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Dialogues on Mobility, Surveillance, and Resistance Calls to “secure borders” and “dismantle smuggling networks” operate as discourses that normalize a securitized logic under the rubric of “safe, orderly, and regular migration.” The goal of the IMI Winter Academy (organized by IMI and supported by the University of Amsterdam’s Decolonial Futures Research Priority Area) is to challenge the logics of migration criminalization and control, and to reimagine mobility and the futu

February 2-16 March 2026 | 15:30-17:00 (CET) | Online February 2 Migrant activism in times of autocratization Legal and economic security of migrants as drivers of activism (Gaukhar Baltabayeva) The impact of exclusion of migrant workers from the right to form labor unions in Thailand (Shwe Zin Thin) February 16 Refugee return in times of autocratization Negotiating Return: Power, Policy, and the Politics of Afghan Repatriation (Shahid Kamal) Refusing Return: Gendered Agency

On 19-21 November 2025, the PACES project hosted a Scenario Workshop titled ‘Exploring Future Migrations Between Africa and Europe’ in The Hague. It brought together researchers, policymakers, business representatives, civil-society actors, and migrants living in Europe. The workshop activities involved in-depth discussions of several important factors that could significantly shape our future and alter migration, such as resource constraints, including water-based conflicts,