Conferences

Dr Katie Kuschminder, UNU-MERIT 
 
 African and Middle Eastern migration flows to Libya and the country’s posture toward these migrants have changed dramatically since the 2011 fall of dictator Muammar Gaddafi.

Zooming in on Migration and Asylum

H2020 Webinar series 

IOM has been invited to present at the next webinar series hosted by the Dubai International Humanitarian Aid & Development Conference & Exhibition (DIHAD). Dr. Marie McAuliffe, IOM’s head of research and a member of the DIHAD International Scientific Advisory Board, will speak on the topic “COVID19 and Africa Migration and Mobility: Challenges and Opportunities for Development“. 

Mig.Res.Hub Launch Conference 
  

‘Covid19 and Systemic Resilience: 
What Role for Migrant Workers? ’ 
An online Research and Policy Conference 
9 November @09.00 – 17.30, CET 
The Zoom link to the Webinar will be provided following registration. 

You are invited to the:  

Globalization, Transnationalism 

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Development Colloquium 

The Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) in collaboration with the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization(UNESCO), will hold a series of free virtual workshops, each thematically focused on a UN Sustainable Development Goal.

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

MPC Webinar 
‘There, and Elsewhere: The Making of Immigrant Identities in a Globalized World’ 
by Tahseen Shams, University of Toronto 
 
4 November @15:00 – 16.00, CET 
The link to the Webinar will be provided following registration. 

We are pleased to invite you to the first BD4M Webinar session Estimating migrant stocks and flows using social media data on Tuesday 3 November 15:00 – 16:00 (CET).

UNDERSTANDING REFUGEES’ AND MIGRANTS’ VULNERABILITY 

Refugees and migrants who undertake the journey along the Central Mediterranean Routemove in response to a diverse range of factors, including to seek refuge from conflict, crisis, and political oppression and/or to seek out a better future as part of a livelihood strategyor personal aspirations. Their mixed migration journeys can be long and perilous and over the past few years, news outlets, NGOs, and watchdogs have extensively documented the dangers that they face in transit and destination countries in West and North Africa.