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In the past decade, the number of displaced people worldwide has more than doubled, exceeding 122 million. The majority of refugees and internally displaced people now live in urban areas, not camps.

The different school forms within Germany’s tracked education system have traditionally led to different diplomas and thus future education and work prospects.

In the next MPC-EUI seminar, Eleonora Milazzo will examine how researchers try to distil the messages from their research and how and how they evaluate knowledge exchange in the framework of Horizon-funded projects on migration. 

Please find below information on the next lecture (panel event) in the Jean Monnet EU Migration Law and Governance Lecture series convened at the Law Faculty by Lilian Tsourdi.

Karlien Strijbosch will defend her Ph.D. dissertation ‘Challenging masculinities? Senegalese men returning from Europe to Senegal under conditions of deportability’ in the Aula of Maastricht University, MBB 4-6, on Tuesday 28 January 2025, 13.00. You are all invited to attend. 

Naami, M., Mazzucato, V., & Kuschminder, K. (2024). Alternating temporalities experienced by North African unaccompanied minors in The Netherlands: a story of waiting and hypermobility. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2024.2432445 

This new MIrreM policy brief has been published and launched jointly with MPI-Europe on Dec 10. Drawing on data from various MIrreM stakeholder workshops, this policy brief highlights challenges such as the political nature of data collection, limited accessibility, and the lack of data literacy among users.

Immigration has been a central issue for the Biden presidency, with the administration challenged by record levels of arrivals of asylum seekers and other migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border while also seeking to modernize the bureaucracy that manages the U.S. immigration system and rebuild a refugee resettlement system that had plunged to a record low under the prior administration.

We are delighted to announce that the call for participants for the MIrreM Spring School 2025 is now open!

The Global Citizenship Observatory (GLOBALCIT), a global research network committed to fact-based and non-partisan analysis of citizenship laws and electoral rights around the world, is soliciting submissions for the second edition of the GLOBALCIT – Rainer Bauböck 2025 Essay Award on the Global State of Citizenship, by early-career researchers (recent graduates with a master or equivalent degree, current doctoral researchers, or those within 3 years after the award of the doctorate). 

The documentary Mamadou Kouassi Pli Adama: la lotta della migrazione, directed by Andrea Fantino in collaboration with DignityFIRM and FIERI is now available for viewing on the DignityFIRM YouTube channel. We encourage you to watch it, share it, and use it as a resource for discussions or educational purposes. 

The next European Conference on African Studies (ECAS) will take place in Prague on 25-28 June 2025. Since the CfP is open for a few more days, this is a friendly reminder to please consider submitting a paper to our panel on digitally-mediated youth mobilities, networks and positionings (details below). The submission deadline is on 15 December 2024. Paper proposals can be submitted via this link.