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In her latest video, Melissa Siegel looks at the top 10 countries of destination of people displaced across country borders in 2021.

Ben je geïnteresseerd in het doen van promotieonderzoek in het migratierecht en wil je werken in een levendig team van academici dat onderdeel uitmaakt van een van de grootste onderzoekgroepen in migratierecht in Europa?  Solliciteer dan bij de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU). 

The migrant women chefs working with Nik’s Fudo are offering to take you on a culinary journey to their corners of the world with the My Great Cooking Class series. 

Abstract: 

A novel European policy concerning irregular migration is the implementation of information campaigns in popular sending countries. Recent literature suggests a certain effectiveness of these campaigns, revealing that triggering anxiety in the target audience enhances the impact of the information provided. This presentation challenges these findings by focusing on the role of a more moral mediator: the perceived credibility of the information’s sender. Building on dual-process theories of information processing, I expect that the mediator’s anxiety and credibility enhance the impact of information provision on awareness raising and attitude formation but through different mechanisms, so they may strategically replace one another. Disentangling the independent and interdependent effects, I implemented an experimental implicit mediation design with two randomized treatments in a real political information campaign targeting 2,500 Nigerian students. The results support the expectations. The absence of an additional effect for joint implementation of both mediators suggests a tactical replaceability. This causal field evidence contributes to understanding the different mechanisms of information processing in campaign settings. 

Moderator: 
Sergio Carrera | CEPS 

Panellists: 
Eugenio Ambrosi | IOM Chief of Staff, Executive Office of the Director General 
Tamas Molnar | Project Officer Justice, Digital and Migration Unit, FRA 
Inma Vázquez | Representative to the EU and NATO at Médecins Sans Frontières – MSF 
Cecilia Vejby Andersen | Head of Unit, DRC 

Conference on Legal knowledge and governance of Islam (Juridische kennis en Islambeleid ) Wednesday 2 November 2021, 10:00-17:00, Leiden University (online participation possible).

Join the Institute of Security & Global Affairs, the JustRemit Project and African Studies Centre Leiden for an exciting two-day hybrid conference on remittances in times of social, political and economic upheaval.

The University of Amsterdam is looking to hire a new tenure track assistant professor to work in the expanding interdisciplinary conflict programme.

In a new video Melissa Siegel, looks at how well national policies facilitate migrant integration on a country-by-country basis. In this video we look at the favorability of integration policies in the Japan. 

On 11-12 October 2022, the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) will gather key figures in the migration arena for the 7^th edition of their annual flagship event, the Vienna Migration Conference. 

The Radboud University Network on Migrant Inclusion (RUNOMI) at the Nijmegen School of Management has 5 vacancies for Assistant Professors, and 2 Postdoc vacancies online with closing date October 9.

On 20 September 2022, UNU will host “Comprehensive Innovation for Sustainable Development“, a BIG IDEAS Dialogue with Dr Bartel Van de Walle, Director of the UNU Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT). This event will be held via Zoom webinar at 18:00 JST (UTC+9).