18/11/2016 Conference ‘Dynamic Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries’

Eindhoven, 18 November 2016 More information here. Free registration deadline: 1 November 2016 Many small enterprises in developing countries are true subsistence activities pursued for sheer lack of more productive work opportunities. Yet, there are some that do have growth…

09/12/2016 State of the Art conferentie: Governance of Migration and Diversity (Message only available in Dutch)

More information here. Op 9 december is het weer zover: dan organiseert de Directie Migratiebeleid, in samenwerking de Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam en de WRR, de State of the Art conferentie 2016. Dit jaar hebben we gekozen voor het thema Governance…

VSPS Annual Program – Applications open

The 2016 VSPS Annual Program „Perceptions of migration in Visegrad School and Germany” (VSPS Migration Program) is designed to influence and shape the public debate on migration in Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. During 4 sessions, the program takes…

17/10/2016 ITEM SYMPOSIUM: APPLYING EU LAW TO HIGHER EDUCATION POLICY

For registration and full program click here. The purpose of this seminar is to inquire in a broad sense into the implications and prospects of applying EU law to the particularly sensitive policy area of higher education, as well as…

Annual Maastricht Symposium on Global and European Health: Transnationality and health – migrants between vulnerability and resilience

On 20 October 2016, the Maastricht University Global Health and European Public Health programmes will again organise the Annual Symposium on Global and European Health. This year’s central topic is Transnationality and Health: Migrants between Vulnerability and Resilience. Go to…

CfP ‘Control Gap’ CES Glasgow 2017

Proposal for a Panel or mini-Symposium The ‘control gap’ in migration policy research. The capacity of the EU and its member states to enforce control Council for European Studies, 24th International Conference of Europeanists ‘Sustainability and Transformation’ University of Glasgow,…

Call for papers: Beyond Crisis: Rethinking Refugee Studies, RSC Conference, March 2017

CALL FOR PAPERS Beyond Crisis: Rethinking Refugee Studies Thursday 16 March – Friday 17 March 2017 Keble College Oxford The Refugee Studies Centre will host a major international conference in March 2017, thirty-five years after the RSC was founded. Its…

ODI event: Refugees and migrants: a new global response

Refugees and migrants: a new global response 15 September 2016 15:30 – 17:00 GMT+1 (BST) Chair Rula Jebreal @rulajebreal – Journalist, author and foreign policy analyst Speakers Introductory remarks: Marta Foresti @martaforesti – Interim Executive Director, ODI Panellists:  Pam DeLargy @umasalam – Senior Advisor to the UN Special…

Call for papers: Forgotten Corridors: Global Displacement & the Politics of Engagement. Deadline Sept 15

Forgotten Corridors: Global Displacement & the Politics of Engagement, 10th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS) Hosted by Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives at the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia, CANADA 15–18 May 2017 Submission deadline September…

Call for Papers: Refugees and Forced Migration in Eastern Africa & Horn of Africa, Conference, 25-27 October 2016, Nairobi

Call for papers: International Conference Refugees and Forced Migration in Eastern Africa & Horn of Africa: Crises, Trends and Dynamics, Challenges, Opportunities and Conundrums  October 25-27, 2016 Venue: Nairobi Important deadlines: September 12, 2016, Submission of abstracts September 16, 2016,…