MIMY @ 18th IMISCOE Annual Conference – ONLINE 7-9 July 2021

We are happy to announce that the MIMY project will be featured prominently at this year’s IMISCOE online conference hosted by the University of Luxembourg and chaired by MIMY’s PI, Birte Nienaber! The researchers of our consortium in collaboration with other scientists in the field have organized 3 panels, 1 workshop and 1 individual paper to present first empirical findings of MIMY, reflect on important theoretical questions and capture different local realties. Here is the programme of MIMY’s contributions to IMISCOE 2021. To learn more about each of them visit the official sessions’ schedule here.

Day 1 Wed July 7

14:00 - 15:30, Session #10 panel | SC Reflexive Migration Studies

Individual Paper: Conceptualizing vulnerability in the context of migration: a critical overview and a new conceptual model. Amalia Gilodi, Isabelle Albert, Birte Nienaber (University of Luxembourg)

Day 2 Thu July 8

11:00 - 12:30, Session #102 panel | SC Migration Politics and Governance

Panel: How to design meaningful policy of living together for (vulnerable young) migrants and non-migrants. Failures, achievements and hopes for future. Chaired by Izabela Grabowska (SWPS University)

  • Paper #1
    A ‘weak state’ and the empowerment of local stakeholders in Poland in supporting young vulnerable migrants. Dominika Blachnicka-Ciacek, Agnieszka Trabka, Dominika Winogrodzka (SWPS University)
  • Paper #2
    Young migrants in vulnerable conditions and the issue of the “integration”: Italian stakeholders’ and young migrants’ point of view. Eleonora Crapolicchio, Cristina Giuliani, Daniela Marzana, Camillo Regalia (UCSC Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano)
  • Paper #3
    Together in diversity. A new policy agenda for the immigration society. Godfried Engbersen (Dutch Scientific Council for Government Policy and Erasmus University Rotterdam)
  • Paper #4
    Summary talk on (migrant) youth and social cohesion. Discussion. Anita Harris (Deakin University, Australia)

Day 3 Fri July 9

08:00 - 09:30, Session #175 panel | SC Migration Politics and Governance

Panel: Migrants and the local population. Chaired by Jörg Plöger (ILS-Research Institut for Regional and Urban Development) & Agnes Kriszan (HAWK University of Applied Sciences Hildesheim/Holzminden/Göttingen)

  • Paper #1
    The role of places of interactions to bridge refugees and the resident populations. Findings from rural Germany. Stefan Kordel, Tobias Weidinger, David Spenger (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg)
  • Paper #2
    ´Welcoming initiatives´ in shrinking small towns. Migrants´ pathways of emplacement and the cooperation of local population, actors of social work and government. Sabine Meier (University Siegen)
  • Paper #3
    Friendship (networks) in the process of “doing arrival”: Young refugees and asylum seekers’ negotiations of social relationships in urban spaces of arrival. Elisabeth Kirndörfer (Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig) & Kathrin Hörschelmann (University of Bonn)
  • Paper #5
    Who is responsible for integration? Stakeholders’ perspectives and their attitudes at the local level. Zeynep Aydar (ILS-Research Institut for Regional and Urban Development) & Swantje Penke (HAWK University of Applied Sciences Hildesheim/Holzminden/Göttingen)

09:45 - 11:15, Session #199 workshop | RI Norms and Values in Migration and Integration

Workshop: Concepts of migrant integration revisited: processes and stability. Organized by Louise Ryan (London Metropolitan University) & Jan Skrobanek (University of Bergen) Participants: Izabela Grabowska (SWPS University), Anita Harris (Deakin University, Australia), Zeynep Aydar (ILS-Research Institut for Regional and Urban Development), Sarah Ann Spencer (COMPAS), Zsuzsanna Arendas, Vera Messing (Central European University), Amalia Gilodi, José Egidio Oliveira (University of Luxembourg)

Fri July 9, 15:30 - 17:00, Session #245 panel | SC Reflexive Migration Studies

Panel: MIMY “EMpowerment through liquid Integration of Migrant Youth in vulnerable conditions”: Presentation of first results of an H2020 research project on youth migration in Europe. Chaired by Birte Nienaber & Isabelle A. Albert (University of Luxembourg)

  • Paper #1
    Nothing to lose but stability? – An explorative analysis of national governmental, NGO and practitioners’ integration debates. Jan Skrobanek & Rebecca Dyer Ånensen (University of Bergen)
  • Paper #2
    Is there an effect of young refugees inflows on the youth unemployment? evidence from a panel data analysis in European countries. Monica Roman & Smaranda Cimpoeru (Bucharest University of Economic Studies)
  • Paper #3
    Vulnerable immigrant youth in Europe. A micro-level analysis of factors of vulnerability using European Social Survey data. Vera Messing & Bence Ságvári (Central European University)
  • Paper #4
    Critical intersections: youth, culture and inequality in England’s integration policies. Thea Shahrokh, Majella Kilkey, Hannah Lewis, Ryan Powell (University of Sheffield)
  • Paper #5
    Young third-country nationals’ integration in Luxembourg: hurdles and challenges. Birte Nienaber, Isabelle Albert, Jutta Bissinger, José Oliveira (University of Luxembourg)