International Migration Institute

10/08/2022

It is with great sadness that we have to announce that one of the founders & former director of IMI, Professor Stephen Castles, has passed away.

It is almost unimaginable that Stephen is no longer amongst us. But his vast legacy will continue to inspire current and future generations of researchers, students, activists, and policy makers.

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05/08/2020

New publications: check out the recent research published by IMI researchers! ⬇️

🔹 New in IMI Working Paper Series: How do we study 'big change' in both its universal and particular manifestations?

In our latest working paper, Hein de Haas, Sonja Fransen, Katharina Natter, Kerilyn Schewel and Simona Vezzoli introduce the 'social transformation framework' as a conceptual tool to study social change: https://www.migrationinstitute.org/publications/social-transformation

🔹 New in the Journal of North African Studies:

In her recently published article, IMI researcher Katharina Natter analyses Moroccan immigration policymaking and ties to the monarchy's authoritarian consolidation agenda: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13629387.2020.1800206

(2020). Crafting a ‘liberal monarchy’: regime consolidation and immigration policy reform in Morocco. The Journal of North African Studies. Ahead of Print.

13/07/2020

📢 The latest issue of our newsletter is out!

🔹Celebrating IMI's relaunch at University of Amsterdam
🔹Latest news and developments
🔹New research projects and updates on our current projects
🔹Publications and calls for submissions
🔹and many more updates!

Check out this latest issue to find out what we have been up to this academic year! ⬇️

https://mailchi.mp/qeh/imi-newsletter2020

📨 Don't forget to subscribe to our mailing list: https://www.migrationinstitute.org/about/mailing-list

10/12/2019

How have refugee movements changed since WWII?

Sonja Fransen and Hein de Haas find no long-term increase in refugee migration. In fact, most refugees continue to remain close to home.

Check out our new working paper on the volume and geography of global refugee migration:

https://www.migrationinstitute.org/publications?tab=Working%20paper

05/12/2019

Contrary to popular narratives, there has been no long-term increase in refugee migration, Hein de Haas and Sonja Fransen show in our new Working Paper.

Apparent increases are mainly driven by the recent inclusion of IDPs and countries that were previously excluded from statistics.

Read more at: https://www.migrationinstitute.org/publications/the-volume-and-geography-of-forced-migration

19/11/2019

"If migration is as old as the hills, why is it now so politically sensitive?"

Feeling the need for a more long-term perspective on migration?

Check out Robin Cohen's new book "Migration: the movement of humankind from prehistory to the present"

Professor Cohen is an IMI Honorary Fellow and former director of IMI. You can find a link to his recent lecture at the here:

On 12 November, Robin Cohen, IMI Honorary Fellow and former director of the Institute, presented his new book "Migration: the movement of humankind from prehistory to the present”.

15/11/2019

Congratulations to our researcher Katharina Natter, who successfully defended her PhD dissertation at the University of Amsterdam!

Entitled 'Political Regimes and Immigration Policymaking: the Contrasting Cases of Morocco and Tunisia,' Natter questions the assumption of a 'regime effect' in immigration policy making.

She shows why it is important to go beyond the democracy/autocracy divide in research on immigration policy drivers and dynamics. Read more at:

On 8 November 2019, IMI researcher Katharina Natter was awarded a Cum Laude distinction for her PhD dissertation at the University of Amsterdam, entitled "Political Regimes and Immigration Policymaking. The Contrasting Cases of Morocco and Tunisia."

12/11/2019

Congratulations to our researcher Kerilyn Schewel who successfully defended her PhD dissertation at the University of Amsterdam!

Entitled 'Moved by Modernity: How Development Shapes Migration from Rural Ethiopia', her research investigates migration and development interactions in rural Ethiopia.

Check out more at:

On 15 October 2019, IMI’s researcher Kerilyn Schewel successfully defended her PhD dissertation, entitled "Moved by Modernity: How Development Shapes Migration from Rural Ethiopia," at the University of Amsterdam.

05/11/2019

did you know the increase in global migration has remained proportional to the increase in world population?

the main migratory shifts in the second half of the 20th century have been directional🔃

find out more from our researchers in the latest Population and Development Review

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/padr.12291

25/03/2019

Reminder: 6 days to go!

Submit your abstract for the upcoming conference “Governing Migration outside ‘Fortress Europe’” at the University of Cambridge on 16/17 September 2019 by this Sunday, March 31!

For more information, visit: https://www.humanmovement.cam.ac.uk/Research/fortress-europe

26/02/2019

What are the ethical and methodological challenges of conducting research on forced displacement?

Check out our new working paper on researching mobility aspirations of Syrian urban self-settled refugees in Turkey and Lebanon:

Studying mobility aspirations of forced migrants is a challenge. Refugees are a particularly vulnerable group and displaced persons are often described as a rare or hidden group whose members are hard to identify and to locate. Representative micro-level data is scarce, with surveys frequently based...

20/02/2019

"Opening the floodgates? European migration under restrictive and liberal border regimes 1950-2010"

In new working paper, Hein de Haas, Simona Vezzoli and María Villares-Varela use European Union (EU) enlargement as a case study to assess how liberalising border regimes affected migration flows.

Check it out here:

The effect of ‘open borders’ on migration has been the subject of substantial controversy. Political rhetoric and media images help stoke fear of uncontrolled mass migration that in turn fuels arguments in favour of tighter immigration regulations and border controls to ‘bring migration back u...