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The title of the talk is: The political economy of (in)coherence: Development narratives, Anxious practitioners, and Asian emerging donors. For more information and the link please click here.

Despite the high volume of population mobility, migrant stocks and the notable contribution by migrants to the Countries of Destination (CoD) and Countries of Origin (COO) in the Southern African region, data on international migration are often unavailable, or fragmented and non-comparable between countries. This hampers the capacity of relevant stakeholders to design and develop migration policies and operational responses based on solid evidence and affects the accuracy of national and regional reporting on policy and development progress. Timely, disaggregated and quality data would also serve to inform the United Nations system as a whole, as well as government and other societal partner platforms with regards to internal and policy- related programmatic design, Monitoring and Evaluation, and adaptation for both upcoming and current programmatic interventions. 

In view of the above, IOM Regional Office based in Pretoria is supporting the SADC Member States and the National Statistical Offices in the following areas: (i) strengthening of national coordination and migration data harmonization mechanisms, (ii) regional coordination and capacity building, (iii) establishment of measures to enhance migration data, (iv) enhancing the use of administrative data and, (iv) addressing data gaps on underreported migrant groups. 

The Consultant is expected to work under the overall supervision of the Regional Director for Southern Africa in Pretoria, the direct supervision of the Southern African Migration Management (SAMM) Regional Project Coordinator and in close coordination with the Migration Research Division at IOM Headquarters and the Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC) in Berlin, the successful candidate will be responsible for research and knowledge production undertaken by IOM Regional Office for Southern Africa in the context of the SAMM project. For more information click here. 

Is the Master’s specialisation in Migration Studies the right specialisation for you? Join this live presentation and Q&A session to find out all you need to know about this specialisation! 

In this video Melissa Siegel looks at how migration can affect development. The video covers the mechanisms through which migration can effect development and then zooms in on remittances. 

The Migration Working Group will host presentations on the theme of ‘Intricacies in the Regulation of Emigration and Immigration.’ The event will be held at 11.00 CET on 16th March, to register click here. The presentations will include:

 ‘Intentional Ambiguity in Governance: Refugee Policies under Pressure in Jordan’ by Lillian Frost, Max Weber Fellow (Virginia Tech/EUI) 

In the 1950s and 1960s, immigration bureaucrats in the Department of Citizenship and Immigration played an important yet unacknowledged role in transforming Canada’s explicitly racist immigration policy into a formally universal one. In response to external economic and political pressures for change, high-level bureaucrats developed new admissions criteria gradually and experimentally while personally processing thousands of individual immigration cases per year.

Since the end of the Cold War, securities studies have recognised the existence, in the field of migration governance, of a securitization process creating a migration-crime nexus as a consequence of political speech-acts and practices.

On 7th April a workshop will be hosted on the ‘Criminalisation of Welfare and Citizenship’ under the broader theme of Crime, Criminalisation and Injustice. 

The COVID-19 pandemic has hit at a time when hunger has been on the rise over four consecutive years, mainly due to conflict, climate-related shocks and economic crises. At the same time, forced displacement has reached record highs. The COVID-19 pandemic has had deep implications for migration and hunger dynamics. While overall mobility was expected to decline in 2020 due to the pandemic, it may ultimately increase over time as more people will be compelled to move if they can no longer make ends meet in their current location. 

In her latest video, Prof. Siegel looks at the basics of investor visas from their historical background to why we see them today and the attitudes towards them. Then she goes into some famous examples of investor visas and differences between them. 

Warnaar, H. and Bilgili, Ö. (2021), Financial aid, remittances and their effect on relative deprivation in Rwanda. International Migration. 

27 January 15:00 – 16.15 CET 
The link to the Webinar will be provided following registration. 

Migration governance and politics have rarely been analysed in relation to each other. Research on migration politics has emphasised the contentious side of the migration issue, e.g. party ideologies and (populist) discourses, native citizens unfavourable attitudes, pro- and anti-immigrant social movements mobilisation and the like.