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The Refocus: An Online Summer Forced Migration in Africa Workshop Series facilitates developing knowledge and critical thinking on forced migration and protection issues in Africa; and facilitates the training of early career and emerging scholars. 

Migration Seminar Series: Maximizing the development impact of labor migration 

Helen Dempster , Center for global development 

Professor Melissa Siegel published a new video in which she discusses the distinction between forced and voluntary migration.

Part-Time Adjunct Instructor (online) – Refugee Certificate Online Teaching Position 
Department of Sustainability and Social Justice, Clark University 

Call for publications for the Special Volume on African Migration Governance to be published in the African Migration Journal (AMJ), an international peer-reviewed journal of the African Centre for the Study and Research on Migration (ACSRM) 

The Refugee-Led Research Hub (RLRH) is excited to be expanding! In the coming months we’ll be recruiting for a number of positions that will help us serve a larger cohort of learners who have been affected by displacement to achieve their goals through our Academic, Research, and Career Development programming. Here’s a quick summary of RLRH’s mission, programming, and accomplishments, if helpful. 

Hybrid panel discussion Co-sponsored by the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism and the ASILE Project 

HumMingBird’s Policy Event 
Managing versatility in migration flows towards the EU 

Brussels, March 21, 2024 
Thon Hotel, 75 rue de la Loi 

Please find below information on the second lecture in the Jean Monnet EU Migration Law and Governance Lecture series that Lilian Tsourdi organizes in the framework of a Jean Monnet Chair in cooperation with the research centers and groups MCEL, MACIMIDE, and Glaw-NET. 

Carling J., Czaika M., Vargas-Silva C. and Siegel M. (2024) Effects of involuntary immobility on development. MIGNEX Background Paper. Oslo: Peace Research Institute Oslo. 

Reinold, J., Hooijen, I., & Özer, M. (2024). “If you smile, they smile”: Explaining highly educated migrants’ feelings of being welcome in the Euregio Meuse-Rhine. Population, Space and Place, e2759. 

Memon R., Rubio M., Marchand K., Hagen-Zanker J. and Siegel M. (2023) The indirect effects of migration on development. MIGNEX Background Paper. Oslo: Peace Research Institute Oslo.