Announcements

Applications are now open for the AfOx Visiting Fellowship Programme, in collaboration with the Refugee Studies Centre (RSC) at the University of Oxford.

Focusing on Hard-to-Reach populations, the course provides an introduction to research methods in conducting research, both qualitative and quantitative, on marginal, hidden and excluded population. 

Do you teach Higher Education courses for undergraduate or postgraduate students on asylum, migration or a related topic? Have you introduced innovations in your teaching about asylum and migration? Would you like to share best practices with colleagues? 

This is a kind reminder that the EMN Netherlands national conference ‘Labour migration towards the Netherlands and the EU: solution, challenge, or necessity?’ is coming up in two weeks.

This seminar will explore how migrant workers across legal statuses face common challenges in accessing and keeping work, especially through everyday scams.

Melissa Siegel has a new video on her YouTube channel

Utrecht University invites applications for two PhD research positions at the Faculty of Geosciences that will investigate transnational retirement mobilities as part of the of the ERC-funded project ‘Retirement across countries: A tripartite analysis of the welfare state, family care networks, and the retirement industry (RETIREWEL).’ 

The Journal of Refugee Studies (JRS) is accepting proposals for special issues. JRS is a peer-reviewed journal featuring original, high-quality research related to diverse aspects of forced migration. We welcome proposals that engage with and significantly advance scholarly debates in the field of refugee and forced migration studies. 

In this seminar, Friedrich Poeschel will present findings from a study that examines how essential workers in Italy responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, compared to other workers.

You are warmly invited to the lecture “Mobility of International Students and Trainees into the EU Cosmopolitanism meets Migration Management” delivered by Prof. Tesseltje de Lange (Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands), a member of the Link4Skills Advisory Board.