Highlighted research projects
Removal infrastructures for Syrians in Lebanon and Turkey
Investigating the spacial and temporal dimensions of non-refoulement in Lebanon and Turkey
Societal changes and the decision to migrate - PACES
Making migration and migration policy decisions amidst societal transformations
Political engagement of African diaspora
Diasporas driving social and political change in country of residence and origin
Migration Seminar Series
Researchers working on Migration and Diversity often hold seminars showcasing their findings.
Upcoming seminar
Previous seminars in the series
| Date | Speakers | Title |
| 11 June 2024 | Isha Ting | Crossing borders and connecting stories: Radical media and empowerment |
| 13 December 2023 | Laura Ogden | Re-thinking participation and reciprocal consent with transnationally mobile migrant youth in the age of smartphones |
| 24 October 2023 | Paula Escribano Castaño | Displacing shepherds: social and geographical (im)mobilities in Catalonia (Spain) during and after the COVID-19 pandemic |
| 14 September 2023 | Zeynep Ceren and Eren Benlisoy | Being Syrian, refugee and labourer: Refugee-host relations in light of labour processes in rural Mediterranean Turkey |
| 20 June 2023 | Xander Creed | Towards a feminist human security for migration governance |
| 18 April 2023 | Cristina Buza | Memories, senses and transnationalism. Understanding Moldovan transnational family lives by unpacking the senses of the parcel-sending practice |
| 21 March 2023 | Simona Vezzoli | Young people’s aspirations to stay in northern Brazil |
| 21 Feb 2023 | Helen Hintjens | Undocumented people's self-advocacy: Between dreaming and drowning |
| 18 Oct 2022 | Mahardhika Sjamsoeoed Sadjad | Intimations of an ‘Us’ when imagining and encountering the ‘refugee other’ – reactions and responses to refugees’ presence in Indonesia |
| 15 Feb 2022 | Malika Ouacha | To where and to whom do I belong?” The sense of belonging in the performance of cross-border diasporic philanthropy and volunteering |
| 14 Dec 2021 | Mausumi Chetia | “We’re all playing with words, isn’t it? You are and so am I”: The displaced human from policy discourses of riverbank erosion in Assam, India |
| 16 Nov 2021 | Mahardhika Sjamsoe’oed Sadjad | “See, this one. She’s dating refugees”: Borderscapes in rumours of relationships between refugee men and Indonesian women |
| 12 Oct 2021 | Andrew Fischer | Chinese migration and population shares in Tibet revisited |
| 22 June 2021 | Otieno Ong’ayo and Kees Biekart | Transnational Diaspora Engagement and humanitarian interventions in Refugee Settlements in Northern Uganda |
| 16 Feb 2021 | Kim Chi Tran | Driving Forces of Nomadism |
| 15 Dec 2020 | Karin Astrid Siegmann, Tyler Williams, Julia Quaedvlieg | Precarious conditions of migrant workers in Dutch agriculture |
| 17 Nov 2020 | Cathy Wilcock | In the groove and in the moment: reflections on musicking with Kush Collective |
| 13 Oct 2020 | Roy Huijsmans | 'We have the movement and the meaning': Making sense of a contemporary Lao dance performed on a Parisian stage |
For more information about the Migration Seminar Series, please contact Dr Nanneke Winters or Dr Zeynep Kasli.
