Announcements

At UM, the Maastricht Centre for Citizenship, Migration and Development (MACIMIDE) offers expertise and research on many different aspects of migration and provides extensive information on the migrant situation all over the world from societal, humanitarian, medical and economic perspectives.

Co-Director prof.dr. Melissa Siegel is geïnterviewd binnen het MIND-project. MIND staat voor ‘Migration, Interconnectedness, Development’ en is een driejarig project dat mede gefinancierd wordt door de Europese Commissie. In dit project werkt Cordaid samen met 11 Europese Caritas-partners, met als doel bewustwording te creëren onder beleidsmakers en het publiek over de link tussen migratie en ontwikkeling. 

ITEM’s report on corona measures taken in Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. 

The expertise centrum ITEM (The Institute for Transnational and Euregional cross border cooperation and Mobility) operates the convergence of research, counselling, knowledge exchange and training activities in the domain of cross-border mobility and cooperation. ITEM currently is collecting the measures taken by the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium in response to the COVID-19 crisis. 

Maarten Vink, Professor of Political Science with a focus on Political Sociology, has been appointed to the Chair in Citizenship Studies at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS) at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence from 1 September 2020.

Karlijn Haagsman, postdoctoral researcher and Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences focussed on migration sociology and cultural anthropology, has been appointed as the new member of the MACIMIDE Executive Board as of 1 September 2020.

Karlien Strijbosch is introduced as one of the twelve new ‘Faces of Science‘. 

At the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, it became apparent that the majority of crisis policy was being implemented at a national level.

Prof. Dr. Lisa Waddington, Professor in European Disability Law at the Faculty of Law, created this clear video about the legal framework around Freedom Of Movement for Disabled people in The EU. This video was presented during the ENIL Freedom Drive hearing about Freedom of Movement. 

Our ‘Mygration Story’ series tracks the family histories of staff and fellows at UNU. The aim is to show that many of us owe our lives and careers to the courage of migrant ancestors.

Our ‘Mygration Story’ series tracks the family histories of staff and fellows at UNU. The aim is to show that many of us owe our lives and careers to the courage of migrant ancestors.