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The Centre for Migration Law (RU), together with Institute for European Law (KU Leuven) and the Amsterdam Centre for Constitutional. Culture and Democratic Governance (UvA) are pleased to invite paper proposals for the one-day workshop “The Promise of the Pact? What the EU promised but the Pact on Migration and Asylum does not deliver”, that will take place at Radboud University on 22 May 2026. 

Submit your entry for the 2026 GLOBALCIT – Rainer Bauböck Essay Award on the Global State of Citizenship 

We are pleased to invite you to our conference titled: The Future of Return: Towards Long-Term Solutions for Ukrainians Abroad and in Ukraine

1. One in thirty people in Amsterdam is an undocumented immigrant. They are denied the right to health insurance, but they do have the right to healthcare. Nonetheless, many undocumented people do not receive the healthcare they are entitled to. 
2. Health care is a basic human right, so how can it be that undocumented people are regularly denied access to care? Who cares explores the harsh reality of undocumented people living in Amsterdam. A reality in which you can be terminally ill, but still faced with closed hospital doors. 
3. Understanding the need for awareness on this topic, AT5 aired this documentary on their TV-channel multiple times. You can also watch this at: https://beyondbordersmedia.com/portfolios/documentary-who-cares. 

Abstract: The correlation between rising asylum immigration and the electoral success of far-right anti-immigration parties has sparked concerns about a potential “Democratic Dilemma” – namely, a trade-off between a country’s openness to immigrants and the preservation of democratic institutional quality.

This collective volume, co-edited by Prof. Lilian Tsourdi together with Dr. Niovi Vavoula and Prof. Valsamis Mitsilegas, offers a contemporary understanding of the state of the art of ‘crimmigration’ with a focus on the European Union and challenges this paradigm of intersecting criminal justice and immigration control.

You are cordially invited to attend the upcoming UNU-MERIT Migration Seminar featuring Senija Mehmedovic, a survivor of the Srebrenica Genocide, who will share her journey from war and displacement to resilience, exploring trauma, identity, and the power of healing through storytelling. 

In this article, Prof. Dr. Khalid Koser, Founding Executive Director at Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund (GCERF) and Professor of Conflict, Peace and Security at Maastricht University discusses the Global Investment Risk and Resilience Index.  

A new book edited by Fabio Perocco, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Venice and Editor-in-Chief of Inequalities: Journal of Critical Inequality Studies has been published by Routledge. 

Are you interested in joining a collaborative team to study women’s migration from Southern Europe and Turkey to France and Germany in the post-World War II era, and the role of work in their trajectories? Passionate about archival research and oral history? Self-motivated and ready to learn new research skills? 

This paper, written by migration researcher Muhammad Wajid Tahir, applies OpenAI and NLP techniques in Migration Studies.

In this article published by the Lowy Institute, Prof. Dr. Khalid Koser and Dr. Lilla Schumicky-Logan discuss how leaving detainees stranded in Syria doesn’t reduce risk but instead, can export the very insecurity governments hope to prevent.