17/11/2021 – UNU-MERIT/MGSoG Migration Semiar “Immigration and Welfare State Development in the Long Run”
Immigration and Welfare State Development in the Long Run Dr. Alexandre Afonso, Leiden University The relationship between immigration and the welfare state has been extensively studied in the political economy literature, looking notably at how immigration affects support for welfare,…
27/10/2021 – UNU-MERIT/MGSoG Migration Seminar “Controlling irregular migration: can a market for Temporary Foreign Work Permits help?”
Prof. Emmanuelle Auriol, Toulouse School of Economics “Controlling irregular migration: can a market for Temporary Foreign Work Permits help?” by Emmanuelle Auriol, Alice Mesnard, and Tiffanie Perrault We model the supply of human smuggling services and the demand from workers…
13/10/2021 – MGSoG/UNU-MERIT Seminar: EU Enlargement and (Temporary) Migration: Effects on Labour Market Outcomes in Germany
Luisa Hammer , Freie Universität EU Eastern Enlargement elicited a rise in (temporary) labour market-oriented immigration to Germany starting in May 2011. Taking into account that not all immigrants stay permanently and that outmigration flows are selective, this paper classifies…
13/10/2021 – MGSoG/UNU-MERIT: EU Enlargement and (Temporary) Migration
EU Eastern Enlargement elicited a rise in (temporary) labour market-oriented immigration to Germany starting in May 2011. Taking into account that not all immigrants stay permanently and that outmigration flows are selective, this paper classifies recent EU immigrants into “new…
29/09/2021 – MGSoG/UNU-MERIT Seminar on ‘Reducing Mistreatment of Migrant Domestic Workers’
The first migration seminar of this academic year will take place on Wednesday, September 29th. This seminar is offered jointly by MGSoG/UNU-MERIT in collaboration with MACIMIDE. In this seminar, Dr Toman Barsbai from the University of Bristol will present a…
30/06/2021 – MGSoG/UNU-Merit Migration Seminar: “UN Global Compacts: Governing Migrants and Refugees”
Dr Nicholas R. Micinski, University of Maine This talk will explore the key findings from my recent book, UN Global Compacts: Governing Migrants and Refugees (Routledge, 2021), in which I present a comprehensive analysis of the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants,…
18/05/2021 – MGSoG/UNU-MERIT Migration Seminar: ‘Philosophies of Migration Governance in a Globalizing World’
International migration is a key feature of globalization. Yet there is no international migration regime that would support cooperation and governance at the global level. This makes for enduring and worldwide migration crises. This article identifies five distinct patterns of…
07/04/2021 – The emergence of local responses to emigration: a case study in Romania
Local governments in origin countries have become increasingly active in creating their own strategies and policies in response to emigration. More and more are taking it upon themselves to address the human and material losses emigration entails and to ensure…
22/04/2021 – The spiralling of the securitisation of migration in the EU: From the management of a crisis to a governance of human mobility?
Since the end of the Cold War, securities studies have recognised the existence, in the field of migration governance, of a securitization process creating a migration-crime nexus as a consequence of political speech-acts and practices. Valeria Bello proposes the understanding of the securitisation…
10/03/2021 – MGSOG/UNU-MERIT MIGRATION SEMINAR: ‘THE IMMIGRANT-NATIVE WAGE GAP: IS THERE A GAP AND IS IT “FAIR”?’
The migration seminar of March 2021 offered jointly by MGSoG/UNU-MERIT in collaboration with MACIMIDE will take place on Wednesday, March 10th. This seminar will present a study on ‘ The immigrant-native wage gap: is there a gap and is it “fair”?‘ The seminar will…