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How are major world-scale changes in contemporary society governed? How might global matters such as geopolitical shifts, ecological changes, economic restructuring, technological innovations, and pandemics be better governed? Addressing these complex questions requires innovative, interdisciplinary approaches and an open conversation between various stakeholders. To promote such conversations, the Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) programme at Leiden University organizes an annual conference bringing together academics and practitioners whose work addresses the governance of complex global challenges. 

Through this series, Melissa Siegel looks at how national policies facilitate migrant integration on a country-by-country basis with the use of MIGNEX’s data. In this video she looks at the favorability of integration policies in Chile. 

Through this series, Melissa Siegel looks at how national policies facilitate migrant integration on a country-by-country basis with the use of MIGNEX’s data. In this video she looks at the favorability of integration policies in Argentina. 

In our next UNU-MERIT & MACIMIDE Migration Seminar, we will welcome Dr. Lea Müller-Funk (Department of Migration and Globalisation at Danube University Krems, Austria) to our online seminar series. Dr. Müller-Funk will present us with a seminar, entitled Daring to aspire: Violence, life aspirations and displacement trajectories in civil war contexts on (im)mobility decisions in civil war settings. 

Since 2015, the European Union has twice faced a significant influx of migrants and refugees, leading to what many denoted as migration/refugee crises. Most recently, the Russian aggression against Ukraine caused the largest migration flows in Europe since World War II. These developments raised questions concerning the EU´s asylum and migration policy, as well as relevant EU response mechanisms and their legal underpinnings. Globally, however, Europe is just one of the regions of the world facing mass migration. The special issue, therefore, aims at exploring legal responses to forced 
mass migration from the perspective of the different regions of the world.

IOM Research, together with the UNDP Human Development Report Office, invite you to join this International Migrants’ Day Event on Research insights on migration and human security. 

In her latest video Melissa Siegel explores the links between migration and entrepreneurship in both migrant countries of origin and migrant countries of destination. 

The IMISCOE Standing Committees Reflexivities in Migration Studies and Methodological Approaches and Tools in Migration Research (Meth@Mig) are inviting submissions for the (migration research focussed) online workshop Integrating Reflexivities into Survey Research 

On Wednesday, 30 November, we will have the second Migration Seminar for the month November, convened by UNU-MERIT & MACIMIDE (Maastricht University). Our speaker is Dr Sevgi Temizisler, who is an Associate Researcher at the Brussels School of Governance, the Centre for Digitalisation, Democracy, and Innovation (CD2I) at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in Belgium. In the presentation, entitled Politicisation of migration and its impacts on European integration, Dr Temizisler will present the outcomes of her doctoral thesis, which investigated how migration issues were politicised during the ‘refugee crisis’ in different countries and the implications for European integration. 

Transdisciplinarity: Independent Academic Initiative (link) (in collaboration with Institute of Anthropology and Ethnology, and Center for Migration Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan) invites all interested to webinar on Climate Change and Human Migration presented within a series of seminars entitled “Resilience in the context of permanent crisis” (link). 

In her latest video, Melissa Seigel examines the effects of migration on labour markets in countries of origin. In this video, she specifically examines the effect remittances on child labour and entrepreneurship, as well as the potential impact of the migration of highly educated individuals in the countries of origin. 

On Wednesday 30 November (15:30-17:00), Maastricht University’s Globalisation, Transnationalism and Development (GTD) colloquia presents this book, exploring innovative research methods for studying the relationship between migration and education (broadly conceived), focusing on centering migrants’ experiences through visual mapping methods. Chapter presentations from editor Prof. Cathryn Magno and Dr. Anna Becker (University of Fribourg) and the MO-TRAYL team (Maastricht University) will address knowledge production, researcher positionality, and practicalities of using new methods.