The 5th Official Meeting of the UNU Migration Network took place on Monday, 12th January 2015 at the UNU International Institute on Global Health (UNU-IIGH) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
In this occasion, the Focal Points of the 6 Institutes currently composing the UNU Migration Network have discussed the organization and development of a variety of forthcoming activities: an event which will take place in May in Paris on Prejudice, Discrimination and Extremism; the organization of the 6th Official Focal Point Meeting which will be held in Barcelona in June, together with a symposium on Migration; the launch of a new research project on climate-induced migration; the organization of a section on International Migration and International Security within the 9th Pan-European Conference on International Relations “The Worlds of Violence” of the European International Studies Association (EISA), which will be held in Giardini Naxos, Catania, Italy, on 23th-26th September 2015; a series of expertise exchange between the members of the Network in the forthcoming months, through collaboration in terms of lectures, seminars and focus groups and workshops on migration.