Call for an Urgent Justice Mechanism for Repatriated Migrant Workers
The COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted millions of migrant workers in destination countries, many of whom have experienced job loss or non-payment of wages, been forced by employers to take unpaid leave or reduced wages, been confined in poor living…
Three new PhD positions in international migration | Danube University Krems
Danube University Krems is Europe’s leading university for continuing education. As the only public university for continuing education in the German-speaking area, it specialises in upskilling programmes for working persons and, in teaching and research, is engaged in tackling current…
Launch new IMISCOE website
Dear IMISCOE Community We are happy and proud to announce that IMISCOE’s new website is now ONLINE. In the last few months the IMISCOE network office, the team of Designserver and Studio Parkers, the IMISCOE website working group and many…
PhD Projects Mental health displaced persons & ethnic inequalities and discrimination (Nijmegen)
Aim: This project aims to describe the unintended consequences of the provision of mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) to displaced persons. Theoretical Background: Until recently, for humanitarian organizations active in (post-)conflict situations, providing MHPSS has often been seen as…
CfP: Interculturalism in a Polarised World
In a decade characterised by continual and growing anxieties over diversity and inclusion, there is an ever greater need to discuss the salience and limitations of the conceptual frames that we use when thinking about contemporary forms of mobility and…
Migration Seminars
In conjunction with the Maastricht Centre for Citizenship, Migration and Development (MACIMIDE), the Migration and Development research theme at UNU-MERIT and its School of Governance organises a series of migration-related seminars to provide a platform to discuss the research output…
Dr. Katie Kuschminder interviewed in Observant
An interview with Dr. Katie Kuschminder was published in Maastricht University’s independent newspaper Observant, on 11 March 2020 as part of a series on the dilemmas related to scientific integrity. The series is jointly run with Maastricht University’s Platform for…
Katie Kuschminder at the Migration Studies Delegation
In February 2020, Dr. Katie Kuschminder gave a keynote speech at the Migration Studies Delegation (Delmi) in Stockholm, Sweden, on “Return Migration and Reintegration”. The workshop included an international group of experts on return migration and reintegration from Europe. Dr. Kuschminder…
PhD Defence: Ayla Bonfiglio
On 20 February 2020, Ayla Bonfiglio successfully defended her PhD dissertation entitled “Student Migrant, Refugee or Both? Exploring Refugee Agency and Mobility through Tertiary Education in Kenya, South Africa and Uganda”. Tertiary education institutions in resettlement and asylum countries across…
Maastricht University Star Lecture: Prof. Melissa Siegel
On 6 February 2020, Prof. Melissa Siegel gave a lecture on the “Myths and misconceptions around migration” in Brussels as part of the sixth edition of Maastricht University’s Star Lecture Series. This year, 14 lectures took place simultaneously in different…