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1.    The project 
Title: Invisible children: a rights-based approach to development for children living in unrecognized states 

Pre-Doctoral Researcher in Survey Methodology at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF, Barcelona, Spain), Department of Social and Political Sciences, Research and Expertise Center for Survey Methodology (RECSM). 

Post-doc opportunity on a NordForsk funded project – at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences: Life at the Frontier: The Impact of Social Frontiers on the Social Mobility and Integration of Migrants 

In a decade characterised by continual and growing anxieties over diversity and inclusion, there is an ever greater need to discuss the salience and limitations of the conceptual frames that we use when thinking about contemporary forms of mobility and difference, especially, multiculturalism, transculturalism, interculturalism, cosmopolitanism and transnationalism. 

Loschmann, C. and Marchand, K. (2020). The labor market reintegration of returned refugees in Afghanistan. Small Business Economics. 

Müller-Funk, L. & Fransen, S. (2020). Return aspirations and coerced return: A case study on Syrian refugees in Turkey and Lebanon. IMI Working Papers No. 162, 

De Groot, G.R. & De Groot, D., (2020). Recognition of civil status (certificates), with special attention to secondary recognition of documents already recognizes in another Member State. I

On Friday 24 April at 10 o’clock, Nora Ragab will defend her PhD “Diaspora Mobilisation in a Conflict Setting: The Emergence and Trajectories of Syrian Diaspora Mobilisation in Germany” online. 

The 10th MiReKoc International Summer School will be held in collaboration with IMISCOE, between 6 and 17 July 2020 at Koç University Rumelifeneri Campus in Sarıyer, Istanbul on ‘Research Methods and Ethics in Migration Studies.’  
 

On 20 February 2020, Ayla Bonfiglio successfully defended her PhD dissertation entitled “Student Migrant, Refugee or Both? Exploring Refugee Agency and Mobility through Tertiary Education in Kenya, South Africa and Uganda”.

An interview with Dr. Katie Kuschminder was published in Maastricht University’s independent newspaper Observant, on 11 March 2020 as part of a series on the dilemmas related to scientific integrity. The series is jointly run with Maastricht University’s Platform for Research Ethics and Integrity, which aims to promote a healthy academic research culture. 

In conjunction with the Maastricht Centre for Citizenship, Migration and Development (MACIMIDE), the Migration and Development research theme at UNU-MERIT and its School of Governance organises a series of migration-related seminars to provide a platform to discuss the research output of researchers at the institute and to invite external speakers to share their work.