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IOM Research is pleased to invite you to the launch of a new research publication on “The impacts of COVID-19 on migration and migrants from a gender perspective”, produced with the support of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.

Raturi, R., & V. Cebotari (2022). The impact of parental migration on psychological well-being of children in Ghana. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 

In this video, Melissa Siegel looks at migration from Ukraine to the Netherlands as a result of the conflict in Ukraine. This update looks at both the number of Ukrainians arriving in the Netherlands and where in the Netherlands they are residing. 

In this video, Melissa Siegel updates the Netherlands migration series. Melissa Siegel begins this by looking at migrant stock and flows. In doing this she examines the countries of origin of migrants living in the Netherlands. She goes on to look at where Dutch people are emigrating to. She goes on to examine the proportion of visas granted for different purposes. 

The Maastricht Centre for Citizenship, Migration and Development (MACIMIDE) invites you to submit a proposal for a workshop or paper for the MACIMIDE Annual Work Conference 2022.

Melissa Siegel took part in the 15th episode of the Delmi podcast on climate adaptation, its opportunities and risks. The Delmi podcast is a podcast on migration and research published by the Migration Studies Delegation, an independent committee that initiates studies and supplies research results as a basis for future migration policy decisions and to contribute to public debate. 

The Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRiS) at the University of Birmingham, UK, is inviting submissions for paper and panel proposals that address key dimensions and changes in contemporary migration studies research, both in the past decade and for the decade ahead for its 10^th anniversary international conference: Looking back to look forward:   Celebrating 10 years of research on migration, forced displacement and superdiversity. The conference will be held on 14-16 September at the University of Birmingham, UK. Online participation also possible. 

On the 10th June 2022, Prof. Hildegard Schneider, professor of European Migration Law and a co-founder of MACIMIDE, will deliver her farewell lecture. 

On 2 June 2022 at 16:00, Gladys Akom Ankobrey will defend her PhD thesis entitled ‘You can’t limit yourself to one country’: Mobility trajectories and transnational engagements of young Dutch-Ghanaians, in the Aula of Maastricht University at Minderbroedersberg 4-6. 

This workshop is a collaboration between Maastricht University (the Netherlands), Wolaita Sodo University (Ethiopia) and Dutch Association for Migration Research (DAMR). 

From May 20 to June 24 there will be 4 online lectures on research on transnational families organized by the German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM) and the Interdisciplinary Center for Integration and Migration Research (InZentIM).

Are you interested in the human rights of migrants, and would you like to work in a vibrant team of scholars forming one of the largest migration law research groups in Europe? These PhD positions will study the ambivalent role of the European Court of Human Rights as an actor and forum for the human rights turn in legal discourses on migration. The research will be part of the project entitled “Who is empowered by Strasbourg? Migrants and States before the European Court of Human Rights”.