MGSoG/UNU-MERIT Migration Seminar

You are cordially invited to join the next UNU-MERIT Migration Seminar Series: Atlas of Uncertainty: Journeys Transforming African Cityscapes with speaker Professor Loren Landau- University of Oxford. This will be on Wednesday, 04 December 2024 at 16:00-17:00. To join, and for more information, see: https://unu.edu/merit/seminar/migration-seminar-series-atlas-uncertainty-journeys-transforming-african-cityscapes.

You are cordially invited to join the next UNU-MERIT Migration Seminar Series: Trust in international organizations reduces support for closed-door immigration in weak-governance regions, highlighting non-state actors’ influence.

In early 2024, a team of UNU-EGOV researchers set out to co-design and develop a collaborative initiative, Safeguarding (Digital) Cultural Heritage in Crises, with partners to mobilize knowledge, resources, and relevant stakeholders across generations, geographies, and sectors to: 

You are cordially invited to the next UNU-MERIT Migration Seminar Series with Dr. Jasmin Lilian Diab.

Abstract: 

This session aims to critically reflect and take stock of major policy achievements and failures in developing cooperative migration policies between European and African countries over the past two decades.

You are cordially invited to attend the upcoming UNU-MERIT Migration Seminar featuring Mattia Polvanesi who will present a paper titled “Social protection responses to forced displacement: recent approaches and field practices.” 

You are cordially invited to attend the upcoming UNU-MERIT Migration Seminar featuring Senija Mehmedovic, a survivor of the Srebrenica Genocide, who will share her journey from war and displacement to resilience, exploring trauma, identity, and the power of healing through storytelling. 

This seminar, featuring Georgina Sturge, traces how migrants were counted in UK censuses, showing how population data can mean recognition, risk, and evolving democratic power. 

Prof. Dr. Melissa Siegel has a new video on her YouTube channel. 

In this video, she explains the concept of brain waste, what the main causes are, who is affected by it and what the main consequences are, as well as policy and program solutions for reducing brain waste within migration. 

• What is Brain Waste? And how can it be reduced? 

In this webinar, Dr Nilay Kılınç draws on her decade-long research on second-generation Turkish-Germans who have ‘returned’ to their ancestral homeland, Turkey.