Department for Migration and Globalisation

Communicating on Migration-specific Topics (Talk)

How can research findings on the topic of migration and globalisation be efficiently communicated to multipliers and the general public? And how can researchers contribute to a generally better understanding of this topic? At the invitation of the Department for Knowledge and Communication Management, Friedrich Altenburg will address these questions and report on completed and current projects of our department.

'2025 IMISCOE Spring Conference' in Krems

The annual IMISCOE Spring Conference is coming to Krems in 2025. It will take place from March 17 to 19 on the topic of irregular migration. The Call for Papers is now open – The deadline for submissions is September 16, 2024.

ERC Starting Grant to Lea Mueller-Funk

We're delighted for Lea Müller-Funk, who has been awarded the ERC Starting Grant for her project RESTATE. She will investigate how refugees perceive the state and state violence before, during and after their flight and how these experiences influence their political participation. This is the second time this grant has been awarded to a researcher from our department.

Vacancy: Become part of an ERC Starting Grant Project

We are looking for an Early Stage Researcher (PhD Student) to join the ERC-funded MixedRivals project team to explore rivalry and solidarity between migrant groups in North Africa: If interested, please apply by September 25, 2024.

The migration and development nexus: The daily Die Presse reports on the MIGNEX project

Which widespread assumptions about the interactions between migration and development were confirmed and which were refuted by the surveys conducted as part of the international ‘MIGNEX’ project? The daily newspaper ‘Die Presse’ spoke to economist Mathias Czaika and political scientist Zina Weisner about these questions.

Vacancy: Senior Scientist - Post Doc

Are you interested in conducting independent research on ethical issues related to migration policy making? Apply for this postdoctoral position and become part of our interdisciplinary and team-oriented department. We look forward to receiving your online application by September 30, 2024.

Two decades of EU Funds for migration and asylum (video)

How have the allocations of EU funds for migration and asylum changed in the last two decades? What methods can be employed to trace and analyse these funds? The MigFund project addresses these questions, and the MigFund database represents the most comprehensive endeavour in tracing migration-relevant measures in EU funds from 2000 onwards. In her lecture at the EUI Migration Policy Centre, the project leader Federica Zardo presented the MigFund database and discussed preliminary findings.

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

New insights on migration, development and policy: final project reports available