Chris Hart studied a multimodal corpus of tv news clips and its subtitles to analyse how refugees and (im)migrants are represented in collustrations.
Water metaphors are combined with land images, whereas the verb “arrive” is combined with watery images!
Read the article: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/communication/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2024.1451105/full
#CADS2026
#MigrationResearch
Frontiers | Multimodal meaning making in news communication about immigration: using the NewsScape corpus to explore co-verbal images in TV news

The communication of news relies on semiotic resources besides language, including various audiovisual modes of representation. Owing to the difficulties ass...

Frontiers

How #migration became #data: The second #keynote #lecture of our #summeruniversity by Prof. Dr. Christoph Rass (@nghm_uos) explores how #digitaltools shape #migrationresearch, reproducing and transforming categorical orders. He examines #historicaldata like the Osnabrück "Ausländermeldekartei" and scientific publications on #Gastarbeiterkinder, highlighting how categories persist and evolve.

📍 6h-8h | 25.06 | hybrid

https://www.dhi-paris.fr/de/termindetails/how-migration-became-data-how-data-makes-meaning-and-how-reflexive-migration-research-intervenes.html

How Migration Became Data, How Data Makes Meaning, and How Reflexive Migration Research Intervenes

Prof. Dr. Christoph Rass (Univ. Osnabrück)

📊 Research insight: attitudes towards refugees depend strongly on trust and perceived fairness.

Findings from Germany show that acceptance or rejection is closely linked to how institutions and policies are perceived, with clear implications for integration and social cohesion.

Full article:
https://theconversation.com/what-makes-people-welcome-or-reject-refugees-what-research-in-germany-reveals-269436

#MigrationResearch #Refugees #SocialCohesion #PublicOpinion #Evidence

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Endowed Professorship for Migration, Internal Border Regimes, and Bureaucracy (f/m/d)

Deadline: Open until filled  
Location: Austria - St. Pölten

https://www.academiceurope.com/ads/endowed-professorship-for-migration-internal-border-regimes-and-bureaucracy-f-m-d/

#hiring #migrationresearch #borderstudies #socialpolitics #professor

🌍 Save the Date! 🌍
The 4th Annual ECMN Conference will take place 23–26 June 2026 at Wageningen University & Research, 🇳🇱 hosted by the Environmental Policy Group.

Stay tuned for the theme & call for papers!
#ECMN26 #ClimateMobilities #MigrationResearch

www.climatemobilities.network

#MigrationResearch #SocialMediaRecruitment #GlobalMigrationStudies
Out now: Surveying emigrants worldwide–using Facebook and Instagram to recruit respondents in cross-national (e)migration research by Pötzschke & Weiß: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-025-00464-w
📢Next Tues. 29/04 Join experts in migration, health & political ecology to explore ethics in participatory research with racialized migrant communities. Hosted by the IMBRACE project 🌍🧭 #ClimateJustice #MigrationResearch #ResearchEthics #HealthEquity www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-...
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For summer readings I have chosen some theoretical and anthropological stuff, from example Manuel De Landa, Donatella Di Cesare and Barbara Glowczewski. For next summer I would prefer reading and thinking together with others interested in same kinds of themes! So please feel free to adverise summer schools or such that you could recommend!
#SummerSchool #anthropology #newmaterialisms #deleuze #AsylumandMigration #migrationresearch

@socialsciences @anthropology @suomenantropologi @ThePhDPlace

The #callforsessions is now open for the upcoming ETMU #conference HOPEFUL ENGAGEMENTS IN TURBULENT TIMES: #knowledge #ART AND #ACTION IN #MIGRATIONRESEARCH

Themes can relate to #migration #mobility #eco_crisis #transnationalism #populism #displacement #intersectionality #HumanRights

The sessions can be traditional academic proposals or creative/arts-based workshops.

Please learn more: https://events.tuni.fi/etmu2024/

ETMU Conference 2024 | Tampere Universities

ETMU Conference 2024

Still time to apply! 1-2 fully funded and salaried #PhD positions on the politics of #migration in the so-called global south, esp. #Mexico and #SouthAfrica, for a double degree in #peace & #development research & #politicalscience at the universities of #Gothenburg and #Amsterdam.
https://mastodon.nu/@johank76/111107122240851187

#academicjobs #phdPosition #doctoraldegrees #doctoralstudy #PhDjobs #PhDstudent #migrationresearch #migrantesmexico #southafrican

Johan K Sch (@[email protected])

CFA: 1-2 fully funded and salaried PhD student positions with a focus on the politics of migration in the #GlobalSouth, for a dual degree at University of #Gothenburg and University of #Amsterdam https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/job?site=7&lang=UK&validator=9b89bead79bb7258ad55c8d75228e5b7&job_id=31650 #migrationresearch #migration #politicalscience #phdPosition #phdjobs #doctoraleducation #PeaceResearch

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