The Migration Conference 2025 Selected Papers

The 13th edition of The Migration Conference, hosted by the University of Greenwich in London, UK, in June 2025, once again served as a vital global forum for migration studies. As the executive team members of the conference, we are pleased to confirm that nearly 100 parallel sessions took place. In this selection of papers, we present over 60 concise research contributions that collectively offer a vivid, if often sobering, portrait of contemporary global human mobility.
The papers featured herein reaffirm that migration is the defining phenomenon of our era, fundamentally reshaping societies, economies, and legal systems. What emerges most prominently is the growing tension between the legal and policy frameworks designed to regulate mobility and the complex, often spontaneous realities of migrants' lived experiences. Spanning from Chile to China and Japan to Iceland, the scholarship engaged here confronts this tension directly, calling for a multidisciplinary approach that moves beyond single-lens analysis.