EuMIGS Lecture Series
This lecture will discuss a review I have conducted that covers more than two hundred peer-reviewed articles, doctoral theses and scientific reports published in the last three decades, which focus on the category of “unaccompanied” migrant minors and...
This talk discusses the migrant solidarity movement in Europe. Cultures of welcome and hospitality may challenge notions of migration as economic and cultural burdens, but should, as interventions in migration studies have already pointed out in more...
Globally, the number of forcibly displaced people (FDP) reaches close to 90 Mio. A large share of FDP are internally displaced; not crossing international borders means no registration or protection status under UNHCR. But then, where are those people...
The marked increase of asylum seekers arriving in Western Europe in the wake of the Arab Spring in 2015 or, more recently, of the war in Ukraine in 2022, has renewed debates on policy measures countries should put into place to support the integration...
Similar to other European countries, the Netherlands experienced an increased arrival of asylum seekers in 2015/2016, challenging municipalities to accommodate these newcomers.
This presentation analyses the processes of rural shrinking/revitalisation from the perspective of chain mobilities. It attempts to go beyond the vision focused on the depopulation approach.
Activism and volunteering are emotional matters. On the basis of episodic interviews with people who support refugees in Germany, the presentation reconstructs the emotions that go hand in hand with voluntary action and activism. Both connecting and...
When a refugee is not a refugee, and child is not a child: Accompanied and unaccompanied migrant children’s access to rights in Belgium
Persons with disabilities are at a higher risk of exclusion compared to other people. They are more at risk to live in poverty, because of less access to employment and disability-related extra costs.
This EuMIGS lecture focusses on the main international student mobility (ISM) trends as well as the empirical literature on the determinants of ISM. The trends and empirical findings are connected to the theoretical literature on social inequalities,...
Today both researchers and policy-makers agree that refugees admitted to the European Union constitute a net cost and fiscal burden for the receiving societies.
This lecture is part of the first joint seminar organized by the EuMIGS network which deals with international student migration and mobilities (ISM) and joins students and lecturers from 6 of the 12 EuMIGS partner institutes.
The emergence of a new research field or area of study in the social sciences always is fraught with controversy, fits and starts, theoretical, methodological, and even epistemological debates. Migration studies is no different, but some things are...