MACIMIDE Newsletter

Maastricht Centre for Citizenship, Migration and Development (MACIMIDE) 

Maastricht Centre for Citizenship, Migration and Development (MACIMIDE) 

Please find below the latest announcements from the Maastricht Centre for Citizenship, Migration and Development (MACIMIDE). 

To get a residence permit in the Netherlands, or elsewhere in Europe, asylum seekers need to tell a credible story about their identity, their country of origin and the reason they fled. Yet the way in which asylum officials ask questions does not always make for a good test of reality. This is the conclusion of Tanja van Veldhuizen’s PhD dissertation, which she will defend at Maastricht University on 22 September. One solution may be to ask more open questions. 

The efforts of the ITEM Expertise centre of Maastricht University have been recognised by the European Commission as a good practice.