Prof. dr. P.W.A (Peter) Scholten
Professor of Migration & Diversity Policy, Erasmus University Rotterdam Director of IMISCOE
UNPACKING THE CHALLENGES AND POSSIBILITIES FOR MIGRATION GOVERNANCE
Keynote presentation (18 October 2019, University of Cambridge)
Read Moreby Noorulain Naseem| National Defense University NDU, Islamabad, Pakistan
They say to be a woman is to behold great secrets of this world, to smile while being in pain and to retain tenderness while surviving a harsh world. I don’t know what stirred in me when I saw the image of that Syrian boy stranded and motionless at the foot of Mediterranean, or the little girl who smiled while telling how she lost her parents to the Syrian war and hadn’t eaten anything in days; until tears came running down her freckled cheeks. Leaving me compelled to know more, perhaps these images took me back to when I was a child and suddenly the neighborhood started filling with Afghan migrants, and refugee tents started to show in the outskirts of Islamabad…
Read Moreby Aurora Rossi | Uppsala University
On 17-19 October 2019, the RESPOND project organised a conference at Newnham College, University of Cambridge. More than 175 participants attended this inspiring conference which aimed to unpack the challenges and possibilities for migration governance.
The conference hosted 114 paper presentations, which were organized in 10 different panels https://www.respondmigration.com/conference-1 In addition, four keynote speeches were delivered by distinguished scholars.
Read Moreby Justyna Szałańska | Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw
Since 2015, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) active in helping asylum seekers and refugees have been facing difficult times in Poland. Firstly, it stems from the heated atmosphere around increased migration to Europe beginning in the mentioned year. Secondly, and more significantly, it is an effect of the government withholding the funds from the European Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) in late 2015 until the new strategy of migration policy of Poland is adopted (see more: Pędziwiatr 2019)[1]. In 2017, the government decided to transfer the control over funds from AMIF to voivodship governors.
Read Moreby Andrea Terlizzi | University of Florence
The book Health systems and immigration: A comparative analysis edited by Ginevra Cerrina Feroni investigates how health systems in Europe function in relation to the migration phenomenon. The study includes countries adopting different models of health systems: Anglo-Saxon (United Kingdom), Bismarckian (France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and the Netherlands), Southern European (Italy, Spain, and Greece) Eastern European (Hungary), and Scandinavian (Sweden and Denmark). In terms of financing, these countries essentially belong to the Beveridgean national health service (NHS) and the Bismarckian social health insurance (SHI) types of system.
Read MoreThe EC-funded international research project “RESPOND: Multilevel Governance of Mass Migration in Europe and Beyond” calls for human-rights responses to the explosive situation at the refugee camp “Moria” and in the Aegean region.
After another fire in which a woman was burnt to death, on Sunday 29 September 2019, the inhuman and volatile situation of the “hot-spot” Moria on the Greek island, Lesbos attracted further worldwide publicity. The woman’s death on Sunday was the third in the last two months.
Read Moreby Dr. Susan Rottmann | Özyeğin University
Some of the first findings of RESPOND were shared at one of the largest gatherings of migration researchers in Europe, the IMISCOE Annual Conference in Malmö, Sweden.
A major highlight was a workshop on the topic, “Gendered Experience of Migration and Vulnerabilities in Protection Regimes,” co-organized by Andreas Onver Cetrez and Sabine Hess.
Read Moreby Konrad Pędziwiatr | Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw
In recent years Poland has become an increasingly attractive destination for immigrants amongst whom Ukrainians form the largest group. In 2016, it recorded the highest number of employment-related residence permits (almost half a million) for third country nationals among the EU Member States. Thus, Poland, whose citizens in the last three decades have significantly contributed to the European migration processes and form a new diaspora of over 2 million persons, is transforming from an emigration towards immigration country.
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