This week I had the pleasure to present results from my NWO Rubicon project on Eritrean and Nigerian migrants journeys to Italy at the Netherlands Ministry of Security and Justice. The seminar was hosted by the Ministry of Security and Justice Research and Documentation Centre and the Netherlands Demographic Society. In this seminar key themes were explored such as migrants mobilities through Europe (Joris Schapendonk and Halvar Andreassen) and reasons Syrian migrants and unaccompanied minors … [Read more...]
New Project: Fluctuations in Migration Flows on the Balkans Route
Commissioned by the Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek- en Documentatiecentrum, this project will examine the changes in migration flows to Europe on the Balkans route from 2015-2018. I am excited to lead this project with great partners from Koc University and Erasmus University Rotterdam. This research aims to unpack the changing dynamics of the migration flows on the Western Balkans route including: the policy environment regarding the migration context on the Western Balkans route; the decision … [Read more...]
Deciding Which Road to Take: Insights into How Migrants and Refugees in Greece Plan Onward Movement- MPI Issue Brief
In 2015, faced with a mounting humanitarian crisis on its borders, the European Union introduced a plan to relocate some asylum seekers from overburdened Greece and Italy to other EU countries. Yet Member States’ reluctance to make concrete relocation pledges and asylum seekers’ resistance to being moved to destinations they viewed as less desirable meant that a year on, far fewer had been relocated than was originally envisioned. As EU policymakers debate new proposals to deal with future … [Read more...]
New H2020 Project: Advancing Alternative Migration Governance (ADMIGOV)
I am thrilled to announce that our consortium led by Anja van Heelsum from the University of Amsterdam on the Advancing Alternative Migration Governance (ADMIGOV) project has been successful in this H2020 round. My role in this project is to lead a work package on Migration and Development and to contribute to a work package on exit through an examination of reintegration experiences of voluntary and forced returnees. I have reposted the UvA project announcement … [Read more...]
Article in News Deeply on the results of my Rubicon Research project
Eritreans on a bus on the road between Keren and Agordat in Eritrea. Eye Ubiquitous/UIG via Getty Images FOR YEARS, ERITREANS fleeing their homeland have known that, even if they make it to Libya, they will be kidnapped and ransomed. The extortion is systematic. Since the fall of Moammar Gadhafi, the southeast of Libya has been under the partial control of the Tubu tribe, which has established a successful cross-border trade in goods, drugs and people. Kidnappers in this region are … [Read more...]
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