Charles Martin-Shields
@cmartinshields
Senior Researcher at @IDOS_research working on migration, & digitalization, with a focus on cities and urban centers. Also: https://t.co/zyUcXivbJ2
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If you're interested in how humanitarian organizations convey forced displacement and migration through their social media accounts, check out this #openaccess Journal of Refugee Studies work by David Ongenaert and Claudia Soler. Might interest STS-MigTec Evan Easton-Calabria Charles Martin-Shields
🎞️ IDOS #Video
💡 #StateFragility and #DevelopmentCooperation
📚 Charles Martin-Shields and Diana Koester show how the IDOS & OECD ➡️ Better Policies for Better Lives fragility concepts can be applied to critical policy issues: idos-research.de/policy-brief/a….
Learn more at: statefragility.info
⬇️ youtube.com/watch?v=JQiZSf…
I had a great time collaborating with G Alexander Crowther & Phillips P. OBrien - we discuss why it’s imperative for the Europeans to militarily intervene in Ukraine:
foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/europe…
🚨Deadline coming up!🚨
My IDOS_research colleague Lena Gutheil and I are accepting abstracts for our migration and urbanization session at the WITS-TUB-UNILAG URBAN LAB African Urbanisms conference! Abstracts are due this Sunday, 21 April!
Submissions details here: urban-sdg-school.org/african-urbani…
📚 IDOS #PolicyBrief
The concept of #StateFragility is a useful lens for planning #DevelopmentPolicy in complex settings. Charles Martin-Shields & Diana Koester show how to apply the IDOS_research and OECD ➡️ Better Policies for Better Lives fragility concepts of critical policy issues: idos-research.de/policy-brief/a….
New IDOS_research policy brief co-authored with Diana Koester! We discuss how different empirical concepts of state fragility can be used to understand complex development policy challenges, and offer practical recommendations for policy makers.
idos-research.de/policy-brief/a…
📚 New book
How does technological change impact the ways #UrbanRefugees contribute to social, economic, & political networks in their cities of arrival?
'Urban Refugees and Digital Technology' by Charles Martin-Shields: idos-research.de/externe-publik… McGill-Queen's University Press
youtube.com/watch?v=Df1454…
The closing date is March 29th for paper proposals for our conference Governing (African) borders, security and migration, Accra, Ghana, 14-15 October
Dr Amanda Coffie Stephanie Hofmann
Frederick Boamah. All the details migrationpolicycentre.eu/call-for-paper…
Good to see that this year's #HDR report 23/24 emphasizes the importance of democratic institutions for development. Supported by so many individuals while #autocratization continues V-Dem Institute Freedom House The Economist
I had the pleasure to review Charles Martin-Shields urgent new book “Urban refugees and digital technologies” 1/4
Excited to see my book Urban Refugees and Digital Technologies in this month’s titles coming out through McGill-Queen's University Press! And a very cool line up of titles to be featured alongside:
mqup.ca/blog/releases-…
Signal boost! My colleague Lena Gutheil and I are hosting a session on urban migration and the future of African cities at the WITS-TUB-UNILAG URBAN LAB African Urbanisms conference. If your work is a fit, we'd love to have you join our session! Call closes April 21:
urban-sdg-school.org/african-urbani…
This free online q&a w/ migration journal editors is tomorrow (Fri 1 Mar), register at the link below. Tagging folks in policy & practice for signal boost: Helen Dempster Charles Martin-Shields Evan Easton-Calabria Anya Jhoti Heather Rolfe Johnny Runge Denis Kierans Mukta Naik
What a great chance to work with the brilliant Helen Dempster on key migration challenges - deadline is 16 March. Might interest the networks of Migration Oxford Migration Policy Centre Evan Easton-Calabria Dr. Yvonne Su Charles Martin-Shields IMISCOE
Watch the 4th episode of our video series on synergetic stories about sustainability and digitalisation. This time, Sabrina Heuwinkel and I are visiting Ivanildo Santos – an organic açai farmer in the Brazilian Amazon
IDOS_research FGV EBAPE
Full video here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=0pbfk-…
My book Urban Refugees and Digital Technology with McGill-Queen's University Press is a real, tangible thing now! Can believe after four years of research and writing I actually have it in my hands. Bigger launch details coming in March!
mqup.ca/urban-refugees…