Iepke M. Rijcken, doctoral researcher at Department of Sociology and Human Geography | Division of Sociology has been awarded the prestigious 2025 ÖAW Dissertation Award for Research on Migration for her ongoing dissertation, “Conviviality and Infrastructures of Mobility: Cross-Border Commuting in the Polish-German Border Region.”

The expanding BRICS bloc – Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa – has fueled hopes for a “multipolar world order.” Yet its economies lack an emancipatory vision. Social movements from below instead call for an “anti-polar” internationalism that rejects both imperialist unipolarity and subimperialist multipolarity, challenging.

Interested in studying abroad? The EuMIG info webinar on the Double Degree Program will take place on Friday, 21 November from 12:15 to 13:45.