Tag: migration

Danish Institute for Human Rights: Migration & Human Rights Researcher (Denmark)

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Migration and Human Rights Researcher, Danish Institute for Human Rights, Denmark Deadline: 17 November 2025.

Migration and human rights is a rapidly developing field in both research and practice. The Danish Institute for Human Rights is now recruiting a researcher who can contribute to strengthening their profile and activities in this field, in academic research as well as in international programmes and projects.

They are particularly interested in a researcher with strong legal expertise in the protection of asylum-seekers’ and migrants’ rights; the impact of migration on civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights; a rights-based approach to migration governance including border control and monitoring mechanisms; EU and Danish regulation and policy in this area, including in relation to transfer and outsourcing of asylum-seekers, etc. to third States; and in the evolving jurisprudence from courts and UN and other supranational human rights mechanisms and procedures, including UNHCR policies and practice. Knowledge about countering of migrant smuggling and trafficking would also be relevant.

NTNU PhD Studentship: Social Work, International Migration, Refugee Studies (Norway)

“Studentships“PhD Candidate in Social work, with a focus on international migration and refugee studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. Deadline: 29 June 2025.

This three-years position is a part of the ANCHOR: Advancing Neighborhood, Community, and HOusing for the integration of Refugee families, an inter-disciplinary project funded under the NTNU’s strategic research area: Community. ANCHOR focuses on how housing and neighborhood environments can support refugee families’ wellbeing, social integration, and sense of belonging. This position will focus on Norwegian municipal contexts, examining how physical and social aspects of housing intersect with the everyday lives of refugee families with children.

ANCHOR investigates how entangled social, political, and environmental processes shape the housing experiences, wellbeing, and sense of belonging among refugee families in Norway. By focusing on non-linear and sometimes unexpected outcomes of policy, planning, and community design, the project aims to reveal how conventional approaches can inadvertently deepen uncertainties or, conversely, foster more inclusive forms of community life.

Challenging the traditional separation of social from material and environmental factors, ANCHOR takes a holistic and interdisciplinary approach, drawing on social and architectural anthropology, urban planning, social work, childhood studies, and public health. Central to this endeavor is an emphasis on intersectionality, which recognizes that factors such age, gender, cultural background, and generational dynamics can shape different layers of vulnerability or resilience within refugee families. Methodologically, the project combines creative, participatory methods with established qualitative techniques. This multi-method strategy seeks to co-create knowledge with refugee families, local communities, NGOs, and municipal authorities.

This project is a collaboration among the Departments of Architecture and Planning, Social Work and Public Health and Nursing, and it includes two PhD positions. The successful PhD candidate will work closely with their counterpart in the Department of Architecture and Planning. Norwegian and English are the main languages in use at the Department.

Constance Mbassi Manga: Language, Home, and Belonging in Migratory Contexts (Online)

EventsConstance Mbassi Manga will hold a virtual launch for her new book, Language, Home, and Belonging in Migratory Contexts, on 10 June 2025, at 7 pm GMT+1.

During the event, she will share key insights from the book, including:
🔹 A brief overview of Camfranglais
🔹 Why this topic matters now more than ever
🔹 Reflections on language, identity, and belonging in migratory contexts

There will also be time for comments and questions, to connect and discuss this topic.

👉🏾Click here to register: Event Registration Form

CFP Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana: 3 Special Issues on Migration/Diaspora Topics

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Call for 3 special issues of Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana on topics related to migration and/or diaspora. Deadlines: 30 June 2025.

1. Entrepreneurship and self-employment initiatives of migrants

The vast majority of migrant people, regardless of the reason for migration or the visa they (do not) hold, face the challenge of entering the labor market. Nowadays, the number of those migrating for economic reasons, to improve their wages or ensure a dignified life for their families through remittances, remains significant. Furthermore, even among those who migrate for other reasons – such as refuge or family reunification, for example – there is always a significant segment that will need to enter the labor market. This special issue is particularly interested in focusing on the entrepreneurship and self-sufficiency initiatives of migrant workers.

2. New Brazilian diasporas (Igor José de Renó Machado and Alexandre Branco-Pereira, guest editors)

Brazil is a country shaped by multiple migratory regimes, and emigration has been one of them since the 1980s. However, something shifted in the mid-2010s. While data on Brazilian emigration remains somewhat fragmented, it points to a striking figure: the Ministry of Foreign Affairs estimates that, by 2022, approximately 4.5 million Brazilians had left the country…If Brazilian emigration can now be regarded as the most significant migratory regime in contemporary Brazil—surpassing even the arrival of immigrants and refugees—scientific knowledge has yet to match its importance. There is relatively little academic output addressing what could be termed the “new Brazilian diasporas.” This special issue seeks to bring together studies focusing on the recent experiences of Brazilian emigration, in both traditional and emerging destinations. Its goal is to stimulate critical reflection on this phase of Brazil’s emigration history and to encourage new research on the contemporary Brazilian diaspora.

3. Migration Research: Logics, Practices, and Methodologies between Tradition and Transformation (Maria Catarina Chitolina Zanini, Yolanda López García, Asmara González Rojas, guest editors).

This issue aims to reflect on migration studies’ contemporary dynamics and histories in their academic and activist practices in knowledge production in these universes. It seeks to aggregate studies that contribute to our thinking on issues relevant to research practices, their modalities, publication, feedback, collaborative processes, and activism…To what extent can we or can we not, in a dialogue between different areas of knowledge, propose broad criteria of scientific objectivity or questions about scientificity or activism? Or even question the various forms of writing and formatting of studies. The aim is also to include studies that reflect on the ethical issues involved in producing knowledge about migrations and that present proposals for “ethical care” that encompass the different Human Sciences. Editors also wish to disseminate research that presents negotiated forms of feedback to the groups studied and studies produced and published collectively.

CFP Communication & Sport: Sport, Media, and Migration: A Cross-Cultural Perspective

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Call for submissions: Communication & Sport special issue: Sport, Media, and Migration: A Cross-Cultural Perspective. Deadline: 1 September 2025.

Special issue editors: Sean R. Sadri (University of Alabama), Mahdi Latififard (Tarbiat Modares University, Iran), and Lindsey Meân (Arizona State University).

This special issue aims to explore the intersection of sport, media, and migration, examining how these elements influence global migratory patterns, public discourse, and media representations of athletes, coaches, and other sports figures. The guest editors welcome submissions employing a variety of methodological approaches and theoretical frameworks from disciplines such as communication, sociology, media studies, cultural studies, and political science. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): race, identity, gender, nationalism, and the role of media in shaping sports migration narratives. Both qualitative and quantitative studies, as well as interdisciplinary perspectives, are encouraged.

CFP Chinese Journal of Communication: Transnational Migration To/From China

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Call for a special issue of Chinese Journal of Communication on Transnational Migration to/from China: The Role of Digital Platforms, Publics, and Policies. Deadline: 31 July 2025.

Issue editors: Saif Shahin, Mingyi Hou, and Sagnik Dutta (all at Tilburg University, the Netherlands)

This special issue of the Chinese Journal of Communication aims to expand our understanding of transnational migration in the digital age, especially as it relates to platforms, publics, and policies. It explores how digital platforms (Chinese and non-Chinese), their sociotechnical affordances, and the discourses they produce (or censor) bear upon transnational migration between China and various parts of the world, including Southeast Asia, Oceania, Africa, and Latin America, as well as North America, Europe and the rest of Asia. Editors are particularly interested in submissions that draw attention to the implications of digital technologies for migrant communities and the relations of power they (re)produce, user practices that work with or around digital affordances to achieve individual or collective goals, and national or supranational laws and regulations that shape digital industries and ecosystems and their impact on transnational migration.

Osnabrück U: Postdoc in Futures of Migration (Germany)

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Postdoc in Futures of Migration, Institute of Migration Research and Intercultural Studies, Osnabrück University, Germany. Deadline: 7 January 2025.

As part of the research area ‘Futures of Migration’ (FuturMig) funded by the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture, Osnabrück University is seeking to appoint a Postdoctoral Researcher.

The Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at Osnabrück University, the Center for Global Migration Research (CeMig) at the Georg August University Göttingen, the Center for Educational Integration (ZBI) at the University of Hildesheim, the Leibniz Institute for Educational Media, Georg Eckert Institute (GEI), Brunswig, and the Friedland Museum are cooperating in the Lower Saxony research area ‘FuturMig’ (2025–2029).

‘FuturMig’ deals with ideas and strategies for shaping the future of societies that are shaped by migration and diversity in political, media, and societal debates, fields of practice and migration research. ‘FuturMig’ is reviewing the academic state of the art, is planning the establishment of an international guest professorship and the development of a follow-up collaborative research initiative. ‘FuturMig’ focuses in particular on educational contexts – early childhood institutions, schools, universities, civil society initiatives, museums and memorials.

Arizona State U: Health at the Borders (USA)

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Associate Professor of Health at the Borders, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA. Deadline: open until filled (posted 18 October 2024).

The Hugh Downs School of Human Communication (HDSHC) and the School of Transborder Studies (STS) in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences on the Tempe Campus of Arizona State University invite applications for a full-time, tenured position as Associate Professor holding a joint appointment in the HDSHC and STS. Applicants’ scholarship and teaching should focus on health communication and southwest border issues. Salary will be competitive based on qualifications. They encourage applications from scholars who work at the intersection of health communication as it relates to migration, border-crossing, health disparities, patient-provider relationships, medical technologies, mental/behavioral wellbeing, resilience and quality of life, health campaigns, using AI to solve medical problems, and disrupting mis/disinformation that impacts health.

CFP Meth@Mig: Between Data and Dialogue: Focusing on Participants in Migration Research (Germany)

ConferencesCall for submissions: 4th Annual Meth@Mig Workshop: Between Data and Dialogue: Focusing on Participants in Migration Research, Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany, 3-4 April 2025. Deadline: 8 December 2024.

In migration research, as in social research more generally, the role of participants is critical in shaping both the data collected and the knowledge generated from it. Depending on the methodological approach and research question, participants may be seen as mere providers of information, or be involved as more active contributors and co-creators of knowledge. How researchers engage with participants profoundly influences the results, ethical considerations, and validity of studies. This also holds true with respect to long-established qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-mode approaches, but also considering methods building on artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and digital behavioral data, where the continuum may run from the collection of digital traces of individuals that are not even aware of being studied to their voluntary, informed data donations.

Therefore, this workshop will focus on the role that participants may play in any stage of the research cycle, spanning from a project’s design phase to the dissemination of its results. This workshop aims to facilitate a discussion on how different methodologies influence the role of participants and gain insight into the ethical challenges that arise when involving or excluding them at different stages.

Possible topics that might be addressed include (without being limited to them):

  • Scientific Quality: How does the role of participants in research have an impact on overall scientific quality, including validity and reliability of the data and research results, and the rigor of data collection, analysis, or interpretation?

  • Ethical Considerations: What kind of complex ethical responsibilities (e.g., who is responsible for protecting participants and avoiding potential harm) and complex power relations (e.g., persistence of the power dynamics even though participants are actively involved in research) arise depending on the role of participants in research?

  • Practical Issues: What practical issues arise if participants have varying levels of engagement in the research process, including questions of dataset ownership, data management and protection, and entitlement to authorship of research outputs?

  • Impact of Methodological Innovation: What new complexities arise with the use of emerging methodologies and data sources?

Organizers welcome contributions from any methodological school or angle (e.g., qualitative, survey-based, mixed, relying on digital trace data) that critically explore the role of participants in research, examining the ethical and methodological implications of treating participants as data providers versus involving participants as active collaborators in the research process. A clear methodological focus is required for all contributions.

Universität für Weiterbildung Krems: 3 Positions in Migration/Globalization (Germany)

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Multiple positions related to migration and globalisation, Universität für Weiterbildung Krems, Germany. Deadline: varies by position. 

Senior Scientist (postdoc), Department of Migration and Globalisation. Deadline 30 September 2024.

This search is for a Post-Doctoral Researcher interested in conducting independent research on ethical issues related to migration policy making. The topic should fit broadly within the thematic scope of the project The Ethics of Migration Policy Dilemmas. Candidates should submit a brief outline in their application defining the topic they want to research about and explaining in which way their topic relates to the aims of the Dilemmas project. In particular, they welcome applications by researchers that have recently finished their PhD and who want to use the time to publish one or two articles out of (or as a follow-up to) their dissertation work, as well as to prepare a new research proposal for external funding (for example by the Austrian Science Fund’s ESPRIT program, the Austrian Academy of Sciences’ APART program, or the European Union’s Marie Curie program).

Early Stage Researcher (PhD Student), Department of Migration and Globalisation. Deadline: 25 September 2024.

This position begins with a two-month Visiting Research Fellowship dedicated for drafting a PhD Proposal. Upon successful evaluation, it transitions into a three-year fixed position within the ERC Starting Grant project “MixedRivals”, funded by the EU. The PhD candidate will play a pivotal role in the MixedRivals project, primarily focusing on the data collection related to de facto (forced) migration policies, supporting qualitative interviews, and assisting with survey design and analysis. This position offers a unique opportunity to engage in cutting-edge research at the intersection of (forced) migration and conflict studies.

Project Research Associate, Research Lab Sustainable Cultural Heritage. Deadline: 1 October 2024.

The research associate will have the following tasks: to conduct research in the field of historical textiles and bookbinding techniques, focusing on conservation methods; develop and refine research charters, transitioning these into an electronic format; manage and safeguard research data, contributing directly to ongoing conservation projects; writing scientific texts and presenting the results; gain specialized expertise through research work, which will significantly enhance future career prospects; and participate in project coordination and management tasks as required.