On Thursday March 30th DocuDoka organizes a film and discussion night in Amsterdam on the encounters between tourists and refugees. The night in creative bar Doka will start with the screening of Holiday for Everyone (2017, Vakantie voor iedereen), a new documentary by Dutch film trio Annelies Wezenberg , Mark Koster and Rik Lauwen about a temporary center for asylum seekers on a Dutch holiday...
The Migration Research Center at Koç University (MiReKoc) published the first of its "MiReKoc Policy Brief Series" written by Deniz Mardin and titled "Right to Health and Access to Health Services for Syrian Refugees in Turkey." This policy brief discusses the right to healthcare and the access to these healthcare facilities in Turkey. You can find the policy brief here . The institute announced...
Migration Research Center at Koç University will host its seventh round of summer school with the theme of " Migration and Children: Reflections on Voluntary and Forced Migration " to be held on 2-14 July 2017 . The curriculum will place the causes and impacts of migration on children in the broader context of poverty, conflict and legal frameworks. Bringing together perspectives on...
The Summer School on "Gendering (In)formal Social Protection: Gender, Migration and Resistance" will take place in Frankfurt am Main from June 18-June 23, 2017. Organizers: Prof. Dr. Anna Amelina , Prof. Dr. Helma Lutz , Dr. Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck Goethe University Frankfurt, GRADE Center Gender | Cornelia Goethe Center for Women’s and Gender Studies
In the most recent PhD Blog entry, Nare Galstyan (PhD Candidate at the University of Milan) asks Maurizio Ambrosini (Professor of Sociology of Migration at the University of Milan) about books and movies on the topic of migration. Read the entry
IMISCOE has an annual PhD Summer school, in the past organized among other in Rotterdam, Antwerp, Barcelona, and at Princeton. IMISCOE is now looking for interested institutions, or teams of several institutions, to develop bids to host the IMISCOE PhD Summer school 2018.
It is the aim of the interdisciplinary UCSIA summer school to investigate the dynamic interaction between macro-level developments and bottom-up approaches in the fields of religion and culture and the way in which this interplay may induce innovative synergies and/or provoke new and old forms of confrontation. This year the program will focus on the topic ‘Between Market, State and Religion:...
The Dutch Association for Migration Research (DAMR) is an inclusive international network of academic researchers with an interest in contributing to the development of migration research in the Netherlands. DAMR has the objective of increasing the scientific standing of migration research in the Netherlands by emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches to migration studies, theory formation and...
This Special Issue seeks to explore the potentialities of strengthening a new field of research within migration and diversity studies: Immigrant incorporation in political parties. The point of departure of all contributions is that there is what we call a “diversity gap” between political parties as public representative organisations and diversity dynamics in democratic societies. This...
Scholars from various departments of Erasmus University Rotterdam have decided to work together in order to address such cross-disciplinary questions raised by migration and diversity. They launch the Erasmus Migration and Diversity Institute (EMDI) , which has as the main objective to deepen cross-disciplinary collaboration in research on migration and diversity and to position EUR in the...
