MISTY: Is COVID-19 shifting attitudes towards sustainability?
The Migration, Transformation and Sustainability (MISTY) project aims to provide theoretical and methodological innovations on the links between migration and sustainability. Dr. Sonja Fransen and Beatriz Cardoso Fernandes (both from UNU-MERIT) together with Dominique Jolivet (UvA) conducted a case study from…
New video by MACIMIDE Co-Director Melissa Siegel on the Effects of Migration on the County of Origin
Melissa Siegel discusses how mobility can have micro level effects, for example, on the immediate family members or households that an emigrant leaves, while on the other end of the spectrum the effects at the country or regional level which…
New explainer video on migration by MACIMIDE Co-Director Melissa Siegel
Prof. Melissa Siegel, Professor of Migration Studies at Maastricht University and UNU-MERIT, has published a new video on her Youtube channel addressing the concept of diaspora: looking at the origins of the term, how definitions differ and have changed over time…
UNU Migration Network
The United Nations Migration Network, currently chaired by Prof. Melissa Siegel and Dr. Katie Kuschminder of UNU-MERIT, launched a blog series ‘Migration, climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic’ in late 2020. As a build-up to International Migrants Day on 18 December 2020, this series…
Migration team members win grants at Maastricht University’s SBE
The month of December 2020 was a successful one for several members of the Migration Research Group. Dr. Katrin Marchand and Dr. Sonja Fransen were both awarded a grant from the School of Business and Economics (SBE) Elinor Ostrom Fund….
Country case studies on migration in Mexico and Afghanistan on MACIMIDE Co-Director Melissa Siegel’s YouTube Channel
Prof. Melissa Siegel, Professor of Migration Studies at Maastricht University and UNU-MERIT, has launched a Youtube channel dealing with migration issues. The purpose of the channel is to bring knowledge on migration to the general public. Click here for the…
Launch of the Health and Migration Collaborative Community
On 26 November the first symposium on Migration, Health and Integration took place, a collaboration between the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance/UNU-MERIT (with the Maastricht Centre for Global Health and the Maastricht Centre for Citizenship, Migration and Development) and the Radboud University Network…
Country case studies on migration in the Philippines on MACIMIDE Co-Director Melissa Siegel’s YouTube Channel
Prof. Melissa Siegel, Professor of Migration Studies at Maastricht University and UNU-MERIT, has launched a Youtube channel dealing with migration issues. The purpose of the channel is to bring knowledge on migration to the general public. Click here for the…
Country case studies on migration in the USA and the Netherlands on MACIMIDE Co-Director Melissa Siegel’s YouTube Channel
Prof. Melissa Siegel, Professor of Migration Studies at Maastricht University and UNU-MERIT, has launched a Youtube channel dealing with migration issues. The purpose of the channel is to bring knowledge on migration to the general public. Click here for the…
Online Courses in Migration Studies
For those who are interested but do not have the time to take a full-time course in migration studies, UNU-MERIT and its School of Governance offer a number of specially designed online courses to suit the needs of busy professionals. We…