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  • New Migration Snapshot: Hungary

    Prof. Siegel’s video looks at the current migration situation in Hungary on the basis of the European Commission Atlas on Migration. Melissa starts by looking at the stocks and flows of migrants in Hungary before moving on to looking at the purpose of residence permits and looking at data on asylum applications. 

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    Prof. dr Rene de Groot has recently given a collection of presentations on nationality law

    Prof. dr Rene de Groot, a board member of the MACIMIDE, has recently given several lectures on the current state of nationality law. 

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    27/01/2022 – Book presentation: ‘Visual Methodology in Migration Studies. New Possibilities, Theoretical Implications, and Ethical Questions’

    Join the EUI Migration Working Group, Qualifie and CERC Migration for a presentation and discussion of the open access book “Visual Methodology in Migration Studies. New Possibilities, Theoretical Implications, and Ethical Questions”. 

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    CfP: “Measuring Migration: Why? When? How?” hosted on June 9-10, 2022

    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).

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    Vacancy: DeZIM Institut Research Fellow

    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. 

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    Trends and Patterns of Global Refugee Migration

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

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    On International Migrants Day, UNU-MERIT joined the Dutch UN Association to ask: Can we govern migration better?

    On the occasion of International Migrants Day 2021, UNU-MERIT researcher Elaine Lebon-McGregor joined forces with the Dutch Association for the United Nations (NVVN) to guest edit a special dossier that focuses on an important question: ‘Can we govern migration better?’ 

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    Migration Snapshot on Poland

    Prof. Siegel’s video looks at the current migration situation in Poland on the basis of the European Commission Atlas on Migration. Melissa starts by looking at the stocks and flows of migrants in Poland before moving on to looking at the purpose of residence permits and looking at data on asylum applications. 

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    New Migration Snapshot on Finland

    Prof. Siegel’s video looks at the current migration situation in Finland on the basis of the European Commission Atlas on Migration. Melissa starts by looking at the stocks and flows of migrants in Finland before moving on to looking at the purpose of residence permits and looking at data on asylum applications.

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    26/01/2021 – MGSoG/UNU-MERIT Migration Seminar on “Reducing Mistreatment of Migrant Domestic Workers”

    Dr. Toman Barsbai, University of Bristol 

    Many migrant workers face exploitative working conditions, resulting from the highly asymmetric power relationship with their employers and their inability to enforce contracts

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    In God we trust: Religious beliefs and sensemaking of Filipino undocumented migrants in the Netherlands

    Siruno, L. (2021) In God we trust: Religious beliefs and sensemaking of Filipino undocumented migrants in the Netherlands. Routed Migration & (Im)mobility Magazine, 18. 

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    12/01/2021 – GTD Colloquium on Labour Dynamics in the Mining Industry

    On the 12 January the fourth GTD colloquium with Benjamin Rubbers of Université de Liège will take plac. It will be on zoom. He will be presenting to us research from his collaborative ERC funded project WORKinMINING undertaken in Zambia and the Democratic republic of Congo. 

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