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.

Adrian Favell from University College Cork will present a lecture in Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) on August 6th followed by a discussion hosted by Ana Paula Penchaszadeh and Carolina Mera from UBA. 

Global Mobilities Project director, Ettore Recchi, discussed MIGMOBS at the annual IMISCOE conference in Lisbon, in July 2024. 

A funded PhD Sanctuary Studentship at UCC focusing on forced migration from Ukraine is available from October 2024. Applications are now closed and post is filled.

A fully funded PhD Sanctuary Scholarship on forced migration from the Middle East is available at Leeds. Applications are now closed and post is filled.

Dr Meiyun Meng, is the Postdoctoral Research Fellow for the MIGMOBS project at University College Cork. In this short news story, you will learn about Dr Meng's specifc role conducting research on migration and mobilities in East Asia, her PhD, and her research interests.

University College Cork (UCC) Professor Adrian Favell has been awarded €2.5 million by the European Research Council to lead a major new study on international migration.