The Institut Convergences Migrations is hosting the 22nd annual IMISCOE conference of the IMISCOE from July 1 to 4, 2025, at Campus Condorcet – Aubervilliers. The 2025 edition, Decentering Migration Studies, comprises two components : a scientific programme reserved for registered researchers, and a public programme open to all with a forum of associations and side events, including an institutional roundtable discussion on research and policy making.
Institutional roundtable : « Research and policy making on migration : an impossible dialogue ? »
Wednesday 2 July 2025
From 4.50 pm to 6.20 pm
Auditorium 150, Centre des Colloques
Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers
By registration. Sign up to attend the discussion here
Migration is an increasingly salient issue in Europe. As a result, immigration policies are undergoing constant evolutions, with major developments at both national and EU levels – and so too is research on migration, with increased funding, publications and institutionalisation. Even though there is a certain consensus on the need for evidence-based and research-informed migration policies, academics’ work remains largely absent from public debates and is rarely considered by governments and policymakers. Obstacles to the research-policy dialogue are numerous : an extremely politicized context tends to make rational exchanges difficult, while the specialization and fragmentation of migration research does not facilitate its influence outside academic circles. This roundtable will discuss these issues with an international lens, by bringing together researchers, policymakers and think tanks.
With :
- Martin Ruhs, Deputy Director, Migration Policy Centre (European University Institute),
- Kate Osamor, British MP, 1st Vice-Chair of the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe,
- Anna Triandafyllidou, Co-Chair, Metropolis International Canada,
- Antoine Pécoud, Professor of Sociology and Head of the POLICY department at Institut Convergences Migrations.
Chaired by Matthieu Tardis, Synergies Migrations.