Metka Hercog and my book chapter "Diaspora Engagement Policies and the Power of the Strong State: India and Ethiopia" is now available in this edited collection. Here is an abstract of our Chapter: Migrant-sending countries are increasingly exploring schemes where the human capital of expatriates can be used for the benefit of the home country’s socioeconomic development. This paper focuses on the mechanisms of emigration management and problematizes government involvement in … [Read more...]
Launch of the First Migration Course at University College Maastricht
As Maastricht University enters period 4 of the 2015/2016 academic year, it is very exciting that for the first time the University College Maastricht (UCM) is offering a course on migration! Thanks to the innovation of Interim Dean, Teun Dekker, this course was added to the course calender late last year to bring the topic of migration to UCM students. The course was met with a fantastic response and has over 80 students enrolled. I am happy to be the Course Coordinator and Developer of the … [Read more...]
New Working Paper: Rejected Afghan asylum seekers in the Netherlands
Based on work from our Irregular Afghans in the Netherlands project, this working paper co-authored with Melissa Siegel provides an overview of the descriptive results of irregular Afghan migrants in the Netherlands. Abstract: Afghans have been a central asylum seeking group in Europe, and specifically the Netherlands since the conflict in Afghanistan escalated in the 1990s. Many of the Afghan asylum seekers in the Netherlands since 2001 receive a negative decision on their asylum request, … [Read more...]
UNU Migration Network First Conference- International Migration and Current Challenges: Transforming the Debate on Human Mobility
On 28th January the United Nations University Institute on Globalisation, Culture and Mobility hosted the first UNU Migration network conference on International Migration and Current Challenges: Transforming the Debate on Human Mobility at their beautiful office in the Sant Pau Pavilion. It was a great event that featured presentations from across the UNU Migration Network, including several projects from UNU-GCM and UNU-Merit. A key discussion in the conference was the importance of language … [Read more...]
Rubicon Grant and Thank-you NWO
I am very honoured and excited that I have recently been awarded the NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research) Rubicon Grant. With a Rubicon grant, researchers are expected to conduct research for a period up to 24 months at a foreign institute. My project will be focused on Syrian and Nigerian migrants in Italy: When irregular migration and asylum converge Dr. K.A. (Katie) Kuschminder, from Maastricht University will be going to Italy, European University Institute, Robert … [Read more...]
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