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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. 

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Samuel Hall are seeking a professional Migration & Displacement (Pillar 1) Research Assistant (RA) with a strong background in climate change and environmental issues to join its team for a full-time position based either in our Nairobi office or remotely. Samuel Hall’s Migration & Displacement Pillar covers a wide range of topics on durable solutions, return and reintegration, migration and development, cross-border mobility, trafficking in persons, smuggling, aspirations and migrant ecosystems, internal displacement and IDPs, refugee protection, and climate-mobility interactions. The Research Assistant will manage between one and three projects simultaneously and be increasingly involved in research aspects. There is a strong potential for domestic, regional, and international travel. 

The South-South Migration, Inequality and Development Hub (MIDEQ)  is looking for an experienced and committed Research Fellow to support with the delivery of research and development interventions for our work package on legal remedies and access to justice (A2J) within and between the six migration ‘corridors’ in which the MIDEQ Hub is working. 

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

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. 
 

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. 

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.

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. 

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. 

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. 

The University of Oxford’s Migration and Mobility Network (MMN) and Nuffield College invite 
academics, early career researchers, postgraduate students, policy experts, activists, artists, 
practitioners, and other stakeholders to present original research during the conference “Measuring Migration” which will take place in person and online (hybrid model) on June 9-10, 2022 at Nuffield College (University of Oxford).

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