22/07/2025

Discover Irregular Migration Estimates Across 20 Countries

The MIrreM Project Team has launched an interactive data portal featuring irregular migration estimates from 2008 to 2023 in 20 countries across Europe, North America, and North Africa. Explore key figures, access the full dataset, and browse related publications—all in one place.
14/07/2025

What EU funding reveals about Europe's migration policy

In her project MigFund, Federica Zardo investigates how the EU spends money in the area of migration and asylum. The political scientist analyzes how funding practices have developed over the past 20 years and finds that the focus is increasingly shifting toward isolation and outsourcing to third countries. Read more in the latest issue of the web magazine scilog.

23/09/2025

Annual Conference of the Austrian Economic Association 2025

As co-organizer, we are pleased to announce that the next annual conference of the National Economic Association will take place in Krems on September 23 and 24, 2025 and will focus on the topic of Migration. Isabel Ruiz (University of Oxford) and Çaglar Özden (World Bank) will give the keynote speeches. The registration is now open.
11/09/2025

Measuring Irregular Migration: Final Conference (Save the Date)

The hybrid MIrreM Final Conference aims to promote open and constructive dialogue among researchers, policymakers, and practitioners through a series of interactive panel discussions.
17/03/2025

'2025 IMISCOE Spring Conference' in Krems

More than 400 people participated online or in person in Krems in the three-day conference in March, which examined the topic of irregular migration from multiple perspectives. In addition to video recordings of selected events, a booklet and an interview conducted by Der Standard on the occasion of the conference are available.
05/09/2024

APSA Best Dissertation Award to Naiara Rodriguez-Peña

She received the award for her dissertation, entitled Emigration from 'Destination': The Unfulfilled Migration Aspirations of the Precariat in the 'Global North', which she completed at the University of Kent. In a new interview, our colleague describes the findings that particularly surprised her and what she recommends to other early-stage researchers. 
05/11/2025

New Study Program on Circular and Return Migration Management

The UN Global Compact for Migration gives international cooperation an important role in facilitating safe and dignified return to and reintegration into the country of origin. Well-planned and organized return programs contribute equally to safety and development in countries of origin, transit and destination. 
03/08/2024

No asylum - and yet here: "Die Presse" asked the reasons for this

A German-language article about the difficult documentation and political treatment of "non-deportables". One of the interviewees was Albert Kraler, coordinator of the project "Measuring Irregular Migration".

29/04/2025

Lea Müller-Funk admitted to Young Academy

Migration researcher from the University for Continuing Education Krems among the eight new members of the Young Academy of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

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Migration- and Integrationmanagement

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Global Competences and Management

The university course provides the knowledge and practice to be able to meet the increasing demands in professional life and especially in management.

Circular and Return Migration Management, CP

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PhD Migration Studies

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