https://council.science/events/world-social-science-forum-2018/

In the context of the International Conference ‘World Social Sciences Forum’ held in September 2018 in Fukuoka, Japan, Prof. Yoshitaka Ishikawa (Teikyo University, Japan,  past Scientific Secretary of the Globiity Commission and current member of its Steering Committee) promoted an invited session by the National Committee of Japan, which is Japan’s affiliate for the International Geographical Union. That session, affiliated with the IGU commission on Global Change and Human Mobility (Globility), was held in the Fukuoka International Congress Center; four papers were presented by scholars from the University of Sydney (Australia), Academia Sinica (Taiwan), University of Shizouka (Japan) and Aichi Gakuin University (Japan) on the issue of migration and social inclusion, in line with the title of the call for papers “Current situation of social inclusion for immigrants”. Twenty participants, including the president of IGU, attended that session, and it was successfully concluded.

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The postponed International Geographical Union 34th Congress: “Geography: Bridging the Continents” in Istanbul, 16-20 August 2021

https://www.igc2020.org/en/

The International Geographical Union in collaboration with the Istanbul University and the Turkish Geographical Society organizes the 34th International Congress. The Global Change and Human Mobility (Globility) Commission organizes the following own sessions:

1. Environmental risks, resilience, and human mobility.
2. Human mobility and identities into play. Belonging and transnationalism.
3. Human mobility and regional disparities: patterns of migration from a comparative perspective.
4. Human mobility at a time of digital culture and technology.
5. The human mobility career: circular, onward, and return migration.
6. The role of human mobility dealing with violence and conflicts.

For detailed information about the sessions, please visit the Call for Papers: https://www.igc2020.org/en/GLOBAL-CHANGE-AND-HUMAN-MOBILITY.html

A joint session with the Commission on Tourism, Leisure and Global Change

1. International tourism and residential mobilities: global and local perspectives.

For detailed information about this session, please visit the Call for Papers:  https://www.igc2020.org/en/JOINT-SESSION-GLOBAL-CHANGE-AND-HUMAN-MOBILITY%20TOURISM,%20LEISURE%20AND%20GLOBAL%20CHANGE.html

And a COVID-19 session on the linkages between pandemic and the human mobility

1. Human mobility in times of pandemic is going local?

For detailed information about this session, please visit the Call for Papers: https://www.igc2020.org/en/HUMAN-MOBILITY-IN-TIMES-OF-PANDEMIC-IS-GOING-LOCAL-.html

http://www.eugeo.eu/

The Globility Commission organized a scientific session in the 7th EUGEO Congress (in conjunction with the 51st Conference of Irish Geographers) celebrated in Galway, Ireland (2019).

This session was entitled “International Mobilities: the role of age and regions” and invited to think about changing trends in international mobilities from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. Issues on the complexity of the spatial movements of migrants between regions due to the unbalanced economic development as well as topics on the impact of the migrants’ lifecycles allowed exploring different processes of international migrations and their consequences on the human capital outcomes.

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The IGU-UGI Centennial Congress: “The Time of Geographers”, in Paris, July 18-22, 2022

https://www.ugiparis2022.org/

The International Geographical Union in collaboration with the French National Committee of Geography hosts the Centennial Congress in Paris next year. The Global Change and Human Mobility (Globility) Commission organizes the following sessions:

1. From lifestyle migrations to digital nomadism: the reconfiguration of international residential mobility (A101440JD)
2. Cross-Frontier Flows in Maritime and Land Border Areas: New Perspectives (A101444YR)
3. Digital tools: new practices for moving and new sources for studying mobility (A101449GM)
4. Mobility/Immobility during the pandemic and post-pandemic times: local perspectives (A101450AM)
5. Immigrant entrepreneurship, international mobilities and sustainable local development in rural areas (A101455CM)
6. A transnational perspective of human mobility through the left-behind areas (A101456BS)
7. Students’ mobility and labour mobility: a life course approach (A101460MF)

For detailed information about these sessions, please visit the Call for Papers: https://www.ugiparis2022.org/en/abstracts-submission/29