GLOBAL MIGRATION SIG

The Global Migration-SIG (GM-SIG) brings together scholars and practitioners who study migration from a range of research approaches to advance theories, methods, policies, and practices. The SIG takes up questions related to traditional assimilationist/integrationist paradigms in the field of migration and provides a space for examination of dimensions of migration such as: context (postcoloniality/globality), historicity, temporality and space, policy, identity/belonging, movement and bordering, public discourses, representation, racialization, language minoritization, surveillance/criminalization, transnationalism and translanguaging, problematizing legal and political classifications, emigration/immigration/transition, complicating notions of the nation-state, urban space and settlement, gateway cities, environmental migration, transnational migration.

• Nilo Jayoma Castulo, Beijing Normal University, P.R. China: Co-Chair, Unit Planner/Program Chair, 2023-2025. [email protected]
• Halleli Pinson, Ben-Gurion University: Co-Chair/Unit Planner, 2024-2026. [email protected]
• Manya Oriel Kagan, University of Pennsylvania, USA: Secretary/Treasurer, 2024-2026. [email protected]
• Adnan Turan, Arizona State University, USA: Social Media/Communications Coordinator, 2024-2026. [email protected]

The CIES Special Interest Group (SIG) directory (https://members.cies.us/page/SIGs) provides a complete list of the mission, officers, and work of our 37 SIGs, which are sorted by region or topic.

You must be a member of CIES to join a SIG, which can be done any time during the year.

There are three ways to join a SIG:

1. Online, any time of the year, when renewing your CIES membership including the SIG dues. Please go to, https://members.cies.us/page/meminfo.
2. Online, when registering as a presenter for the CIES Conference, which requires CIES membership. A specific link will be available for each conference.
3. By mail or phone. Please contact the Office of the Executive Director (OED) Membership Coordinator by email at, [email protected], or by phone during business hours at (412) 383-3945.

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