New Flagship Initiative on “Global Migrations” hosted by AMIS
Fabio Santos and Marie Sandberg have been awarded funding for a flagship initiative by HUM:Global – a cross-faculty program at the Faculty of Humanities that maps, harnesses, and stimulates researchers, projects, networks, and centers to generate and bring to life their most ambitious ideas on global processes and challenges.
The flagship initiative, titled “Global Migrations: Histories, Everyday Lives, and Epistemologies”, will establish an interdisciplinary and international research network focusing on three interconnected areas:
- the histories of global migrations and their entanglements with empire, nation-building, labor, and ecologies;
- the everyday lived experiences of migrants and how they have circumvented borders, negotiated constraints, and forged new forms of belonging;
- the epistemologies through which migration is studied, represented, governed – as well as the forms of knowledge produced by migrants themselves.
By linking these axes, the flagship initiative seeks to foreground global microhistories of migration and to amplify perspectives that have long remained at the margins of academic attention. A first milestone will be an international workshop hosted at the Saxo Institute and AMIS in spring 2026. The event will foster interdisciplinary dialogue across regions and methods, while also involving students from the MA in Advanced Migration Studies in shaping and participating in the discussions.