Conferences

INVITATION WEBINAR 

‘Pathways to Citizenship for third-country nationals in The Netherlands and EU Member States’ 

Thursday 26 November 2020 

10:00-11:30 (CET) 

By Prof. dr. Mark Levels, Maastricht University 

** Watch the event livestream via the UNU-Merit YouTube homepage **  

The Utrecht University Focus Area on Migration and Societal Change, the Dutch Association for Migration Research and the IMISCOE Standing Committee on Migrant Transnationalism (MITRA) are delighted to invite you to the webinar “Migration Trajectories and Transnational Support within and beyond Europe”. The webinar lines up the contributors to a recently published Special Issue in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies and will bring together new empirical analyses from diverse settings documenting the experiences of migrants residing within and beyond the boundaries of Europe. 

SPEAKERS: 

Cláudia Dias Pereira, Secretary of State for Integration and Migration, Portugal 

Grainne O’Hara, Director, Division of International Protection, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) 

 Jonathan Prentice, Coordinator, United Nations (UN) Migration Network 

The Migrant Integration Policy Index was first published in 2004 as the European Civic Citizenship and Inclusion Index, and now the Migration Policy Group (MPG) is launching its fifth edition at international level. 

INVITATION 
8 December 2020 | 14:30 – 16:00 CET 
Register at: bit.ly/IDMC_dialogue 

As the MO-TRAYL project (www.motrayl.com) enters its last year, the MO-TRAYL team has organized an international workshop with scholars from around the world to give feedback and share insights from their own work. 

Ilse Ruyssen, Melissa Siegel, Richa Shivakoti and Maud Martens, UNU-CRIS / UNU-MERIT / Ryerson University / IES – VUB

Virtual Book Launch:  COVID-19 and Migration: Understanding the Pandemic and Human Mobility 

You are invited to the Seminar Series on Forced Migration. The upcoming seminar will be given by Jennifer Hyndman (York University, Toronto, Centre for Refugee Studies), titled “Refugee Sponsorship: Will Civil Society Keep Stepping Up?” and is scheduled for Wednesday, December 16, 2020 starting at 5:30pm CET (Vienna time)/ 11:30am EST (Toronto time). The event will be held online. Everyone is welcome and you can register here.