Sunday 31.8.2025 09:00 - Saturday 6.9.2025 16:00

We cordially invite you to the Summer School of Migration Studies, which will take place in Prague from 31 August to 6 September 2025 and is aimed at students and young professionals.

WHEN:  August 31 - September 6, 2025
WHERE: Faculty of Science, Prague

Geographic Migration Centre, a research institute affiliated with the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Science, Charles University, and IOM International Organization for Migration Czechia cordially invites students and young professionals to Prague, for the Summer School on Migration Studies.

The United Nations Information Centre Prague UNIC and UNHCR Czech Republic are partners of the program.

The program builds on previous editions of summer schools organized by IOM and the Geographic Migration Centre since 2009 with different partners - IMISCOE, CzechAid, OSCE, UNHCR, US Embassy in Prague, Ministry of Interior of the Czech Republic etc. 

Previous years were attended in total by more than one thousand students and professionals from around one hundred countries who listened to lectures presented by e.g.:

 - Joaquín Arango, Professor of Sociology at the Complutense University of Madrid

- Philippe De Bruycker, Université Libre de Bruxelles

- Nadya Jaworsky, Harvard University and Masaryk University Brno

- Ronald Skeldon, University of Sussex

- Yvonne Riaño, University of Neuchatel

- Heinz Fassmann, University of Vienna

- Rinus Penninx, University of Amsterdam

- Adrian Bailey, Hong Kong Baptist University

and many other distinguished experts from academia, international and non-governmental organizations (UNHCR, WHO, La Strada, Charitas, etc.) as well as migrants’ organizations and communities (European Congress of Ukrainians etc.).

The course has been organized physically at Charles University, one of the oldest European universities founded in 1348. Experienced and respected scholars and practitioners participate in the Summer School while delivering lectures and/or leading seminars, workshops, and panel discussions on issues related to migration. It is examined from political, economic, sociocultural, demographic, development, geographical, and other perspectives.  

The 2025 program will follow a similar format as in previous years, see PROGRAM-Summer-school-on-migration-studies-2024-1.pdf .

Following experts will give lectures this year:

Refugees and Migration in the Context of Current World Events

  • Ajmal Khybari, Head of UNHCR Office in the Czech Republic

Migration Theories, Realities, and Myths

  • Dušan Drbohlav, Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Science, Charles University

Ethnicity, migration, and media stereotypes

  • Salim Murad, New York University Prague; EMMIR, University of South Bohemia

Migration, Climate Change and Global Risks

  • Michal Broža, Head of the United Nations Information Centre in Prague

What the law offers to climate "refugees"

  • Martin Rozumek Director of Organization for Aid of Refugees

Care Migration and Gender 

  • Petra Ezzeddine, Department of General Anthropology and Department of Gender Studies of the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University

Migration and Demography

  • Tomáš Sobotka, Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital, Vienna

The Realities of Irregular Migration from Africa

  • Eric Opoku Ware, Sahara Hustlers Association, Ghana - The Realities of Irregular Migration from Africa

Transnationalism and Diaspora

  • Eva Janská, Faculty of Science, Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Charles University

Inclusivity as a Precondition of Integration 

Migration and Development

  • Josef Novotný, Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Science, Charles University

Labour migration

  • Jan Schroth, Migration policy expert Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, former consultant for the OECD, ICMPD, IOM, UNHCR

and others will be confirmed.

The application deadline was due at the end of April, but we can put additional potential applicants on the waiting list if spots open up later. If interested, please send your CV and a short motivation email to migrationpolicyexpert@email.cz