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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

Memorials to people who have died and to those missing during migration: a global project

22 January, 2019 By Katie Kuschminder

I am happy to share that I am part of this important new project led by Ann Singelton and funded by the World Universities Network (WUN) Research Development Fund. Migration across the globe has resulted in the deaths or 'missing' status of hundreds of thousands of people. How the impact of loss on such a scale is recognised and understood is a major social challenge; from a baseline appreciation of what this means within the context of our shared humanity, to cognisance of the human impact of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Article Tagged With: Refugees, WUN

World Universities Network Annual Conference: Cultures in Flux

30 May, 2018 By Katie Kuschminder

  In May I was fortunate to attend the World Universities Network (WUN)  annual conference in Perth as a delegate of Maastricht University for the Understanding Culture Global Challenge group. Reposted from the WUN website is an overview of the event, which discusses my presentation on the results of my NWO Rubicon research project on Eritrean and Nigerian migrants journeys to Europe. Cultures in flux: Migration and cultural dynamics in the past and present WUN’s three-day … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Events Tagged With: Eritrea, Irregular Migration, Italy, Nigeria, WUN

WUN Migration Conference Maastricht

5 April, 2016 By Katie Kuschminder

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...]

Filed Under: Events Tagged With: Migration, WUN

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