26-27/11: Web-Seminar ‘The Gender of Borders’. Register now!

The border as a subject of study has given rise to numerous interdisciplinary works producing rich analyses of the material, social and discursive forms produced by migration control. Although half of the people crossing borders are women, few studies have…

MGI internship (home-based, deadline 24 Nov)

Context: In 2015, IOM developed a Migration Governance Framework (MiGOF) to help define what“well-managed migration policy” might look like at the national level. The MiGOF was welcomed by IOM’s Member States the same year. The Migration Governance Indicators (MGI) were…

ICMPD’s Vienna Migration Conference | 16-19 November

Vienna Migration Conference 2020 Schengen, asylum reform and Europe’s migration diplomacy: Has COVID-19 changed everything? The Vienna Migration Conference (VMC) 2020 takes place in a unique and dramatic year, also heralding the arrival of a new Commission with bold ideas…

17/11: Webinar RACE, TECH & BORDERS – A Conversation with Special Rapporteur Tendayi Achiume

17/11: Webinar RACE, TECH & BORDERS – A Conversation with Special Rapporteur Tendayi Achiume

Governments around the world increasingly deploy digital technologies in the context of border enforcement and administration, compounding concerns around privacy abuses, discrimination and exclusion related to citizenship and legal status. National security and counterterrorism are major drivers and often used…

18/11: MPC Webinar: ‘Climate mobilities: Migration, im/Mobilities, and climate change’,18 Nov. @15.00 CET, link provided following registration

MPC Webinar  ‘Climate mobilities: Migration, im/Mobilities, and climate change’18 November @15:00 – 16.15 CETThe link to the Webinar will be provided following registration.  The relation between climate change and human migration is often understood in relatively narrow terms. The predominant…

EUMedMi second National Workshop: Tunisia

It is my pleasure to announce the Second of a series of 6 EUMedMi National Workshops that will be hosted by six partner institutions from the North and South of the Mediterranean including: Belgium, Tunisia, Portugal, Morocco, Turkey and France between the years…

2 IOM Internship Opportunities in IOM’s Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific

IOM has published two internship vacancies (attached):  DTM REMAP Internship: The Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) Regional Evidence for Migration Analysis and Policy (REMAP) project was developed in response to the critical need to collect and analyze information on (protracted) displacement…

The Mobility Trajectories of Young Lives (MO-TRAYL) project launches e-book ‘Finding Your Voice: An intercultural storytelling workshop with young people’

Finding Your Voice is the product of a collaborative endeavor between researchers, a literary author, and young people. ​It recounts a three-day storytelling workshop organized in June 2019 as a way to ‘give back’ to young people of Ghanaian background…

Intra-EU migration: Shedding light on drivers, corridors and the relative importance of migrant characteristics

Mack, M., Roeder, S., Marchand, K. & Siegel, M. (2020). “Intra-EU migration: Shedding light on drivers, corridors and the relative importance of migrant characteristics”. UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2020-042

Restricting immigration to foster migrant integration? A comparative study across 22 European countries

Helbling, M., Simon, S. and Schmid, S.D. (2020). “Restricting immigration to foster migration integration? A comparative study across 22 European countries”. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 46(13), 2603-2624. Available here.