We are excited to announce that a new Open Access book, co-edited by MITRA board members Benjamin Etzold and
Marie Godin, will be published in summer in the IMISCOE Research Series with Springer. Info here: link.springer.com/book/9783032...
The local trap in migration research: methodological localism and a polycentric typology of scalar configurations: Ethnic and Racial Studies: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
What is citizenship in times of crisis?
In a new #OpenAccess article with @jdzankic.bsky.social and @ashleymhollands.bsky.social, we analyse data from 204 countries & territories during COVID-19
1/4🧵
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Looking forward to next week's Global Citizenship seminar @eui-schuman.bsky.social @eui-ggp.bsky.social !
Join us if you are around in Florence.
Meet the new co-convenors of #ecpr #SG 🎉
🔹 Daniela Vintila (@danielavintila.bsky.social)
🔹 Pau Palop-García (@pau-palop.bsky.social)
🔹 Andrea Pettracchin (@andreapettrachin.bsky.social)
🔹 Sebastián Umpierrez de Reguero (@sumpierrez.bsky.social)
🔹 Verena Wisthaler
Stay tuned for upcoming activities!
🌍 Why do not all immigrant groups support progressive parties?
➡️ @korinlind.bsky.social & @antvalentim.bsky.social show immigrants from established democracies are more likely to back green parties than those from (post-)authoritarian regimes www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
🚨 This overview of quantitative political science data and methods for comparative immigration law is intended for students and scholars of other methodological and/or disciplinary backgrounds.
@migcitizenapsa.bsky.social @migcitpol.bsky.social @globalcit.bsky.social
Very pleased to announce the publication of our recent special issue on "Citizenship in the global struggles for democracy", co-edited with Jelena Džankić and Szabolcs Pogonyi @scmrjems.bsky.social @lsemethodology.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Why do some people want to migrate while others don’t—even in similar conditions?🌍
My new #openaccess article in IMR shows how psychology🧠—notably values, risk tolerance, and personality—predict both aspiration and irregularity willingness.🔎🔓
journals.sagepub.com/eprint/XEJZT...
⏳ The clock is ticking! Have you cast your vote in the SG Elections yet? 🗳️
Don’t miss your chance to shape what comes next — it only takes a minute!
👉 Vote now if you haven’t already!
🚨 Vacancy alert 👇
Thank you so much @podmalm.bsky.social !
🚨 Last days to apply 👇
👉 Don’t forget to vote 🗳️ and help shape the future of our #ECPR SG.
*Pierre-Georges Van Wolleghem*
➡️ Research Associate Professor, NORCE | University of Bergen 🇧🇻 & Ottawa 🇨🇦
➡️ Research: asylum, migration, and integration governance.
➡️ Plans: support SG events, communication, & collaborative spaces.
*Andrea Pettrachin*
@andreapettrachin.bsky.social
➡️ Assistant Professor, University of Padua 🇮🇹
➡️ Research: migration policymaking and governance; mixed methods.
➡️ Plans: contributing to PhD support and mentoring initiatives.
*Carles Pamies* @chalsito.bsky.social
➡️ Assistant Professor, UNED 🇪🇸 | Visiting Professor, Sciences Po 🇫🇷
➡️ Research: migrant inclusion, representation, political trust, political behaviour.
➡️ Plans: strengthen interdisciplinary dialogue, innovative panels, and PhD mentoring.
*Pau Palop-García* @pau-palop.bsky.social
➡️ Senior Researcher, DeZIM | Research Associate, GIGA 🇩🇪
➡️ Research: comparative migration, diaspora policies, & transnational representation.
➡️ Aims: bolster the SG as an inclusive and internationally relevant forum.
*Sebastián Umpierrez de Reguero*
@sumpierrez.bsky.social
➡️ Researcher, Tallinn University 🇪🇪 | Nebrija University 🇪🇸
➡️ Research: migration, citizenship & political participation
➡️ Active in ECPR: SG Co-Convenor
➡️ Aims: increase SG’s international visibility, diversity, & interdisciplinary reach.
*Daniela Vintila* @danielavintila.bsky.social
➡️ Associate Professor, University of Liège 🇧🇪 | Coordinator, IMISCOE.
➡️ Research: migration governance, intra-EU mobility, migrants’ rights.
➡️ Active in #ECPR: SG Chair
➡️ Aims: strengthen methods training, mentoring & collaboration within the SG.
*Verena Wisthaler*
➡️ Head, Center for Migration and Societal Change, EURAC Research 🇮🇹
➡️ Research: sub-state migration politics and policymaking.
➡️ Active in #ECPR: SG co-convenor.
➡️ Aims: outreach to under-represented scholars, early-career researchers, and a welcoming, dynamic SG.
🗳️ Meet the candidates for the ECPR SG #Migration & #Ethnicity Steering Committee
Over the next posts, this thread will introduce the nominated candidates, highlighting their profiles, research interests, and engagement with the field.
⬇️ Thread below
📢 Online Seminar Series (Feb–Mar 2026)
*Migration Politics in Autocratizing Contexts*
Hosts: K. Natter, N. Zakharchenko & L. El Euldj (
@unileiden.bsky.social)
#migrant #activism, #refugee #return, & #citizenship across 🇹🇭 🇮🇳 🇦🇫 🇱🇧 🇹🇷 🇦🇷 🇵🇭 🇷🇺
📝 + info:
forms.gle/f2GGn9qSoCnq...
Last days to submit a proposal for our @ecpr.bsky.social Joint Sessions Workshop on #Migration, #Governance & #Politics 👇.
📢 CfP: Panel on #citizenship #restitution as #state #policy and #individual #opportunity).
Send 📝 title + 250-word abstract by 18/12/25 to:
📧 rschweitzer@uao.es | fuchs@dezim-institut.de
Notifications by 22 Dec 2025.
+ info on our Section: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
#ECPR2026 #Migration #Ethnicity
Our study on public immigration misperceptions is out! Prior research overstated their prevalence due to flawed measurement. Our new approach separates real misperceptions from uninformed guessing — showing they’re less common than widely assumed and ideologically motivated.
doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
Want to know more about the MER dataset 🤔
Read Sebastian Umpierrez de Reguero, Klaudia Wegschaider and Rainer Bauböcks explain in their new publication ⚡
MER maps migrant voting and candidacy rights in 165 countries across 60 years 🗳️🌍📊
⚡ tinyurl.com/mtm2rp53
‼️CfP‼️ Beyond the City: #Migration, #Governance and #Politics in Non-Urban and Peripheral Spaces
🪑Verena Wisthaler & Giorgia Zogu
ECPR Joint Sessions in Innsbruck, April 2026
⏳10 Dec 25
Further info & submission portal: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
@ecpr.bsky.social
#ecprjs26
Read the newly released book by Eva Loreng. This book takes a look at matrix of socio-economic and political factors, both internationally and domestically, which contribute towards the evolution of #diaspora as a source of soft power.
Title: Incongruent Suffrage Authors: Klaudia Wegschaider, Rainer Bauböck, Sebastián Umpierrez de Reguero Abstract: Candidacy rights and voting rights are not always congruent. Although voting rights are extensively studied, historical and contemporary incongruencies in suffrage have been widely overlooked. We propose a typology of suffrage incongruency that we apply to the enfranchisement of non-citizen residents and non-resident citizens—two categories recently at the center of enfranchisement scholarship and reform efforts. Using an original dataset that covers 165 countries and 61 years (1960-2020), we identify past and present voting-only incongruencies and candidacy-only incongruencies. Existing theories of suffrage extension focus on the voteshare maximizing logic of incumbents. However, these explanations cannot account for why only one part of suffrage is extended. With two exploratory case studies of Switzerland and the United Kingdom, we inductively arrive at potential explanations for why voting-only and candidacy-only incongruencies arise and resolve in democracies. We conclude with a research agenda on the causes and consequences of suffrage incongruencies.
🚨 New Working Paper with R.Bauböck + @sumpierrez.bsky.social
We introduce the concept of incongruent suffrage.
This describes when there are voting rights but no candidacy rights for a group. Or vice versa.
The paper includes descriptive data & exploratory case studies.
doi.org/10.33774/aps...