Migrant transnationalism (MITRA)
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Migrant transnationalism (MITRA)
@mitra-sc.bsky.social
MITRA is the standing committee on migrant transnationalism within IMISCOE, the world's largest network of scholars in the area of migration and integration
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
Book conversation: ‘Migrant transnationalism'
YouTube video by Peace Research Institute Oslo
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October 30, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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
October 27, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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/...
Transnational Relationships Between African Migrant Parents in Europe and Caregivers in Africa
Research shows the quality of the relationship between migrant parents and local caregivers is important for the care and wellbeing of migrants′ children who stay behind. Yet what exactly constitutes...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 17, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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🔥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...
Welcome to the new members of the IMISCOE PhD Academy! - IMISCOE
IMISCOE is the largest European network of scholars in the area of migration and integration. The focus is on comparative research and joint research projects.
www.imiscoe.org
October 3, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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.
October 9, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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
October 4, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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
September 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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!
September 19, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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
September 16, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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...
September 11, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Call for MITRA Board Members!As two of our members have stepped down,SC MITRA is looking for new board members who will be involved in organizing our activities.If interested, please send your motivation letter + CV to r.haagsman@maastrichtuniversity.nl by September 19
September 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Call for abstracts for the "Conference on Belongingness, Connectedness, and Embeddedness in Migrant and Refugee Entrepreneurship", 29-30 January 2026 in Bremen, Germany. More info here: www.iat.eu/en/appointme...
September 1, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Read the new article by Viorela Ducu, Iulia Elena Hossu, and Áron Telegdi-Csetri in Global Networks about collective, relational and processual sense of family well-being within Ukrainian and Moldovan transnational families: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
September 1, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Call for Papers for the 2026 IMISCOE Spring Conference “Governing and Experiencing Migration in Contentious Times” (16-18 March 2026 Liège, Belgium & Online). Deadline on the 5th September 2025. See here for more information: www.imiscoe.org/events/2393-...
August 27, 2025 at 7:45 PM
CfP for international workshop "Ukrainian Forced Migration, Transnational Family Processes and Co-Agency." Workshop will be held on 4.-5. of November 2025 in Cluj-Napoca. Deadline is 15. of August 2025. More info here:
August 13, 2025 at 6:20 PM
And that is a wrap from MITRA Standing Committee meeting! 👋
July 3, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Our MITRA PhD Representatives - Hilda Gustafsson and Yichi Zhang - organized their panel on transnational intimacies at
IMISCOE Annual Conference in Paris.
July 2, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Second MITRA Special Session on "Translocal Lives in Times of Conflict" with Benjamin Etzold and Marie Godin.
July 2, 2025 at 12:38 PM
First Special Session MITRA just finished! Marta Bivand Erdal and Özge Bilgili introduced their new book.
July 1, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Do you want to know more about new forms of technology-mediated diaspora humanitarianism? Read the new article about Congolese refugee community in Nairobi by
Marie Godinand Cadeau Heritier published in Fennia: fennia.journal.fi/article/view...
June 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
A new book "Migrant Transnationalism" by
Marta Bivand Erdal and Özge Bilgili is out! Book launch will be held at Annual IMISCOE Conference in Paris. See the content of the book here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
June 24, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Vacancy for a postdoc researcher in the ERC project ‘FeMMiWork: Women Migrants from the Northern Mediterranean and Work in Postwar Northwestern Europe’ at Maastricht University. The application deadline is September 1,2025.Look here: vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
Postdoctoral Researcher on Women Migrants in Postwar Germany
Postdoctoral Researcher on Women Migrants in Postwar Germany
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl
June 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
PhD vacancy at Maastricht University under the supervision of Mahardhika (Dhika) Sjamsoe’oed Sadjad on 'Sustaining Borders and Displacement Through Refugee Entrepreneurship.' Application deadline is August 31, 2025. More info here: vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
PhD position 'Sustaining Borders and Displacement Through Refugee Entrepreneurship'
PhD position 'Sustaining Borders and Displacement Through Refugee Entrepreneurship'
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl
June 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
New Special Issue "Transnationalism, Superdiversity and New Horizons: a Festschrift in Honour of Steven Vertovec" in Ethnic and Racial Studies was released! See more: tandfonline.com/toc/rers20/4...
June 19, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Two Ph.D. positions on transnational retirement at Utrecht University within ERC project RETIREWEL! Deadline for application on 15th of August, 2025. Read more here: www.uu.nl/en/organisat... and www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
June 18, 2025 at 11:33 AM