MACIMIDE News

When: Dec 6, 2017, from 15.30 to 17.30 
Where: Attic – Grote Gracht 80-82, Maastricht University 

The topic of this lecture is: 
Facing the obligation to belong: transnational engagement and construction of identities among Ecuadorian migrants’ children in Spain and Italy 

By Simone Castellani 
University Institute of Lisbon (CIES-IUL) 

The Global State of Democracy 2017, published by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) cites data from the MACIMIDE Expatriate Dual Citizenship Dataset, co-authored by Maarten Vink, Gerard-Rene de Groot and Chun Luk. The dataset is publicly available and updated annually. 

The new IOM World Migration Report 2018 has been launched: https://www.iom.int/wmr/world-migration-report-2018 

On 26 January, the UM Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences will host the Kapuscinski Development Lecture.

On 21 December, the Global Citizenship Observatory (GLOBALCIT) launched it’s new website at http://globalcit.eu/ <http://globalcit.eu/>. 

Next Wednesday, 31 January 2018, we welcome Ayla Bonfiglio to share her latest work with us. The migration seminar series is offered jointly by UNU-MERIT/MGSoG in collaboration with MACIMIDE, and features researchers and practitioners whose work addresses human mobility. 

Luana Russo and Maarten Vink are part of an international consortium that has been awarded a European Commission Action Grant to work on the project “Fostering Awarness, Inclusion and Recognition of EU mobile citizens’ Political Rights” (FAIREU). The project aims to foster the successful inclusion of the EU mobile citizens in their host EU country’s civic and political life through the provision of a holist approach to tackling obstacles they face when exercising their political rights. 

DAMR seeks to actively engage with PhD researchers working on migration issues.

A special invitation from the Dutch Association for Migration Research (DAMR): 

Samuel David Schmid is a PhD researcher at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. Supervised by Rainer Bauböck and Maarten Vink, he comparatively investigates the relationship between the openness of borders and the inclusiveness of citizenship.