MIGMOBS has had some busy weeks in June and July! Our action shifted to Madrid and then Paris.

The MIGMOBS team has a strong showing at the annual IMISCOE conference in Paris, 1-4 July 2025. Our participation is supported by UCC ISS21 IMISCOE Travel funding.

Dr Kheira Arrouche is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the MIGMOBS project at University College Cork, where she leads a study on African migration and mobility in Ireland. Her research focuses on four key African migrant communities: Nigerians, Somalis, Algerians, and South Africans, examining how these groups navigate Ireland’s evolving migration regime and transnational mobility networks.

https://www.peoplesrepublicofcork.com/articles/every-fela-is-welcome-in-cork

MIGMOBS post-doctoral researcher, Pamungkas A. Dewanto (Yudha), who is based in Waseda University is conducting research on Indonesian migrant workers in four countries: Malaysia, Japan, Saudi Arabia, and Taiwan under the Co-PI, Gracia Liu-Farrer, Professor of Sociology, at the Graduate School of Asia Pacific Studies, Waseda University. 

Adrian Favell discusses "The Orders and Borders of Global Inequality: Rethinking Migration and Mobilities in the Era of Neoliberalism and Beyond" at the Institute for European Studies, Cornell University, New York.

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This panel discussion event focussed on the theme of decentering the study of migration. We draw inspiration from the IMISCOE 2025 annual conference theme of decentring migration studies, to open up critical questions about current trends and historical legacies in contemporary migration scholarship and research. Decentering -- and associated themes of reflexivity and decolonialisation -- has, it seems, (finally) come centre-stage to the study of migration in all its forms.

Ettore Recchi, Tobias Grohmann and Luca Bernasconi presented a new dataset that estimates the voume of human travel across country borders worldwide between 1995 and 2022 at EUI, Migration Policy Centre on Feb 12th 2025.