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We invite abstracts for a workshop that seeks to explore the forefront of research on the nature of migration aspirations and related concepts. That is, how can we conceptualize and empirically examine people’s thoughts and feelings about potentially migrating? 

Recent literature has provided evidence that six of nine planetary boundaries have been transgressed since 2015.

We are pleased to invite you to the XV International Congress on Migration and Mental Health, hosted by the University of San Francisco. 

How do you think about the drivers of international migration? Take our survey of researchers in Africa and Europe!  

Policymakers often point to data to justify their decisions, particularly in contested policy spaces, such as immigration. Irregular migration, while a point in case, poses distinct challenges to this practice.

For unaccompanied minors seeking asylum in Europe, the formal care they are offered can be rigid and bureaucratic, lacking the flexibility necessary to adapt the care to their needs

Diaspora youth engage with their ‘homelands’ both through online interactions and in-person visits.

Migrant domestic workers in Singapore and Hong Kong who have worked for decades on restrictive, temporary contracts are mandated by the states in which they work to return to their countries of origin upon retirement.

Based on ethnography with long-term migrant domestic workers in Singapore and Hong Kong, this article examines the increasing appeal of financial education courses in the face of precarious futures, limited state-based forms of social protection and uncertainties around kinship care in later life.

Melissa Siegel has two new videos on her YouTube channel

The DePaul Migration Collaborative has opened a new call for applications for our Practitioners in Residence (PIR) program.

Immigration, particularly irregular migration, has become increasingly politicised, largely due to its entanglement with debates over national security, economic pressures, and cultural identity.