Doctoral school on solidarity and migration

At Aalborg University in Denmark, with which the Peace Institute collaborates on several research projects, a doctoral summer school was held entitled “Solidarity, migration and civil society in theory and practice” (May 12-14). Doctoral students from various European countries, Asia, and Africa presented their research projects, including on the Balkan migration corridor, the Atlantic routes to the Canary Islands, acts of solidarity with Palestine in Norway, barriers to education faced by asylum seekers, urban migration infrastructures in Brussels and Trieste, and rescue operations in the Mediterranean, among others.

Mojca Pajnik gave a lecture at the summer school, organized by Martin Bak Jørgensen and Óscar García Agustín, on solidarity as a political and emotional practice in migration struggle, drawing on findings from the EScEuro research project. As part of her visit to the Department of Culture and Learning, she also delivered a lecture on the epistemology and methodology of framing analysis, where she presented methodological approaches that we at the Peace Institute have applied across several research projects.

The summer school fostered valuable exchanges between scholars working on pressing global issues and highlighted the importance of interdisciplinary, transnational collaboration in addressing the challenges of migration and solidarity.