MACIMIDE News

Dr Marta Pertegás Sender appointed professor of Private International Law and Transnational Law 

Dr Marta Pertegás Sender appointed professor of Private International Law and Transnational Law

Monitoring migration within the EU with existing data 

This mapping paper of work package 2 provides a discussion and overview of the main databases available to understand mobility within the EU. It maps existing data sources and evaluates their usefulness and quality. 

Volante, L., Klinger, D., Siegel, M. (2018). ‘The secrets of immigrant student success’. The Conversation. Retrieved from: https://theconversation.com/the-secrets-of-immigrant-student-success-92164 

The ‘Transforming Mobility and Immobility: Brexit and Beyond’ IMISCOE Spring Conference will take place on 28-29 March 2019 in Sheffield, UK. 

On 25 and 26 June Karlijn Haagsman represented MACIMDE at the YERUN (Young European Research Universities Network) Research workshop on Migration and Integration hosted by Dublin City University.

The European Commission has awarded funding for what is probably the largest-ever European-funded research project on migration, set to start work in September 2018. 

Next Friday 5 October will take place a Symposium in honour of Prof. Dr. Hans-Ulrich Jessurun d’Oliveira at the occasion of his 85th birthday. The topic of the symposium will be the following: ‘European citizenship: A pie in the sky? Looking back on 25 years of experiences and challenges ahead’. 

Every 18 December, the United Nations celebrate International Migrants Day to recognise the efforts, contributions, and rights of migrants worldwide. A perfect moment to speak with Arjen Leerkes, who was appointed Professor of ‘Migration, Securitisation and Social Cohesion’ at Maastricht University and UNU-MERIT last month, about the position of immigrants in our societies. Where can asylum seekers go when they are trying to flee their country? Should they stay in the same region, or can they go elsewhere? 

Last week UM News/UM Magazine published an interview with Prof. Hildegard Schneider about her research, her career and her students. The article expands on the extensive work on her work establishing several of UM’s interdisciplinary research institutes (namely MACIMIDE, ITEM and MACCH).