Seminar

27 January 15:00 – 16.15 CET 
The link to the Webinar will be provided following registration. 

Migration governance and politics have rarely been analysed in relation to each other. Research on migration politics has emphasised the contentious side of the migration issue, e.g. party ideologies and (populist) discourses, native citizens unfavourable attitudes, pro- and anti-immigrant social movements mobilisation and the like.

The Qatar Charity, the Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD) and the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) are hosting the launch of a new report on internal displacement in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, which will take place on 15 February from 11:00-13:00 CET. 
 

The COVID-19 pandemic has hit at a time when hunger has been on the rise over four consecutive years, mainly due to conflict, climate-related shocks and economic crises. At the same time, forced displacement has reached record highs. The COVID-19 pandemic has had deep implications for migration and hunger dynamics. While overall mobility was expected to decline in 2020 due to the pandemic, it may ultimately increase over time as more people will be compelled to move if they can no longer make ends meet in their current location. 

In the 1950s and 1960s, immigration bureaucrats in the Department of Citizenship and Immigration played an important yet unacknowledged role in transforming Canada’s explicitly racist immigration policy into a formally universal one. In response to external economic and political pressures for change, high-level bureaucrats developed new admissions criteria gradually and experimentally while personally processing thousands of individual immigration cases per year.

The Migration Working Group will host presentations on the theme of ‘Intricacies in the Regulation of Emigration and Immigration.’ The event will be held at 11.00 CET on 16th March, to register click here. The presentations will include:

 ‘Intentional Ambiguity in Governance: Refugee Policies under Pressure in Jordan’ by Lillian Frost, Max Weber Fellow (Virginia Tech/EUI) 

Is the Master’s specialisation in Migration Studies the right specialisation for you? Join this live presentation and Q&A session to find out all you need to know about this specialisation! 

The Directorate-General for Migration (Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security), in cooperation with the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is organising the 2021 State of the Art conference on Thursday 25 March. During the online event, they will address questions and discuss challenges related to various aspects of international migration and displacement policy. You can register at the conference website, where you can also find more information about the programme and workshops.

How do you stay motivated? How do you try to work effectively during your day at home? How do you keep a healthy work-life balance, when you feel you’re always behind schedule? 

Migration experiences are diverse and complex. This lecture will take a look at how sex, gender, gender identity and sexual orientation shape every stage of the migration experience. I will in particular discuss some of less researched phenomena, such as the gendered role of corruption throughout the journey. 

On 22 April this online event will involve a conversation between Margaritis Schinas, Vice-President for Promoting our European Way of Life, European Commission and Professors Vincent Chetail and Elspeth Guild about the current proposals as part of the European Pact on migration and Asylum which was announced by the European Commission at the end of 2020.