On behalf of the Organising Committee at the CIES-ISCTE, we are delighted to welcome all the colleagues to the 21st IMISCOE Annual Conference in Lisbon, between the 2-5 of July. The topic of this conference explores migration as a social construction, as we seek to promote a reflexive turn in migration studies. This critical approach focuses on the social processes that determine the classification of mobile individuals and even their descendants as migrants. This wave of ontological and conceptual reflection has been labelled as the reflexive turn in current migration research. Thus, this event will promote stimulating debates on the interplay between migrant in law and policy, the public debate on this topic, and the migrants’ experiences and actions on the host societies.
In short, this conference seeks to contribute to the theoretical understanding and empirical study of the processes of social construction of migration and their impact on social reality at the global level.
Daniel Malet Calvo
Raquel Mattias
