About OMICS 2023

Contemporary issues like climate change, international conflicts, economic challenges, and political repression will continue to spur the movement of people around the globe. While such movements have tended to promote images of chaos, in fact the processes, systems and practices that shape the movement of people around the globe and aim to introduce them into new societies are organized in many different ways. 

Migration and integration involve a myriad of actors and processes. This includes not only state actors like international and regional bodies, state agencies and municipalities, but also companies, interest groups, civil society organizations and individuals. These actors engage in a wide variety of activities from protecting labor rights, ensuring fair access, improving migrants’ health, supporting education, promoting migrants’ inclusion into the labour market, preventing radicalization, or securing migrants’ civic, social and legal inclusion in the new country. While some of these efforts are planned and involve years of preparation and the engagement of large coalition of actors; others are ephemeral and ad hoc, emerging from one day to the next only to disappear again quickly. From a coordination and organizing perspective, this myriad of actors and activities separated in time and space poses not only far-reaching challenges, but also great opportunities. 

Therefore, at OMICS 2023 we will explore the organizating (and disorganizating) of migration and integration. Drawing across a wide range of disciplines this conference seeks to examine the meanings and manifestations of organizing in migration and integration—considering both the inclusions and exclusions produced by different forms and processes of organizing (and disorganizing). These challenges and opportunities demand novel and critical research and interdisciplinary approaches from a wide range of disciplines. 

The School of Business, Economics and Law and the Centre on Global Migration at the University of Gothenburg therefore invites scholars from many disciplines and all parts of the globe to the 2nd Organizing Migration and Integration in Contemporary Societies Conference, 22-24 November, 2023, in Gothenburg, Sweden. 

OMICS is also open for policy makers, practitioners and researchers who are interested in issues of migration and integration, but do not intend to present a paper at the conference. The registration opens on June 1st.