Don’t miss out on this really interesting talk! Taking place online this Thursday as part of our DEMIG talks. Everyone is welcome to join!

Navigating Legal Uncertainty – DEMIG Talk with Gisela P. Zapata, Assistant Professor at @ufmgbr.bsky.social 🎙️ “Complexity and Unevenness in Migrants’ Regularization Pathways in Latin America” 🗓️ 13 November 2025 | 🕒 15:00–16:00 CET | 📍 Online 🔗 Details & Zoom link: www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/universit...

On 23–24 September, the Austrian Economic Association held its Annual Conference in Krems, focusing on the theme Migration as an Economic Reality 🎥 Keynotes www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... 📸 Photo Highlights www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/universit... 📘 Conference booklet www.donau-uni.ac.at/dam/jcr:e4ba...

🌍 WEBINAR | Migrants’ Political and Social Participation in Rural Italy 🗓️ Oct 23 | 🕒 2–3 pm CEST | 💻 Online via Zoom 🎙️ with political scientist Giorgia Zogu Drawing on 9 municipalities, we'll explore how institutions and personal traits shape migrant engagement. 📳 donau-uni.zoom.us/j/6824488418...

🔬 Lower Austria Research Festival 2025 – we’re in! 📍 Swing by our booth to explore how global movements shape food & society. Dive into our latest projects! 📹 Can’t make it? Watch our videos on YouTube: youtube.com/embed/HY96DW... 🗓️ 10 Oct | 1–9 PM 📍 Palais Niederösterreich, Vienna 🎟️ Free entry!

🎙️ Happening today! Join us at 14:00 CEST for the launch of this year’s DEMIG hybrid talk series with Katharina Natter: Between Knowledge and Assumptions: The Migrant in the Eyes of the Policymaker 💻 Attend in Krems or online via Zoom: donau-uni.zoom.us/j/6554235641...

🚦 This year's DEMIG Online talk series launches Sept 18! 🎙️ First speaker: @knatter.bsky.social (Leiden University) on how expert knowledge is used, ignored or misused in European migration policymaking. 📍 Hybrid format – join us online or in Krems 🕑 2–3pm CEST www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/universit...

🚦 This year's DEMIG Online talk series launches Sept 18! 🎙️ First speaker: @knatter.bsky.social (Leiden University) on how expert knowledge is used, ignored or misused in European migration policymaking. 📍 Hybrid format – join us online or in Krems 🕑 2–3pm CEST www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/universit...

📣 We’re pleased to share the full program for this year’s Annual Conference of the Austrian Economic Association. 🗓️ September 23–24, 2025 📍 @unikrems.bsky.social Theme: Migration as an Economic Reality, 22 panels, 2 keynotes, 1 roundtable. Register by Sept 10 👉 www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/universit...

📣 Vacancy for PhD position! 📣 I am looking for a qualitative PhD researcher (3 years, 30 hours/week) to join my ERC project #RESTATE (Refugees’ Political Participation and State-(Re)Making in Displacement), starting preferably on 1 January 2026.

📣 Postdoc vacancy! I am looking for a qualitative postdoc (3 years, 100%) to join my ERC project #RESTATE (Refugees’ Political Participation and State-(Re)Making in Displacement, 85%) and my project #SYREALITY (Syrian Imaginations of Europe meet Reality, 15%) starting preferably on 1 January 2026.

🔎 #RURALITIC historians and sociologists traced the changing #rural landscapes of the 19th and 20th centuries during the workshop - Transformations of the rural world from a socio-historical perspective - on 30 June. 💡Curious about the takeaways? www.ruralitic.eu/new/revisiti... #HorizonEU

🔍 New Data Portal on Irregular Migration 🔎 📊 Estimates (2008–2023) for 20 countries in Europe, North America & North Africa 🌍 Interactive map & country profiles 📖 Key findings, publications & full dataset 🔗 Explore the MIrreM Data Portal: irregularmigration.eu/data-portal/

🌍 Join our info session on the part-time program Circular & Return Migration Management, starting November 2025 with a Middle East focus. 📅 July 30, 4 PM (CEST) 🤝 In partnership with Munich Forum for Dialogue & @jasminldiab.bsky.social 🎓 Scholarships available ℹ️ www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/studies/c...

💶 New on scilog: How does EU funding shape migration policy? The project MigFund reveals a growing focus on border control and externalization. 🗃️ The research is led by political scientist Federica Zardo (@federicazardo.bsky.social). 📖 Read more: scilog.fwf.ac.at/en/magazine/...

Yesterday was World #RuralDevelopment Day! 📣And what better way to mark the occasion than by announcing the launch of the #RURALITIC website? Curious about the project's main objectives and more? 🔗Visit now & bookmark the website so you don't miss any updates: www.ruralitic.eu #HorizonEU

📣 New on the Meth@Mig blog: @josefneubauer.bsky.social reflects on fieldwork & fieldlife in Nepal— more than six months of research, insights, and lessons from Kathmandu, Barpak & Inaruwa. A instuctive look at doing research and living it. www.imiscoe.org/news-and-blo... #MigrationResearch

Join us at the MIrreM final conference: 📆 11 September 2025, 9 AM – 2 PM 🌍 Residence Palace, Brussels & online ℹ️ bit.ly/3GiuKKG We will discuss: ❓ How can we measure irregular migration? ❓ What are the policy responses to irregular migration? ❓ What is the impact of regularisation policies? 🧵

Join us for a seminar on June 25th at the Korean Cultural Center in Vienna. In anticipation of the eventual unification of Korea, researchers will discuss the social integration of immigrants, with insights from Central and Eastern Europe. No registration needed. www.donau-uni.ac.at/dam/jcr:4088...

Really looking forward to this talk based on my recent paper with the amazing @dorinadamsa.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨 The full MigFund database is now publicly available. It covers EU funding for migration and asylum from 2000 to 2023, across both internal and external programmes. 1,700+ funding measures. All major instruments, from AMIF to EUTF. You can download it here: zenodo.org/records/1568...

DEMIG Online Talk: Join @nikostrand.bsky.social as she explores how deportation in Europe is shaped by both knowledge and ignorance. Learn about the overlooked harms of routine procedures and the role of "not knowing" in justifying state actions. 📅 24 June, 2-3pm‬ www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/universit...

What is the latest on public opinion in relation to return and readmission policies across Europe? Join us on the 11th of June to find out. Details: www.moreproject-horizon.eu/public-opini...

My colleague Samiksha Neupane and I put together a dictionary of terms central to our data collection in the #DYNAMIGS project. We hope it is a useful resource for other scholars working across Nepali and English, and would love feedback to update it with amendments and additions in the future!

In 2 weeks, I'll share early insights from my fieldwork across Nepal, Lisbon, and Malta about the various roles and meanings of Portugal within the aspirations, trajectories, and experiences of many young Nepalis on the move. 📆 11 June, 13:30-14:30 UTC +1 📍Iscte–IUL, Lisbon and Zoom More info ⬇️

Excited to have a new OA paper out with the amazing @dorinadamsa.bsky.social on the fluidity of non/knowledge production, drawing on our empirical work on deportation from EUrope. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @demigkrems.bsky.social @scmrjems.bsky.social @bordercrim.bsky.social

Stay Updated with Migration Research Latest Newsletter: Read here news.donau-uni.ac.at/archiv_newsl... Subscribe here for news and event tips www.donau-uni.ac.at/de/universit... Today at 3-4 pm CET: Join our Online Talk on Migratory Corridors across the Americas: www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/universit...

In Trump's second term, immigration policies have tightened, but migration trends in the Americas were already changing. Join the next DEMIG Online Talk with social anthropologist and geographer Soledad Álvarez Velasco to learn more. 📅 May 28th, 2025 🕒 3-4 pm CET 📲 donau-uni.zoom.us/j/6916422094...

Congratulations to @leamullerfunk.bsky.social on being elected to the Young Academy of the Austrian Academy of Sciences @ya-oeaw.bsky.social! Discover more about her research projects & her efforts in supporting young researchers and promoting public science here: www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/news/news...

Join us for the next DEMIG Online Talk with Soledad Álvarez Velasco, Assistant Professor at UIC. She will discuss the transformation of migratory pathways across the Americas over the last decades amid global political developments. 📅 May 28th, 2025 🕒 3-4 pm CET 📲 donau-uni.zoom.us/j/6916422094...

Today, at 4 pm CET (It's still possilble to register for this free online talk on youth violence in Europe and beyond.)

Concern about youth violence in Europe has grown in recent years. How can we assess the situation? In this online talk, youth researcher Manfred Zentner will discuss current trends as well as prevention and intervention strategies. 📅 24/04/2025, 4-5 pm CET 🌍 online donau-uni.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

New open access article out in @geopoliticsjournal.bsky.social Beyond the internal-external policy divide: how the EU communicates on migration by Caterina Carta, @mattiasguazzini.bsky.social and me! Read here 👇and a short thread 🧵 below! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New publication out now at Refugee Survey Quarterly 📑 exploring the well-being of Syrian refugees in Austria and the dimensions of (non-)belonging. 👉 Read it here: doi.org/10.1093/rsq/... @demigkrems.bsky.social @judithkohlenberger.bsky.social

From May 26 to 28, 2025, a major conference on irregular migration will take place in Lower Saxony, focusing on scientific findings and options for evidence-based policies and practices: www.loccum.de/tagungen/2519/

Still three days to submit an abstract for the next Annual Meeting of the Austrian Economic Association. We look forward to receiving your contributions on the main theme “Migration as an economic reality” as well as on other economic issues. www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/mig/noeg-...

Folks, a *reminder*: there are still 4 weeks to submit your contribution to this year’s GLOBALCIT – Rainer Bauböck 2025 Essay Award on the Global State of Citizenship. Pls share with early career researchers or submit smt yourself if you are one and have an interest in citizenship. #MigCitSky

At the next DEMIG Online Talk on March 27, 2-3 pm CET, Fekadu Adugna Tufa, Professor of Social Anthropology in Addis Ababa, will discuss the diverse conditions of im/mobility that Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia are confronted with. Please join the event via this link donau-uni.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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The 11th Edition of our @IMISCOE Bulletin is out now!! 👀Take a look and learn about our recent achievements and research plans for the coming months! 💫 ➡️https://imiscoe.org/news-and-blog/bulletin/bulletin-11

The #IMISCOE2025 spring conference at the @unikrems.bsky.social is in full swing, with 26 panels, 3 keynotes & 2 roundtables on the topic of irregular migration. The booklet is available here donau-uni.ac.at/dam/jcr:1fe8... Tmrw is the final day, we hope to see many of you there, in person or online

We are pleased to announce that Isabel Ruiz (University of Oxford) & Çaglar Özden (The World Bank) will be the keynote speakers at this year's NOeG Annual Conference. We would also like to inform you that the cfp has been extended til March 31. ℹ️ All details at: www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/mig/noeg-...

Join us for a hybrid panel for PhDs on doing research with vulnerable groups on Monday March 17 1:30-3pm. Organized with @demigkrems.bsky.social in the context of IMISCOE’s Spring Conference. Open to all PhDs! Register here: forms.office.com/e/t1uXrne8GW

🌍 Which factors drive international migration aspirations vs. actual out-migration? In a new CMS article, Mathias Czaika and I explore different conjunctions of migration #drivers and #policies using #QCA and #MIGNEX data across 26 communities in 10 countries. 💫 Open access here: shorturl.at/li258

Join us next Thursday 20th of March for a discussion on the present and future of EU-MENA relations on migration 👇

You haven't yet registered for the upcoming IMISCOE Spring Conference on irregular migration (17-19 March)? Until Monday it's still possible to register for online or on-site participation (no fees). Join us and benefit from 2 keynotes, 2 roundtables and 26 panels www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/universit...

Join us for the next webinar in our joint series on irregular migration, which brings together expertise and insights from seven Horizon Europe projects ❔ Does irregular migration data shape policy-making in the EU? And public discourse? 🗓️ March 6 ⏰ 1-2:15 pm CET 📝 donau-uni.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Check out the new ECPR migration newsletter to make sure you don't miss out on any of the inspiring events coming up – including our next DEMIG Online Talk on 'How Afghan immigrants' cooperation with the US affects public attitudes towards immigration' tomorrow at 4pm (CET). ecpr.eu/news/news/de...

The next DEMIG talk will be given by Alex Braithwaite (@uarizona.bsky.social) on factors influencing attitudes towards immigration. What effect does information about immigrants' past and potential future contributions to the host country have? 🗓️ Feb 20 4-5 pm CET 📝 donau-uni.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Do you examine the topic of migration using economic methods and theories? Then why not present your work at the next Annual Meeting of the Austrian Economic Association? It will take place on Sept 23-24 2025 at @unikrems.bsky.social. The cfp is open til March 15: www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/mig/noeg-...