Registration for the first international conference of the CIMigration is now open ! The objective of the conference is to stimulate a dialogue between the research led by the fellows and international research hotspots. The conference provides focused entry points for debates along five cutting-edge topics in migration studies : welcoming policies elaborated by cities ; the nexus between migration and climate change ; discrimination in the access to healthcare systems ; situations of migration in past and colonial empires, and confronting assimilation theories in ethnic and racial research.