MGSoG/UNU-MERIT Migration Seminar

First migration seminar of 2019 offered jointly by MGSoG/UNU-MERIT in collaboration with MACIMIDE. In this seminar, which will take place on Wednesday, January 16th, Prof. Dr. Arjen Leerkes from UNU-MERIT/ Erasmus University Rotterdam and Marloes de Hoon from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University, will present.

The next migration seminar offered jointly by MGSoG/UNU-MERIT in collaboration with MACIMIDE, which will take place on tomorrow, Wednesday, April 3^rd.  

Dr ir Koen Jonkers,  

This paper, co-authored by Cong Cao, Jeroen Baas, Caroline Wagner and myself, provides an analysis of the contribution of overseas Chinese and returned scholars on the output of the Chinese research system. China is the country with the most extensive set of programmes to promote the return of its overseas scientists. This study presents a novel approach to assessing the dimensions of the stocks of overseas and returned scientists. It also assesses the relative contribution these scientists make to China’s high impact publications and international co-publications. It thus provides quantitative evidence of the important contribution scientific mobility has made to the emergence of Chinese science. 
 

The next migration seminar offered jointly by MGSoG/UNU-MERIT in collaboration with , which will take place on Wednesday, February 20 n this seminar, Prof. Dr. Maarten Vink from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (Maastricht University) will present about Naturalization in Context: Migrant Life Course and Institutional Change. The seminar will be held from 13:00 – 14:00 in room 0.16/0.17 of the UNU-MERIT building at Boschstraat 24. A sandwich lunch will be provided 

In this seminar, Dr. Özge Bilgili will present a study on ‘Objective and subjective relative deprivation among Congolese refugees and Rwandan locals’. The seminar will be held from 15:00 to 16:00 CET on Zoom. 

In this seminar, will present a study on ‘ barriers to humanitarian migration, victimisation and integration outcomes: Evidence from Germany’ The seminar will be held from 15:00 to 16:00 CET on Zoom. For more information and the link please click here. 

The migration seminar of March 2021 offered jointly by MGSoG/UNU-MERIT in collaboration with MACIMIDE will take place on Wednesday, March 10th. 

Since the end of the Cold War, securities studies have recognised the existence, in the field of migration governance, of a securitization process creating a migration-crime nexus as a consequence of political speech-acts and practices.

Local governments in origin countries have become increasingly active in creating their own strategies and policies in response to emigration. More and more are taking it upon themselves to address the human and material losses emigration entails and to ensure that emigration enhances rather than undermines collective welfare. Yet, despite the increasing relevance and rapid development of local responses to emigration, empirical and theoretical research has so far focused exclusively on the national level. We know nothing about the type of policies and strategies that local governments in origin countries devise, their objectives and how they go about implementing them. This article intends to address this research blind spot, by introducing the concept of local emigration policies, advancing an explanation for their emergence, and highlighting how they differ from national emigration policies. It argues that local emigration policies do not necessarily pursue the same objectives as national ones, tend to be more concrete and tailored to the needs of the locality and/or those of the emigrant population, with their effects being often more direct and immediate than those of national policies. This line of research has multiple (theoretical and policy) implications, including for our understanding of local development and migration, transnationalism, and integration in host societies.  

International migration is a key feature of globalization. Yet there is no international migration regime that would support cooperation and governance at the global level. This makes for enduring and worldwide migration crises. This article identifies five distinct patterns of migration governance: (1) national/sovereign migration governance, according to which migration is an issue of state sovereignty; (2) global anti-migrant governance, which posits that cooperation and governance exist in practice, but either to control migration (global forced immobility governance) or to exploit migrant labour (global labour exploitation governance); (3) global rights-based migration governance, grounded in human rights and international norms; (4) managerial/developmental global migration governance, which aims at steering migration flows to optimize their utility; and (5) the free (non)-governance of migration, premised on ethical and utilitarian arguments in favour of free movement. The article discusses the implications of this typology for understanding current and future prospects of migration governance.