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Chair: Elif Beyza Dincer (University of Liège); Discussant: Sebastian Rinken (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas)

1. Technological transformation in the Dutch labor market and skills shortages: The role of perceived discrimination
   Colleen Boland (Radboud University); Tesseltje de Lange (Radboud University)
2. “My name is a barrier”: Coping with discrimination in the rental housing market
   Billie Martiniello (European University Institute)
3. Agency under constraint: Anticipated discrimination and job-seeking strategies of new migrants
   Jef Bormans (Vrije Universiteit Brussel); Eva Van Belle (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
4. Mobilising against racism in contentious times: Context, challenges, and coalition dynamics
   Shannon Gouppy (University of Liège)

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Chair: Denis Zeković (Technische Universität Chemnitz); Discussant: Òscar Prieto-Flores (University of Girona)

1. Transit in illiberal times: Neo-nationalisms and migrant solidarities in North Africa
   Montassir Sakhi (UM6P-Morocco)
2. Entrepreneurial transit: Yemeni immobility and agency in Malaysia
   Waleed F. Mahdi (University of Oklahoma)
3. Waiting for change: Returnee agency and sensemaking in Lithuania
   Indra Lukosiene (Vytautas Magnus University)
4. Prospecting a Brussels yet to be: From prefigurative infrastructuring practices to urban scenarios for redrawing precarious citizenship
   Luce Beeckmans (KU Leuven); Mieke Groeninck (Odisee University of Applied Sciences & KU Leuven); Elisabeth Mareels (Odisee University of Applied Sciences); Mieke Schrooten (Odisee University of Applied Sciences)
5. Reconfiguring legal consciousness in administrative detention
   Emma Vescovi (University of Liège)

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Chair: Xingcheng Wen (University of Liège); Discussant: Pascal Debruyne (Odisee University College)

1. The societal dangers of migration narratives revisited: Aid fatigue, othering, functionality on the Belarusian-Polish EU border and Ukrainian refugees
   Izabela Grabowska (Kozminski University)
2. Merging class and ethnoracial identity narratives in a cross-national experiment: Toward greater social cohesion and equity
   Eduardo Campbell-Bethancourt (Utrecht University); Özge Bilgili (Utrecht University); Marcel Lubbers (Utrecht University)
3. Political communication in times of fake news against migrants in UK and Spain (2024-2025)
   Elisa Brey (Complutense University of Madrid)
4. Advocating for undocumented immigrant regularization in contentious times: Why information frames matter for public support
   Abdeslam Marfouk (University of Liège); Jean-Michel Lafleur (University of Liège)
5. After the smoke clears? Analyzing the discursive framing of the 2024 Amsterdam riots as a migration issue
   Aly Amer (Utrecht University)

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Chair: Anoshay Fazal (University of Liverpool); Discussant: Veronica Federico (University of Florence)

1. Unconventional evidence: When emojis replace emotions in refugee status determination
   Jessica Walmsley (University of Manchester); Gabriel du Plessix (University of Warwick)
2. Determining the age of asylum seekers based on psychosocial evaluations: Countering or reinforcing a culture of disbelief?
   Luc Leboeuf (University of Liège); Alix Ernoux (University of Liège)
3. Refugee governance and the politics of belief: Credibility, apostasy, and non-religion in the UK asylum system
   Lucy Potter (University of York)
4. Judges against the state: Political resistance, judicial oversight and Belgian asylum reception policies
   Sophie Andreetta (University of Liège)
5. Earning the trust of refugees: Mapping institutional configurations of trust under temporary protection in Switzerland
   Didier Ruedin (University of Neuchâtel)

Chair: Giulia Bisogni (Edge Hill University); Discussant: Fabio De Blasis (University of Milan)

1. Datafying undocumented immigrants: Healthcare as border control in ‘Trump’s America’ and in the United Kingdom’s hostile environment
   Moises Vieira (The University of Manchester)
2. Biopolitics at the border: Rethinking migrant agency and ideological alignment in the 2021 Belarus-EU crisis
   Wenyi Zhao (University of Warsaw)
3. Is Japan externalising border control through development cooperation with Vietnam?
   Hiroki Ishimaru (Japan International Cooperation Agency)
4. National security at the border: Greece’s suspension of asylum applications and the shift toward closed migrant reception
   Georgios Athanasiou (Antwerp University)
5. Legislative shifts in Australia’s migration policy: Examining their impact on public opinion and the rise of anti-immigration sentiment
   Sherene Ozyurek (Victoria University)

Chair: Aye Theingi (Waseda University); Discussant: Eric Florence (Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies-CEDEM, University of Liège)

1. Researching the local governance of arrival in contentious times: Shifting discourses, multi-stakeholder governance as well as empirical challenges within research on local refugee reception (in Leipzig/Germany)
   Anika Schmidt (Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research); Annegret Haase (Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research)
2. Migration governance under right-wing populism: Istanbul as a site of bounded innovation
   Gülşen Doğan (Koç University)
3. Bridging economic, social, and spatial integration: Horizontal policy exchange and urban governance in the Swiss refugee context
   Ciara Patterson-Oumarri (Maastricht University); Reem Rasheed Husain Alhaj Saleh (The University of Jordan)
4. Visa categories and the attitudes towards highly skilled mainland immigrants in Hong Kong: A mixed methods research design
   Chuangjian Xin (The Chinese University of Hong Kong); James Downes (The Chinese University of Hong Kong); Kenneth Lai (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Chair: Paula Fernández García (University of Liège); Discussant: Christina Bache (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

1. Spaces of exception and gendered precarity: How India's non-convention refugee framework reproduces illiberal migration governance through institutional multiplicity
   Subashini S S (University of Hyderabad)
2. When the spotlight moves: How shifting global priorities are leaving refugees behind
   Afrin Sohana Ahona (Jahangirnagar University); Sabrina Sultana Tithi (Jahangirnagar University)
3. UNRWA funding cuts and the necessity of refugee autonomy
   Nasser Al-Khalidi (UCL Development Planning Unit)
4. Internally displaced persons’ integration in Georgia in a complex political context: State policy and social response
   Irakli Manvelidze (Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University); Malvina Jibladze (Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University)
5. Spatiocide in Gaza: Displacement, resistance, and the struggle to remain
   Eman Ismail (Independent researcher)

Chair: Zekiye Gürün-Ücem (Justus-Liebig-University of Gießen); Discussant: Thomas Huddleston (University of Liège)

1. Governing through disappearance: Illiberal alliances and the Italy–Tunisia migration regime
   Giulia Sezzi (Scuola Normale Superiore)
2. Governing migration through “nudging forward”: Tracing the reasons behind the secondary movements of beneficiaries of international protection from Greece
   Tihomir Sabchev (Tilburg University)
3. The future of EU migration governance: Harnessing the power of the multiannual financial framework 2028-2034 for effective and sustainable migration solutions
   Nives Mazur Kumric (University of Liège)
4. Effectiveness, sustainability and voluntariness: Swedish return and readmission policies in light of the TIDÖ agreement
   Aida Ibričević (Linköping University)
5. Behind the visa: Selection mechanisms in Germany’s liberalised labour migration regime
   Jennifer-Louise Robinson (Osnabrück University)

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Chair: Valkyria Dantas Rattmann (University of Liège); Discussant: Tuba Bircan (BRISPO, Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

1. The impact of Chega on Portuguese immigration policy in the mid-2020s
   João Carvalho (CIES-ISCTE)
2. Emigration salience in election campaigns: A study of Spanish parties’ political pledges to the diaspora
   Daniela Vintila (University of Liège); Marta Paradés Martín (Universidad Pontificia Comillas)
3. ‘This is not migration policy, this is security, security, and security’: Securitization of migrants in Finnish political discourse on instrumentalized migration
   Henna Nurmi (University of Helsinki)
4. Ambivalent liberalism? Civic Platform's migration discourse in the light of issue ownership theory
   Marcin Kosman (Vizja University)
5. Still exceptional in Europe: Migration attitudes in Spain after the irruption of VOX
   Sebastian Rinken (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas)

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Chair: Alison Diec (University of Liège); Discussant: Mickaël Idrac (University of Liège)

1. Civic engagement in contentious times: The ambivalent role of volunteering in the governance of refugee reception in Italy
   Paola Bonizzoni (University of Milan)
2. Contested solidarities: Exploring refugee support across Greek border zones
   Dimitrios Sfondylis (University of Macedonia)
3. Catholic responses to migration as a site of polarisation in Western and Eastern Europe
   Névyne Zeineldin (University of Liège); Katarína Cséfalvayová (Institute for Central Europe); Clarissa Tabosa (Comenius University)
4. Political discouragement and on-the-ground support for migrants: Volunteering practices amid tightening return and deportation policies in Europe
   Karlien Strijbosch (Maastricht University)
5. Between contamination and institutionalization: Voluntary relationships of care throughout and beyond crises
   Eugenia Blasetti (University of Parma); Michela Semprebon (University of Parma); Paola Bonizzoni (University of Milan)

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Chair: Ismail Oubad (University of Liège); Discussant: Parvati Raghuram (Open University)

1. ‘Every day is a war’: Examining and learning from the impacts of the UK and US governments’ harsh immigration approaches on migrant inclusion/integration practitioners and their work during the Brexit and first Trump eras
   Beth A. Katz (University of Connecticut)
2. Migration governance in contentious times: The case of Community Sponsorship
   Mieke Schrooten (Odisee University of Applied Sciences); Sylvie Van Dam (Odisee University of Applied Sciences)
3. A decolonial perspective on the consequences of the closure of the USAID program for civil society organizations supporting migrants and refugees in Central and Eastern Europe: The case of Poland
   Katarzyna Kubin (University of Warsaw)
4. Refugee resettlement: Community organizations and integration in Alberta, Canada from 2015-2024
   Eylul Ozmen (Leuphana University of Lüneburg)
5. Diaspora representative claims before EU institutions: New trends in troubled times
   Claire Vincent-Mory (University of Liège)

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Chair: Katharina Klaunig (University of North Carolina); Discussant: Izabela Grabowska (Kozminski University)

1. Meso-level geoarbitrage and the role of intermediaries in shaping Chinese migration to Portugal
   Sofia Gaspar (CIES-Iscte)
2. Strategic ambiguity in migration policy change: From political compromise to street-level contestation
   Andreas Asplén Lundstedt (University of Gothenburg); Andrea Spehar (University of Gothenburg)
3. The politics of provision: Dehumanisation and food practices in Greek refugee hotspot islands
   Edurne Bartolomé Peral (University of Deusto); Rita Lambert (University College London)
4. Lawful loyalty: Reinterpreting bureaucratic practices in Belgian asylum administrations
   Claire Lefort-Rieu (University of Liège)
5. Contesting disintegration from within. Infra-political contestation by former newcomers as social professionals in integration regimes
   Mieke Groeninck (Odisee & KU Leuven); Pascal Debruyne (Odisee University College); Dirk Geldof (University of Antwerp & Odisee Centre for Family Studies)

Chair: Catarina Sampaio (Universidade Aberta); Discussant: Francesca Biondi Dal Monte (Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies)

1. Digital statecraft in transnational labor governance: The politics of platform interoperability in Indonesia-Saudi Arabia migrant governance
   Anggy Wira Pambudi (Universitas Singaperbangsa Karawang & Universitas Padjajaran)
2. Life under occupation: The challenges facing women business leaders in the West Bank
   Christina Bache (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
3. Strategic inaction of sending states: Turkey and the comparative politics of physician emigration
   Eren Karaca (Middle East Technical University)
4. Migrant entrepreneurship and the sociology of ignorance in illiberal times
   Alexandra David (Westphalian University); Judith Terstriep (Westphalian University); Jörg Freiling (University of Bremen)

Chair: Emmanuel Uchenna Chidozie (Catholic University of Leuven); Discussant: Jérémy Mandin (University of Liège)

1. Countering violence through migrant-led community networks in Northern Ireland
   Amanda Lubit (Dublin City University)
2. Violence enacted: How the men’s wing in a refugee accommodation became an accepted site of violence
   Sifka Etlar Frederiksen (Leuphana University Lüneburg)
3. Food beyond nutrition: Institutional, social, and structural dimensions of privatised hotel accommodation for Refugee Asylum Seeker health and wellbeing
   Emily Hiro Naish (Queen Mary University London)
4. Residential violence and socio-spatial care responses in trans migratory trajectories in Brussels  
   Ansao Totolehibe (Université catholique de Louvain)

Chair: Isabella Miano (University of Catania); Discussant: Alice Clarebout (University of Liège)

1. Neoliberal conditionality of solidarity: BN(O) migrants and the paradox of inclusion in Britain’s contentious migration politics
   Sum Kung (Kingston College)
2. Homemaking in contentious times: The performance of homeplace in the hostile environment
   Hannah Wainwright (University of Leeds)
3. From liberal refuge to neoliberal exclusion: Postcolonial legacies in the Hong Kong–UK BN(O) migration scheme
   Ka Chun Au (University of Essex)
4. A new zone of anomaly: What does migration mean to high-skilled Turkish migrant women in post-Brexit Britain
   Dilvin Dilara Usta (Bournemouth University)
5. A matter of gazes. How racialization defines migrants' lived experience in Naples
   Andrea Ruben Pomella (University of Naples "L'Orientale")

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Chair: Sorina Carstea (University of Luxembourg); Discussant: Daniela Vintila (University of Liège)

1. Cast (the vote) away: Why Romanian emigrants support the radical right in home elections
   Sergiu Gherghina (University of Glasgow); Aurelian Giugal (University of Bucharest)
2. Local representation or managed diversity? Political candidacies of refugee-background individuals in Belgium
   Ahmad Wali Ahmad Yar (Vrije Universiteit Brussel & University of Krems); Tuba Bircan (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
3. Portuguese emigrants at the polls: The rise of the far right
   Inês Vidigal (Emigration Observatory, Iscte University Institute of Lisbon); Cláudia Pereira (Emigration Observatory, Iscte University Institute of Lisbon); Joana Azevedo (Iscte University Institute of Lisbon)
4. Migrant Remittances and the Decline of Presidential Term Limits in Sub-Saharan Africa
   

      Ana Isabel Lopez Garcia (Maastricht University)

5. Political incorporation of immigrants in Japan: The focus on the intention of citizenship acquisition  
   Hirohisa Takenoshita (Keio University)

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Chair: Leah Durst-Lee (University of Coimbra); Discussant: Andrea Spehar (University of Gothenburg)

1. “Instrumentalisation” of migration: An emerging paradigm in EU asylum policy?
   Daniele Saracino (Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies); Lena Laube (University of Bonn)
2. In all fairness: Dublin transfers and the redistribution of asylum responsibility
   Philipp Stutz (Vrije Universiteit Brussel); Florian Trauner (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
3. From temporary rights to contentious futures: Navigating the EU's policy gaps for displaced Ukrainians
   Viktoryia Vaitovich (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)
4. The digitalization of EU air border controls and the normalization of banal securitization
   Eline Waerp (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität)
5. Intersecting inequalities and fragmented justice: Rethinking EU gender and migration governance  
   Sinem Yilmaz (Vrije Universiteit Brussel); Tuba Bircan (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

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Chair: Henna Nurmi (University of Helsinki); Discussant: João Carvalho (CIES-ISCTE)

1. The populist turn in migration laws and policies: The case of the Netherlands
   Ricky van Oers (Radboud University); Karen Geertsema (Radboud University)
2. Populism, migration, and the weaponization of women’s rights in European law
   Veronica Federico (University of Florence)
3. From Social Europe to Christian Europe: Shifts in EU-level integration policy in light of the right-wing populist turn
   Iva Dodevska (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
4. Doing migration in the illiberal context of Hungary
   Zsuzsanna Árendás (ELTE Center for Social Sciences, CEU); Vera Messing (ELTE Center for Social Sciences, CEU)

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Chair: Shannon Gouppy (University of Liège); Discussant: Elisa Brey (Complutense University of Madrid)

1. Silence as resistance in contentious migration contexts
   Anusree P. (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay)
2. The rural counterspace: Migrant creation of community spaces as an act of resistance to structural and racial inequalities
   Iris Egea Quijada (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
3. Relational agency within forced migration : The case of Ukrainian migrants in Romania
   Mihaela Nedelcu (University of Neuchâtel)
4. Navigating the Dublin predicament: Politics of escape and migrants' dwelling infrastructures along the Belgian-French route to the UK
   Ismail Oubad (University of Liège)
5. Insecure citizenship and the agency of stateless individuals in the United States
   Claire R. Thomas (New York Law School)

Chair: Emma Vescovi (University of Liège); Discussant: Nives Mazur Kumric (University of Liège)

1. Fundamental rights and access to justice in times of polarisation: The Italy-Albania protocol
   Francesca Biondi Dal Monte (Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies); Kamilla Zsuzsanna Galicz (Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies)
2. Safe country, unsafe law: Populist migration reforms and constitutional degradation 
   Prema Elumalai (Vellore Institute of Technology; Ragul Olakkur Vijayakumar (Madras High Court)
3. Overruled: Immigration judge reported responses to use of forensic mental health evaluators in deportation defense
   Cherra M. Mathis (University of Kentucky); Mary Lehman Held (University of Tennessee); Laurie Cook Heffron (St. Edward's University); Karen E. Latus (Somos Indivisible)
4. Migrant regularization with adjectives. An exploration of the concept of regularization in an age of migration restrictionism
   Andres Besserer Rayas (CUNY & El Colegio de México); Andrea Peña-Vásquez (University of Pittsburgh); Aala Abdelgadir (University of Pittsburgh)

Chair: Almuhannad Allahham (University of Liège); Discussant: Alexandra David (Westphalian University);

1. Uncertain futures: Female international students and precarity
   Aynaz Ghaderi Ghalehno (Université de Montréal)
2. Contested care: Migration governance, labour precarity, and African care workers in the UK
   Emmanuel Uchenna Chidozie (Catholic University of Leuven)
3. (Un)effectiveness of the Temporary Protection EU Act – A study with Ukrainian refugees job applicants
   Luca Fumarco (Masaryk University IZA, GLO, J-PAL)
4. The exported employment-education paradox? The gendered labor market integration of Syrian refugees in Lebanon, Turkey, and Germany
   Maye Ehab (Institute for Employment Research); Lidwina Gundacker (Institute of Employment Research)
5. Working towards belonging: Migrant women’s entrepreneurship and everyday citizenship
   Carolina Garcia (Saint Paul University)

Chair: Camila Melícia Valgas (Utrecht University of Applied Sciences); Discussant: Edina Lilla Meszaros (University of Oradea)

1. Contextual and compositional determinants of anti-immigrant attitudes: A cross-national analysis using World Values Survey Data
   Syeda Rabab Jafri (Lahore School of Economics)
2. Established migrant women facing recent migration: Defensive and reflective symbolic boundaries
   Carolina Ramírez (Universidad Central de Chile)
3. Framing immigration in times of economic crisis: Liberal and conservative strategies on X in Canada’s 2025 election
   Morteza Shams (Toronto Metropolitan University); Masoud Kianpour (Toronto Metropolitan University); Rupa Banerjee (Toronto Metropolitan University)
4. Romanian euroscepticism at home and abroad: Does individuals' experience of migration make a difference?
   Alin Croitoru (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu); Giorgian Guțoiu (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu)
5. The nation as border: Nationalism and structural exclusion in contentious migration governance
   Marika Jeziorek (Wilfrid Laurier University)

Chair: Eleanor Y.T. Chan (Kyushu University); Discussant: Judit Kende (Tilburg University)

1. Living with double contention: Iranian adults confronting discrimination abroad and political repression at home
   Farnaz Hashemnia (Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg)
2. Waiting for years and feeling stuck: The burdens of navigating the political asylum system in contemporary South Africa
   Pineteh Angu (University of Pretoria)
3. Between a rock and a hard place: Portugal’s claiming and casting out of Lusophone immigrants
   Inês Mendes de Sousa (University of Bristol)
4. Between home and the world: The role of migrants in organizing anti-war protests
   Agnieszka Lewczuk (University of Warsaw); Svitlana Romaniuk (University of Warsaw)
5. Afghan newcomers bravely overcoming barriers to higher education
   Sofia Noori (University of British Columbia)

Chair: Martine El Ouardi (Université de Lausanne); Discussant: Aida Ibričević (REMESO, Linköping University)

1. Malayalee Hamlas of the Arab Gulf: Migrant-pilgrims and their spatial and socio-religious mobility
   Mamdooh Abdul Fathah (Columbia University)
2. Taking refuge in faith: Religious communities, sponsorship, and belonging in Canada
   Sanam Vaghefi (Capilano University)
3. Church asylum as a space for negotiation: Ideas for space-sensitive social work
   Katrin Hermsen (Universität Münster); Onno Husen (Universität Münster)
4. Between languages and borders: Ukrainian refugee children’s multilingual worlds in visual narratives
   Magdalena Olpińska-Szkiełko (University of Warsaw); Svitlana Romaniuk (University of Warsaw); Zoia Adamia (Georgian International University)
5. Resilience through language: Navigating integration and belonging among Ukrainian refugees in Romania
   Denisa-Maria Bâlc (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu)

Chair: Francisca Sassetti (Royal Holloway University of London & UNESCO Chair in ICT4D); Discussant: Anastasia Bermúdez Torres (University of Seville)

1. Constructing exclusion: Executive actions and the racialized boundaries of citizenship in the United States
   Madri Hall-Faul (University of Kentucky); Brittany Lynch (Iona University); Gilean Chikwati (University of Kentucky); Kathryn Libal (University of Connecticut)
2. Contradicting processes of migranticization and citizenisation: Analyzing the extent of a nationality privilege in the context of French migration in Quebec, Canada
   Capucine Coustere (Concordia University)
3. Rehearsing citizenship: Enclave platforms for voice, visibility, and belonging
   Michelle Medved (Indiana University Bloomington)
4. Temporary lives and the lived experience of Danish immigrants
   Signe Carlsen (Aarhus University)
5. Not welcome (anymore): Self-identification and belonging among displaced Ukrainians in Germany, Poland and Hungary
   Kseniia Shvets (Free University Berlin)

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Chair: Audrey Paradis (University of Oulu); Discussant: Gorka Urrutia Asua (University of Deusto)

1. Temporal precarity: Precarious migrant workers and diverging temporalities in urban labour markets
   Margit Fauser (Ruhr University Bochum); Katrin Menke (Ruhr University Bochum)
2. Contentious times: Suspended connectivities, migrant temporalities and the urban social
   Roger Norum (University of Oulu); Audrey Paradis (University of Oulu)
3. Placemaking in migration through a temporality lens
   Caitriona Ni Laoire (University College Cork); Mastoureh Fathi (University College Cork)
4. Time and narratives of migration in political discourse and artistic practice: The case of Liège
   Elsa Mescoli (University of Liège); Jean-Michel Lafleur (University of Liège); Shannon Damery (University of Liège)
5. The governance of migration complexities: The relation between migration temporalities and governance temporalities
   Peter Scholten (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

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Chair: Angeliki Konstantinidou (University of Liège); Discussant: Hassan Bousetta (Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies-CEDEM, University of Liège)

1. Denied departure: Mapping emigration bans in Asia and Africa 1960-2023
   Flor Vandevelde (Ghent University); Polina Koriukina (Ghent University)
2. Inclusion or exclusion? Government ideologies, public opinion and policy response in the face of forced migration
   Giacomo Solano (RUNOMI, Radboud University)
3. The politics of return: Immigration control, return enforcement, and irregular migration flows in EU/OECD countries
   Jiancheng Gu (Danube University Krems)
4. Global citizens? Naturalisation policies as global conflicts of migration, nationalism and democracy  
   Thomas Huddleston (University of Liège)

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Chair: Ibtissame Bourhnane (University of Liège); Discussant: Sofia Gaspar (CIES-Iscte)

1. Futures on paper: Stalled mobilities, drifting aspirations, and tedious waiting among Nepalis in Portugal's (il)liberal documentation regime 
   Josef Neubauer (University for Continuing Education Krems)
2. Staying where you are welcome? Host society reception climate and changes in Ukrainian refugees’ secondary migration intentions
   Karelis Olivo Rumpf (Federal Institute for Population Research); Marcel Lubbers (Utrecht University)
3. Climate shocks and the aspiration to migrate: The role of livelihood viability
   Nicolás Caso (Ghent University)
4. Challenging the ‘migration-for-safety’ narrative: Gendered necropolitics and the continuum of violence in migranticized women's lives
   Paula Wallmeyer (University of Luxembourg)
5. Building back home: Aspirations and social meanings of real estate investments among the Cameroonian diaspora in Belgium
   Ludovic Bakebek (University of Liège)

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Chair: Ana Beatriz Pelicioni (University of Warsaw); Discussant: Marco Martiniello (University of Liège)

1. Lost in definition
   Fatima Silpagar (Vrije Universiteit Brussel); Tuba Bircan (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
2. Refugees, aliens, foreigners and ‘illegal migrants’: Reinterpreting the right to nationality to challenge exclusionary policies in contentious post-colonial settings
   Anoshay Fazal (University of Liverpool)
3. The gaze and the gesture: Hyper-visible insiderness and the politics of recognition in Somali ethnography
   Ayan Yasin Abdi (Malmö University)
4. Suspicion and (non)belonging at the intersection of mental health and migration status: Insights form an ethnography in the Swiss security police
   Mira Ducommun (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northern and Western Switzerland)

Chair: Gülşen Doğan (Koç University & MiReKoç); Discussant: Svitlana Romaniuk (University of Warsaw)

1. The rhetoric against the 'foreigner': Old patterns, new forms- Romania as a case study
   Iulia Elena Hossu (Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities)
2. Beyond the ballot: How anti-immigrant parties shape migration narratives in the Global South
   Ezgi Irgil (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
3. Asylum in the crossfire: The politicization of protection in Germany through the case of Turkish asylum seekers
   Zekiye Gürün-Ücem (Justus-Liebig-University of Gießen)
4. Mapping migration narratives: Evolving perspectives and public opinion during times of crisis
   Maarja Vollmer (University of Neuchâtel)
5. Mediating refugee subjectivity and populist discourse in Turkey: Cinema at the border
   Fatma Serdaroğlu (Anadolu University)

Chair: Amy Rutherford (Queen's University Belfast); Discussant: Claire Vincent-Mory (University of Liège)

1. Evidence-based or debate-based policy? Insights into the utilisation of evaluation findings from a German federal programme in the scope of Shaping Diversity
   Stefanie Reiter (German Youth Institute)
2. NGOs as key actors in the social and cultural integration of migrants: Challenges and transformations in its functioning influenced by the current social and political discourse (the case of Slovakia)
   Silvia Letavajová (Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra); Monika Šrbová (Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra); Andrea Molnárová (Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra)
3. Restructuring the role of non-state actors in migration intermediation: The Malaysian experience
   Choo Chin Low (University Sains Malaysia)
4. Closed borders, travelling discourses. How the polarization of European migration policies and debates fosters competition and suspicion among Senegal’s civil society
   Marco Sassoon (University of Cologne); Ibrahima Konate (Independent researcher)

Chair: Claire Lefort-Rieu (University of Liège); Discussant: Moises Vieira (The University of Manchester)

1. Not in my backyard. Unaccompanied minors, postborder transferability and (im)mobilities at the Canary Islands
   Ana López-Sala (Spanish National Research Council); Dirk Godenau (Universidad de La Laguna)
2. The dual logic of U.S. and EU immigration policy for unaccompanied minors in illiberal times
   Isabella Miano (University of Catania)
3. Divided families, divisive policies: The contentious politics of refugee family reunification in Europe after a decade of ‘migration crises’
   Lucy Hunt (University of Luxembourg)
4. Migration and elderly care in aging Asia: Factors influencing the migration pathways of Myanmar care workers in Japan under institutionalized migration channels
   Aye Theingi (Waseda University)
5. Rethinking age assessment for unaccompanied migrant children: Exploring the Barnahus model’s potential
   Natale Serón Arizmendi (University of Deusto)

Chair: Hannah Wainwright (University of Leeds); Discussant: Shannon Gouppy (University of Liège)

1. Diasporic civic and political engagement under authoritarian resurgence: Adaptive repertoires of Tunisians in France
   Eleanor Y.T. Chan (Kyushu University)
2. “Won’t be silenced": Digital feminist activism and agency of Brazilian migrants in Portugal
   Francisca Sassetti (Royal Holloway University of London & UNESCO Chair in ICT4D)
3. (In)visibility, vulnerability, and resistance: Migrant activism in the Collectif des Jeunes du Parc de Belleville
   Martine El Ouardi (Université de Lausanne)
4. Restrictive and short-sighted – how government provisions sparked a migrant-led protest in a reception centre. A case study from north-western Italy
   Giulia Bisogni (Edge Hill University)
5. Kurdish diasporic narratives of intergroup solidarity for resistance in Belgium
   Canan Coşkan (Independent researcher); Judit Kende (Tilburg University)

Building L5, Floor 2, Room 2/5

Chair: Yowali Kabamba (Utrecht University); Discussant: Eleonore Kofman (Middlesex University)

1. Decentring digital nomadism: North-South mobilities and inequalities in contentious migration times
   Hari KC (Toronto Metropolitan University)
2. Wanted abroad, courted at home: Contentious perspectives on migration policies for highly skilled migrants
   Hassan Bousetta (University of Liège); Hicham Jamid (University of Neuchâtel)
3. The missing middle: Liberal paradoxes and medium-skilled migration to the Netherlands
   Julia Reinold (Erasmus University Rotterdam) ; Godfried Engbersen (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
4. Contested narratives as protracted boundary-making: Situating the labor market within the local production of migration
   Janek von Stebut (Technische Universität Chemnitz); Denis Zeković (Technische Universität Chemnitz)

Building L5, Floor 1, Room 1/1

Chair: Eylul Ozmen (Leuphana University of Lüneburg); Discussant: Giacomo Solano (RUNOMI, Radboud University)

1. Aggressive integrationism in contentious times: Shared values as an integration requirement in liberal democracy
   Stefan Manser-Egli (University of Amsterdam)
2. Internal bordering and migrant (im)mobility governance in Northern Morocco
   Myriam Cherti (Oxford University & University Mohammed VI Polytechnic); Leen De Nutte (University Mohammed VI Polytechnic); Safae Wahid (University Mohammed VI Polytechnic); Douaa Saffar (University Mohammed VI Polytechnic)
3. Extending the border south: U.S. migration externalization in South America under Trump
   Ximena Canal Laiton (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
4. Illiberal migration governance during wartime: Russian policies towards (im)mobility of Ukrainian citizens
   Lidia Kuzemska (Forum Transregionale Studien)

Building L5, Ground floor, Room 0/3

Chair: Félicien de Heusch (University of Copenhagen); Discussant: Billie Martiniello (European University Institute)

1. Attitudes towards Muslims among youth in Sweden: Analyzing survey data for 2003, 2009, 2014 and 2025
   Pieter Bevelander (Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration); Jonas Otterbeck (Aga Khan University International in the UK)
2. Religions and migration as a tool for polarization and the role of local public powers in the management of religious diversity
   Gorka Urrutia Asua (University of Deusto)
3. Imagining elsewhere: Race, religion, and the limits of belonging among Fulani youth in Brussels
   Mariam Diallo (Université Catholique de Louvain)
4. Cultivating agency, belonging, and continuity: Women’s practices in the mosque
   Can Yasemin Okay (University of Osnabrück)

Building L5, Floor 1, Room 1/5

Chair: Eduardo Campbell-Bethancourt (Utrecht University); Discussant: Elsa Mescoli (University of Liège)

1. Balkan migration crises and beyond: Agency and policies
   Anna Krasteva (CERMES/New Bulgarian University)
2. Ireland in context: Racialised governance and the rise of the far right
   Kheira Arrouche (University College Cork)
3. From policy to practice: Perspectives of policymaking and implementation of the Intercultural City Program of Barcelona with a focus on conviviality in public spaces
   Iren Eylül Karaoglu (Freelance researcher)
4. Contradictory paths: National–local divergence in Mexico’s migration policy
   Jorge Ochoa Uriostegui (University of Amsterdam)
5. Ignored knowledges: Epistemic injustice in European governance of unaccompanied minors
   Juan Eduardo Ortiz López (Universidad Pontificia Comillas)

Chair: Maarja Vollmer (University of Neuchâtel); Discussant: Verena Wisthaler (EURAC)

1. Croatia’s migration transition: An analysis of current media content
   Caroline Hornstein Tomić (Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar); Vanja Dergić (Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar); Marko Mustapić (Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar)
2. Media as bridge or barrier? The role of news consumption on immigrants’ sense of belonging
   Camila Melícia Valgas (Utrecht University of Applied Sciences)
3. Contrasting frames: Hungarian media representations of Syrian and Ukrainian refugee movements
   Edina Lilla Meszaros (University of Oradea)
4. Framing a ‘crisis’ and its political impact – The media’s impact on EU migration policy
   Naja Camisa (University of Luxembourg)
5. Between two shores: Media and governance discourses of the Italy–Albania migration agreement
   Bresena Kopliku (University of Shkodra "Luigj Gurakuqi")

Chair: Sifka Etlar Frederiksen (Leuphana University Lüneburg); Discussant: Natale Serón Arizmendi (University of Deusto)

1. Politicising migration governance: Portugal’s restrictive turn in migration regularisation
   Catarina Sampaio (Universidade Aberta)
2. Performing deservingness to be ‘legal’: Migrant appropriations of domestic work in Italy’s immigration regime
   Fabio De Blasis (University of Milan)
3. A human right to lawful stay? Exploring states’ regularisation obligations under international human rights law
   Diego Ginés Martín (Universidad Pontificia Comillas)

Chair: Signe Carlsen (Aarhus University); Discussant: Tihomir Sabchev (Tilburg University)

1. Governance and experiences of migration in a hybrid-sovereign migration state
   Karina Goulordava (Koç University)
2. From guarantees to limitations: Contradictions in Brazil’s migration governance
   Cintia Sousa de Freitas (State University of Rio Grande do Norte)
3. Ending the odyssey: The production of irregularity in Panama’s Darién response
   Amy Rutherford (Queen's University Belfast)
4. Politicizing mobility: Governance, agency, and the Bangladeshi migration corridor to Malaysia
   Sumaia Afroze (University of Dhaka)