by Maria Shaidrova “If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from his angle as well as your own.”  – Henry Ford There is no better way to understand the turbulences of migration trajectories than to experience them yourself. […]

Brazil and Europe’s control of refugee’s family migration by Patrícia Nabuco Martuscelli States recognize the right to family and family life of all human beings. However, at the same time, they use different tactics to limit family reunification. So on the one hand, all human beings have a recognized right to family; on the other, […]

The first blog in a series about studying nationalism and national identity by Marina Lazëri Studying nationalism and national identity has become an academic discipline in its own right. That is no surprise. Nationalism and national identity remain among the most relevant categories for organising daily life and therefore lend themselves to being scrutinized by […]

by Domiziana Turcatti I found out about the IMISCOE PhD Network during the 15th annual IMISCOE conference in Barcelona. It wasn’t really clear to me what it was about. It is only last year, during the 16th annual IMISCOE conference in Malmo that I discovered the several working groups of the IMISCOE PhD Network run […]

by Natalie Bennett This month we had the pleasure of talking to Dr Lucy Mayblin, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Sheffield about her new book ‘Impoverishment and Asylum: Social Policy as Slow Violence’ and the importance of history in contemporary migration research. Grab a coffee and enjoy this one-off long read. Congratulations […]

by Cláudia Araujo It is hard to avoid the temptation of writing a balance of the previous decade when you are given the opportunity of being the author of the first blog post of 2020, and I will indeed not be able to escape it. The 2010s brought unexpected developments. It was a decade stained […]

by Thea Rabe Young Afghans who have had their asylum claim rejected in Norway, have been disappearing from reception centres and absconding from Norwegian authorities in large numbers in recent years. In 2017, nearly 500 young asylum seekers were reported missing from reception centres in Norway (Clayton & Gupta, 2019). What happens to these young […]

by Natalie Bennett Interdisciplinary PhDs are becoming increasingly common, particularly those which are based on a topic that spans many research fields. For example, PhDs in migration studies often span multiple disciplines, such as sociology, geography, demography, politics, health and others. At the time of writing, a quick search of a popular website for finding […]

by Luděk Jirka Thirty years after the fall of the Iron Curtain, differences between the East and West of Europe still exist which often disqualify the “Easterners.” Discrepancies are structural and economical, with consequences for doctoral students. In Western Europe doctoral students are able to publish more, they are able to attend more conferences and […]