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You are invited to the Seminar Series on Forced Migration. The upcoming seminar will be given by Jennifer Hyndman (York University, Toronto, Centre for Refugee Studies), titled “Refugee Sponsorship: Will Civil Society Keep Stepping Up?” and is scheduled for Wednesday, December 16, 2020 starting at 5:30pm CET (Vienna time)/ 11:30am EST (Toronto time). The event will be held online. Everyone is welcome and you can register here. 

Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism in collaboration in The Migration News  is opening few Internship positions from January 2021. The details are given in the Advertisement attached with this email. Kindly circulate this to the interested candidates.  

Call for papers 

Standing Committee Methodological Approaches and Tools in Migration Research 

Panel sessions at the 18th IMISCOE Annual Conference, Luxembourg, July 7-9, 2021 

Submission deadline: December 1^st, 2020. 

In the midst of the global Covid-19 pandemic, the notion of community has taken on a powerful meaning of solidarity and support: ‘Mutual Aid’ communities have burgeoned everywhere in the world, delivering foods and medication to the elderly and vulnerable; technology provided unprecedented levels of connectivity through which communities could be formed; new and creative forms of activism have emerged in the shape of crowdfunding campaigns to salvage independent shops as well as theatres and other cultural institutions. 

The latest UNHRCR (June 2020) Global Trends report suggests that 79.5 million people were displaced at the end of 2019. In other words, 1% of the world’s population is displaced.

Prof. Melissa Siegel, Professor of Migration Studies at Maastricht University and UNU-MERIT, has launched a Youtube channel dealing with migration issues. The purpose of the channel is to bring knowledge on migration to the general public. Click here for the channel. 

For those who are interested but do not have the time to take a full-time course in migration studies, UNU-MERIT and its School of Governance offer a number of specially designed online courses to suit the needs of busy professionals. 

Manby, B. (2020). “Why and where local naturalisation may work – a rejoinder”. GlobalCit Blog. 

Latham, A & Wagner, L.B. (2020). “Experiments in becoming: corporeality, attunement and doing research”. Cultural Geographies Journal. 

Cojocaru, O. (2020). “”In the back of my mind, time always ticks one hour forward”: The transnational temporalities of Moldovan domestic workers in Italy”. Population, Space and Place. 

Eisele, K. & Ballegooij, W. (2020). “Asylum procedures at the border”. EPRS. 

As the MO-TRAYL project (www.motrayl.com) enters its last year, the MO-TRAYL team has organized an international workshop with scholars from around the world to give feedback and share insights from their own work.