The Interdisciplinary Migration Studies Institute (IMSI) hosted its inaugural student conference on May 1-2, 2025, to highlight the impactful research that undergraduate and graduate students are doing in migration studies here at MU. The two-day conference featured panels such as “Embodied Borders: Mobility, Health, and the Politics of Care,” “Resilience as Resistance: Migration, Marginalization, and Political Reaction,” “Reclaiming Space: Latinx Resistance and Urban Belonging,” among others. 

The student conference, which will be an annual event, awarded four (two undergraduate and two graduate) “SLLC Campbell Awards for the Best Paper in Migration Studies.” Congratulations to our winners–Emily Cook (1st Place/Ph.D./ Political Science), Wendy Adjei (2nd Place/Ph.D./Communication), Cristal Sanchez (1stPlace/Junior/Journalism) and Emma Weber (2nd Place/Senior/Classics). The conference was organized by IMSI Fellows, Abigail Adediran (Ph.D. candidate/Communication), Omotayo Jemiluyi (MA candidate/French) and IMSI’s Associate Director and PFF Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Don Joseph.