The MIDICO (Migration, Diversity, and Social Cohesion) research group, in collaboration with the Office of International Relations and Mobility (IRMO) of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Valencia, will hold a new edition of its International Seminar on Friday, June 13.

The MIDICO (Migration, Diversity, and Social Cohesion) research group, in collaboration with the Office of International Relations and Mobility (IRMO) of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Valencia, will hold a new edition of its International Seminar on Friday, June 13. This academic meeting will bring together, for the first time, researchers from contexts as diverse as Poland and Uruguay to reflect jointly on migratory phenomena from global, critical, and complementary perspectives. The seminar will take place in the auditorium of the Faculty of Social Sciences, and no prior registration is required. The activity will take place on the same day throughout the morning, with the following program:
10:00 a.m. – From mono-tone multicultural society: Polish media discourses of migration, 2014–2025, by Marcin Deutschmann, from the Institute of Linguistics, University of Opole (Poland). This presentation will analyze how Polish media discourses have reflected—and often fueled—political and social changes surrounding migration in the period 2014–2025, from the conflict in Ukraine to border tensions with Belarus and right-wing political rhetoric in recent years.
11:00 a.m. – Migration from the River Plate region to Spain: recent trends and structural factors, presentation by Martín Koolhaas, professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of the Republic (Uruguay). His research focuses on recent migratory flows from Argentina and Uruguay to Spain (2015-2025), highlighting the structural factors that have motivated this increase and providing relevant data from the Spanish Municipal Register and sources such as Latinobarómetro and LAPOP.
11:45 a.m. – Final discussion to share impressions and questions with attendees.
This seminar will be held in a multilingual format, with presentations in English and Spanish, and aims to promote an enriching dialogue between the migratory realities of the global North and South. The meeting has been organized by professors from the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology and the Fernando Osvaldo Esteban Apreda Institute for Creativity and Educational Innovation (Midico group) and Benno Herzog, with the support of IRMO.