The Global Mobilities Project at the EUI, led by Prof Ettore Recchi, are partners with UCC in the MIGMOBS European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant project.
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21 Sep 2026
MIGMOBS Researcher Co-Convenes EuroSEAS 2026 Panel on Migration and Protection in Southeast Asia
Pamungkas Ayudaning Dewanto, a post-doctoral researcher at Waseda University working under the MIGMOBS project, co-convened a panel at the 2026 EuroSEAS Conference held in Madrid from September 1–3, alongside fellow scholars Sverre Molland (Australian National University), Antje Missbach (University of Bielefeld), and Jonathan Krämer (Heidelberg University). The panel, titled "Migration in Southeast Asia: Protection, Infrastructures and Aftereffects," brought together researchers examining how state and private actors shape migration through overlapping, and often contradictory, logics of protection.
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21 Jul 2026
The border in the office
Dr Meiyun Meng, Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the MIGMOBS project at University College Cork, has published “Organisational bordering: Chinese professional women as ‘skilled support workers’ in Japan and South Korea”, co-authored with project PI Adrian Favell. It is the first major publication from the East Asian sub-project, Migration and Mobilities in East Asia: the Chinese in Japan and Korea, and a flagship output of MIGMOBS. The photo above shows Mei presenting the work at the annual IMISCOE conference in Girona, in July 2026.
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13 Jul 2026
MIGMOBS-LATAM : Mapping the changing migration-mobilities systems of South America
De- and re-centering migration studies calls for the development of new empirical studies that take seriously the changing contexts and forms of mobility in different world regions. The MIGMOBS project is well placed to address this task, in terms of its ambitious programme of work on South America, co-led by Ana Paula Penchaszadeh and Adrian Favell.
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07 Apr 2026
Migration in Contentious Times: IMISCOE, Spring 2026
Attending the IMISCOE Spring Conference 2026, which took place from March 16 to 18, 2026, hosted by the Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies (CEDEM) at the University of Liège, Belgium, offered a timely opportunity to reflect on how migration research itself is evolving in response to increasingly polarised political climates, restrictive migration regimes, and rising anti-immigrant discourses.
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MIGMOBS ERC AdG Project 101097240
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Radical Humanities Laboratory, Wandesford Quay Research Facility, University College Cork, Republic of Ireland
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- Professor Adrian Favell, Project PI