On 24 September, researchers working on migration from different UNU institutes around the world came together at UNU-MERIT in Maastricht to exchange knowledge and ideas and develop future collaboration.
The Research Symposium included three panel sessions on thematic areas of key importance for scientific knowledge and policy development, as well as workshops to facilitate discussions of methodological and conceptual innovations.
The full list of presentations can be found below.
Panel Session 1 – Migration, Climate and Environment
Chair: Kees van der Geest (UNU EHS)
Presentation 1: Nidhi Nagabhatla (UNU CRIS), Belayneh Fentahun Shibesh (UNU CRIS) and Sanae Okamoto (UNU MERIT) – Climate Adaptation, Disaster Planning, and Mental Health: Shaping pathways of nexus resilience with focus on migrants
Presentation 2: Natalia Ruiz Morato (UNU FLORES) – Internal displacement in biodiversity areas after the Colombian Peace Agreement: the opportunities for a Nexus Approach
Presentation 3: David Durand-Delacre (UNU EHS) – Advocacy priorities for consent-based and well-supported climate relocations
Presentation 4: Bushra Ebadi (UNU EGOV) – The Weaponization of Technology: Climate Justice, Displacement, and Digital Apartheid in Palestine
Panel Session II – (Involuntary) Immobility
Chair: Ilse Ruyssen (UNU CRIS)
Presentation 1: Alix Debray (UNU CRIS) – The Aspiration to Stay, Well-being and Irrigation amidst Drought
Presentation 2: Els Bekaert, Alix Debray and Ilse Ruyssen (UNU CRIS) – Retain factors and staying preferences in climate-vulnerable West Africa
Presentation 3: Nicolás Caso (UNU CRIS) – Involuntary immobility and subjective well-being: Exploring the impact of unfulfilled migration aspirations among young adults in Asia and Africa
Presentation 4: Manisha Mukherjee (UNU MERIT) – Climate Change, Female Migration, and Gender Inequality: Evidence from Rural India
Panel Session III – Migrant inclusion and development
Chair: Melissa Siegel (UNU MERIT)
Presentation 1: Ashenafi Tizazu (UNU CRIS) – From Strategy to Tantalising Challenge: Unrevealing the Interface between Forced Return and Households’ Food (In)Security in Rural Ethiopia
Presentation 2: Tobias Hillenbrand (UNU MERIT) – Reforms welcome? Investigating public attitudes towards the regularization of asylum immigration
Presentation 3: Lalaine Siruno (UNU MERIT) – Human Development Trajectories of Regularised Filipino Migrant Domestic Workers in the Netherlands
Presentation 4: Ana Filipa Cândido (UNU MERIT) – An Extensive Analysis of Migration Transitions in the European Union Countries
Workshop: Methods and Next Steps
Moderators: Lalaine Siruno and Melissa Siegel (UNU MERIT)
Presentation: Dan Orendain (UNU CRIS) – Finding the [In]Visible – Field Work Insights on Internally Displaced Indigenous Peoples in Davao City (Philippines)