Our Migrant Transnationalism (MITRA) Standing Committee Board member, Hilda Gustafsson, successfully defended her dissertation thesis! Congratulations!

MITRA Standing Committee is organizing a webinar on Transnational Engagement on 9 October 2026, from 10:00 to 11:30 CET. Everyone is welcome to attend and participate. You can find the abstracts here: lnkd.in/d7E5vyzU. To receive link (Zoom), write to ludek.jirka@uhk.cz

Second call for MITRA Special Session"Between Home and Abroad: Diaspora Politics in Transnational Perspective" at 24th IMISCOE Conference in Brussels! We welcome abstracts addressing different facets of transnational diaspora politics.Submission by 22 September 2026.See the call!

Call for SC MITRA Special Session "Mapping Data Sources for Migrant Transnationalism Research" is out!This workshop aims to contribute to mapping the current data landscape for migrant transnationalism research.Submission of abstracts by 22th September 2026.Read the call below. @imiscoe.bsky.social

Today, the final conference of the COST Action CA21143 -TraFaDy on Transnational Families takes place in Tallinn, Estonia. Our Board member, Benjamin Etzold, present insights on "Disruptions and Reconfigurations of Transnational Families amidst Violent Conflict."

Read the Special Issue of International Migration entitled “Imagining Migratory Futures: The Transnational Chain of Actors in Migration Information Campaigns Between Africa and Europe,” edited by Valentina Mazzucato, Pape Sakho, Djamila Schans. Read here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

Read the article by Huynh Quoc Tuan about care circulation. Rather than a harmonious exchange, care circulation operates as a negotiated and inequitable practice that provides partial relief without challenging patriarchal care structures. Read here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Beyond One‐Way Chains: Care Circulation Within the Transnational Families of Vietnamese Marriage Immigrant Women in Taiwan

This article investigates care circulation within the transnational families of Vietnamese marriage immigrant women in Taiwan. Drawing on interviews with 30 immigrant women and 10 of their Vietnamese...

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Interesting PhD opportunities at Protestant University of Applied Sciences in Ludwigsburg. Deadline by 8th September, 2026.

Read a recently published article by Coline Garcia, Patrick Sakdapolrak, Stephanie Wehner and Marion Borderon. They apply a translocal social resilience framework to analyse migration outcomes among 100 household–migrant pairs in Ghana: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Impacts of Migration as Adaptation: Assessing Translocal Social Resilience in Eastern, Northern and Greater Accra Regions, Ghana

Migration is increasingly recognised as an adaptive strategy to enhance social resilience amid environmental and socioeconomic stressors. However, systematic assessments of its impact on both migrant...

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The latest issue of Slovak Ethnology, focusing on methodological challenges in researching transnational families, is out now. Read it here: www.sav.sk?lang=en&doc=...

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Deadline is approaching! Send you proposal on workshop ‘Studying Transnational Family Relations through Historical Sources’ by 10 August 2026.

What does it mean transnational family? This article analyses how concept is applied in academic works published between 2018 and mid-2023. Authors identify five distinct patterns of conceptual use. Read here: open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/6-2...

Meeting of MITRA Board members at the Annual IMISCOE Conference in Girona. It was wonderful to come together. Our long-serving Board member, Özge Bilgili, has stepped down from the Board.Özge,we wish you endless success in your academic career and happiness in your personal life.

CfP on workshop ‘Studying Transnational Family Relations through Historical Sources’. Workshop, organized by MITRA and the Malmö Institute for Migration Studies (MIM), will be held in Malmö (Sweden) on 3-5 March 2027. Deadline August 10, 2026. See info below for more details.

The Annual MITRA Standing Committee meeting at the 23rd IMISCOE Annual Conference will take place on June 30 from 18:30 to 19:30 at the Faculty of Education and Psychology, Ground Floor, Rooms 19–20. We are also looking for new PhD representatives. Everyone is welcome!

The volume "Translocal Lives in Times of Conflict has finally been released! Book is co-edited by Benjamin Etzold and Marie Godin and published in the @imiscoe.bsky.social Research Series with Springer. Download it freely here - lnkd.in/dyvTNPMd

🤩 This is your chance to be part of the IMISCOE PhD Academy! The call for applications for the admission of new members to the IMISCOE PhD Academy is now open and closes on 31 August 2026. 💡 Check the full call here: www.imiscoe.org/training-phd... 📅 Deadline: 31 August 2026

🌐 In one week, we will come together in Girona and online for the 2026 IMISCOE Annual Conference! We recommend checking the pages of our Standing Committees to keep up to date with their activities during the conference: @methatmig.bsky.social @reflexivities.bsky.social @migcitpol.bsky.social

Save the date for MITRA second special session! Jill Ahrens and Hilda Gustafsson are organizing the workshop “Transnationalism, Community Engagement and the Co-Production of Knowledge” at the 23rd IMISCOE Conference in Girona (Wed, 1 July, 9:00-10:30 on-site).

MITRA Special Session at 23rd Annual IMISCOE Conference in Girona "Understanding transnational family life through historical and other sources"(June 30, 10:50–12:20).Chaired by Karlijn Haagsman and Brigitte Suter, the session explores historical transnational family engagements.

There are 20 Migrant Transnationalism (MITRA) sessions at the 2026 IMISCOE Annual Conference in Girona, taking place from 29 June to 2 July 2026. Sessions are on-site and online. You are warmly invited!

New MITRA Board member 👏 !Jill is a Senior Researcher in the Department of Interdisciplinary Social Science at Utrecht University and a Visiting Researcher at Radboud University on Migrant Inclusion (RUNOMI). Jill co-edited book Onward Migration and Multi-Sited Transnationalism.

🚨 Opportunity alert! The Department for Migration and Globalisation at the University for Continuing Education Krems invites recent graduates in a social science discipline to apply for a short-term research fellowship. 📅 Deadline: June 15th 💡 Full call here: www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/universit...

Visiting Research Fellowship for a prospective PhD student in Migration Studies with a focus on informal work

We invite early-stage researchers to apply for the Ernst Mach Grant – worldwide, funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research. This prestigious fellowship supports young ...

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🚨Opportunity alert! The Department for Migration and Globalisation at the Universität für Weiterbildung Krems accepts applications for two vacancies PhD student | Deadline: 29 June 2026 Postdoctoral Researcher in Migration Studies | Deadline: 24 August 2026 👉More: www.donau-uni.ac.at/de/universit...

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Hier finden Sie alle aktuellen Stellenausschreibungen der Universität für Weiterbildung Krems.

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📣 REMINDER | Call for papers Submit paper proposals to the 2027 IMISCOE Spring Conference, organised by @torontomet.bsky.social and @globalmigrationtmu.bsky.social, exploring the digital transformations shaping migration governance and migration research! 💡More: www.imiscoe.org/news-and-blo...

🚨Opportunity alert Research Associate (Post-doc, f/m) in Regional Studies, Migration Studies, or Communication Sciences at the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER). 📆 Deadline: June 28th, 2026 at midnight CET 🔗Check the full job description here: jobs.liser.lu/job/Esch-sur...

📣 Hard-to-Reach: Applied Research Methods with Hidden, Marginal and Excluded Populations This Summer School introduces applied research methods for conducting research with marginalized, hidden, and excluded groups. 📍University of Oxford, Nuffield College 📅24-28 August 2026 🔗 hard2reachresearch.org

📣 Call for Expressions of Interest – Postdoctoral Fellowships Researchers can apply for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Department of Intercultural Mobility Studies, Jagiellonian University in Kraków. 📅 Deadline: 15 June 2026 👉 More: ism.uj.edu.pl/en_GB/depart...

Marie Godin, Giorgia Dona and their colleagues published article in Qualitative Inquiry. Article demonstrates the value of creative visual methodologies across sites and borders through long-term, interdisciplinary collaboration. Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

CfP for Special Issues of the new journal Transnational Mobility. The Special Issues are dedicated to “Voluntary Forms of (Im)mobility" and "Migration within Current Global Transformations: Aspirations, Constraints, and Unequal Choices.” More info here: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/tran...