Conferences

International Conference, 2–4 December 2020   

Organizers: Research Group “The Production of Knowledge on Migration”, Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS), University of Osnabrueck, Germany 

On 19 November the RIMO association organises a symposium titled “Problematic marriages? Underage and polygame marriages in the Middle-East and Western Europe“. The symposium will be held fully online this year, with both English and Dutch speakers. For more information and the programme, see: https://www.verenigingrimo.nl/symposium 
 

Dr. Katie Kuschminder and Dr. Ine Lietaert, UNU-MERIT and UNU-CRIS 
 
 This event is an initiative of UNU-MERIT, UNU-CRIS, and the UNU Migration Network to launch the International Migration forthcoming special issue on Reintegration.  

** NB, Watch the livestream on the homepage of our YouTube channel ** 

Join STATAFRIC and IOM GMDAC for an online event on “Migration data in times of COVID-19” 

About this Event 

We are pleased to invite you to an event on “Migration data in times of COVID-19: Trends and policy implications in Africa” that will be held online 11 November 2020 (12:00 – 14:00 CET). The joint event is organized by the African Union Institute for Statistics (STATAFRIC) and IOM’s Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC). 

You are invited to the Seminar Series on Forced Migration hosted by the University of Vienna Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, as part of the Europe-Asia Research Platform on Forced Migration launched by the Institute of Human Sciences (IWM) and the Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group (MCRG). 

16th Annual HiCN Workshop 

SOCIAL UNREST AND VIOLENT CONFLICT IN TIMES OF PANDEMICS (ONLINE) 

10-11 November 2020 

The Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS) will hold its 2020 Academic and Policy Symposium on Tuesday, November 10, 2020. The full agenda and speaker list is now available. This year’s symposium is free to attend and will take place virtually. 

It is my pleasure to announce the Second of a series of 6 EUMedMi National Workshops that will be hosted by six partner institutions from the North and South of the Mediterranean including: Belgium, Tunisia, Portugal, Morocco, Turkey and France between the years 2020-2022. The second National Workshop will be hosted by Hassen Boubakri, our Tunisia partner from University of Sousse. 

MPC Webinar 
  

‘Climate mobilities: Migration, im/Mobilities, and climate change’ 
18 November @15:00 – 16.15 CET 
The link to the Webinar will be provided following registration. 
 

Governments around the world increasingly deploy digital technologies in the context of border enforcement and administration, compounding concerns around privacy abuses, discrimination and exclusion related to citizenship and legal status. National security and counterterrorism are major drivers and often used as a catchall justification for these developments.