Despite its complexity, U.S. #immigration policy tends to get reduced to sound bites and quick fixes, said American Immigration Council’s Aaron Reichlin-Melnick at the Baker Institute in May. Keep up with our past and future programming on key issues ahead of #Election2024. ⤵️ bit.ly/3WxhtSJ

🌏 Understanding state capacity in migration policy—Kelsey P. Norman's research on Egypt provides new insights into strategic state responses. Discover the #OpenAccess study below 🔍 doi.org/10.1093/jogss/…

Call for Reviewers! 📚 We’re currently looking for reviewers for the following titles. If you’re interested, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us at [email protected]. Spread the word, please!

ICYMI: Afghan refugees in the U.S. are still waiting for a long-term legal solution from Congress, three years after Kabul’s fall. In a new The Conversation U.S. piece, Kelsey P. Norman& Ana Martín Gil outline the issues. bit.ly/3X4jO93

“Migration Governance in North America” is now available through open access. Kelsey P. Norman, Ana Martín Gil & Nick Micinski contributed to the volumen with a chapter exploring the use of development aid for #migration control in Central America & Africa.linkedin.com/pulse/now-open…

What a massive error, not allowing any Palestinian voice to be heard at the #DNC. "The family of the #Israeli Hostage that was on the stage tonight, has shown more empathy towards #Palestinian Americans and Palestinians, than our candidate or the DNC has."

Horrific and completely preventable news 😞

📢 Upcoming webinar by the DIIS Denmark 💡 "#Women, #migration and #climatechange - local challenges and global perspectives" 📆 3 September 2024, 10-11am CEST (online) 🌐 bit.ly/4dAQjSp WiRL #womeninrefugeelaw #genderandrefugeelaw

Woohooo! Can't wait for everyone to hear this new podcast on #climatemigration #climatedisplacement we've been working on for the last year with an amazing team at Migration Matters (Sophia Burton) Samuel Hall (Nassim Majidi (نسیم مجیدی)🟩⬜️🟥) The HABITABLE Project (François Gemenne) Will Greaves Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research

"The war in #Gaza is taking children from parents & parents from children, undoing the natural order of things, rupturing the basic unit of Gazan life. It is making so many orphans in such chaos that no agency or aid group can count them." nytimes.com/2024/08/22/wor…

Palestinians are on their last leg. Rapid displacement (even for evacuation) have reached a point of causing just as much as harm to civilians as the strikes and military operations themselves. 86 percent of Gaza is under evacuation orders. Almost 2 million people are

We’ve known for months that raids are disproportionally affecting black migrants in Cairo. Your residency is expired-SOL. Refugees who only get 6 month residencies need to get appts to renew. Today I heard the earliest appts people are getting-June 2026! This is criminal!

Egyptian law actually states refugees should get 3 year residencies, if the law was followed this would solve so many issues, but, alas, refugees and asylum seekers go through a constant hassle to renew every 6 months, leading many to just become irregular

This used to not be that much of an issue, most people were left alone. This has changed w/in the past year, and def w/in the past months with the increase of raids targeting migrant communities. The system is completely broken.

Horrified by this news of an apparent femicide on campus on the first day of classes. Thinking of this woman, her family, and the entire Rice University community 😞

🚨Are you interested in researching #deportation #governance programmes, practices and experiences from the Global North? Then, this 👇 call is for you! Submit an abstract with your affiliation and contact details to Laura Cleton ([email protected]). ⌛️deadline: 13/09/24

Funding opportunity from POMEPS! Travel and research grants available for MENA scholarship, including projects in/on Turkey. Priority given to grad students and those without other funding sources. Deadline is Sept 30 - please apply and share! pomeps.org/call-for-propo…

We must do better and much much more for millions of people in #Sudan suffering this war-induced #famine. This ⬇️ joint report outlines how we can—engaging all local & #market capacities available, + driving more decisive #diplomacy to curb the excesses of this awful, awful #war.

Call for papers: Recognizing Refugees. Join me and Cathryn Costello at University College Dublin on April 11 2025 for a workshop on Refugee Admission, Relocation and Recognition Practices in Comparative and Transnational Social Sciences. Details attached! dropbox.com/scl/fi/lihczkl…

Wow, a striking example of the humanitarian-development nexus failing to respond to long term #displacement. Please read this impt piece from Lewis Turner, Katharina Lenner & co-authors on the end of the #Jordan Compact: thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2024/0…