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The Human Trafficking Research Network (HTRN) is inviting abstracts for its 2026 conference on the theme of “Reframing Trafficking – Knowledge, Policy, and Practice at a Crossroads”.

The core of the European Union is its internal market, built on the open borders and the free movement of people: the area of Schengen. In 2025, Schengen has existed for 40 years.

In the history of urban planning in Rabat, Morocco, the force most often referred to is the French Protectorate period, effectively driven by a single person: Hubert Lyautey.

At a long overdue lunch the other day, my friend Gili and I got to talking about coding and analysis. We are both on the same page: frustrated with the lack of guidance, in textbooks and the like, for how qualitative analysis actually works. 

This special issue seeks to address the societal challenges in relation to digital inclusion faced by migrant and refugee women as this is a group that is disproportionately affected by intersecting forms of exclusion and marginalization.

You are invited to attend the Sixth WHO Global School on Refugee and Migrant Health, under the theme: “Leadership in Health and Migration: Policies and Actions Across Countries.” 

Europe’s demand for workers is growing across a wide range of skill levels, with more than three-quarters of small- and medium-sized enterprises struggling to find workers with the right skills.

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the workshop “Citizenship in Displacement: Policies, Practices and Lived Experiences”, to be held on 25-26 June 2026 in Tangier, Morocco. 

Commissioned by the Council of Europe (Division on Migration and Refugees), Prof. Lilian Tsourdi and Dr. Catherine Warin (University of Lille) co-authored a mapping study on identifying and effectively responding to needs linked with vulnerability in the context of asylum and migration.

Prof. Dr. Melissa Siegel has two new videos on her YouTube channel: 

It is our pleasure to announce that MACIMIDE researcher Cecilia Schenetti will defend her PhD thesis entitled “Creating and contesting the message – The lifecycle of EU migration information campaigns from Europe to Senegal” on Tuesday, 16 December, at 13:00 in the Aula of Maastricht University. 

Empty, unfinished, or ‘ghost’ houses are common sights around the world, where aspirational investment in housing outpaces the potential to physically occupy it.