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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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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10 Feb 2026
MIGMOBS landmark - publishing online of the Global Transnational Mobility Dataset 2.0
MIGMOBS reached a significant landmark in February with the publishing online of the Global Transnational Mobility Dataset 2.0. This Dataset, produced by the Global Mobilities Project team in Florence, is a flagship output of the project.
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26 Jan 2026
Bridging the East Asia-Europe Divide: Insights from the Singapore Workshop on Migration Regimes
Building on our commitment to mapping the complexities of global mobility, our team recently participated in the workshop "New Dynamics in Asia's Migration Regimes" on 15-16 January 2026 at the Asia Research Institute (ARI), National University of Singapore. The event aims to understand how demographic shifts and acute labor shortages in Asia are reconfiguring the way states manage migrant labor.
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“Let No Irishman Throw a Stone at the Foreigner”: Remembering and Forgetting Solidarity in Contemporary Ireland
Walking through the streets of Cork, a recent mural by the artist Claire Coughlan reads: “Let no Irishman throw a stone at the foreigner; he may hit his own clansman’’— James Connolly It is a striking reminder of Connolly’s vision of solidarity – one that rejects the politics of exclusion and recognises the shared histories of displacement and oppression. Yet, beneath this powerful appeal lies a deeper tension: what does it mean for a postcolonial, now increasingly diverse Ireland, to memorialise Connolly’s words at a time when the anti-immigration far-right movement is fuelling hostility and discrimination against migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Ireland?
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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
- migmobs@ucc.ie
- Professor Adrian Favell, Project PI