Migloba: The Network on Migration and Global Mobility - UAntwerp

30/07/2026

Education should not end at the border. Nine scholarship recipients from Gaza have already been admitted to Belgian universities and awarded fully funded scholarships. Yet, without a practical pathway to complete their visa procedures, they risk losing opportunities that Belgium itself has invested in.

The attached policy brief outlines a simple, lawful, and practical solution: a coordinated two-step visa process that would allow these students and researchers to begin the academic journeys they have already earned.

We hope Belgian authorities, universities, and partners can work together to ensure that these scholarships become a reality, not a missed opportunity.

21/07/2026

✨ Save the date for the 2026 BIRMM-MIGLOBA-CEDEM-CESSMIR-GERME Joint Research Day! ✨
🎙️ Theme: Knowledge production on migration in restrictive political contexts
📅 Tuesday 17 November, 9:00-17:00 | 📍 Brussels, exact location TBA

Read the full abstract here: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-groups/network-migration-global-mobility/activities/seminars-and-conferences/upcomingevents/jointresearchday2026/
More information will follow after the summer break – stay tuned!

16/06/2026

⏰ Apply before tomorrow, 17 June

10/06/2026

📣 Vacancy alert: Project and communication coordinator at the University of Antwerp.

The University of Antwerp’s Faculty of Social Sciences is looking for a full-time project and communication coordinator for a newly established research consortium, which aims at fostering and supporting ethnographic research, and eventually establishing an Ethnography Hub.

You will be involved in three different projects/settings, which constitute the basis on which the Hub is built: the MIGLOBA Network, led by Milena Belloni ; the ERC project ReWorkChange, Remote Work and Social Change: an Anthropological Approach, led by Elisabetta Costa; and the activities led by Paolo S H Favero within the framework of his research team (among of them the coordination of the ViDi Research Group).

📆 Submit your application by 17 June
🔗 More information about the position and its requirements can be found here:https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vacancies/administrative-and-technical/?q=4438&descr=Project-and-communication-coordinator

29/04/2026

In this episode, Kate Dearden has an insightful conversation with Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot and Herbary Cheung, exploring how power dynamics shape migration research and experiences.

At IMISCOE’s Annual Conference (Summer 2025), they were awarded the Best Paper Award by the Standing Committee on Gender and Sexuality in Migration Studies (GenSeM).
Their award-winning paper is titled: "Temporal contextuality of agentic intersectional positionalities: Nuancing power relations in the ethnography of minority migrant women”
Take a listen and dive into this important discussion!

In this episode, you’ll hear Kate Dearden speaking with Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot and Herbary Cheung. At IMISOCE’s annual conference in summer 2025, they won the “Best Paper Award” from IMISCOE’s Standin

14/04/2026

Are you a PhD student from the Global South focusing on just transition or migration? UCSIA and the University of Antwerp invite you to apply for the Fund Bruyns PhD Scholarship 2026-2027, offering a 10-month research stay in Belgium. Follow the link below to read more!

UCSIA funds the Louis Bruyns Scholarship for a PhD student from the Global South to carry out research at the University of Antwerp.

05/03/2026

📢 Call for Papers

The Laboratory for Gender, Environment, Religion and Migration Studies (GERM), Berger University of Saint-Louis (Senegal), in collaboration with Institut Convergences Migrations (France) and Universidade Estadual de Campinas – Unicamp (Brazil), invites submissions for the international conference:

“Academic Refugees and Knowledge in Exile: Africa – Europe – Latin America Dialogues”

📍 Saint-Louis, Senegal
📅 3–5 November 2026

The conference aims to foster comparative and cross-regional discussions on contemporary dynamics of knowledge in exile and academic displacement.

📌 Submission deadline: 15 April 2026

Please feel free to share this call within your academic and professional networks.

📄 Full details in the attached Call for Papers.

04/02/2026

📣Only two days left (6th February) to apply for this exciting new event: 2026 IMISCOE Forum - Promoting Afro-European Mediterranean Dialogue: Shifting Geographies of Migration
28-30 October 2026, Ibn Zohr University & online

IMISCOE is the largest European network of scholars in the area of migration and integration. The focus is on comparative research and joint research projects.

02/02/2026

🎙️ New podcast episode out now!

This episode explores the role of schools in the integration of migrant children, bringing together two complementary perspectives from Belgium and Italy.

are often the first public institutions where children interact with society beyond their families. In this conversation, Irene Landini and Garrett discuss how schools adapt to intercultural and multilingual realities, and how they can become key spaces of civic engagement not only for students, but also for parents.

🎧 Listen to the episode here:
https://www.imiscoe.org/news-and-blog/podcast/2526-schools-as-sites-of-migrant-integration
Spotify: https://lnkd.in/eGGxf_ea
or on SoundCloud.

Many thanks to the interviewer Samanwita Paul from Jawaharlal Nehru University, and fellow at the Centre for Asia Pacific Refugee Studies (CAPRS) – Tāwharau Whakaumu.

IMISCOE – International Migration Research Network

02/02/2026

📣 Call for contributions to the event “Crossing Borders: Enhancing Ethnographic Approaches in Research on Migration and Diversity,” which will take place on Thursday, June 4, at Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

The event will feature a keynote lecture by Prof. Dr. Shahram Khosravi (Stockholm University), author of Illegal Traveller and Seeing Like a Smuggler.

Migration and diversity are multifaceted phenomena that traverse political, legal, social, economic, and cultural borders. Ethnographic approaches have long offered deep insights into these lived complexities, capturing how migration is experienced, governed, and narrated from the ground up. At the same time, ethnographic research on migration is conducted across a wide range of disciplinary, methodological, and institutional contexts, reflecting its relevance to diverse scholarly traditions. To bring these different perspectives into dialogue, we invite scholars to join us for a one-day event dedicated to rethinking and connecting ethnographic approaches to migration and diversity.

The event builds on the Ethnography Incubator@EUR and aims to create a shared space for reflection, exchange, and future collaboration. It is made possible by the generous support of the LDE Centre Governance of Migration and Diversity Seed Fund.