Europa Institute staff attend 2024 IMISCOE Annual Conference
Moritz Jesse and Elena Kukovica attended the 2024 IMISCOE Annual Conference in Lisbon which was held from 2 to 5 July 2024.
IMISCOE (International Migration Research Network) is the largest interdisciplinary network of scholars in the field of migration. Throughout the year, numerous IMISCOE events are organised in the context of research initiatives, publication events, PhD training, etc. The most important event on the network’s agenda is the IMISCOE Annual Conference, which has been organised every year since 2004 by different IMISCOE Member Institutes.
Moritz Jesse and Elena Kukovica presented a paper entitled ‘The EU’s free movement of persons in light of environmental change: Functioning advantage or overly optimistic expectation?’, which focuses on environmental migration within the European Union, its (potential) impacts on free movement of persons and potential derogation grounds that Member States could invoke in situations of mass influx of migrants.
In addition, Moritz organised and moderated a panel on behalf of DAMR (Dutch Association of Migration Research) entitled ‘Depictions, expectations, and self-image – How status, discourse, and policies influence identity, exclusion, and sense of belonging’. The panel focused on how fragmentation of migrant categorisation in regulation as well as public discourse leads to ‘othering’ and discrimination of immigrants in the receiving societies.