Dr Eiko Thielemann co-organises eight migration seminars at LSE for interdisciplinary London Migration Research Group

This academic year, Dr Eiko Thielemann, Associate Professor in Political Science and Public Policy and co-founder of our MSc International Migration and Public Policy programme at the European Institute, organised eight migration research seminars at LSE with Professor Fiona Adamson, Professor of International Relations at SOAS, under the auspices of the London Migration Research Group (LMRG) - an inter-university and interdisciplinary network of scholars who come together to present and discuss their latest and ongoing research in the field. The seminars are open to academics, students, policymakers and practitioners working on migration issues.

This year’s programme explored a wide range of topics and case studies:

• Explaining public aversions towards citizenship by investment (Dr Enze Han, University of Hong Kong)
• Japan and Europe in comparative perspective (Professor Midori Okabe, SOAS)
• The perception of choice and unauthorised migration (Dr Cassilde Schwartz, Royal Holloway)
• Asia Minor refugees in Greece (Dr Marilena Anastasopoulou, University College Dublin)
• The trade-off between regular and irregular migration (Dr Matilde Rosina, Brunel University London; Dr Omar Hammoud-Gallego, Durham University)
• Ukrainians in Slovakia (Dr Michaela Šedovič, Comenius University)

Final seminar: 9 June 2026

The LMRG's final seminar for this academic year, Gold, scams, and ph(f)ishing: migrant trafficking in Southeast Asia and South Africa, will be delivered on 9 June 2026 by Professor Randall Hansen, Canada Research Chair in Global Migration and Director of the Global Migration Lab at the University of Toronto.

• When: 9 June 2026, 5.30 - 7.00pm
• Where: Room OLD.1.20 (LSE campus)