International Conference on Sociology, Migration and Integration ICSMI on November 01-02, 2026 in San Francisco, United States

Access to fair and transparent qualifications recognition – a right or a privilege?
Asylum Policy and Treatment of Refugees
Asylum seekers, refugees, migrants – understanding immigration systems
Bilateral considerations
Border services and management
Citizenship and immigration
Critical policy debate and comparative analyses
Cultural Integration of Immigrants and Refugees
Differences, inequalities and sociological imagination – Sociology of Migration
Escaping power relations or helping to maintain social order? Informality in migration research
Family dynamics and inequalities in migration
Human rights issues
Human Trafficking and Exploitative Migration
Immigration and human rights issues
Inclusion, exclusion and precarious employment of migrant workers
Labor market integration; refugee status; adaptation strategies of immigrants; retention of ethnic and older national identities
Migrant family dynamics and social, political and economic inequalities
Migrant students: new directions in migration research
Migration and Multiculturalism: Making sense of the popular politics of resentment
Migration and Social Change: International and European perspectives
Permanent residents
Policing Ethnicity: Between the Rhetoric of Inclusion and the Practices and Policies of Exclusion
Political asylum and refugee status
Policy discussions that enhance the understanding of immigration, settlement and integration and that contribute to policy development
Political, economic, social and cultural issues
Promoting Social Imagination at the Global Level: A discussion about Migration and Intercultural Integration
Refugees’ Everyday Life Worlds and the Production of Societal Inequalities
Safety and security issues
Socio-economic conditions
Sociology of Migration
(Successful) migrant integration: whose responsibility is it?
The Ethics and Politics of Asylum
The inequalities referring to the right to mobility in a context of Globalization
Travel document integrity
Visa requirements and Visa Policies