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Laura Morosanu
@lauramorosanu.bsky.social
Reader in Sociology and migrationist @ Sussex University | Working on Transnational migration | Return | Youth mobility in Europe | Second generation | Associate Ed @JEMS and IEB member @ERS
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Thrilled to have been awarded a @leverhulme.bsky.social grant to explore what makes the second generation feel valued and included in the workplace. The project brings 'worth' to the centre of integration and compares children of European and non-European migrants in the UK. 3y postdoc coming soon!
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📢 Young Professionals with Migrant Parents - We want to hear from you!

Please help us circulate our call within your networks!

@lauramorosanu.bsky.social

#LeverhulmeTrust #UniversityofSussex #secondgeneration #migrantparents #workplacerecognition #youngprofessionals #workplaceinteractions #UK
November 13, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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🗣️BOOK CONVERSATION

💻Join this webinar for a conversation on the IMISCOE Short Reader on “Migrant Transnationalism”.
📅28 Oct 2025, 14-15 (CET)
🤝Co-organized by: @PRIOMigrationCentre, @PRIO, ERCOMER, @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social, @mitra-sc.bsky.social, and IMISCOE.
🔗More info: prio.org/events/9249
Book conversation: ‘Migrant transnationalism' – Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
What is the value of a transnational lens to understand the world at present? Join this webinar 28 Oct (14-15 CET) for a conversation on the IMISCOE Sh ...
www.prio.org
October 6, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Our call for study participants is out - please share with anyone who may be interested in taking part! bsky.app/profile/seli...
📢📢📢 Young Professionals with Migrant Parents - Want to Hear from You!

We're looking for participants!

Interested?

See details below.👇

@lauramorosanu.bsky.social #ResearchStudy #ShareYourStory #WorkplaceInclusion #YouthVoices #SecondGeneration #MigrantOriginYouthUK #UniversityofSussex
September 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
It’s been quite a journey but here we are. My paper w the wonderful Monica Serban is out. We look at how returnees view future migration from a temporal and life course perspective journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Then and Now: Romanian Returnees Contemplating Future Migration - Laura Moroşanu, Monica Șerban, 2025
Despite the emerging consensus that return does not necessarily bring an end to mobility, returnees’ future migration aspirations have received limited attentio...
journals.sagepub.com
May 19, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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We, at the Dept of Psychology @micireland.bsky.social currently have Departmental Assistantship Funding available for potential postgraduate research students. If you're interested in working in the department, and doing qualitative social psychological research with me on transnational families ⬇️
May 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Lovely to see my project featured in @leverhulme.bsky.social s February newsletter! bsky.app/profile/leve...
The Trust's February newsletter is out! Read about the curious case of clouds and climate, Ignatius Sancho and the Black Enlightenment, what makes the second generation feel valued and included in the workplace, and much more:
leverhulme.ac.uk/newsletter
March 3, 2025 at 9:59 AM
One week to apply for this 3y postdoc - deadline 5 Feb! bsky.app/profile/laur...
📢Come work with me! 3 year postdoc on my new @LeverhulmeTrust project exploring how the second generation establish a sense of worth and belonging in professional workplaces in the UK - DL 5 Feb, please share jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/8450715f...
Research Fellow Ref: 40025 (Fixed Term) - Job page - University of Sussex Job Search
jobs.sussex.ac.uk
January 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Call for Expressions of Interest for a co-chair for the Standing Committee on Forced Migration and Refugees from and/or based in the Global South.
We aim for global representation, and are thus looking for another co-chair. Message us for further details, and how to apply for this volunteer role.
January 21, 2025 at 10:57 AM
📢Come work with me! 3 year postdoc on my new @LeverhulmeTrust project exploring how the second generation establish a sense of worth and belonging in professional workplaces in the UK - DL 5 Feb, please share jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/8450715f...
Research Fellow Ref: 40025 (Fixed Term) - Job page - University of Sussex Job Search
jobs.sussex.ac.uk
January 15, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Sharing my new open-access article on "The limits and possibilities of segmented assimilation theory". www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The limits and possibilities of segmented assimilation theory
Segmented assimilation in its current U.S.-centric incarnation is more valuable as a sensitizing concept that suggests where analysts should look rather than as a transportable causal theory of int...
www.tandfonline.com
January 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Thrilled to have been awarded a @leverhulme.bsky.social grant to explore what makes the second generation feel valued and included in the workplace. The project brings 'worth' to the centre of integration and compares children of European and non-European migrants in the UK. 3y postdoc coming soon!
December 18, 2024 at 11:04 AM
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📢The Spanish government has opened the call for 494 Ramón y Cajal 5-year postdoctoral fellowships, open to people anywhere with PhDs between Jan 1 2014 & Dec 31 2022. They need to apply with a research group. We'd love to host someone interested in networks & social cohesion/inclusion/polarization.
December 17, 2024 at 11:33 AM
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there is no empirical relationship between a teacher's accent and their ability to teach. but there is a long-standing ideological relationship which frames non-dominant and non-standardised accents as signs of imagined pedagogical illegitimacy. @bjse.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“Miss, can you speak English?”: raciolinguistic ideologies and language oppression in initial teacher education
Racism is pervasive within the lives of racially minoritised pre-service teachers in England, but little work has explored how perceptions about language feature here. Based on interviews and works...
www.tandfonline.com
December 13, 2024 at 6:14 AM
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These writing-up grants are of huge value to recipients who are struggling to fund the last stages of a PhD. If you're eligible, do consider applying.

See the web pages of the IJURR Foundation (long supported by @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social scholars!) for other fantastic opportunities too.

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The IJURR Foundation 2025 Writing up grant applications are now open, for PhD students from low- and middle-income countries who are writing up their final thesis. Detailed information on eligibility & applications is available here: www.ijurr.org/ijurr-founda...
Writing-Up Grants - IJURR
IJURR Foundation promotes urban and regional research. Within this broad field it is particularly keen to encourage an understanding of the interconnection between social, economic and political proce...
www.ijurr.org
December 10, 2024 at 5:12 PM
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Immigration Reading List: Books to Broaden Your Perspective on Migration (2024)

Looking for a good book about immigration? 📚 Thanks to many reader contributions, we’ve got you covered with brand new book recommendations.

austinkocher.substack.com/p/immigratio...
Immigration Reading List: Books to Broaden Your Perspective on Migration (2024)
Looking for a good book about immigration? 📚 Thanks to many reader contributions, we’ve got you covered with brand new book recommendations. Plus: sign up for the new Immigration Book Club online.
austinkocher.substack.com
November 26, 2024 at 12:43 PM
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November 27, 2024 at 3:21 PM
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As more people join this platform and migcitsky, we'd like to reintroduce ourselves 👋 We welcome submissions about all migration themes from anywhere in the world. You can submit in any style and referencing system (we're "format free") and reference lists don't count towards our 10k word limit.
November 25, 2024 at 5:05 PM