We are delighted to have launched the Women and Migration website, a collaborative storytelling project about the journeys migrant women take, and what happens once they reach their destination. We have collected testimonies from more than 100 women worldwide to shed light on how gender affects migration, and to highlight the resilience of those who seek a new life far from home. Take our quiz and test your knowledge about women and migration! Read our eight different case studies … [Read more...]
New Project: WUN Gendering Migration: Women and Girls Experiences of Gender-based discrimination, abuse and violence across migratory stages
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...]
Migration and multidimensional well-being in Ethiopia: investigating the role of migrants destinations
Here is a new article just published in Migration and Development co-authored with Lisa Andersson and Melissa Siegel. Abstract The purpose of this paper is to better understand the relationship between migration and multi-dimensional well-being in the context of Ethiopia. We investigate the differences in well-being between migrant, non-migrant and return migrant households. We then go a step further to understand the role of migrants destinations for well-being by disaggregating … [Read more...]
WUN Migration Conference Maastricht
On 2-3 April, Maastricht University hosted the World University's Network Second Annual Migration Conference. This was a great event bringing together scholars from across the WUN network from around the world. A great moment in the overall conference was the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between IOM and WUN to share information and data on migration. Together with Ann Singleton, I co-organized one of the panel themes on forced, hidden and irregular migration. These sessions … [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...]