The 2022 IMISCOE Spring conference, entitled 'Shifting rationalities in Migration Policies throughout Europe? The (Un)Making of Integration by Discourses, Policies and Migrant Strategies' is being organised by InZENTIM (Interdisciplinary Centre for Integration and Migration Research) at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany.

The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars interested in the shifting rationalities behind migration policies throughout Europe. It will focus on researchers that examine the links between fragmented and intertwined multi-level policy fields of migration control and social and integration policies, and those that explore migrants’ practices, strategies and identities.

Among others, topics and speakers will include:

• Katharina Tittel (Institut d’études politiques de Paris, France): Should they come or should they go: Media (mis)representations of different groups of Immigrants across three European countries.
• Hannes Schammann, Franziska Ziegler (both University of Hildesheim, Germany),
  Andreas Blätte and Christoph Leonhardt (both University of Duisburg-Essen,
  Germany): Localities in sight! Tracing the ‘local turn’ over 70 years of parliamentary
  debates on migration.
• Hadi Farahani, Timo Toikko, and Mohammad Tavakol (University of Eastern Finland, Finland): Mental health conceptualisations of Afghan forced migrants living in Finland: Narratives of post-trauma growth.
• Katja Fournier, Dirk Geldof, Kaat Van Acker and Anke Heyerick (University of Antwerp and Odisee University of Applied Sciences Brussels, Belgium):
  Refugee children’s everyday life practices, strategies and identities in asylum centres in Belgium.
• Ioanna Blasko (Uppsala University, Sweden): Strategies for finding work: Labour market trajectories of highly skilled refugees in Sweden.