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Prof. Melissa Siegel has produced a new video series on Azerbaijan. In her videos she addresses the history of the migration in Azerbaijan, as welling as contextualising this with broader history of the region. 

Prof. Valentina Mazzucato, a member of the MACIMIDE Board, delivered the 7th Sarah van Walsum lecture on October 7, 2021 at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, about the need to rethink categories used in research and policy to talk about migrant youth. Her lecture was titled, ‘On categories: what we see and what we don’t see when categorising migrant youth.’ 

The European Parliamentary Research Service has published an impact assessment of the Commission’s new pact on migration. 

Luisa Hammer , Freie Universität 

EU Eastern Enlargement elicited a rise in (temporary) labour market-oriented immigration to Germany starting in May 2011. Taking into account that not all immigrants stay permanently and that outmigration flows are selective, this paper classifies recent EU immigrants into “new arrivals” and “stayers” drawing on administrative social security data (2005-2017).

Prof. Melissa Siegel has produced another video on MIPEX, building on her first video she looks at how MIPEX scores can be used within academic research. 

This book centers on urban vacancy as a core feature of urbanization, using international case studies from the Global North and Global South to explore how vacant urban spaces are sites of political contestation, lived use, and potential for re-purposing. 

Cörvers, F., Reinold, J., Chakkar, S., Bolzonella, F. and Ronda, V. (2021) Literature review labour migration: An exploratory study into the shortages of qualified personnel at the upper secondary vocational level and the possibilities and limitatations of employing migrants. WODC. 

Michelle S. M. Momo, 

The aim of this thesis is to increase knowledge on educational outcomes in low income and lower-middle-income countries by examining the intergenerational correlation of education in multiple dimensions, given the complexity inherent in the concept and the global persistence in the number of early school leavers. The proposition is that in order to combat the high rate of school dropout among the poor and to increase the intergenerational mobility of education, it is necessary to explore the role played by the reduction in the intergenerational mobility on inequalities that occur early in the lives of children. In other words, gaps that emerge early in life among families that need to be addressed and offset. These are gaps that exist due to inherited limited opportunities from parents and a lack of basic necessities for a comfortable standard of living. 

There is a vacancy to develop a PhD project related to the themes of “Care Matters.” This research agenda explores how the labour of caring for a home is changing along with increasingly mobile and partial practices of dwelling. This labour has normally been assumed as an obligation of owning and occupying housing, yet it becomes difficult to accomplish as more and more dwellers do not follow a traditional model of a static and persistent home. 

In her latest video Prof. Melissa Siegel looks at MIPEX, the Migrant Integration Policy Index, a tool that can be used to measure the effectiveness of integration policy. It was originally developed in 2004 as the European Civic Citizenship and Inclusion Index.

On 23rd September a group of academics and practitioners came together for the MACIMIDE Annual conference in Maastricht. With some people able to join in person, while others joined online. The conference was opened by Karlijn Haagsman (one of the Centre Co-Directors). Her opening remarks were followed by an interactive session by Julia Reinhold regarding perceptions of migration and the presentation of the Expats x Migrants photo exhibition. At this point Tetsuro Miyazaki, the photographer spoke on the inspiration and process that resulted in the exhibition. 

EU Eastern Enlargement elicited a rise in (temporary) labour market-oriented immigration to Germany starting in May 2011. Taking into account that not all immigrants stay permanently and that outmigration flows are selective, this paper classifies recent EU immigrants into “new arrivals” and “stayers” drawing on administrative social security data (2005-2017). This novel strategy allows us to separately identify their potentially opposing short- and medium-run effects on labour market outcomes in Germany. We find a transitory negative wage effect among natives, particularly at the bottom of the wage distribution; and a permanent positive effect on native full-time employment.