The closing conference will mark the culmination of the TraFaDy network, bringing together researchers, policy makers, practitioners, and transnational families. It will present key findings from the six Working Groups, share policy and practice recommendations, and foster dialogue across disciplines and sectors. The event will strengthen the European community of practice on TNF and ensure […]
This jooint meeting of the Working Groups 3 and 5 will be about investigating and presenting innovative methods as examples of good practice in social protection. A particular focus will be on ethics in social rights and social protection of TNF research, usage of statistics in social rights and social protection of TNF research, etc.
This will be a follow up session in whcih the members of the Working Grooups will contiue developping ethical guidelines for reflecting on different vulnerabilities in migration research. Based on the general aspects developed in the first session, in the second session the group will reflect on more specific migrant groups where different vulnerabilities intersect,
At the meeting, we will discuss the outputs of the cooperation between WG 3 and WG 5: The finalization of the brochures on the topic of ethics in social rights and social protection of TNFs, brainstorming on the final version, how to organize translations into national languages, dissemination, etc. The meeting is held online.
At the meeting, the results of cooperation and activities of WG5 related to the its main topic – Challenges and possibilities for quantitative and mixed researchmethods on transnational families in a changing world – will be presented. The meeting is conceived as a panel discussion in which, in addition to the presentation of concrete innovations,
The details of the first episode in 2026 of the webinar series on “Qualitative Methods in the area Transnational Families revisited” are still to be confirmed. The webinar series is organised by the “Qualitative Subgroup” of Working Group 5. Speakers and topic: All episodes of the Webinar Series:
The details of the final episode in 2025 of the webinar series on “Qualitative Methods in the area Transnational Families revisited” are still to be confirmed. The webinar series is organised by the “Qualitative Subgroup” of Working Group 5. Speakers and topic: All episodes of the Webinar Series:
“Complementing qualitative methods in studying the dynamics and well-being of TNF – examples of labour migration from the area of the former Yugoslavia through a time perspective” will be the topic of this issue of the webinar series on “Qualitative Methods in the area Transnational Families revisited”. It will be held on 16 Oct 2025
The details of this issue of the webinar series on “Qualitative Methods in the area Transnational Families revisited” are still to be confirmed. The webinar series is organised by the “Qualitative Subgroup” of Working Group 5. Speakers and topic: All episodes of the Webinar Series:
In this joint session the members of three working groups will discuss and analyse the collected material from scientific papers on ethical challenges that researchers face when working with migrant children and youth such as: dealing with language diversity, dealing with the support of translators in the field, choosing the location of the interview, developing
The “Quantitative Subgroup” of Working Group 5 organized a panel in the 22nd IMISCOE Annual Conference “Decentering migration studies” (Paris – Aubervilliers & online, 1-4 July 2025) panel The title was: Untapped treasures? Utilizing Quantitative Data for Transnational Family Research CHAIRS: David Schiefer (German Center for Integration and Migration Research) and Tatiana Eremenko (University of
The “Qualitative Subgroup” of Working Group 5 organises a webinar series featuring several topics and discussion on the “Qualitative Methods in the area Transnational Families revisited”. The 7th part was held on 12 June 2025 (13.00h-14.00h) on the topic of “Healthcare safety of home care provision in Transnational Families”. Speakers and topics: All episodes of
This episode of the webinar series “Qualitative Methods in the area Transnational Families revisited” was held on 15 May 2025 (13.00h-14.00h). The series is organised by the “Qualitative Subgroup” of Working Group 5. Speakers and topics: All episodes of the Webinar Series:
On 26 March 25, WG2 and WG5 gathered for an important discussion on ethics in research with children. The session provided a platform for sharing knowledge on best practices, challenges, and ethical guidelines for conducting research involving children, particularly within the scope of migration and displacement. TraFaDy members can check the WG2 Teams channel where
On April 24, 2025, an in-person meeting and workshop of the WG5 subgroup on Qualitative research titled “Beyond Translation: Reflexivity, Ethics, and the Role of Interpreters in Migration Research” took place in Bratislava. The workshop focused on a critical examination of the complexities involved in research that includes interpreters, particularly within the field of transnational
