Announcements

In her latest video Prof. Melissa Siegel looks at MIPEX, the Migrant Integration Policy Index, a tool that can be used to measure the effectiveness of integration policy. It was originally developed in 2004 as the European Civic Citizenship and Inclusion Index.

Adding to the rest the of her coverage, Melissa Siegel has recently released a video on the Paralympic Refugee Team. In her video Prof. Siegel looked at the history of various athletes. 

Prof. Valentina Mazzucato, a member of the MACIMIDE Board, delivered the 7th Sarah van Walsum lecture on October 7, 2021 at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, about the need to rethink categories used in research and policy to talk about migrant youth. Her lecture was titled, ‘On categories: what we see and what we don’t see when categorising migrant youth.’ 

Prof. Melissa Siegel has produced a new video series on Azerbaijan. In her videos she addresses the history of the migration in Azerbaijan, as welling as contextualising this with broader history of the region. 

Prof. Melissa Siegel has produced another video on MIPEX, building on her first video she looks at how MIPEX scores can be used within academic research. 

In her latest video Prof. Melissa Siegel has sought to establish the difference between migrant smuggling and human trafficking. 

In Melissa Siegel’s new video she looks at the history, policy and current situation in South African Migration. She starts the first video looking at the pre-16th century. 

The International Forum on Migration Statistics (IFMS), the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) are pleased to invite you to join the Global Migration Data Network (GMDN). 

Prof. Siegel’s video looks at the current migration situation in Sweden on the basis of the European Commission Atlas on Migration. Melissa starts by looking at the stocks and flows of migrants in Sweden before moving on to looking at the purpose of residence permits and looking at data on refugee applications. 

In this latest video Melissa Siegel looks at the current internal displacement situation, based on the data of the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. Prof. Siegel looks at internal displacement is measured and how the real numbers look.