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Definitely! Especially with a very interesting workshop for the very start!

By providing an empirical case on immobility that does not easily fit into the voluntary/involuntary dichotomy, I argue for the need to look at the immobility outcome through the lens of a continuum of (in)voluntariness, rather than the involuntary-voluntary binary.

I do so by considering a specific case where people’s aspirations and capabilities are subject to restrictions imposed on emigration by their own state. To this end, I use family accounts of unrealized emigration from two emigration-restrictive contexts: communist Poland and the USSR. 3/

I show how the critique of the voluntary-involuntary binary expands to the study of immobility as an outcome of the migration decision-making process. 2/

This descriptive report presents the results of two survey experiments conducted in BE, DE, HU, NL, PL and TR on the perception of and justifications for the existing ethnic, racial, religious and origin-based inequalities in Europe. Any feedback would be more than welcome!

A short thread summarising the paper is available here: bsky.app/profile/zbru...