Maria Koinova (@mkoinova)

2025 Call for Special Issue Proposals Deadline: 15 December 2025 Migration Studies is now accepting Special Issue proposals. The journal typically publishes one call for special issues pe

Our call for Special Issues is now live! We welcome collections that advance theoretical debates, offer comparative insight, and push methodological boundaries. Deadline: 15 December 2025. Questions: get in touch with @mkoinova.bsky.social. Details: academic.oup.com/migration/pa...

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Exciting News from Migration Studies

I am delighted to share that our journal has opened its 2025 call for special issue proposals, with a deadline of 15 December 2025.

Full details are available here: lnkd.in/d-u_Xzcg

For any questions, feel free to reach out to me as Deputy Editor.

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For so long, skeptics said that Assad's fall would be violent and chaotic. The below shows how, when external powers finally agreed that he should go, the handover of power was peaceful. It's such a crime that this did not happen years ago.

09.12.2024 13:18 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

How can migration decision-making be further integrated with environmental context and change? Bishawjit Mallick and Lori M. Hunter apply a historical lens to a case study in Bangladesh, highlighting potential avenues for interdisciplinary collaboration.

#OpenAccess

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09.12.2024 16:21 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Book Talk: The Ecosystem of Exile Politics Join the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility for a discussion with Susan Banki, author of recently published The Ecosystem of Exile Politics: Why Proximity and Precarity Matter for Bhutan’s Homeland Activists.The Ecosystem of Exile Politics is one of the very few scholarly examinations of Bhutan’s exiled refugee population, and the activism in which its leaders engaged. It’s been noted for its ‘rigorous fieldwork, beautiful prose, and conceptual sophistication.’ The book relays the events in Bhutan that led to the exodus of one-sixth of the population, and then recounts the activism by Bhutan's refugee diaspora that followed in response. The book’s research shows that activism functions like a physical ecosystem, in which hubs of activism in different locations interact to pressure the home country. For Bhutan's refugee mobilizers, physical proximity offers advantages in Nepal and India, where organizing protests, lobbying, and collecting information about government abuse in Bhutan is aided by being close to the homeland. But in an ecosystem of exile politics, proximity is both a boon and a bane. Sites proximate to Bhutan can be spaces of risk and disempowerment, and refugee activists rarely secure legal, political, and social protection. While distant diasporas in the Global North may not be in precarious situations, they cannot tap into the advantages of proximity. In examining these phenomena, The Ecosystem of Exile Politics adds to theoretical understandings of exile politics and to empirical research on Bhutan and its refugee population.

Surprise visit to see mom. Also, book talk in NYC on Monday 5pm at the awesome Zolberg Institute at the New School. Only in person (although there may be a recording). Register and come! event.newschool.edu/ecosystemofe...

07.12.2024 12:12 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

The Diaspora's Mobilization Post-Invasion Has Provided Crucial Support to Ukraine The Ukrainian diaspora has played a critical but often overlooked role in supporting the homeland since Russia invaded in 2022. Key networks were built years earlier, following the annexation of Crime...

I am glad to share my new article "The Diaspora's Mobilization Post-Invasion Has Provided Crucial Support to Ukraine" with the Migration Policy Institute www.migrationpolicy.org/article/ukra...

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