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 by 9 February 2025.

We particularly encourage submissions with a geographical focus on Europe, Central Asia, and China.

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).