The IAMO Forum 2025 will be held from 18 to 20 June 2025 on "Rural Roots and Routes: Navigating Complexities of Quality of Life, Immobility, and Migration" in Halle (Saale), Germany. The interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary IAMO Forum 2025 provides a unique platform for the exchange of novel insights, rigorous research, and practical solutions that address the complex relationships between quality of life, migration, and immobility.
The Forum welcomes contributions on the following topics:
- Quality of life and well-being in rural areas
- The role of place attachment and other factors in decisions on migration and immobility
- Migration in times of climate change and other crises: motives, drivers, and implications
- The role of politics in (im)mobility decisions
- Innovative theoretical and methodological approaches to understanding quality of life, migration, and immobility in rural areas
The Forum welcomes qualitative and quantitative research as well as theoretical work from agricultural and resource economics, development economics, sociology, geography, and related disciplines. It also particularly encourages submissions with a geographical focus on Europe, Central Asia, and China.
The conference language is English.
The conference is organized as part of the Leibniz Best Minds Project RuWell and co-organized by the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS) and the Österreichische Nationalbank (OeNB).
