Newsletter February 2025: ECPR Standing Group (SG) Migration and Ethnicity

SG News: Our ECPR Standing Group Migration and Ethnicity is delighted to announce that:

Our ECPR Online Seminar Series in Migration and Ethnicity continues to showcase the latest research in our field! Our next session takes place on 17 February 2025 with Maarten Vink (Robert Schuman Center, European University Institute) where he will present his research on ‘A Global Panel Dataset of Dyadic Dual Citizenship Acceptance’.

Vacancies

EuroMedMig (Euro-Mediterranean Research Network on Migrations) PhD Network is searching for 12 PhD candidates in 10 Mediterranean Universities HORIZON-MSCA-2023-DN-01-01. Application deadline: 28 February 2025.

MA in Migration and Ethnic Studies at the University of Liège (Belgium). 2 years, programme taught entirely in English, offers the opportunity to earn a double degree by spending a year abroad with one of the partners in the EuMIGS (European Master in Migration Studies) network.

MA in Migration Studies at the University of Limerick. A new Masters Programme in Migration Studies.

SG Members’ News on Projects and Activities:

CHIST-ERA Project: (2024-2026). Consolidating Open Science and Data Initiatives on Ethnic and Migrant Minorities in Europe" (OPENMIN) consolidates and expands a range of Open Science and Open Data initiatives that foster comparative knowledge generation and research capacities on Ethnic and Migrant Minorities and Migration Studies in Europe. They invite contributions of meta-data from surveys on COVID-19 (or its consequences) involving sizeable (sub)samples of EMM respondents, and/or surveys with Ukrainian or Syrian refugees or EMM populations.

CfP International Conference “Populism For, Against or By the Minorities? Social Group in Populism Research’’, 05-06 June 2025.  Tallinn University, Tallinn. Deadline for abstracts: 17 February 2025.

DEMIG Online Talk series: "From Conflict Zone Allies to Welcome Home, Allies: How Afghan Immigrants’ Collaboration with the U.S. Affects Public Attitudes towards Immigration" with Alex Braithwaite (University of Arizona). 20 February 2025.

CfP 2nd World Congress on Migration, Ethnicity, Race & Health International Conference “Migration as a driver of a healthy, racism-free, multi-ethnic world: A call to action to close the equity gap in health’’, 02-05 September 2025. Nova University, Lisbon. Deadline for abstracts: 24 February 2025.

IMISCOE Spring Conference 2025 “The Regularity of Irregularity: Rethinking Migration Paradigms”, 15-19 March 2025. (hybrid). University of Continuing Education Krems, Austria. Registration deadline: 03 March 2025

The Joint Webinar Series on Irregular Migration hosts its next webinar ‘‘What is the Evidence Base? Assessing Irregular Migration Data and Their Impact on Policymaking and Public Debates in the EU’’. 06 March 2025.

GenSeM Migration Dialogue, Book Launch Decided Return Migration: Emotions, Citizenship, Home and Belonging in Bosnia and Herzegovina. 10 March 2025.

CfP International Conference ‘‘Dynamics of Transnational Families in the Context of Armed Conflicts and Sociopolitical Crises’’, (hybrid), 26-27 June 2025. Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia. Deadline for abstracts: 10 March 2025.

CfP Annual Meeting of the Austrian Economic Association (NOeG) 2025 “Migration as an Economic Reality’’, 23-24 September 2025. University for Continuing Education Krems, (UWK), Donau-Uni, Austria. Deadline for abstracts: 15 March 2025.

CfP Special Issue “Who is a refugee in the 21^st century?’’, Journal of Refugee Studies. Deadline for abstracts: 31 March 2025.

CfP International Conference “Facing Inequalities – Strategies for Change’’, 06-07 November 2025. University of Graz, Austria. Deadline for abstracts: 30 April 2025.

New Publications from SG Members (2024/2025)

Bazurli, R.  & Campomori, F. (2025). ‘Collaborative Governance in Politicized Times: The Battle Over Asylum Policies in Italian Cities.’ Policy and Society.

Caponio, T., Pettrachin, A., & Ponzo, I. (2024). The drivers of multilevel governance as a mode of policymaking: the case of asylum-seekers’ reception in Italy. Italian Political Science Review/Rivista Italiana Di Scienza Politica, 1–15.

Christoffersen, A., & Siow, O. (2025). From Inclusion to Transformation: Politics & Gender as a Critical Actor for Intersectional Political Science. Politics & Gender, 1–28.

Czymara, C. S. & Gorodzeisky, A. (2024). Hostility on Twitter in the Aftermath of Terror Attacks. Journal of Computational Social Science.

Ibričević A. (2024) Decided return migration: Emotions, citizenship, home and belonging in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Springer-IMISCOE Research Series.

Jakobson, M. L., & Tuuder, A. (2024). Towards assiminationalism? The right-wing populists’ transformative storytelling on an ethnic minority in Estonia. Politics, Religion & Ideology, 25(4), 563-586.

Jakobson, M. L., Sipinen, J., & Taimla, K. (2024). Are Estonians the true Finns? Homeland and residence country perspectives on support for the populist radical right. International Migration.

Morais, T. and Hansia, A. (2024) “Stuck in immobility: LGBTQIA+ persons in Uganda caught in the intersectional impact of the Anti-Homosexuality Act”. FluchtforschungBlog.

Mugglin, L., Murahwa, B., & Ruedin, D. (2025). When politicians feel pressure to represent: Evidence from South Africa. Parliamentary Affairs, gsae046.

Osso, B. N. (2025). Undoing the Borders of ‘Access’: A Socio-Legal Inquiry into Migration Management and Refugee Struggles at the European Union’s External Borders. University of Helsinki Open Repository.

Perna, R., Umpierrez de Reguero, S. (2025). Intra-EU Migration and Healthcare Deservingness: A Conjoint Experiment in Belgium and Spain, Social Science & Medicine.

Ruspini, P. & Hristov, P. (2024) “The reconstruction of social ties for refugee women: Research hints from Italy and Bulgaria”, Comparative Cultural Studies, 19, 1-17.

Ruspini, P. & Hristov, P. (2024) “Transnational patterns, social networks and self-help organizations for migrant women”, Open Research Europe 4(67), 9.

Ruspini, P. (2024) “Transnazionalismo e Mobilità Internazionale degli Studenti: Un Caso Studio in Prospettiva Comparativa” (Transnationalism and International Student Mobility: A Case Study in Comparative Perspective), in A. M. Ciraci, V. Domenici & A. Petagine (a cura di), Giornata della ricerca 2023 del Dipartimento di Scienze della Formazione, Quaderni del Dipartimento di Scienze della Formazione, n. 4, Roma: RomaTrEpress, pp. 549-559. 

Salama, N. (2025).  Breaking Barriers: The Fight Against Discrimination Among Indonesian Muslim Minority in America. Indonesian Journal of Islamic Literature and Muslim Society, 9(1).

Sarkin, J. and Morais, T. (2024). “Assessing the Intersectional Impact of Domestic Migration Law: Reacting to State-Created Categories and Vulnerabilities of Asylum Seekers in Israel” Israel Law Review, 57(3), 423-448.

Sarkin, J. and Morais, T. (2024). “Gender and migration: A continuum of gender-based violence echoing across the Sinai Desert and into Israel” Transitions Journal of Transient Migration.

Sarkin, J. and Morais, T. (2024). “The Agency of Refugees and Asylum-Seeking Women in the Face of the Inability of States to Provide Protection Against Sexual and Gender-Based Violence” Human Rights Quarterly, 46(4), 523-548.

Sarkin, J. and Morais, T. (2024). “The role of the European Union’s securitisation policies in exacerbating the intersectional vulnerability of refugees and asylum seekers” The International Journal of Human Rights, 1–24.

Tramountanis, A. (2025). Greece's Migration and Refugee Policy. A 'Success Story' Mirage?. Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (German Federal Agency for Civic Education).

Van Wolleghem P.G. and Sicakkan H.G. (2024) “Recognizing international protection. How institutional arrangements affect asylum decisions”, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 51(1), 50-78.