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In this video Melissa Siegel looks at the Observatory of Public Attitudes to Migration (OPAM), a part of the Migration Policy Centre within the EUI. OPAM aims to enhance understanding of attitudes to migration through presentation, analysis and evaluation of data from all EU member states. 

Nasrat Sayed and Lillian Tsourdi have been awarded an NWO Hestia grant! This grant will allow Nasrat to join Lillian Tsourdi’s ongoing NWO VENI project and the Law Faculty/IER Department as research associate for 2 years on a 60% basis and to partake in career development activities, including the development of a PhD proposal. For the rest of his allocation, Nasrat will continue to be employed by UNU-MERIT. 

In the coming autumn, ITEM is organising several events on cross-border cooperation. The long awaited ITEM Annual Conference will finally take place this year! 

About ODI 

ODI (odi.org) is an independent, global think tank. They work to inspire people to act on injustice and inequality. Through research, convening and influencing, they generate ideas that matter for people and planet. 

They are seeking a Senior Research Fellow or Research Fellow to lead our work on forced displacement in Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG) Programme. 

JUSTREMIT and the Institute of Security and Global Affairs at Leiden University invite paper and panel proposals for consideration for the first JUSTREMIT Conference “Remittance Studies: making and mapping a field.” 

Prof. Siegel looks at the migration history, policy and current situation of Senegal. Her first video looks at the history, starting from before European colonisation and then the effects of colonisation on migration history. This included both the impacts of Dakar Port and the construction of train lines connecting Dakar with other major hubs, as well as migration from France and Lebanon. 

Fouche, C., Richter, S., Vallianatos, H., Mason, A., Fernández-Sánchez, H., Mazzucato, V., Kariwo, M., and Salami, B. (2021) African immigrant child health: A scoping review. Journal of Migration and Health 4, 100054. 

We are inviting applications for 2 PhD Positions within the framework of the European Research Council project “Reintegrate: Reintegration Governance”. The Reintegrate project is funded for five years (2021-2026) through a 1.5 million euro ‘Starting Grant’ from the European Research Council. Funding from the European Research Council means that applicants of all nationalities are eligible for this project. We are looking for enthusiastic applicants willing to contribute to a dynamic research environment focused on academic, policy and societal impact. 

In this video Melissa Siegel looks at the migration situation in Denmark on the basis of the EU’s Atlas on Migration. In this video Prof. Siegel looks at the stocks and flows of migrants in Denmark. 

In this new video Melissa Siegel looks at the migration situation in Greece using the European Union’s Atlas on Migration. The video looks at both the stocks and flows of migrants in Greece, including the issuance of residence permits and the number of asylum claims and the volume of irregular migration. 

We are inviting applications for 1 Post-Doctoral Researcher within the framework of the European Research Council project “Reintegrate: Reintegration Governance”. The Reintegrate project is funded for five years (2021-2026) through a 1.5 million euro ‘Starting Grant’ from the European Research Council. Funding from the European Research Council means that applicants of all nationalities are eligible for this project. We are looking for enthusiastic applicants willing to contribute to a dynamic research environment focused on academic, policy and societal impact. 

Ogden, L.J. & Mazzucato V. (2021) Changing relationships to the country of origin through transnational mobility: migrant youth’s visits to Ghana. Mobilities.