Back from Rio. Excellent 3-day seminar on’Democracy, Migration and Rythms’. Exciting presentations and discussions and visit to Rocinha. Thanks to Giuseppe Conte , Guto Santos, and, particularly Alexandre Mendes for organizing successfully such an inspiring event!

Thank you Leandros Fischer for organising this great seminar. I learned a lot from the Migration and Mobility Hub at the University of Cape Town in term of centring African knowledge, methodologies, social change and engagement with communities !

Special Guest Speaker on the theme Empowering the The Teacher Trainee for Leadership Roles. This was by the TTAG. #women in leadership Global Fund for Women Ghana CSOs Platform On SDGs African Women's Development Fund Network for Women's Rights in Ghana (NETRIGHT) Charles Abani Plan International Ghana

Please check out the 2nd biannual newsletter of our research project "Enacting Citizenship and Solidarity in Europe 'From Below'" including a CfP for the ESA Conference: eepurl.com/iGrs8Y 👉subscribe here: europefrombelow.net/newsletter/

New research by our co-applicant Martin Bak Jørgensen on "Rethinking #Mobilty Regimes at the #Local Scale: Possibilities and Limitations" link.springer.com/chapter/10.100… TMU Centre for Immigration & Settlement #solidaritycity #SanctuaryCity

Our partner IMIS at Osnabruck University is organizing the Hybrid workshop "Migrant workers' resistance and infrastructures of solidarity" on Feb 26. Please see details below.

#SoliCity partner's #IMIS at Osnabruck University is organizing the Hybrid workshop "Migrant workers' resistance and infrastructures of solidarity" on Feb 26. Thank you #HelenSchwenken and #PhilippRatfisch Please see program details below.

"#solidarity does not arise automatically by proclaiming it as a moral reference but must be produced through performative practice" says #SaraShillinger at the IMIS workshop on #Migrant Workers' RESISTANCE and Infrastructures of Solidarity."

Remember to sign up for the online book presentation event, on February 29th, at 14-16 CET, with two topical volumes on migration and racism, border regimes, and politics of solidarity: aaudk.zoom.us/meeting/regist… This event is organised by DEMOS & REMESO

In honour of International Day to Combat Islamophobia we wish to highlight the book chapter: ‘Dubai and Cyprus as Geographies of Social Mobility between Europe and the Middle East’ by J. Alloul and L. Fischer which includes the nexus of crisis and racism doi.org/10.1007/978-3-…

Join us celebrate a deserving and impactful 50 years anversary of AAU. linkedin.com/posts/aalborg-…

It’s going to be a busy week Demos!Tuesday, political debate on the divide between city and countryside with Per Clausen & Kristoffer Storm Thursday, academic seminar about studying populism with @LAT153B , @prentoulis & @Paolo_Cossarini and more. Join us if you’re in Aalborg!

Join us for a panel discussion (in Danish) with Danish politicians Per Clausen, from Enhedslisten, and Kristoffer Storm, from Danmarksdemokraterne, on the topic: countryside and cities, a new political separation? We hope to see you on the 23rd of April, 10:00-12:00

Join us in person or online for a hybrid seminar on 'Strategic approaches to climate change and new mobilities in research and practice' this Thursday (May 2nd) from 9 to 16! Simply contact Mashudu Salifu: [email protected]

While the European elections are approaching, @prentoulis and I edited ‘The past and present of Eurocommunism’ with Soundings Journal. A good oportunity to understand left politics from a historical perspective and look critically at persistent dilemmas. journals.lwbooks.co.uk/soundings/vol-…

ECSEuro Meeting in Cortona, Italy Last week (21-23 May), the ECSEuro researchers attended the consortium meeting in Tuscany to discuss in person the main research and organisational issues of the project.

It’s a pleasure to have Cristina Flesher Fominaya Friday at 1pm with us DEMOS talking about youth, social movements and democracy.

Recommendation. I wrote an endorsement for Maribel Casas-Cortés' new book: Precarity Activism - Youth and Social Change in Southern Europe. It is a brilliant piece of scholarship. It is published open access. Go read the book: routledge.com/Precarity-Acti…

🎓PhD Course Alert: "Studying Immigration, Solidarity & Civil Society" 🗓️ 12-14 May 2025 | Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark 📍 Registration and description in the comments ✅ ECTS Credits: 3 The registration link is in the comment #PhDcourse #MigrationStudies #Solidarity

PhD Course Reflection | Solidarity, Migration & Civil Society 12–14 May 2025 | Aalborg University x DEMOS Grateful for this space of critical exchange on solidarity, crisis & migration. Big shoutout to my PhD partner-in-crime Mashudu Salifu 🙌 linkedin.com/feed/update/ur… #PhDLife