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The Migrant Integration Policy Index was first published in 2004 as the European Civic Citizenship and Inclusion Index, and now the Migration Policy Group (MPG) is launching its fifth edition at international level. 

INVITATION 
8 December 2020 | 14:30 – 16:00 CET 
Register at: bit.ly/IDMC_dialogue 

SPEAKERS: 

Cláudia Dias Pereira, Secretary of State for Integration and Migration, Portugal 

Grainne O’Hara, Director, Division of International Protection, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) 

 Jonathan Prentice, Coordinator, United Nations (UN) Migration Network 

The Utrecht University Focus Area on Migration and Societal Change, the Dutch Association for Migration Research and the IMISCOE Standing Committee on Migrant Transnationalism (MITRA) are delighted to invite you to the webinar “Migration Trajectories and Transnational Support within and beyond Europe”. The webinar lines up the contributors to a recently published Special Issue in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies and will bring together new empirical analyses from diverse settings documenting the experiences of migrants residing within and beyond the boundaries of Europe. 

By Prof. dr. Mark Levels, Maastricht University 

** Watch the event livestream via the UNU-Merit YouTube homepage **  

INVITATION WEBINAR 

‘Pathways to Citizenship for third-country nationals in The Netherlands and EU Member States’ 

Thursday 26 November 2020 

10:00-11:30 (CET) 

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. 

Bauböck, R. (2020). “Promises and Pitfalls of Decentralised Naturalisation”. GlobalCit Blog. 

Manby, B. (2020). “Unblocking access to citizenship in the global South: Should the process be decentralised?” GlobalCit blog. 

Schultz, C., Lutz, P. and Simon, S. (2020). “Explaining the immigration policy mix: Countries’ relative openness to asylum and labour migration”. European Journal of Political Research. 

1^st MIGRATION, HEALTH, AND INTEGRATION SYMPOSIUM 

26th November 2020 

A collaboration between UNU-MERIT/Maastricht Graduate School of Governance, Maastricht Centre for Global Health, Maastricht Centre for Citizenship, Migration and Development (MACIMIDE) 

AND 

the Radboud University Network on Migrant Inclusion (RUNOMI), Nijmegen 

By Dr. Sorana Toma 

Centre for the Social Study of Migration and Refugees (CESSMIR), Ghent University 

When: Wednesday December 2, 2020, from 16:00-17:30 

Where: Zoom (https://maastrichtuniversity.zoom.us/j/98219325733)