05/09/2024

Why young people turn away from politics (Interview)

Why do many young people feel that they are not taken seriously and not represented by politics? What could be done to counteract this? This interview with youth researcher Manfred Zentner in the “Wiener Zeitung” offers answers.
24/04/2025

DEMIG Online Talk: Focus on youth violence

The next DEMIG Online Talk will take place on April 24 and is entitled “From cyberbullying to gang crime: youth violence in the context of migration”. The talk will be held by Manfred Zentner. He and his team recently received awards for the projects “Youth in Urban Space” and “Youth Monitor”.

23/09/2025

Annual Conference of the Austrian Economic Association 2025

As co-organizer, we are pleased to announce that the next annual conference of the National Economic Association will take place in Krems on September 23 and 24, 2025 and will focus on the topic of Migration. Isabel Ruiz (University of Oxford) and Çaglar Özden (World Bank) will give the keynote speeches. 
07/10/2024

Public database on irregular migration stock estimates

Recently, the MIRREM project team released a new public database which brings together and assesses the latest estimates of how many migrants with irregular migration status live in various European countries and North America. The Database substantially updates previous assessments of the irregular migrant population in Europe, such as the estimates by the Clandestino research project dating back to 2008 and a subsequent study by the Pew Research Centre from 2019.

17/03/2025

'2025 IMISCOE Spring Conference' in Krems

More than 400 people took part in the last IMISCOE spring conference on irregular migration, which was held in March. You will soon find the documentation of this hybrid event here on our website.
05/09/2024

APSA Best Dissertation Award to Naiara Rodriguez-Peña

She received the award for her dissertation, entitled Emigration from 'Destination': The Unfulfilled Migration Aspirations of the Precariat in the 'Global North', which she completed at the University of Kent. In a new interview, our colleague describes the findings that particularly surprised her and what she recommends to other early-stage researchers. 
06/09/2024

ERC-Starting-Grant to Lea Müller-Funk

Scientist at the University for Continuing Education Krems receives research funding from the European Research Council (ERC)

03/08/2024

No asylum - and yet here: "Die Presse" asked the reasons for this

A German-language article about the difficult documentation and political treatment of "non-deportables". One of the interviewees was Albert Kraler, coordinator of the project "Measuring Irregular Migration".

15/01/2025

Become an Ernst Mach Fellow at our department

Subject Image Call for Visiting Research Fellowships in Migration Studies

We invite early-stage researchers to apply for the Ernst Mach Grant – worldwide, funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research. This prestigious fellowship supports young researchers from all disciplines who wish to pursue a research project in Austria.

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Migration- and Integrationmanagement

The university course aims to promote the integration of migrants and improve mutual understanding between natives and migrants.

Global Competences and Management

The university course provides the knowledge and practice to be able to meet the increasing demands in professional life and especially in management.

Circular and Return Migration Management, CP

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PhD Migration Studies

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