New video by Melissa Siegel on the support for those that assisted foreign governments in Afganistan
In this newest video Melissa Siegel looks at the support being offered to people who supported foreign governments in Afghanistan. This video briefly examines the historical situation that led to the withdrawal of the US armed forces and those of…
Sonja Fransen has received a Comprehensive Innovation grant from UNU-MERIT
Dr Sonja Fransen has received a Comprehensive Innovation grant from UNU-MERIT to study ‘Climate Vulnerabilities in Refugee Camps’. The two-year research project will provide empirical insights into the vulnerabilities of refugee camp locations and camp residents to climatic events, both…
14/09/2021 – Roundtable discussion on ‘Migration Futures and Transnational Scholarship’
On the 14 September 2021 at 10-11.30am CEST [4-5.30pm (Singapore Time)], Prof. Valentina Mazzucato, a member of the MACIMIDE Executive Board, will take part in a roundtable discussion on ‘Migration Futures and Transnational Scholarship.’ Some of the contributors to the…
Why we should use the term irregular migration: new video by Melissa Siegel
Prof. Melissa Siegel has produced a video outlining why the term “irregular migration” should be used in favour to other terms, including “illegal migrants.” Melissa first examines why this terminology is preferred. Melissa then examines the manners in which an…
Migration Snapshots on Belgium and France
Melissa Siegel has released migration snapshots looking at France (which can be found here) and Belgium (here). Both videos use the EU Atlas on Migration to look into the migration situation in each State respectively. They look at the stocks…
Prof. Melissa Siegel has published a wide range of olympic migration content
Over the summer Prof. Siegel has published videos on various olympic related migration topics. This has included videos on the migrants that competed at the Olympics, the International Refugee Team and the process of changing nationalities for the purpose of…
01/09/2021 – GPAC2 Webinar
Take your career to another level with UNU’s part-time PhD programme. The “Dual Career Training Programme to obtain a PhD in Governance and Policy Analysis” (GPAC²) is taught in English, and consists of a first year with three training workshops,…
NWO Hestia Grant for MACIMIDE researchers Nasrat Sayed and Lillian Tsourdi
Nasrat Sayed and Lillian Tsourdi have been awarded an NWO Hestia grant! This grant will allow Nasrat to join Lillian Tsourdi’s ongoing NWO VENI project and the Law Faculty/IER Department as research associate for 2 years on a 60% basis and to partake…
Melissa Siegel makes a new Migration Series on Senegal
Prof. Siegel looks at the migration history, policy and current situation of Senegal. Her first video looks at the history, starting from before European colonisation and then the effects of colonisation on migration history. This included both the impacts of…
New Video by Prof. Melissa Siegel on OPAM and European Attitudes About Migration
In this video Melissa Siegel looks at the Observatory of Public Attitudes to Migration (OPAM), a part of the Migration Policy Centre within the EUI. OPAM aims to enhance understanding of attitudes to migration through presentation, analysis and evaluation of…