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ITEM’s report on corona measures taken in Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. 

The expertise centrum ITEM (The Institute for Transnational and Euregional cross border cooperation and Mobility) operates the convergence of research, counselling, knowledge exchange and training activities in the domain of cross-border mobility and cooperation. ITEM currently is collecting the measures taken by the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium in response to the COVID-19 crisis. 

Co-Director prof.dr. Melissa Siegel is geïnterviewd binnen het MIND-project. MIND staat voor ‘Migration, Interconnectedness, Development’ en is een driejarig project dat mede gefinancierd wordt door de Europese Commissie. In dit project werkt Cordaid samen met 11 Europese Caritas-partners, met als doel bewustwording te creëren onder beleidsmakers en het publiek over de link tussen migratie en ontwikkeling. 

An updated version (V5.00) of the MACIMIDE Global Expatriate Dual Citizenship Dataset is now available. The Dataset charts rules in 200 countries 1960-2020 with regard to dual citizenship acceptance for citizens of a country who naturalise abroad. 

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. 

Dear experts, stakeholders and colleagues, 

Core Working Group 1.2 of the UN Network on Migration (Network) on establishing a Knowledge Platform (KP) and Connection Hub (CH) would like to invite expressions of interest for the forthcoming expert roster for peer review of the KP and CH by 15 September 2020. 

MACIMIDE Co-Director Prof.Dr. Melissa Siegel had a discussion with Maastricht University’s Studium Generale on the effects of the current COVID-19 crisis on migration. 

The recently published ‘Routledge Handbook of Migration and Development’, edited by Prof. Ronald Skeldon and Dr. Tanja Bastia, provides an interdisciplinary, agenda-setting survey of the fields of migration and development.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Kenya have commissioned UNU-MERIT and its School of Governance to evaluate an urban intervention in Nairobi.

The Central and Eastern European Migration Review is a peer-reviewed international online journal indexed in the ESCI Web of Science Core Collection. Its aim is to foster an academic discussion on scholarly works and research pertaining to migration within, into and out of the CEE region. It is published by the Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw and the Polish Academy of Sciences. The journal is available at http://www.ceemr.uw.edu.pl. 

Nour, S.O.M. (2020). Migration of higher education students from the North Africa Region to the United Kingdom, UNU-MERIT Working Paper

Ragab, N.J. (2020). Diaspora Mobilisation in a Conflict Setting: The Emergence and Trajectories of Syrian Diaspora Mobilisation in Germany. 

Soete, L. (2020). Hammer or nudge? Science-based policy advice in the COVID-19 pandemic.