Reflections on #Migration Beyond Economic Reductionism: Has Migration Changed Faster Than Migration Theory? By Hamid EL GHEZIOUI, & Abdelfttah ZAHIDI sites.google.com/view/isa31ne...

RC-31 Newsletter June2026 - 11: REFLECTION (Early careet)

11. Reflection on migration (Early career/ Graduate student category)

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Reflections on #Migration Who Becomes Boundless? Migration, Privilege, and Entrepreneurship in a Multipolar World, by Manashi Ray sites.google.com/view/isa31ne...

RC-31 Newsletter June2026 - 10: REFLECTIONS (Senior researcher)

Section 10: REFLECTIONS ON MIGRATION (SENIOR RESEARCHERS)

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Reflections on Migration The Politics of “Unwelcome”?: Being Single, Migrant and Male, by Gökce Yurdakul sites.google.com/view/isa31ne...

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Reflection on Migraiton by Ruttiya Bhula-or Migration, Care, and Dignity in Ageing Societies sites.google.com/view/isa31ne...

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Read our Reflection on Migration Disruptive Transitions: Why We Need to Study Immigrant Legalization as a Process, by Asst. Prof. Dr. Deisy Del Real sites.google.com/view/isa31ne...

RC-31 Newsletter June2026 - 10: REFLECTIONS (Senior researcher)

Section 10: REFLECTIONS ON MIGRATION (SENIOR RESEARCHERS)

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Read our Reflection on Migration A research agenda – beyond the “Idyll” cliché by Prof. Dr. Eduardo Barberis, Associate Prof. Dr. Tiziana Caponio, Prof. Dr. Ruth McAreavey Insights from a new Handbook on Migration in Small Towns and Rural Areas. sites.google.com/view/isa31ne...

RC-31 Newsletter June2026 - 10: REFLECTIONS (Senior researcher)

Section 10: REFLECTIONS ON MIGRATION (SENIOR RESEARCHERS)

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Lifetime Recognition blogs.uni-bielefeld.de/blog/soziolo... A colloquium in honor of Thomas Faist’s retirement was held at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) to recognize his long-standing scholarly contributions to the fields of transnationalism, citizenship& migration studies.

Congratulations to Elena Chernyak for winning a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to the Slovak Republic (2026–27)! “From Arrival to Inclusion: Migration and #Integration in the U.S. and #Slovakia,” examines how immigration policies, institutions, community programs &public attitudes influence

#ISA_RC31_New_Book Congrats to A.S. Sandhya! Agents of migration: Institutional embeddedness of labour brokerage in Nepal. Palgrave Macmillan Singapore. doi.org/10.1007/978-... This book examines the growing role of migration intermediaries& labour migration agents in contemporary labour mobility.

#ISA_RC31_New_Book Congratulations to Y Sadovskaya! Sadovskaya, Y. (2026). Kitaisky trud i biznes v Kazakhstane v 1991–2025: Nadolgo ili navsegda? [Chinese labor and business in Kazakhstan in 1991–2025: For long haul or permanent?]. Almaty: Service Press. Excerpt: sites.google.com/view/isa31ne...

#ISA_RC31_New_Book Congrats to Prema A. Kurien! Claiming citizenship: Race, religion, and political mobilization among new Americans. Oxford Univ Press. doi.org/10.1093/oso/... The book focuses on Indian American civic&political activism in the U.S. public sphere around U.S.- &India-based issues.

Claiming Citizenship: Race, Religion, and Political Mobilization among New Americans

Abstract. Claiming Citizenship focuses on Indian American civic and political activism in the U.S. public sphere around U.S.-based and India-based issues.

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#ISA_RC31_New_Book Congratulations to Allen J. Kim & Johanna O. Zulueta! Ageing and transnational lives: Negotiating care, mobility, and belonging. Palgrave Macmillan. doi.org/10.1007/978-... This book explores the complex intersections of #ageing, migration, and #transnational_family life.

#ISA_RC31_New_book Congrats! John Marnell , B Camminga , Barbara Bompani and Kamau Wairuri (eds) (2026). East African #queer and #trans displacements. Bloomsbury Academic. doi.org/10.5040/9781... The first dedicated #OpenAccess collection examining #LGBTQI+ displacement across #EastAfrica.

#ISA_RC31_New_book Congrats! Bauschke-Urban, C., & Dedgjoni, D. (Eds.). (2025). Higher education and student mobilities from the Global South: Exploring student motivations, experiences, and outcomes. Routledge. doi.org/10.4324/9781...

Higher Education and Student Mobilities from the Global South | Carola

This interdisciplinary collection explores student mobilities from the Global South, focusing on how class, ethnicity, and gender influence decisions,

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A new book from #RC31 member! Congrats! Barberis, E., Caponio, T., & McAreavey, R. (Eds.). (2026). Handbook on #migration in small towns and rural areas. This multidisciplinary Handbook examines intra- and international migration in small towns and rural areas. www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/han...

Handbook on Migration in Small Towns and Rural Areas

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The Call for Abstracts! Submit to #RC31 Sociology #Migration sponsored sessions: isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc20... Abstract submission for ISA World Congress of #Sociology ( #Gwangju, #Korea, 4–10 July 2027) is now open! Submit from 3 August to 14 October 2026. #ISAWCS27

#ISARC31 December 2026 Winter Newsletter: Submissions Now Open! Welcoming announcements, recent publications, cfps, conferences, research projects, awards, and other updates for the forthcoming Dec 2026 #SociologyofMigration Newsletter. Please submit by 15 Dec 2026 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#cfp #SpecialIssue: “Mediating Migration: Representation, Inequality, and the Politics of Difference in Contemporary Communication Environments” Media and Communication is inviting contributions to SI, Full call and submission information: www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...

Future Issues | Media and Communication

Media and Communication is an international peer-reviewed open access journal dedicated to a wide variety of basic and applied research in communication and its related fields.

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#cfp #Special_Issue: “Networks of Impact: Leveraging Social Capital and Social Networks for the Social Integration and Well-Being of #Immigrants” Social Sciences is inviting manuscripts examining the roles of social capital and social networks in immigrants’ social integration and well-being.

The Call for Abstracts for The XXI ISA World Congress of #Sociology ( #Gwangju, #Korea, 4–10 July 2027) is now open and RC31 has exciting panels for you! Submit from 3 August to 14 October 2026. #ISAWCS27 #ISARC31 #migrationsociology #immigration www.isa-sociology.org/isa-events/x...

June / July 2026 issue of the ISA RC31 Newsletter is out! See the link below for - Recent books & pubs - Conference/workshop announcements - Research projects & initiatives - Cfp and other opportunities - News & activities from members sites.google.com/view/isa31ne... #sociology #migrationstudies

RC-31 Newsletter June2026

From the President

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Congratulations to Manashi Ray, #RC31 Member & Treasurer, for the publication of her book, Becoming Boundless: Indian Transnational Entrepreneurs in the Global Economy! #sociology #migrationstudies #sociologyofmigration

TWO DAYS left! ⏰ CALL FOR SESSIONS #migration #sociology We invite #ISA_RC31 members to serve as Session Organizers (deadline June 25, 2026) for #ISAWCS27 RC31 program is “Mobility and Displacement in a Global Context” & will explore the critical role of migration in shaping our contemporary world

@isa-rc31.bsky.social The ISA RC31 Sociology of Migration call for sessions is posted on the RC31 webpage. See: www.isa-sociology.org/en/research-...

@isa-rc31.bsky.social The ISA RC31 Sociology of Migration call for sessions is posted on the RC31 webpage. See: www.isa-sociology.org/en/research-... #ISA_RC31 for reposting www.isa-sociology.org/en/research-... @isa-rc31.bsky.social

@isa-rc31.bsky.social Call for Contributions for the June ISA RC31 Migration Newsletter! Share your recent publications, research updates, events, reflections, or relevant activities with our community. Submit by 15 June 2026 to this URL: forms.gle/YW1SVwAH57Na... @isa-rc31.bsky.social #ISA_RC31

RC31 congratulates our members on winning awards from Eastern Sociological Society! Phi Hong Su (Williams College) won Public Sociology Award (Pre-Tenure), jointly with Carolina Bank Muñoz Rianka Roy (Wake Forest University@riankaroy.bsky.social) won Sociological Forum Inaugural Author Award

We are please to announce that the section call for panels and papers for LASA 2026 (Paris, France, May 26-30, 2026) is open. More information at: sections.lasaweb.org/sections/int... @lasabluesky.bsky.social | @asamigration.bsky.social | @isa-rc31.bsky.social

Thank you, RC31 members, for attending the Business Meeting at the ISA Forum in Rabat, Morocco! Here are some photos from the day #sociology #migration #SociologyOfMigration #MigrationStudies

#RC31_Award #best_book in #migration studies Sharon M. Quinsaat’s Insurgent Communities, published by @uchicagopress.bsky.social, provides a sweeping history of #Filipino transnational social #activism in the #Netherlands and US from 1970s to the present day. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Insurgent Communities

Sociologist Sharon M. Quinsaat sheds new light on the formation of diasporic connections through transnational protests.  When people migrate and settle in other countries, do they automatically form ...

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