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Archives for July 2018

New H2020 Project: Advancing Alternative Migration Governance (ADMIGOV)

21 July, 2018 By Katie Kuschminder

  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...]

Filed Under: Events Tagged With: ADMIGOV

Article in News Deeply on the results of my Rubicon Research project

18 July, 2018 By Katie Kuschminder

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...]

Filed Under: Blog Article, Media

A Spurious Relationship? Assisted voluntary return and development- Book chapter in The Routledge Handbook of the Politics of Migration in Europe

13 July, 2018 By Katie Kuschminder

The Routledge Hanbook of the Politics of Migration in Europe, edited by Agnieska Weinar, Saskia Bonjour and Lyubov Zhynomirska, is now out! In this handbook, I have contributed a chapter examining the relationship between Assisted Voluntary Return and Development. I argue that the  relationship between AVR and development can be explored in different ways: 1) AVR being counted as official Overseas Development Assistance (ODA); 2) the funding of AVR by country or EU development funds; 3) evidence … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Article

IMISCOE 2018: Europe, Migrations and the Mediterranean: Human Mobilities and Intercultural Challenges

10 July, 2018 By Katie Kuschminder

I had the pleasure to present in two sessions at this years annual IMISCOE conference in Barcelona, which welcomed over 650 participants. First, in a semi-plenary organized by Jorgen Carling on Managing relationships in research on Mediterranean migration with the amazing Aysen Ustubici and Celine Cantat. Thanks so much to Jorgen for organizing this great discussion about the relationships with funders, between academic partners, with governments, and the ethics of doing research with refugees … [Read more...]

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Katie Kuschminder (PhD) is an Assistant Professor at Maastricht Graduate School of Governance/ UNU-Merit. Read More…

Recent Posts

  • ERC Starting Grant on Reintegration Governance
  • New Article: Before disembarkation: Eritrean and Nigerian migrants journeys within Africa
  • Once a Destination for Migrants, Post-Gaddafi Libya Has Gone from Transit Route to Containment
  • New Article: Evaluations of Return Within A Mass Deportation: Ethiopians’ Experiences of Return After Expulsion From Saudi Arabia
  • Migration Studies Delegation Sweden: 10 Observations on Reintegration

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