IOM project: Reintegration
Dr. Sonja Fransen will lead a new, six-month project for the International Organization for Migration (IOM), combining two recently awarded projects on ‘Comparative Reintegration Outcomes in Forced and Voluntary Returns’ and ‘Understanding and Implementing Gender-Sensitive Sustainable Reintegration’. The combined project will focus on…
WFP project: Urban response to COVID-19 in Kenya
The World Food Programme (WFP) has asked the migration team at UNU-MERIT and its School of Governance to evaluate an urban response intervention in Nairobi. The intervention aims to provide life-saving humanitarian support to poor households residing in informal settlements who are…
Migration Management and the Migration Development Nexus (MIGNEX)
MIGNEX is a five-year research project (2018–2023) with the core ambition of creating new knowledge on migration, development and policy. MIGNEX is the largest-ever European-funded research project on migration, involving researchers from nine institutions in Europe, Africa and Asia. UNU-MERIT…
MISTY Project: Migration, Transformation, Sustainability.
While the topics of sustainability and migration are both widely discussed, there is little understanding of the connections between the two. The project MISTY migration, transformation, sustainability seeks to explore the ways that migration interacts with sustainability concerns in destination cities,…
Kenya Post Graduate Diploma Programme in Migration Studies
Following the success of the first cohort of the Kenya Post Graduate Diploma Programme in Migration Studies (PGDPMS) which took place in Kenya in 2019, the Migration and Development group launched the second cohort in September 2020. The PGDPMS is organised in…
Strengthening Migration Management Authorities in Kosovo
The third phase of the project “Strengthening Migration Management Authorities in Kosovo” (MIMAK II) was launched in July and was commissioned by the Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC). As part of the project, the Migration Group of UNU-MERIT and its School…
Book review: Policing Undocumented Migrants. Law, Violence and Responsibility
Cleton, L. (2020). “Book review: Policing Undocumented Migrants. Law, Violence and Responsibility”. University of Oxford: Border Criminologies Blog. Available here
Beyond the isolation thesis: exploring the links between residential concentration and immigrant integration in the Netherlands
Fajth, V. and Bilgili, Ö. (2020). “Beyond the isolation thesis: exploring the links between residential concentration and immigrant integration in the Netherlands”. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 46(15): 3252-3276
28/10: Maastricht Migration Lecture Series – Does Citizenship Matter?
Six years after the so-called ‘refugee crisis’ reached the European continent, the topic is still widely debated. Media, politics, and the public discuss intensive ways to deal with incoming migrants and to prevent migration in the future. However, many misconceptions…
04/11: Online PhD Defence Merve Özer: Essays on drivers and long-term impact of migration
On Wednesday 4 November, at 12:00 o’clock, Merve Özer will defend her PhD titled “Essays on drivers and long-term impact of migration”.