Katie Kuschminder

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New Project: WUN Gendering Migration: Women and Girls Experiences of Gender-based discrimination, abuse and violence across migratory stages

3 January, 2020 By Katie Kuschminder

I am excited to have received a World Universities Network (WUN) Research Development Fund (RDF) funding for the project: Women and Girls Experiences of Gender-based discrimination, abuse and violence across migratory stages. This project brings together an excellent team of international researchers from: University of Bristol; University of Cape Town; University of Massachusetts Amherst; National Cheng Kung University; The University of Western Australia, Vrie University in Amsterdam, and the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Article Tagged With: gender, Migration, WUN

ADMIGOV Background Paper: Migration Governance in Ethiopia

15 December, 2019 By Katie Kuschminder

For the ADMIGOV project, Zoe Ogahara and I wrote a background paper on migration governance in Ethiopia. It is evident that Ethiopia is becoming an increasingly significant country for migration as a country of emigration, refugee hosting, transit migration, and return migration. In this paper we use key stakeholder interviews conducted in spring 2020 and background sources to provide an overview of how migration is governed in Ethiopia. We examine migration trends, migration policies, and … [Read more...]

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Decision Making on the Balkan Route and the EU Turkey Statement

27 November, 2019 By Katie Kuschminder

Over the past year I have led a study with colleagues from Maastricht, Koc University, and Rotterdam on the influences of the EU Turkey Statement on refugees and other migrants decision making in Turkey and along the Balkans Route to Europe. This project was commissioned by the Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek- en Documentatiecentrum (Research and Documentation Centre) of the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security. I am please that the report is now available. Summary In 2015, there were higher … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Article Tagged With: Netherlands, Refugees, Turkey

IOM/ UN Migration Agency Workshop on Migration Data

8 October, 2019 By Katie Kuschminder

In October I was honoured to join a fantastic group of experts to discuss with the IOM's new Policy Hub migration data for the future. The core objective of the workshop was to collect migration data experts’ views on how migration data could be better captured and used to inform effective migration policies and good migration governance. Recognizing that data is central to provide an evidence base for migration and is key to the achievement of the Global Compact on Migration this workshop … [Read more...]

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Article: Smuggling, Trafficking, and Extortion: New Conceptual and Policy Challenges on the Libyan Route to Europe

8 October, 2019 By Katie Kuschminder

In January, this article with Anna Triandafyllidou will be published in Antipode and is online now open access. This article is based on research conducted at EUI during my Rubicon grant. Abstract: This paper contributes a conceptual and empirical reflection on the relationship between human smuggling, trafficking and kidnapping, and extortion in Libya. It is based on qualitative interview data with Eritrean asylum seekers in Italy. Different tribal regimes control separate territories in … [Read more...]

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Katie Kuschminder (PhD) is a Senior Researcher at the University of Amsterdam... Read More…

Recent Posts

  • Forced Regulated and Flexible Temporariness in Return Migration
  • Handbook of Return Migration
  • Sustainable Reintegration ADMIGOV Results
  • Women and Migration Page Launch
  • ERC Starting Grant on Reintegration Governance

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