CReAM@RFBerlin, the Centre for Research and Analysis on Migration at RFBerlin, is organising the third Annual RFBerlin Migration Forum, a conference open to scholars in economics and related social sciences.
The 2027 Forum focuses on migration, integration, and economic competitiveness: how migrants integrate into the economies and societies that receive them, and what migration means for labour markets, firms, and productivity in destination countries. See here and here for information on past forums.
Call for Papers
We invite innovative research on a broad range of topics related to migration, including, but not limited to, the economic and social integration of migrants and the role of policy; the effects of migration on labour markets, firms, productivity, and economic competitiveness in destination countries; the drivers of migration; migrants’ experiences and outcomes; and public attitudes toward immigration.
- Submission deadline: 8 November 2026
- Notification to authors: 3 December 2026
How to submit
Submissions may consist of a full paper or an extended abstract, although preference will be given to completed papers. Only one submission per presenting author is permitted, but there is no limit on co-authorship of additional submissions. All submissions must include an abstract of no more than 250 words.
Programme
The event programme will be published soon.
Keynote speakers
Jens Hainmueller (Stanford University)
Jens Hainmueller is Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. He is the founder and Faculty Co-Director of the Stanford Immigration Policy Lab, which works with governments and NGOs to design and evaluate immigration and integration policies. His research spans statistical methods, causal inference, immigration, and political economy, and has appeared in Science, Nature, and PNAS as well as leading field journals. He has contributed to widely used methods such as synthetic control and entropy balancing. He is Andrew Carnegie Fellow and Fellow of the RFBerlin Network.

Giovanni Peri (University of California, Davis)
Giovanni Peri is the C. Bryan Cameron Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of California, Davis, and Founder and Director of the UC Davis Global Migration Center. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research examines the economic determinants and consequences of international migration and immigration policy, with a focus on labour markets and productivity in receiving countries. He has published around 100 articles in journals including the American Economic Review and the Review of Economic Studies. He is a former Co-Editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association and chaired the UC Davis Department of Economics from 2015 to 2019.

Scientific committee
Giacomo Battiston, Christian Dustmann, Tommaso Frattini, Gabriele Lucchetti, Izabela Wnuk-Soares.
Organising committee
Yulia Aster, Giacomo Battiston, Christian Dustmann, Tommaso Frattini, Gabriele Lucchetti, Camilla Piovesan, Izabela Wnuk-Soares.