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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. 

An interview with Prof. Melissa Siegel has been included as part of a recent publication by Arte. In this interview Prof. Siegel talks about, among other things, the motivation of migrants explaining the multiple reasons as to why individuals may migrant. Within the programme several other migration specialists also spoke on various other topics. 

In a new video Prof. Siegel looks at health outcomes in countries of destination. In this video she looks at the prevalence of both communicable and non-communicable diseases. She highlights some of the causes of the variance as a result of migration. 

A call for new three-year PhD scholarship has just been announced, for a project co-supervised between the University of Edinburgh Centre of African Studies (CAS) and the African Studies Centre at the University of Leiden (ASCL) to begin in September 2022. 

le Normand B. (2021) Citizens without Borders: Yugoslavia and its Migrant Workers in Western Europe. 

In this video Melissa Siegel looked at the current (as of early December 2021) migrant situation at the EU (Poland, Latvia, or Lithuania )-Belarus border.

In her latest video Prof. Siegel looks at the current migration situation in Afghanistan and specifically the forced migration situation in/from Afghanistan as of Nov. 2021. In her video Melissa Siegel looks at why migration flows are lesser than what was expected, she also looks at the demographics of people registering for asylum in neighboring States. 

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The CfP for the 4th conference of the German Network for Forced Migration Studies at the University of Technology Chemnitz,  28-30 September 2022 is out. To view the call click here (in German). 

Lebon-McGregor E. and Micinski N.R. (2021) Money matters: The role of funding in migration governance in de Lange T., Maas W. & Schrauwen A. (eds) Money Matters in Migration Policy, Participation, and Citizenship, Cambridge University Press

Prof. Melissa Siegel received the Distinguished Alumna Award from the College of Charleston, USA on 20 November 2021. This award was established to recognise those alumni who have made significant contributions to their professions or to their communities over a long period of time, thus reflecting favourably on the College of Charleston. Prof. Siegel received her Bachelors in Economics with a Minor in Business from the College of Charleston and graduated from the Honors College in 2003. 

Schmeets H., Marcellino C. and Conceicao J.F. (2021) De relevantie van verblijfsduur van immigranten voor hun participatie in de samenleving. CBS.