Announcements

Five years after the so-called ‘refugee crisis’ reached the European continent, the topic is still widely debated.

A member of the MACIMIDE Executive Board, Prof. Valentina Mazzucato, MACIMIDE researcher, Dr. Bilisuma Dito, and GTD post-doctoral researcher, Dr. Konjit Gudeta discuss and reflect on how the corona crisis affects the well-being of female workers in foreign flower farms and textile factories in Ethiopia, in light of their research project on Well-being, Women, and Work in Ethiopia (3WE).

In this special podcast, we are lucky to be joined by the editors of the newly published Routledge Handbook of Migration and Development, Tanja Bastia and Ronald Skeldon. 

The recently published ‘Routledge Handbook of Migration and Development’, edited by Prof. Ronald Skeldon and Dr. Tanja Bastia, provides an interdisciplinary, agenda-setting survey of the fields of migration and development.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Kenya have commissioned UNU-MERIT and its School of Governance to evaluate an urban intervention in Nairobi.

The Central and Eastern European Migration Review is a peer-reviewed international online journal indexed in the ESCI Web of Science Core Collection. Its aim is to foster an academic discussion on scholarly works and research pertaining to migration within, into and out of the CEE region. It is published by the Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw and the Polish Academy of Sciences. The journal is available at http://www.ceemr.uw.edu.pl. 

Dear experts, stakeholders and colleagues, 

Core Working Group 1.2 of the UN Network on Migration (Network) on establishing a Knowledge Platform (KP) and Connection Hub (CH) would like to invite expressions of interest for the forthcoming expert roster for peer review of the KP and CH by 15 September 2020. 

Prof. Melissa Siegel, Professor of Migration Studies at Maastricht University and UNU-MERIT, has launched a Youtube channel dealing with migration issues. The purpose of the channel is to bring knowledge on migration to the general public. Click here for the channel. 

MACIMIDE Co-Director Prof.Dr. Melissa Siegel had a discussion with Maastricht University’s Studium Generale on the effects of the current COVID-19 crisis on migration. 

An updated version (V5.00) of the MACIMIDE Global Expatriate Dual Citizenship Dataset is now available. The Dataset charts rules in 200 countries 1960-2020 with regard to dual citizenship acceptance for citizens of a country who naturalise abroad.