Call for papers: Global GLO-JOPE Conference 2024

On December 4 2024, UNU-MERIT Maastricht will host a workshop on “Innovations and demographic change” at Belvedere (first floor). The topic is understood broadly, and issues dealing with structural change and inequality,  population, labor, health, conflict, migration, development are welcome….

20/11/2024 – GTD Colloquium with Dr. Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot

The Globalisation, Transnationalism, and Development (GTD) Research Group at FASoS, Maastricht University cordially invites you its Fall Colloquium Series. The next session is on Wednesday, 20 November 2024, 15.30-17.00 at Spiegelzaal, FASoS featuring: Dr. Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot is FNRS…

22/11/2024 – ITEM Annual Conference 2024 (Ghent)

You are cordially invited to the ITEM Annual Conference 2024 with the theme: From Green deal to Industrial deal – Decline “border blindness” & Experience the living labs of European Integration.  North Western Europe has traditionally been at the forefront…

27/11/2024 – UNU-MERIT Migration Seminar Series: Where to next: the evolving situation of Eritreans on the move

You are cordially invited to the next UNU-MERIT Migration Seminar Where to next: the evolving situation of Eritreans on the move. Ethiopia and Sudan have been the major first countries of refuge for Eritreans for decades. Likewise, Saudi Arabia, Israel…

Three new videos by Melissa Siegel out on YouTube

Melissa Siegel has three new videos out on her YouTube channel: How Corruption Drives Migration Aspirations In this video we look at how corruption and migration interact and specifically how corruption can affect migration aspirations. Fair and Ethical Recruitment of…

Call for applications: IMISCOE PhD Summer School 2025

For the 2025 edition of the IMISCOE PhD school, we aim at training PhD candidates and early career researchers affiliated at institutions around the world to develop visual and sensory methodologies in migration research. We use the term “methodology” as we…

Invitation: Refugee Law Initiative’s 15th International Refugee Law Seminar Series

We are pleased to share news of the Refugee Law Initiative’s 15th International Refugee Law Seminar Series, hosted in collaboration with Refugee History: Moments in Refugee History and the Development of the Modern Refugee Regime: Understanding refugee law and policy today This…

28/10/2024 – Climate Change, Displacement and Gender (Online seminar)

The Women in Refugee Law (WiRL) online seminar on Climate Change, Displacement and Gender, is taking place on Zoom on Monday 28 October 3:00pm-4:15pm (UK & UTC). The United Nations estimates that 80% of people who are displaced by the…

30/10/2024 – Book discussion: Private Sponsorship of Refugees in Europe

This seminar will feature a presentation based on Chiara Berneri’s book ‘Private Sponsorship of Refugees in Europe’, which focuses on the European experiences of private sponsorship of refugees. She will present and discuss how private sponsorship is expanding safe opportunities for…

30/10/2024 – Protection in the UK: the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Online seminar)

Wednesday 30 October, 5-6pm, Online Protection in the UK: the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill Professor Başak Çalı (Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, Oxford), Professor Cathryn Costello (University College Dublin), Raza Husain KC (Matrix Chambers), Yasmine Ahmed (UK Director of…