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Manby, B. (2022). Statelessness statistics and IROSS: The UN Statistical Commission grapples with definitions.

The STRINGS final workshop will gather researchers, policymakers, funders and civil society to discuss and share experiences on how prioritisations in science, technology and innovation (STI) may need to be revised to better address the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in different contexts — with a particular focus on low- and middle-income countries. 

In a new video, Melissa Siegel has published a new video looking a refugee resettlement. The video first looks at defining resettlement, Melissa goes on to look at the actual process of resettlement and data that exists on resettlement, before diving further into the stages of the resettlement process. 

Prof. Siegel looks at three phenomena relating to health in her latest videos. She specifically looks at the healthy migrant effect, the Hispanic Paradox and the Salmon Bias Hypotheses. 

Investment migration programmes—which offer residence permits or citizenship in return for a financial transaction or passive investment—have become increasingly popular in high-income immigration destinations over the past 15 years.

De Groot, G.R., Franssen, P., Harvey, A. and Pougnet R. (2021). Expert opinion: How the Netherlands, France and the UK are leaving children stranded at risk of statelessness in Iraq and Syria. European Network on Statelessness Blog. 

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific 
(ROAP) in Bangkok, Thailand is one of the 9 IOM Regional Offices (RO) that oversees and 
provides strategic and technical support to IOM activities within the region. 
 

Manby, B. (2021). Citizenship and Statelessness in the Horn of Africa. UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). 

In this video Melissa Siegel looks at the inter-relation between migration and inequality. Melissa starts off by examining what inequality is, and how it is measured. She goes on to highlight that inequality can be both a motivator for migration and a hinderance to it. To watch the video click here. 

In this video Prof. Siegel looks at the inter-relationship between poverty and migration. She begins this examination by delving into what poverty is, she looks at this by examining both the notions of monetary poverty (absolute and relative) and non-economic poverty. 

Fransen, S. and de Haas, H. (2022) Trends and Patterns of Global Refugee Migration. Population and Development Review.

DeZIM is a non-university research institute devoted to migration and integration that was established in 2017. As a federal research institution, it performs research and policy development in the fields of family, gender equality, children and youth, senior citizens and engagement policy.