QUEEN MARY - CORNELL UNIVERSITY SPRING SCHOOL

Global Migration

Location: Queen Mary University of London, Malta Campus (Victoria, Gozo)

Migration Spring School

Date: Monday 5 to Friday 9 May, 2025
Venue: Queen Mary University of London, Malta Campus (Gozo)

We are excited to invite expressions of interest from Postgraduate Masters and Doctoral students to participate in an interdisciplinary and cross institutional Migration Spring School co-delivered by Cornell University and Queen Mary and hosted by Queen Mary Gozo (Malta).

Migration Centres

The Migration Spring School 2025 is supported by the Leverhulme Doctoral College.

Queen Mary University of London and Cornell University Faculty

Overview

Framed by a focus on the experiences and politics of migration in the Mediterranean, this unique offering brings together colleagues from Geography, Cultural Studies, History, Law, Psychology, Public Health and Policy. It will engage students in interdisciplinary historical, legal, labour, health and rights frameworks, as well as in policies, ideologies, practices and experiences that relate to cross-border migration, both documented and undocumented. Topics covered will range from histories of migration to labour pathways and economic migration, questions of migrant crises, displacement and its effects on youth, health, and climate, environmental change and food systems.

Course Aims

Teaching and Learning

With experts from multiple disciplinary backgrounds at hand, it is our intention to open spaces for transdisciplinary approaches to understanding international migration in its complexities. We will collaborate with Maltese academics and migration activists, and where possible, there will be the opportunity to learn from migrants and refugees on the island.

Combining lively discussions, talks, ethnographic walks, cultural explorations, guest speakers, in-class activities, selected students will have the opportunity to visit Gozo and Malta’s many sites of relevant interest.

Entry Requirements

The 2025 edition is open to Postgraduate and Doctoral Students, Professionals and Practitioners in Migration-related Studies and is open by invitation only. Selected students will be expected to demonstrate ongoing academic interest in and knowledge of international migration through their current or recent programme of study. The Migration School will be held in English.

VISA Requirements

EU students do not need a visa to study at Queen Mary Malta. From 2 April 2025, the new Entry/Exit System (EES) comes into effect in the EU and applicants from the UK will require a short term VISA to enter Malta.

International students (depending on nationality) do require a visa to study at Queen Mary Malta. Students who are unsure on whether they require a visa should contact the Business Development Team for further information before applying for their visa.

How to Apply

The 2025 Summer School is open to Masters and PHD students by invitation only and spaces are limited.

Postgraduate Masters and Doctoral students are invited to submit expressions of interest detailing their academic and disciplinary background and their planned or envisioned future endeavours in migration studies, explaining what they hope to gain from the Spring School. Selected students will be expected to demonstrate ongoing academic interest in and knowledge of international migration through their current or recent programme of study.

Four places are available to Malta-based Postgraduate Masters and Doctoral students. To express your interest in participating please click here. Closing date: 29 April, 2025.

Have a question? Get in touch – one of the team will be happy to help!

Course Dates:
5 to 9 May 2025

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Our Location

Academic Leads

Professor Kavita Datta

Professor of Development Geography, Director Centre for the Study of Migration

Queen Mary University of London

Professor Eric Tagliacozzo

John Stambaugh Professor of History

Cornell University

Professor Parvati Nair

Professor of Hispanic, Cultural and Migration Studies

Queen Mary University of London

Associate Professor Kathryn Fiorella

Director Migrations Programme

Cornell University

Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax

Professor of Law

Queen Mary University of London

Dr Dominik Zenner

Clinical Reader in Infectious Disease Epidemiology

Queen Mary University of London

Professor Isabelle Mareschal

Professor in Visual Cognition, Director of Research

Queen Mary University of London

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Queen Mary's Centre for the Study of Migration

The Centre for the Study of Migration (CFSM) aims to advance interdisciplinary research on diverse theoretical and empirical aspects of migration.

Film Screening: Simshar and Q&A with Director Rebecca Debono

Language: Maltese with English Subtitles

As part of the Migration Spring School, Queen Mary, Malta Campus is hosting a screening of the award-winning film, Simshar co-written and directed by Rebecca Cremona.