Announcements

The European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) has published a policy note which assesses the state of play of the implementation of the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum.

The Africa Migration Report Poetry Anthology Series is inviting poems and short prose focusing on the escalating tragedy of refugee deaths in the English Channel (La Manche).

This research webinar will present the preliminary findings of the Research Project “European Birds of Passage – An Empirical Legal Theory of Temporary Labour Migration in Europe” (European Research Council Starting Grant, 2022-2027) which examines how European Union law and national frameworks shape social rights and perceptions of temporary migrant workers.

In this article published by the Lowy Institute, Prof. Dr. Khalid Koser and Dr. Lilla Schumicky-Logan discuss how leaving detainees stranded in Syria doesn’t reduce risk but instead, can export the very insecurity governments hope to prevent. 

In this article, Prof. Dr. Khalid Koser, Founding Executive Director at Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund (GCERF) and Professor of Conflict, Peace and Security at Maastricht University discusses the Global Investment Risk and Resilience Index.  

Are you interested in joining a collaborative team to study women’s migration from Southern Europe and Turkey to France and Germany in the post-World War II era, and the role of work in their trajectories? Passionate about archival research and oral history? Self-motivated and ready to learn new research skills? 

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.