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A team of Maastricht University employees including various MACIMIDE researchers won a Diversity & Inclusivity Grant to challenge the arbitrary distinction made between expats and migrants. The project ‘Expats x Migrants: Segregating the Migrant Community’ invites people to think about and question the labels they put on others by zooming into the distinction made between migrants and expats. 

Melissa Siegel was the most recent guest on the SBE Podcast hosted by Louis Morgner (an International Business student). In it she discussed both her own migration and academic journey as well as some of the myths that exist surrounding migration.

Abstract: As the Coronavirus spreads, stigmatisation, prejudice and discrimination make their mark in many parts of the world. Reports on physical or verbal assault on people of Chinese/East and Southeast Asian appearance are abundant, also in many ‘multicultural societies’ in Europe. In this talk, I present the first insights from our pilot research ‘[COVID] COuntering the VIrus: Discrimination and protestation in multicultural Europe’ funded by Utrecht University’s Migration and Societal Change Focus Area.  Drawing on news and social media content analyses as well as qualitative interviews, we document the daily online and offline experiences of people of Chinese/Asian appearance connected to Corona-racism. 

IOM works in the five broad areas of migration management: migration and development, facilitating migration, regulating migration, addressing forced migration, and the implications of climate change on migration. Cross‐cutting activities include the promotion of international migration law, policy debate and guidance, protection of migrants’ rights, migration health and the gender dimension of migration. The key responsibility of the Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP) is to formulate regional strategies and plans of action and to provide programmatic and administrative support to the countries within its region. Several Regional Thematic Units are based at the ROAP to fulfill this responsibility. 

The Odysseus Academic Network is pleased to invite you to the 21st edition of the Odysseus Summer School on EU Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy, Brussels and Online (28 June – 09 July 2021). 

A new article has been published as part of the MISTY (www.projectmisty.org) project that examines at migration and sustainability issues: Franco Gavonel M., Adger W.N., Safra de Campos R., Boyd E., Carr E.R.,  Fabos A.,  Fransen S., Jolivet D., Zickgraf C., Codjoe S.N.A., Abu M. & Siddiqui T. (2021) Leclerc C., Vink M., and Schmeets H. (2021) The migration-sustainability paradox: transformations in mobile worlds. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 49, 98-109. 

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is an international organisation comprised of 37 member countries that works to build better policies for better lives. Their mission is to promote policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world. Together with governments, policy makers and citizens, they work on establishing evidence-based international standards, and finding solutions to a range of social, economic and environmental challenges. From improving economic performance and creating jobs to fostering strong education and fighting international tax evasion, they provide a unique forum and knowledge hub for data and analysis, exchange of experiences, best-practice sharing, and advice on public policies and international standard-setting. 

The Journal of Refugee Studies (JRS) is accepting proposals for special issues. JRS is a peer-reviewed journal featuring original, high-quality research related to diverse aspects of forced migration. We welcome proposals that engage with and significantly advance scholarly debates in the field of refugee and forced migration studies. For more information on the Journal and its aims, please see here. 

We invite contributions for the joint online workshop “Ethics of Big Data for Migration Research” organised by the HumMingBird consortium (Enhanced Migration Measures from a Multidimensional Perspective, H2020 project – GA 870661), the SoBigData++ consortium (European Integrated Infrastructure for Social Mining and Big Data Analytics, H2020 Project – GA 871042) and the IMISCOE Meth@Mig (Methodological Approaches and Tools in Migration Research) standing committee. 

Again using the EU’s Atlas of Migration, Prof. Siegel looks into Germany. In doing this she looks at immigrants and emigrants as well as the number of visas issued. 

Prof. Siegel looks into the Netherlands using the EU’s Atlas of Migration in her Migration Snapshot series.

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How climate change travels to sub-Saharan Africa: The anthropology of forecasting, future-making and anticipation in humanitarianism?