Announcements

Prof. Siegel looks at three phenomena relating to health in her latest videos. She specifically looks at the healthy migrant effect, the Hispanic Paradox and the Salmon Bias Hypotheses. 

In February 2022, Laurea UAS had a kick-off meeting for a new Erasmus+ project ILO (“Intercultural Learning Online”, 2021-2024) together with the European partners from Belgium (European Migrant Platform), Greece (Aristotelio Panepistimio Thessalonikis), Italy (Universita Degli Studi Roma Tre), and Netherlands (Universiteit Maastricht). Melissa Siegel and Nava Henrichs are coordinatng the project on behalf of UM

Are you planning to work in the field of European Territorial Cooperation (ETC) and you would like to learn more about it and to hear about successful experiences from elsewhere in Europe? Or maybe you are already active in this field but you have always wished to dive deeper into this topic? Are you a student or a researcher working on this topic, or on topics linked to the territorial development in Europe across borders? 

“Next ITEM” – is the title of a series of public debates organised by the expertise centre ITEM, the UM cross-border institute. We continue with linking the debate on the Future of Europe to the Future of the European Cross-Border Regions. 

The eighth episode of Fireplace Talks by UM Campus Brussels welcomed Prof. Hildegard Schneider (MACIMIDE co-Director) among others to discuss EU Citizenship and free movement rights.

In this video Melissa Siegel examines the notion of voluntary return and reintegration of refugees. She begins by seeking to disentangle the notion of voluntary return: in this Melissa Siegel stresses that for UNHCR it requires peace and stability. 

In her latest video, Prof. Siegel looks at the impact of migration in health outcomes in migrant countries. In doing this Melissa begins by examining what health outcomes are and how migration can result in changes to a family’s socio-economic standing, this can include both economic remittances as well as social remittances (the transfer of knowledge or customs that may impact on one’s life). 

Mazzucato, V., & Haagsman, K. (2022). Transnational youth mobility: new categories for migrant youth research. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 1-20. 

Prof. Valentina Mazzucato was interviewed for The Migration Podcast, an initiative of the IMISCOE network, about ways to explore migrants’ transnational connections.

This video builds on here earlier video on the Canadian Private sponsorship scheme. In this video Prof. Siegel looks at the schemes that have been implemented in the UK, Argentina, New Zealand, Spain and Ireland.