IAMO FORUM 2025: Submit your contribution until 9 February 2025

Dear colleagues and friends,

We warmly invite you to participate in the IAMO Forum 2025 "Rural Roots and Routes: Navigating Complexities of Quality of Life, Immobility, and Migration" which will take place from June 18 to 20, 2025 in Halle (Saale), Germany.

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 Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB).

The interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary IAMO Forum provides a unique platform for exchanging 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

Submit your extended abstract for oral/poster presentations or organized sessions to www.conftool.org/iamo2025/ by 9 February 2025. We particularly encourage submissions with a geographical focus on Europe, Central Asia, and China.

More information about the IAMO Forum 2025 and a call for papers can be found at www.iamo.de/forum/2025. Please feel free to forward this information to any interested parties.

Kind regards,

IAMO Forum 2025 Organizing Committee

Mailing_Call for Submissions_ISQOLS.pdf