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…
New explainer videos on migration by MACIMIDE Co-Director Melissa Siegel
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…
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…
DigiD transcending borders: Frontier workers now able to apply for DigiD
DigiD is known as the quick and easy identification system for use of government websites. Sadly, in the past frontier workers seemed to be excluded from this service. Until now, that is. The government has recently granted frontier workers the possibility…
Katie Kuschminder wins ERC grant
Dr. Katie Kuschminder has won a ‘Starting Grant’ from the European Research Council (ERC), which is awarded to researchers with two to seven years of experience since completion of their PhD. This 1.5-million-euro grant will enable Katie to form a…
Relaunch of the International Migration Institute at the University of Amsterdam
Last year, the International Migration Insititute (IMI) completed its relocation from the University of Oxford to the University of Amsterdam’s Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR). The move allows for the continuation of IMI’s original research agenda to promote new…
The IMISCOE Migration Podcast: MACIMIDE Co-Director Melissa Siegel on misconceptions of migration and development
Prof. Melissa Siegel was interviewed for the Migration Podcast published by the International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion in Europe research network (IMISCOE). In the episode, she speaks about the aspirations that drive people’s decisions to live elsewhere and debunks…
Arjen Leerkes on Belgian radio
After the news broke out that migrants are trying to flee from Spain to countries such as Morocco and Algeria due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Belgian Radio 1 channel asked Prof. Arjen Leerkes to comment on this phenomenon. He…