Announcements

You are cordially invited to attend the upcoming UNU-MERIT Migration Seminar featuring Mattia Polvanesi who will present a paper titled “Social protection responses to forced displacement: recent approaches and field practices.” 

A Black Feminist Summer School will take place in Amsterdam in July 2026. Speakers include artists, scholars, and activists. We welcome applications from students, early career scholars, and community organizers. Funding is partially provided by the Amsterdam Research Centre for Gender and Sexuality (ARC-GS) and the Amsterdam Research Centre for Migration (ARC-M). 

Where and how does power operate in the governance of international migration? 

How is knowledge produced, mobilised and acted on in African migration debates? We invite contributions from researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to examine questions that lie at the crossroads of migration research, policy, practice, mobilisation, and engagement. 

The Centre for Migration Law (RU), together with Institute for European Law (KU Leuven) and the Amsterdam Centre for Constitutional. Culture and Democratic Governance (UvA) are pleased to invite paper proposals for the one-day workshop “The Promise of the Pact? What the EU promised but the Pact on Migration and Asylum does not deliver”, that will take place at Radboud University on 22 May 2026. 

Submit your entry for the 2026 GLOBALCIT – Rainer Bauböck Essay Award on the Global State of Citizenship 

We are pleased to invite you to our conference titled: The Future of Return: Towards Long-Term Solutions for Ukrainians Abroad and in Ukraine

In this talk, dr. Marta Rawłuszko, assistant professor at the Institute of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Warsaw, will examine contemporary feminist tactics by introducing the concept of ‘illegitimate care’. In particular, she will focus on two case studies: feminist support for migrants at the Polish-Belarusian border and assistance in accessing abortion in Poland. 

1. One in thirty people in Amsterdam is an undocumented immigrant. They are denied the right to health insurance, but they do have the right to healthcare. Nonetheless, many undocumented people do not receive the healthcare they are entitled to. 
2. Health care is a basic human right, so how can it be that undocumented people are regularly denied access to care? Who cares explores the harsh reality of undocumented people living in Amsterdam. A reality in which you can be terminally ill, but still faced with closed hospital doors. 
3. Understanding the need for awareness on this topic, AT5 aired this documentary on their TV-channel multiple times. You can also watch this at: https://beyondbordersmedia.com/portfolios/documentary-who-cares. 

Abstract: The correlation between rising asylum immigration and the electoral success of far-right anti-immigration parties has sparked concerns about a potential “Democratic Dilemma” – namely, a trade-off between a country’s openness to immigrants and the preservation of democratic institutional quality.