Author Archives: Steffen

This week’s annual IMISCOE conference was an exciting experience. Due to the ongoing health crisis, the conference did not take place in Luxembourg (as initially planned) but went entirely online. The organizing committee did an excellent job adapting and redesigning … Continued

I recently have been invited to give a lecture at the MiReKoc International Summer School on Research Methods and Ethics in Migration Studies. This training school will take place between July 6 and 17 at Koç University in Istanbul. I’m … Continued

Last week I had the pleasure to participate in the second International Forum on Migration Statistics (IFMS) in Cairo. The conference, which took place from January 19 to 21, had been organized by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the … Continued

Great start into the new year: The article “Studies on the Acculturation of Young Refugees in the Educational Domain: A Scoping Review of Research and Methods” I co-authored has been published online fist in Adolescent Research Review on January, 1. … Continued

Together with Débora Maehler (GESIS) and Ulrike Krause (IMIS, Osnabrück University), I had the privilege to organize the German-Canadian Conference on Migration & Integration: Young (Forced) Migrants and their Families which took place at Osnabrück University earlier this week (November … Continued

Today I received the good news that the paper on Facebook sampling, my colleague Michael Braun and I submitted to the Second International Forum on Migration Statistics has been accepted by the organizing committee. I’m looking very much forward to … Continued

The official schedule of the 3rd ETHMIGSURVEYDATA Training School is out. The event is entitled “Research on Ethnic and Migrant Minorities” and will take place on November 14 and 15 in Budapest. I’m looking very much forward to teaching the … Continued

  Call for papers Standing Committee Methodological Approaches and Tools in Migration Research Panel sessions at the 17th IMISCOE Annual Conference, Luxembourg, June 30 – July 2, 2020   The Standing Committee (SC) Methodological Approaches and Tools in Migration Research … Continued

Today we received the good news that the IMISCOE Board of Directors has accepted our proposal to establish a methods oriented Standing Committee (SC) in the network. After having already organized methods session at the annual conferences in 2017, 2018 … Continued

This week I spent four days as visiting researcher at MPIDR’s Laboratory of Digital and Computational Demography in Rostock. I had a great time and many inspiring discussions with great colleagues. A big thank you to Emilio Zagheni and André … Continued