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2025 IMISCOE Spring Conference
The 2025 IMISCOE Spring Conference will feature keynote speeches, roundtable discussions and academic panels. In addition, these activities will provide a platform for scholars, policymakers, practitioners, and migrants themselves to exchange ideas, share research findings, and engage in meaningful discussions. The conference will also encourage interdisciplinary approaches, inviting scholars and experts from various fields and all social science disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, political science, economics, law, and migration studies.
This conference will be hybrid in nature. This includes online panels on 17 March 2025 and on-site panels on 18 and 19 March 2025. The on-site formats (on-site panels, opening keynotes, roundtables) will allow online participation via Zoom. All participants and attendees are required to register and select the appropriate type of attendance on the registration form.
Our I-CLAIM partners will be participating in two panels where they will have the opportunity to present our latest research on the narratives and perceptions (See the Reports at https://i-claim.eu/country-reports/). Prof. Nando Sigona will be also participating in a Roundtable focusing on Future Directions: Towards Comprehensive Research Approaches to Irregular Migration.
Online-Panel 4: Navigating Perceptions and Representations: Public Policy Preferences and Discourses vis-à-vis Irregular Migrants in Europe
Monday, 17 March 2025, 11:00-12:30
Session Chair: Bastian Vollmer (Catholic University of Applied Sciences Mainz)
Discussant: Lena Detlefsen (Kiel Institute for the World Economy)
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- Public Preferences for Policies vis-à-vis Irregular Migrants in Europe | Anton Ahlén, Lutz Gschwind, Joakim Palme (all: Uppsala University); Martin Ruhs (European University Institute/ Migration Policy Centre)
- Discourses about irregularised migrants in Germany: representation and narratives in media, politics, and civil society | Markus Rheindorf Markus, Bastian Vollmer (both: Catholic University of Applied Sciences Mainz)
- Narratives and perceptions on migrants’ irregularisation in post-Brexit Britain | Nando Sigona, Laurence Lessard-Phillips, Stefano Piemontese (all: University of Birmingham)
Panel 19: Infrastructural fields: Towards an infrastructural perspective on the local governance of migrant irregularity
Wednesday, 18 March 2025, 9:00-10:30
Session Chair: Thomas Swerts (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Discussant: Robin Vandevoordt (Ghent University)
Exclusion as Default: The legal and policy dynamics around the production of irregular migration in the Netherlands | Minke Hajer, Ilse van Liempt (both: Utrecht University)
Infrastructuring Urban Solidarity: Civil society organisations engaged with illegalised migrants in Bern and Vienna | Ilker Ataç (Hochschule Fulda), Sarah Schilliger (ETH Zürich)
The Regularity of Irregularity: Rethinking Migration Corridors | Martin Bak Jorgensen, Mashudu Salifu, Tomislav Pušić (all: Aalborg University)
The Politics of Migration: Marginalization, Stigmatization, and Recognition in Urban Contexts | Gülce Şafak Özdemir (Independent Researcher, Spain)
Beyond sorting and distribution – Infrastructural hubs as sites of mobility mediation and bureaucratic politicisation for illegalized migrant in Brussels | Hannah Lara Kay, Thomas Swerts (both: Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Roundtable – Future Directions: Towards Comprehensive Research Approaches to Irregular Migration
Wednesday, 19 March 2025, 15:30-17:00
Description: This panel will reflect on the discussions held throughout the conference and explore future directions for research on irregular migration. It will emphasise the importance of comprehensive research approaches that consider the interconnectedness of irregular migration processes, governance, and integration, while being sensitive to contradictory, often conflictual processes and ethical dilemmas. The panellists will identify key priorities and strategies for future research, including relevant policy/political aspects from a scientific perspective.
Panelists:
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- Tuba Bircan (Vrije Universiteit Brussels)
- Anila Noor (New Women Connectors)
- Nando Sigona (University of Birmingham)
- Martina Tazzioli (University of Bologna)
