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ERC Starting Grant on Reintegration Governance

8 September, 2020 By Katie Kuschminder

I am honoured and thankful to announce my ERC Starting Grant project Reintegrate on Reintegration Governance. ​Increasing numbers of people are returning to their origin countries after they migrate. This can be voluntary return or a forced removal through deportation. Upon return, how is their reintegration process governed? Do different forms of reintegration governance matter for returnees experiences and outcomes? The Reintegrate project will develop the sub-field of reintegration governance … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Article Tagged With: ERC, Reintegrate

New Article: Before disembarkation: Eritrean and Nigerian migrants journeys within Africa

2 September, 2020 By Katie Kuschminder

The final article from my Rubicon research project has just been published open access in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration studies. This was the first article I wrote from the study results, but the last to be published! Here is the abstract: This paper examines the experiences of Nigerian and Eritrean migrants on their journeys from their origin country to prior to disembarkation across the Mediterranean Sea in Libya. This paper builds on the work of Vigh (2006) in the social … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Article Tagged With: agency, Eritrean, irregular, Libya, Nigeria, social navigation

Once a Destination for Migrants, Post-Gaddafi Libya Has Gone from Transit Route to Containment

13 August, 2020 By Katie Kuschminder

Thanks to excellent editorial support from Julian Hattan, this feature has been posted on the Migration Information Source of the Migration Policy Institute. AUGUST 6, 2020 Migrants aboard a rubber vessel are rescued in the Mediterranean. (Photo: Irish Defence Forces) African and Middle Eastern migration flows to Libya and the country’s posture toward these migrants have changed dramatically since the 2011 fall of dictator Muammar Gaddafi. While Libya … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Eritrea, irregular, Libya, Nigeria

New Article: Evaluations of Return Within A Mass Deportation: Ethiopians’ Experiences of Return After Expulsion From Saudi Arabia

13 July, 2020 By Katie Kuschminder

Together with Zoe Ogahara and Iman Rajabzadeh, this article has been published in International Migration and will hopefully be part of a special issue on Reintegration that I have been co-editing with Ine Lietaert. The article is open access and available here. Many thanks to the ILO Ethiopia for sharing with us this great dataset and to Aida Awel and Kidist Getachew for valuable comments on the paper. The situation is quickly changing in Ethiopia, but deportations and return are likely to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Article Tagged With: deportation, Ethiopia, reintegration, Return

Migration Studies Delegation Sweden: 10 Observations on Reintegration

27 February, 2020 By Katie Kuschminder

In February, I had the pleasure to deliver a keynote speech at the Migration Studies Delegation (DELMI) workshop on Return and Reintegration in Stockholm. As I struggled to organize my presentation, my esteemed colleague Maarten Vink gave a great talk at our institute on 10 observations on citizenship naturalization. This approach inspired my presentation on 10 observations on reintegration. My 10 Observations on Reintegration can be briefly summarized as: 1. Multiple approaches to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Events Tagged With: reintegration, Return

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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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