, D., Verhellen, J., & Güdük, A. (Eds.). (2024). Family Reunification in Europe: Exposing Inequalities (1st ed.). Routledge. doi.org/10.4324/9781... This book provides a multi-disciplinary investigation of family reunification laws, policies and...

Member's new book! Cé Sangalli, L. (2024). Migrants from Sudan in Germany and Jordan. Göttinger Beiträge Zur Soziologischen Biographieforschung. doi.org/10.17875/gup... Migration often intensifies both how people construct a sense of belonging and how they are labelled or categorised by others....

Member's new book! Butler, R., & Vincent, E. (2024). Love across class. Melbourne University Press. www.mup.com.au/books/love-a... This book explores cross-class relationships in contemporary Australia, a society long-invested in the myth of egalitarianism.... #sociology #Australia #migration

Member's new book! Bhatia, M., Poynting, S. and Tufail, W. (eds) (2023) Racism, Violence and Harm: Ideology, media and resistance, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. link.springer.com/book/10.1007... This book examines connections between racism, violence, and social harms... #migration #sociology

Member's new book! ayındır Goularas, G., Turkan İpek, I. Z., Çağlayan, P., & Önel, E. (Eds.). (2024). Migration, identity and politics in Turkey from the Ottoman Empire to today. Rowman & Littlefield. rowman.com/ISBN/9781666... #migration #sociology #turkey #identity

Member's new book! Alba Villalever, X., Schütze, S., Pries, L., & Calderón Morillón, O. (Eds.). (2024). Forced migration across Mexico: Organized violence, migrant struggles, and life trajectories (1st ed.). Routledge. www.routledge.com/Forced-Migra...

Congratulations to Dr Carl Anacin for winning 2025 Letty Katts Fellowship! His project: ‘Migration, musical practices and belonging among Filipino migrants in Queensland: festivals, music industry participation and everyday lives’. www.slq.qld.gov.au/get-involved...

Congratulations to Dr Sylvia Ang for winning 2024 Raewyn Connell Prize! Ang, S (2022). Contesting Chineseness: Nationality, Class, Gender, and New Chinese Migrants. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 154 pp. www.aup.nl/en/book/9789... #migration #sociology

Congratulations to Dr. Omid Asayesh and Dr. Abdolmohammad Kazemipur on winning ASA International Migration Section 2024 Award Honorable Mention! Homo Emigraturus vs. Anti Emigraturus: the rise of involuntary immobility in Iran and its consequences. doi.org/10.1080/1369... #migration #sociology

Join us for the 5th ISA Forum of Sociology! Knowing Justice in the Anthropocene Rabat, Morocco | July 6–11, 2025 For more information, see www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferenc... To register, see www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferenc... #ISA_RC31 #migration

Best Scholarly Article on Migration Award (due April 1, 2025) This Award recognizes the outstanding research article published since January 2021 (3-year cycle). Nominees must be current members of the ISA RC 31. Self-nominations from our members who have recently published an article are welcome...

Best Book on Migration Award (due April 1, 2025) Nominees must be current members of the ISA RC 31. Self-nominations from our members who have recently published a book are welcome and encouraged. To nominate a book, submit a pdf copy of the migration-focused book to the...

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