(Forced) Migration matters east of the EU and beyond the Global South are rarely covered at IMISCOE and other western migration conferences or in mainstream migration and refugee studies journals. Even though forced migration, first, from Belarus and then from Ukraine recently made it onto our research agendas there is little found on, for example, migration to Russia and hardly ever is there any coverage of migration to Kazakhstan, refugees in Uzbekistan or displacement from Nagorno-Karabakh. However, to some extent such knowledge does exist but is rather dealt with, for instance, in area studies such as Eurasian or post-Soviet studies and respective publications. This panel aims to gather and promote research on migration and migration policy in the Global East, the region east for the EU; in particular, it aims to identify research and knowledge gaps, analyse the causes of these gaps and discuss a strategy to overcome these.
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Internal deadline is Monday 07/10 at midnight ((UTC+2)