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CERC Migration @cercmigration.bsky.social · 1d

Excited to share that the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies has released a special issue: "Decentring Migration Governance: The Role of Narratives." Featuring contributions from several CERC Migration Researchers. 🔗: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · 5d

Our call for Special Issues is now live! We welcome collections that advance theoretical debates, offer comparative insight, and push methodological boundaries. Deadline: 15 December 2025. Questions: get in touch with @mkoinova.bsky.social. Details: academic.oup.com/migration/pa...

2025 Call for Special Issue Proposals

Deadline: 15 December 2025 Migration Studies is now accepting Special Issue proposals. The journal typically publishes one call for special issues pe

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Sabrina J. Mayer @sabrinajmayer.bsky.social · 7d

Me & my very able former colleague and now doctoral candidate Lisa Walter (not on Bluesky yet) just published a new article in @ersjournal.com
We examine how discrimination shapes immigrants and their descendants’ trust in the police in Germany.
👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Beyond police encounters: everyday racism and trust in the police

Trust in the police is essential for democratic legitimacy, yet it is declining across Western Europe. Immigrants and their descendants, who face disproportionate levels of discrimination, report p...

www.tandfonline.com

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Methods in Migration Research (Meth@Mig - IMISCOE) @methatmig.bsky.social · 7d

The wait is over! We have published the call for contributions for the 5th Annual Meth@Mig workshop!

Visit: t1p.de/ebe7f

"Methodological Approaches in Cross-Cultural and Cross-National (Migration) Research"

Where?👉Doha (Qatar)
When? 👉 2026/03/30-31

Subm. deadline: 2025/11/07

#MethAtMigWS

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Andrew Geddes @andrewpgeddes.bsky.social · 6d

🚀 Applications are now open for the 2026 Migration Policy Centre Winter Academy

⭐ Fair Work and Safe Opportunities for People on the Move ⭐
🗓️ February 2-6 2026
🇮🇹 Florence, Italy

All the relevant application information can be found here: exed.eui.eu/open-courses...

EUI Executive EducationMigration Winter Academy: Fair work and safe opportunities for people on the move

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GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · 7d

🚨 Webinar Alert 🚨

Join us for the online launch of the new Migrant Electoral Rights (MER) Dataset, the most comprehensive global dataset on migrant suffrage to date 🌐

📅 Oct 15 | 17:00 CEST
📍 Online
🔗 Register www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

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Sam D. Schmid @samdschmid.bsky.social · 13d

🚨A a fantastic new resource for migration and democracy scholars! Congrats to @globalcit.bsky.social @sumpierrez.bsky.social @wegschaider.bsky.social for this massive effort!

cc @migcitizenapsa.bsky.social @migcitpol.bsky.social @mpc-eui.bsky.social @ecpr-migration.bsky.social @mpimmg.bsky.social

GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · 13d

Explore the new GLOBALCIT Migrant Electoral Rights (MER) Dataset ❗🌐

🌍 165 countries (1960–2020)
📊 488 indicators
🗳️ voting & candidacy rights of non-citizen residents + non-resident citizens
🏛️ Differentiates election type (legislative, executive, referendum) & level

📥: tinyurl.com/yv37nj7m

Migrant Electoral Rights (MER) Dataset - Globalcit

Suffrage is a central element of democracy. Over time, electoral rights have increasingly become available to migrants—both as non-citizen residents and as non-resident citizens. However, existing dat...

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Valentin Feneberg @vfeneberg.bsky.social · Jun 13

🚨Call for Papers🚨

THE ROLE OF LAW AND COURTS IN MIGRATION POLITICS

📆Workshop 14-15 Nov 25 @leuphana.bsky.social
📣Keynote: Pablo Ceriani Cernadas, Vice-Chair of the #UN Migrant Workers Committee
⏱️Deadline: 31 Jul 25
🚂Travel and accommodation costs covered

⬇️More info & full CfP⬇️
shorturl.at/iE1zA

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ecpr-migration.bsky.social @ecpr-migration.bsky.social · Aug 29

🚨Join the last panels of our sg @Thessaloniki @ecpr.bsky.social:

➡️ P291 Migrants’ Political Rights, Attitudes and Behaviours, (08:30-10:15), Floor: 0, Room: Wing A 105 (Polytechnic School).
➡️ P294 Migration and Political Discourses, (15:45-17:30), Floor: 0, Room: Wing A 105 (Polytechnic School).

ecpr-migration.bsky.social @ecpr-migration.bsky.social · Aug 28

If you are @Thessaloniki, you’re invited to our Standing Group #Business #Meeting!

🗓 Thu 28 Aug 2025 • 17:45–18:45 (EEST)
📍 Polytechnic School — Floor 0, Wing A 105

We’ll discuss next #activities and our upcoming #elections!
➡️ see you there!

#ECPR #StandingGroup #BusinessMeeting

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Daniela Vintila @danielavintila.bsky.social · Aug 26

Looking forward to seeing many of you at the #ECPR Conference in Thessaloniki!

Join us for:
- Panels in Section S30 International Migration: Policies and Practices, ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
- Business Meeting Standing Group Migration & Ethnicity (Thursday, 17:45, Room WingA 105, Polytechnic School)

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ecpr-migration.bsky.social @ecpr-migration.bsky.social · Aug 27

🚨 Happening now!

Sessions @ Polytechnic School (Floor 0, Wing A 105):
🎯 08h30–10h15: P480 ‘Vulnerability, Productivity: Tracing Deservingness’ (link: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...)
🎯 15h45–17h30: P479 ‘Migration Crisis in Europe amid a Polycrisis: Policy Paths & Inclusion’ (link: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...)

The Nexus Between Vulnerability and Productivity: Tracing the Notions of Deservingness

European Consortium for Political Research

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ecpr-migration.bsky.social @ecpr-migration.bsky.social · Aug 26

13:30–15:15
P176 Attitudes Towards Migration (Wing A 105) (link: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...)
P298 Migration in Urban Contexts (Wing A 301) (link: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...)

ecpr-migration.bsky.social @ecpr-migration.bsky.social · Aug 26

Happening now!
📅 #ecpr2025 – Tuesday 26/08 (Thessaloniki)
Join our Section S30 panels on #International #Migration👇

10:45–12:30
P297 Migration Governance & Borders (Wing A 301) (link: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...)
P465 Ambiguities of Temporary Protection (Wing A 105) (link: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...)

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ecpr-migration.bsky.social @ecpr-migration.bsky.social · Aug 6

🚨vacancy alert 👇

Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social · Jul 21

Would you like to work at CMR @UniWarszawski? We are currently hiring two post-docs and a PhD student interested in political remitting in Poland and Spain (post-doc and student) or news consumption and populism (post-doc) 👇
#Migration #Academic #Job
migracje.uw.edu.pl/job-offers/

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Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social · Jul 30

Check out this new paper by @zbrunarska.bsky.social 👇

Zuzanna Brunarska @zbrunarska.bsky.social · Jul 30

In a new @nationalitiesp.bsky.social paper, I address the question of the distinction between voluntary and involuntary immobility under emigration restrictions. 1/ #migrationresearch #sociology doi.org/10.1017/nps.2025.10088

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CERC Migration @cercmigration.bsky.social · Jul 31

In the increasingly mobile world, those who stay behind play a vital role in maintaining, developing, and transforming their communities from within. The latest TMCIS #WorkingPaper argues staying put is an active, strategic choice — not passive inaction. 🔗 www.torontomu.ca/content/dam/...

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Department for Migration and Globalisation @demigkrems.bsky.social · Jun 24

Join us at the MIrreM final conference:
📆 11 September 2025, 9 AM – 2 PM
🌍 Residence Palace, Brussels & online
ℹ️ bit.ly/3GiuKKG

We will discuss:
❓ How can we measure irregular migration?
❓ What are the policy responses to irregular migration?
❓ What is the impact of regularisation policies?

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Animated GIF showing the word 'MIRREM' with a gradient effect transitioning from light blue to dark blue. Below it, the text reads 'Measuring Irregular Migration' in white font against a solid blue background. Information on the MIrreM research project is available at: https://irregularmigration.eu/

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European Consortium for Political Research @ecpr.bsky.social · Aug 5

📣 Renewal period for ECPR Standing Group & Research Network memberships is now open

Don't lose out on the benefits & opportunities that our groups provide buff.ly/cIqNVCy

⏳ Renew by Tue 30 Sep

Deadline: Tuesday 30 September

European Consortium for Political Research

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Klaudia Wegschaider @wegschaider.bsky.social · Jul 9

📝🧵 New Publication ✨

My paper on multi-option referendums is now available open access in @cpsjournal.bsky.social

If you are interested in referendum design and/or immigrant enfranchisement and/or multi-method work, read on...

Abstract: Is voting behaviour in referendums impacted by having similar proposals on the same topic? Drawing on the literature on the compromise effect, I argue that support for a proposal is higher if it is presented alongside a more extreme version. Empirically, I apply this argument to the substantive topic of electoral rights for immigrants—a contemporary frontier of democratisation. First, I test the argument with an original survey experiment fielded in the United States. Second, I delve into the practical relevance of the topic by focusing on Swiss immigrant enfranchisement referendums. Two case studies complement a subsequent analysis of voting data. The results of the experiment and the observational analysis both support the idea that the compromise effect shapes voting behaviour in simultaneous referendums. These findings call on scholars to consider the compromise effect in the study of popular votes and political decision-making more generally.

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European Consortium for Political Research @ecpr.bsky.social · Jul 29

📣 #ecprjs26 is calling for Workshop proposals
📆 Joint Sessions of Workshops, 7 – 10 April 2026
@polsciuibk.bsky.social
✅ Must be a full #ECPRMember affiliate
👥 #ECPRGroups may endorse a Workshop
👉 Submit by Wed 30 Sep 2025

ECPR 2026 Joint Sessions of Workshops, University of Innsbruck

European Consortium for Political Research

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ecpr-migration.bsky.social @ecpr-migration.bsky.social · Jul 30

📣 CFP: Racialised Space & the Politics of Emotion
📝 Abstracts due: 01/10/2025
📚 Special Issue for Identities
Guest editors: A. Emejulu, L. Bassel, A. Christoffersen & O. Siow

✉️ Submit: [email protected]

#CFP #CriticalRaceStudies #Emotions #RacialisedSpace #IdentitiesJournal

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ecpr-migration.bsky.social @ecpr-migration.bsky.social · Jul 30

📚 Call for Book Chapters
Handbook of Skilled Migration (Edward Elgar, 2027)
Edited by #VerenaWisthaler & #AbdeslamMarfouk

🔍 Focus: Skilled migration & the Global South 🌍
🗓️ Abstracts due: Sept 30, 2025
🔗 More info: www.eurac.edu/en/institute...

#MigrationStudies #CFP #SkilledMigration

Call for Book Chapter: Handbook of Skilled Migration

Eurac Research is a private research center based in Bozen-Bolzano. Our researchers come from a wide variety of scientific fields and all parts of the world.

www.eurac.edu

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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · Jul 26

I'm excited to share pre-print of a ✨ new paper with the great @sumpierrez.bsky.social!

We study ’pathways of external citizenship’ across 194 countries 🌎 since 1960. We do so by building a sequence analysis of the timing and extent of dual citizenship acceptance and external voting rights.

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Title
Pathways to External Citizenship: The Global Extension of Dual Citizenship and Voting From Abroad
Authors
Sebastian Umpierrez de Reguero and Maarten Vink
Description
The extension of dual citizenship and external voting rights over the past decades has been widely observed. Both trends contribute to the phenomenon of external citizenship, where citizens residing abroad hold rights to political participation irrespective of other transnational ties. Yet these trends have been studied in a disconnected manner. This is remarkable as the exercise of external voting requires nationals abroad to keep a legal link with the home country, while dual citizenship acceptance is high on the agenda of politically mobilized emigrant communities. In this paper, we make two original contributions. First, applying sequence analysis to a dataset covering 194 countries over 61 years (N=10,310), we identify five dominant pathways in extending rights to dual citizenship and external voting: 1) norm setters, 2) dual citizenship only, 3) external voting only, 4) latecomers, and 5) norm resisters. Second, we analyze the correlates of these pathways with a focus on the predominant political regime type. Democratic regimes are not more prone to be norm setters that adopt both forms of rights extension but are less likely to be norm resisters that do not adopt either. Partial norm extenders and latecomers are not significantly associated with a particular regime experience.

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ecpr-migration.bsky.social @ecpr-migration.bsky.social · Jul 28

🚨vacancy alert🚨

Lea Müller-Funk @leamullerfunk.bsky.social · Jul 24

📣 Postdoc vacancy! I am looking for a qualitative postdoc (3 years, 100%) to join my ERC project #RESTATE (Refugees’ Political Participation and State-(Re)Making in Displacement, 85%) and my project #SYREALITY (Syrian Imaginations of Europe meet Reality, 15%) starting preferably on 1 January 2026.

Lea Müller-Funk @leamullerfunk.bsky.social · Feb 12

I am very much looking forward to starting my ERC project RESTATE about how refugees perceive and engage with the state throughout their displacement journeys, and how these perceptions shape their roles as political actors in September 2025. I am going to hire 2 postdocs and 1 PhD later this year!