The IMISCOE PhD Academy is excited to announce 13 new members as the fourth cohort of the Academy!
The Academy connects PhD students in the broad field of migration research and provides migration research training and mentoring, supporting the IMISCOE PhD network community. This year we received an outstanding number of high-quality applications from a broad spectre of fields, methods, and backgrounds.
The selected applicants' PhD projects reflect the breadth of migration studies, with topics ranging from how border disappearances in Morocco impact families and communities; EU migration policies; how digital technologies shape and mediate migration experiences; to how migration shapes perceptions of masculinity; LGBTQ+ mental health; and how gender expectations can change after migration journeys, amongst others. The different temporal, spatial, and levels of analysis amongst the new members’ research will provide important contributions to the PhD Academy and the IMISCOE Network.
This year’s new cohort is comprised of applicants from Asia, Africa and Europe. While the majority of the new members have European institutional affiliations, we are happy to note that many have rich personal migration experiences, ensuring geographical representation. The diversity of the new members is also evident in their projects which address migration issues and topics across the globe. Ranging from intra-EU migration to climate-induced migration in Cape-Verde; migration trajectories in Nigerian IDP camps and place-making strategies amongst African migrants in Delhi, to name just a few.
The new PhD Academy members come from different disciplinary backgrounds and employ a multitude of methods, reflecting the many-faced approaches to migration studies, and highlighting the importance of the migration PhD Network’s and Academy’s role in connecting young migration scholars in different academic disciplines.
This year’s inaugural event of the IMISCOE PhD Academy took place digitally on October 14th, where new and old members of the Academy had the opportunity to get to know each other, their research topics, and discuss what they want the PhD Academy to be.
We are excited to welcome the new cohort and are looking forward to taking part in their academic journeys as the next generation of migration scholars.