Seventh Conference on Migration Research in Austria

The Commission for Migration and Integration (KMI) and the Institute for Urban and Regional Research (ISR) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) as well as the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Vienna have been jointly hosting the Biennial Conference on Migration Research in Austria. In 2022 this conference will be organised in cooperation with the Department for Migration and Globalization, Danube University Krems.

The event is aimed at researchers from all disciplines and fields of study who are working on migration and integration.

Globalisation of Borders - Borders of Globalisation: Migration between global crises and local dynamics

Migration is an essential part of social change in a globalising world. The multidimensional and cross-border process of globalisation affects not only international migration and mobility in complex ways but also local processes of (dis-)integration. Transnational crises make visible how strongly social systems have become interconnected and internationally integrated. International mobility is an essential transmission mechanism that globalises crises and impacts on local contexts. In which ways does migration alter contexts of origin and destination and how are these changes connected transnationally? How do migrants and majority populations experience these complex cross-border dynamics and how do they react to these? How do actors from the fields of politics, religion, civil society, academia, and the arts attempt to influence these processes of change? How do these social processes change the role and nature of borders, but also the identity and sovereignty of states? We also intend to shed light, however, on the limits of globalisation. Do we perhaps find ourselves at the beginning of a period of de-globalisation triggered by global crises such as the financial crisis of 2007-2009, the Covid-19 pandemic, and the climate crisis? How do mobility, migration, and their governance adapt to these new realities? Can we compare current processes of globalisation and de-globalisation to earlier periods, such as at the turn of the 20th century?
Migration studies is a research field in which a number of scientific disciplines approach such complex questions from multiple angles. In its keynote addresses and plenary sessions, the 7th Austrian Biennial Conference on Migration Research will shed light on the challenges and opportunities of the multidisciplinary perspectives on migration and globalisation. The conference will further address whether and how understandings of migration and mobility, integration and settled life, as well as diversity and participation must be modified in the context of globalized societies.

Keynote Speakers

ProfessorAyelet Shachar, R.F. Harney Chair in Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies, Professor of Law, Political Science & Global Affairs, University of Toronto

Professor Ettore Recchi, Director of the MA and PhD programme in Sociology at the Sciences Po, Paris, part-time professor at the Migration Policy Centre, European University Institute, Florence

Professor Hein de Haas, Department of Sociology, University of Amsterdam

Professor Parvati Raghuram, Department of Geography, The Open University, Milton Keynes

Organisation

Mag. Friedrich Altenburg, MSc, Department for Migration und Globalization, Danube University Krems

Prof. Rainer Bauböck, Commission for Migration and Integration Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences

Prof. Mathias Czaika, Department for Migration und Globalization, Danube University Krems

Ass. Prof. Mag. Dr. Albert Kraler, Department for Migration und Globalization, Danube University Krems

Prof. Dr. Christoph Reinprecht, Department of Sociology, University of Vienna

Dr. Wiebke Sievers, Institute for Urban and Regional Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences

Ivan Josipovic (MA, MSc), Department of Political Science, University of Vienna