The European Union’s Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson has praised Serbia’s handling of migration, a day after Serbian authorities rounded up nearly 700 migrants and moved them to reception centers.

Impressive venue for the European Sociological Association RN35 "Sociology of Migration" Midterm Conference at the University Federico II in Napoli. Happy to present our work on integration research here (in the church) with Iva Dodevska !

❗️BSIS-SOS goes to press.❗️ "2⃣5⃣ years after Kent BSIS first welcomed students, its sudden closure was announced last month leaving students and staff in the dark about their academic future." A few highlights from The Brussels Times. 👇 brusselstimes.com/448122/anger-a…

On April 13th I got an email from a stranger, Fayad Mulla He was on Lesbos & had footage from 2 days prior showing migrants getting rounded up on land & ditched in the Aegean by the coast guard Did I want to see it? If you think the answer was an easy "yes," you're wrong.

The jr. research group "The Scientific Production of Knowledge on #Migration" Uni Osnabrück invites to a guest lecture by Gunjan S (The Open University) followed by a discussion. The event will focus on the question of #decolonizing #MigrationStudies. #knowledgeproduction

Nothing means anything anymore when the locking up of children at Europe's borders is celebrated as a win for human rights. The #GEAS reform will produce so much suffering. Yet another shameful day for Europe. After a moment of despair, we will need to resist, on all levels.

What an important read!

🧵 Lots has been said already about last week's Council's agreement on some files of the EU #Migration Pact. Here we analyse what the Council's position would mean in terms of detention, returns and access to national permits.

Today, we publish our new study on the criminalization of people on the move for steering a boat or car to Greece. The report examines a total of 81 TRIAL OF 95 PEOPLE who were arrested and tried in Greece for smuggling. Our findings are shocking: 🧵 #37Minutes

Balkans as EU deportation hub. According to the plans, charter flights will be organised from the Balkans for people who are sent back to the region from the EU, and through the readmission agreements. Platforma za deportacije portalnovosti.com/platforma-za-d… via @novossti

Join our conference 'Migration Studies and Social Theory: Problematizing Ontologies; De-Centering Migration' on September 14-15 at the University of Tübingen, Germany. 💥 Find the detailed program and more information here: imiscoe.org/news-and-blog/…

New in JEMS - Iva Dodevska EJD.MOVES analyses the EU Framework on migrant integration, and finds that the recent reformulation of the EU’s integrationist strategy adopt a more nativist and securitarian discourse of ‘integration’. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Two days of a great and inspiring conference on reflexivities in miration studies and social theory in lovely Tübingen. Many thanks to all the participants, the organizers and the local hosts Universität Tübingen !

Now open access!

💥 We are calling for applications for the role of *PhD representative* in the governing board, to begin in October 2024. If you are interested, we look forward to receiving your application by 20 August 2024. 💥 More information: imiscoe.org/news-and-blog/…

‼️BIRMM colleague Iva Dodevska just won the Maria Ioannis Baganha Dissertation Award 2024 at the #IMISCOE2024 conference with her dissertation ‘Europe and Its Others: Migrant Integration in Research and Policy’ 🤩 Congrats Iva! IMISCOE

Congratulations to the winners of the Maria Ioannis Baganha Dissertation Award Iva Dodevska and Uzair Ahmed Uzair Ahmed @uzaahm.bsky.social !!🎊🎊🎊 Warm thank you to the members of the jury as well as @ZanaVathi, Alistair Hunter and Apostolos Andrikopoulos for sharing how the award changed their careers

So proud of my co-editor Iva Dodevska for winning this year's Maria Ioannis Baganha Dissertation Award at IMISCOE 2024