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Dear GenSeM members,

The newsletter brings the latest news on migration research and events directly to your inbox. The aim is to stay updated with news, funding opportunities, events and activities for networking within and beyond academia, and much more.

In this third issue for 2025, we collected a series of information that we would like to share with you.
The highlights are the following.

• GenSeM Awards 2025
• Upcoming Events
• Call for Papers
• Members' News
• New Publications

During the GenSeM annual meeting on Thursday, 3 July, held as part of the 22nd IMISCOE Annual Conference in Paris–Aubervilliers, we had the pleasure of announcing the recipients of this year’s awards and seed seedcorn funding!

"We believe that this article contains exactly the kinds of critical takeaways that qualitative and ethnographic scholarship needs...the authors developed the concept of agentic intersectionality to examine how researchers' situated identities shift and interact over the course of their research process from study design to fieldwork to analysis and writing. By foregrounding temporality rather than spatiality or sociality, the article challenges static notions of positionality and power and demonstrates effectively how researcher-participant relationships are constantly negotiated across space, sociality and time." - GenSeM Selection Committee.

In addition to the Best Article, the selection committee also highlighted two 'Highly Commended' articles, which they believe deserve wider recognition.

Irene Gutierrez Torres for their article 'Trapped in Ceuta: Reflexive tactics and methods in participatory filmmaking among cross-border women'

Dr. Karlien Strijbosch & Dr. Valentina Mazzucato for their article 'I could have married in Europe if I wanted to: How black migrant men challenge moralising and racialising discourses when returning to Senegal'. 

The inaugural GenSeM Best Article Award attracted a diverse range of excellent scholarship on gender, sexuality, and migration, and the GenSeM selection committee would like to thank all scholars who submitted for this year's edition. Award winners will have the opportunity to share their work at GenSeM seminar events. This year's winners will also discuss their work on IMISCOE's The Migration Podcast. 

GenSeM Seedcorn Funds is an opportunity for Early Career members to apply for funding of up to £2000 to conduct a small project that advances their research profile in the field of gender/sexuality in migration research.

GenSeM workshop series "Life after the PhD": Academic Career Path
Join us for a lively conversation with Dr. Saskia Bonjour (University of Amsterdam) Dr. Aminath Nisha Zadhy-Çepoğlu (University of Leeds) as they share insights into academic career trajectories, offering practical advice on how to navigate the post-PhD academic job market.

🗓 When: Wednesday, October 8, 2025
⏰ Time: 16:00 CET (15:00 UK)
📍 Where: Online via Webex (link sent to registered participants)
📌 Register here

✨ This is the first of three workshops. Upcoming workshops will focus on:
• Non-academic career paths
• Hybrid careers combining academic roles with positions in the third or private sector

Don’t miss this opportunity to hear directly from scholars and professionals who have paved their own paths after the PhD!

Symposium at the Bradford Centre for Qualitative Research
Registration is open for a free symposium titled 'Whose Interpretations? Interpretive Analysis in Participatory Public Health', hosted by Bradford Centre for Qualitative Research. 

🗓 When: Thursday, October 9, 2025
⏰ Time: 10:30 - 16:45 (UK)
📍 Where: Bradford Arts Centre (previously Kala Sangam)

📌 Register online 
 

The GenDJus Final Conference:(De)Constructing Gender in International Judicial Discourse: Actors, Norms and Practices

The Department of Legal, Language, Translation and Interpreting Studies (IUSLIT) of the University of Trieste hosts a two-day international conference to explore gendered discursive practices in international judicial language and their consequences on the scope of human rights protections. The conference is the final event of the interdisciplinary research project “Rights and Prejudice: Linguistic and Legal Implications of Gendered Discourses in Judicial Spaces (GenDJus),” financed by the Italian Ministry of Education and the European Union. More information, including the Programme Book of Abstracts, could be found on the GenDJus website.

🗓 When: Thursday-Friday, October 16-17, 2025
⏰ Time: 10:30 - 16:45 (UK)
📍 Where: SSLMIT/IUSLIT, University of Trieste
📌 Register online 

This roundtable will bring novel insights on the topic of SOGIE asylum by challenging legal and academic representations of this group. The papers show how these representations are still often based on stereotypical assumptions and expectations of universal characteristics or life experiences among all LGBTIQ+ asylum seekers. Instead, the two interventions seek to bring out attention to intra-group differences among SOGIE asylees and refugees and non-Western conceptualisations of sexuality and gender identity. As such, the presentations importantly introduce new research agendas away from static understandings of SOGIE asylees as helpless victims fleeing oppressive countries and cultures in order to find freedom in the liberal ‘West’.

WiRL Public Seminar: 'Penalities against Women Seeking (International) Protection
The Women in Refugee Law network (WiRL), a global network to centre refugee women in international law, policy and practice, is holding an online (free) public seminar which will be of interest to asylum claiming and refugee women, senior and early career scholars, practitioners, judges, policymakers and activists. This seminar will be chaired by Dr. Christel Querton (UWE Bristol) and will feature presentations from Dr. Natasha Yacoub (University of London), Prof. Paula Banerjee (Asian Institute of Technology) and Dr. Catherine Briddick (Oxford University). 

🗓 When: Monday, November 10, 2025
⏰ Time: 09:00 - 10:00 (UK)
📍 Where: online
📌 Register online or through email 
 

They are here too: Experiences of Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based
Violence (DSGBV) among migrants in Europe

We invite submissions on themes including but not limited to: 

• Gendered and racialized border violence 
• GBV in asylum systems, refugee camps, and detention 
• Law, policy, and the contested politics of “protection” 
• Barriers to support services and shelters for migrant women 
• Colonial legacies and the racialization of vulnerability 
• Queer and trans experiences of migration and violence 
• Community-based and grassroots responses to GBV 
• Ethical and creative methodologies in researching violence and migration 

Call details and Submission Guidelines.

Conference Date: Friday, 27 February 2026
Location: Institute for Research on Genders and Sexualities, Dublin City University, Ireland
Deadline for Abstracts: 30 November 2025
Notification  of acceptance: 10 December 2025

For questions, accessibility concerns, or informal inquiries, please contact Dr Fabrizio Leonardo Cuccu.

Queer Refugees in the Nordics (QUEEN) Network Meeting
We invite papers addressing a broad range of aspects, theoretical as well as empirical, and welcome participants with or without presenting papers who wish to contribute to our knowledge and critical discussions of what it means to do queer and LGBTQ+ research today. 
Sessions will address:

• Collective research methods, 
• Participatory action research/ community based research, 
• Ethical issues in LGBTQ+ research
• (Digital) storytelling/ life writing 
• Using register data for LGBTQ+ research
• Legal, Social and Economic Barriers for Queer Asylum Seekers and Migrants
• Methods and Ethics in Queer Asylum and Migration
• Intersectionality in Queer Asylum and Migration

Keynotes by Prof. Roisin Ryan-Flood who is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for Intimate and Sexual Citizenship (CISC) at the University of Essex and Prof. Jenny Gunnarsson Payne who is Professor of Ethnology at Södertörn University.

Monday November 24:
9.30-10.00 Registration and fika
10.00-10.15 Welcome
10.30-11.30 Sessions with paper presentations
11.30-12.00 Queen network meeting
12.00-13.00 Lunch
13.15-15.15 Keynotes by Róisín Ryan-Flood and Jenny Gunnarsson Payne, followed by discussions
15.15-15.45 Fika
15.45-16.45 Sessions with paper presentations
17.00-18.00 Sessions with paper presentations
19.00 Dinner

Tuesday November 25:
9.15-10.15 Sessions with paper presentations
10.30-12.00 LGBTQ+-H-L network meeting
12.00- Lunch and goodbyes

For Registration: Please register via this link no later than November 3

Dr. Tuen Yi CHIU, Jenny, has been promoted to Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology and Social Policy, Lingnan University, Hong Kong. Her article, "Discretionary Maternal Citizenship: State Hegemony and Resistance of Single Marriage Migrant Mothers from Mainland China to Hong Kong," received an Honorable Mention for the Best Paper Award from the Hong Kong Sociological Association. Her research spans the fields of gender, migration, and family.

Dr. Aminath Nisha Zadhy-Çepoğlu joined the Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies (CERS) at the University of Leeds as a  Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellow. In collaboration with  Prof. Ipek Demir, she will lead a project titled 'Displaced brokers: How displaced people shape humanitarianism in an era of fragmented protection', which will examine the (in)formal roles displaced people carry out in humanitarian organisations. 

The Oxford Handbook of Intersectional Approaches to Migration, Gender, and Sexuality
(Oxford University Press - In Progress)
Prof. Gökce Yurdakul (ed.),  Dr. Jean Beaman (ed.),  Dr. Liza Mügge (ed.),  Dr. Sarah Scuzzarello (ed.), Dr. Sirijit Sunanta (ed.)

This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. The table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process. 

Edited Volumes

• Görentaş, I. A., Mallet-Garcia, M., Mandin, J., Mescoli, E., & Dal, B. Ö. (Eds.). (2025). Everyday Bordering in Migrants’ Access to Rights: Scope, Practices and Strategies of Resistance. Palgrave Macmillan.
• Llavaneras Blanco, M., & Gock, D. (Eds.). (2025). Pandemic Policies and Resistance: Southern Feminist Critiques in Times of COVID-19. Bloomsbury Academic.

Journal Articles

• Andrade, V. L. (2025). "The (dis)advantages of (in)visibility: an analysis of the role of sexual orientation and gender identity in recent flows of forced migrants to Brazil," Comparative Migration Studies 13, 67.
• Chakraborty, A. and Castillo Villanueva, A. (2025), "Editorial Introduction: Mapping the Intersection of Migration and Gender-Based Violence," Partecipazione e Conflitto, 18 (1): 132-146.
• Chiu, T.Y., & Lai, R.Y.S. (2025). "Understanding Migrant Familyhood through a Relational Spatio-Temporal Framework: Cross-Border Families Navigating Im/Mobilities before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic," Sociology, Advanced online publication.
• Diab, J. L. (2025), “Fetishized and Fictionalized: Invisibility as a Veil and Obstruction for Femme-presenting Queer Refugee Women in Lebanon,” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
• Diab, J. L. & Samneh, B. (2025), “Fighting to be Felt: Queer Necropolitics and Self-Defense as Everyday Resistance for Trans Syrian Refugee Sex Workers in Lebanon,” Journal of Homosexuality.
• Diab, J. L. (2025), “Intersectional Impetus: Including Migrant and Refugee Resistance in Lebanon’s Antiracist Feminist Struggle,” Ethnic and Racial Studies.
• Diab, J. L. (2025), “A Beirut Blast: How Inclusive Disaster Management for Refugees and Hosts Reassembled a Community in a Disintegrated City,” Gender and Development 32(3): 799–820.
• Istiko, S.N. (2025). "Race-conscious conversations: A decolonial interviewing style," Qualitative Research.
• Istiko, S.N., & Sudarto, B. (2025). "Elite actors: Understanding representation of culturally and linguistically diverse communities in the Australian health system through an intersectional lens," Stolen Tools 3(1): 1-13.
• Moroşanu, L., & Șerban, M. (2025). "Then and Now: Romanian Returnees Contemplating Future Migration," International Migration Review, open access.
• Naseri, S., Valéry R., Sara N., Léna B., & Durand M.-A. “Assessing Antenatal Care Access Among Afghan Women Migrants, Refugees, and Asylum-seekers in France: A Mixed Methods Study,” SSM - Health Systems, 100128.
• Rizzotti, M; Giametta, C (2025) "Challenging the Criminal-Victim Dichotomy: Rethinking Nigerian Women’s Migration Experiences in Europe and Trafficking Narratives", Studi Emigrazione 238, 246-259.
• Ryan, L., López, M., Dalceggio, A., & Adell, F. (2025). "You Need a Network’: How Highly Skilled Refugees Build Social Networks to Convert Cultural Capital and Reclaim Professional Identities," Sociology.
• Schröder, R. (2025). "Particularly vulnerable. Negotiating intersections within the ‘Berlin model’ of queer refugee support," Gender, Place & Culture, online first.
• Sondhi, Gunjan, Parvati Raghuram, and Clem Herman. “Reversing the Gaze: Gendered Experiences of Migrants in the UK IT Sector,” Global Networks 25 (3).
• Wimark, T. (2025). "Decoding Sexual Orientation in Refugee Status Determination: The Influence of Accounts of Emotions on Decision-Making in Sweden," International Migration 63(5), e70101.
• Wimark, T. (2025). "The Limits of Refugee Status Determination Through Credibility Assessment: Empirical Evidence from Sexual Orientation Asylum Cases," International Migration Review.

Book Chapters

• Etzold, B. & Fechter, AM (2025). "Gendered Experiences of Waiting, (Dis)Connectivity and (Im)Mobility under Conditions of Protracted Displacement," In G. Yurdakul, J. Beaman, L. Mügge, S. Scuzzarello, & S. Sunanta (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Intersectional Approaches to Migration, Gender, and Sexuality. Oxford University Press.
• Larsen, J.M. (2025). The Changemakers and the Losers. In: Dominey-Howes, D., Rushton, A., Leonard, W., Cianfarani, M., Overton, L., Wu, H. (eds) Queering Disasters, Climate Change and Humanitarian Crises. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore.

Other Publications

• Ansar, A., Etzold, B., & Rashid, S. R. (2025). Spaces of refuge as ‘extended battlefields’: gendered impacts of Myanmar’s civil war in the Rohingya camps in Bangladesh. XCEPT Blog. [Blog]
• Balaam, Marie-Clare  (2025) Social support in the perinatal period: a feminist exploration of asylum seeker and refugee women’s experiences and suggestions for change. Doctoral thesis, University of Central Lancashire.
• Etzold, B., & Ansar, A. (2024). Gendered Violence and Dependencies in Rohingya Refugee Camps in Bangladesh. The Dependent (2), 42–46.
• Istiko, S.N. (2025). Statutory of Declaration. Other Terrain Journal. [Creative output]
• Llavaneras Blanco, M. (2025, June 4)." For Haitian migrants in the Dominican Republic, ‘reproduction is like a death sentence," The Conversation.
• Llavaneras Blanco, M. (2025, January 7). "The Dominican Republic’s expulsion of thousands of Haitians shows the brutality of mass deportations," The Conversation.
• Rashid, S. R., Etzold, B., & Ansar, A. (2025). Gendered violence and insecurity in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh – new insights and ways forward (XCEPT Policy Brief). XCEPT.  [Policy Brief]

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