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The first migration seminar of this academic year will take place on Wednesday, September 29th. This seminar is offered jointly by MGSoG/UNU-MERIT in collaboration with MACIMIDE. In this seminar, Dr Toman Barsbai from the University of Bristol will present a study on ‘Reducing Mistreatment of Migrant Domestic Workers.’ The seminar will be held from 15:00 to 16:00 CET on Zoom. More information can be found here. 

The first GTD colloquium of the academic year will be hosted on September from 4-6 pm. It will occur on campus at Grote Gracht 76 1.02. 

Prof. Melissa Siegel has produced a video outlining why the term “irregular migration” should be used in favour to other terms, including “illegal migrants.” Melissa first examines why this terminology is preferred. 

Schmeets H., Conceicao J., Marcellino C. (2021) Het vertrouwen van immigranten in de samenleving in relatie tot hun verblijfsduur. Statistics Netherlands (CBS). 

Melissa Siegel has released migration snapshots looking at France (which can be found here) and Belgium (here). Both videos use the EU Atlas on Migration to look into the migration situation in each State respectively. 

Over the summer Prof. Siegel has published videos on various olympic related migration topics. This has included videos on the migrants that competed at the Olympics, the International Refugee Team and the process of changing nationalities for the purpose of competing (this included both the regulatory framework as well as examples of people who have done it). 

Take your career to another level with UNU’s part-time PhD programme. The “Dual Career Training Programme to obtain a PhD in Governance and Policy Analysis” (GPAC²) is taught in English, and consists of a first year with three training workshops, and two workshops built around research progress every subsequent year. 

Schmeets H., Exel J. (2021) Vertrouwen van migranten in medemens en instituties. Statistics Netherlands (CBS). 

Schmeets H., Exel J. (2021) Vertrouwen van migranten in medemens en instituties. Statistics Netherlands (CBS). 

The first seminar in the ERCOMER guest seminar series will be held on Monday 6th September, from 13.15 to 14.45. It shall be provided online. The talk shall be given by Dr Liza Mügge, associate professor at the political science department of the University of Amsterdam (UvA), and research theme co-leader of the Diverse Europe group of the Amsterdam Research Centre for European Studies. Her research focuses on political representation and equality of ethnic/racial and sexual minorities and women in Europe.

Samuel Hall is currently seeking an experienced and professional Migration & Displacement (Pillar 1) Project Lead (PL) to join its team for a full-time position based in our Nairobi office. 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, and refugee protection. 

Samuel Hall is currently seeking an experienced and professional Migration & Displacement (Pillar 1) Research Manager (RM) to join its team for a full-time position based in our Nairobi office. 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, and refugee protection.