Submit your contribution for the 5th Annual Meth@Mig Workshop (March 30-31, 2026 in Doha)

Submit your contribution for the 5th Annual Meth@Mig Workshop (March 30-31, 2026 in Doha)

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Since earlier this week, we are accepting contributions for the 5th Annual Meth@Mig Workshop Methodological Approaches in Cross-Cultural and Cross-National (Migration) Research. This event is jointly organized by IMISCOE’s Methodological Approaches and Tools in Migration Research Standing Committee and the Sociology and Anthropology Program at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. The workshop will take place on March…

Just out: Magic bullet or questionable remedy? Discussing the use of Meta advertising to recruit hard-to-reach migrants for surveys

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I’m excited to share a new article co-authored with Howard Ramos, just published in the Journal of Refugee Studies: “Magic bullet or questionable remedy? Discussing the use of Meta advertising to recruit hard-to-reach migrants for surveys” Collecting timely data on migrants and refugees is crucial, yet reaching these often small and mobile populations remains a…

New open access article: Surveying Emigrants Worldwide – Using Facebook and Instagram to Recruit Respondents in Cross-National (E)Migration Research

New open access article: Surveying Emigrants Worldwide – Using Facebook and Instagram to Recruit Respondents in Cross-National (E)Migration Research

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The article Surveying Emigrants Worldwide – Using Facebook and Instagram to Recruit Respondents in Cross-National (E)Migration Research has just been published in Comparative Migration Studies.  In this piece, Bernd Weiß and I demonstrate that global survey sampling via Meta’s advertising platform can be an effective and low-cost method for reaching hard-to-access populations—such as emigrants. With…

My chapter “Surveys in Migration Research” is now available in Open Access

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I’m pleased to share that my short chapter “Surveys in Migration Research”, published last year in How to Do Migration Research (edited by Ricard Zapata-Barrero and Daniela Vintila), is now available in an open access version. The chapter provides a brief introduction to key methodological considerations when conducting surveys in migration research. Topics covered include…

Out now: Cultural Identity Development in Adult Forced Migrants – The Psychometrics of a Measure in Arabic, Spanish, and Ukrainian

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I’m pleased to share a new publication in the International Journal of Intercultural Relations, co-authored with Débora B. Maehler, Nivedita Bhaktha, and Howard Ramos: “Cultural Identity Development in Adult Forced Migrants: The Psychometrics of a Measure in Arabic, Spanish, and Ukrainian.” The research tested the Multigroup Ethnic and National Identity Measure (MENI) across three language…

4th Annual Meth@Mig Workshop – Call for Contributions published

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I’m excited to share that we are now accepting contributions for the 4th Annual Meth@Mig Workshop „Between Data and Dialogue: Focusing on Participants in Migration Research“. This event is jointly organized by IMISCOE’s Methodological Approaches and Tools in Migration Research Standing Committee and Yolanda López García, Junior Professor for Intercultural Practice with a Focus on…

New open access publication: Guideline on the use of Meta’s SNS for survey recruitment, including a flowchart template to facilitate reporting

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GESIS has published our new paper “A Guideline on Recruiting Online Survey Respondents through Facebook and Instagram: A Case Study of Hard-to-Access Health Workers.”. This survey guideline is meant as explores the vast potential of social networking sites (SNS), with a particular focus on Facebook and Instagram, as potent tools for recruiting survey participants, especially…

First results of a cross-national survey on Ukrainian refugees published

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Following Russia’s unprovoked attack on Ukraine, hundreds of thousands of its residents, citizens and non-citizens alike fled the country. To cope with the challenges associated with such a massive displacement, accurate and timely data are direly needed. Against this background, we conducted a survey of refugees from Ukraine in Germany and Poland in the second…

Webinar on sampling via Social Networking Sites at the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA)

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It was my pleasure to give a talk entitled “Survey recruitment of (forced) migrants through targeted advertisements on Facebook and Instagram” in the internal seminar series of the EUAA Research Programme. I want to thank the colleagues at the European Union Agency for Asylum for the invitation, their interest in our research, and the inspiring…