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UNICEF - Refugee and Migrant Crisis in Europe Humanitarian Situation Report #29

13 November 2018

Latest situation report summary By September 2018, some 89,000 refugees and migrants, almost a quarter of whom children, arrived in Europe through the Mediterranean migration routes. Most children arrived in Greece and Spain. Between January and September 2018, nearly 16,700 children benefited from UNICEF specialized child...

GCM Commentary: Objective 23: Strengthen international cooperation and global partnerships for safe, orderly and regular migration

30 October 2018

Blog post written by Dr Christina Oelgemoller (Loughborough University) and Nicholas Maple (RLI) and forms part of a series of blog posts analysing the final draft (objective by objective) of the UN’s Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. Objective 23 of the Global Compact for Migration is titled ‘...

GCM Commentary: Objective 3: Provide accurate and timely information at all stages of migration

30 October 2018

Blog post written by Katharine T. Weatherhead , a Refugee Law Initiative Research Affiliate undertaking a PhD in Law at Queen Mary University of London. Katharine’s research is primarily focused on the law and politics of asylum in the EU. The working title of her doctoral thesis is ‘Unravelling Mediterranean Migration...

GCM Commentary: Objective 1: Collect and utilize accurate and disaggregated data as a basis for evidence-based policies

27 October 2018

Elspeth Guild (Queen Mary University of London) and Tugba Basaran (University of Cambridge), have written a series of blog posts analysing the final draft (objective by objective) of the UN’s Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. In this commentary they examine the content of Objective 1 (Paragraph 17)...

UN’s Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) Commentary: Editors’ Introduction

27 October 2018

Elspeth Guild (Queen Mary University of London) and Tugba Basaran (University of Cambridge), have written a series of blog posts analysing the final draft (objective by objective) of the UN’s Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. The commentaries seek to provide scholars, practitioners and policy-makers...

Balck History Month - October 2018, Cambridge programme of events

23 October 2018

Black History Month is held each year in October, with a programme that promotes the history and contributions that African, Caribbean, Asian and other BAME communities have made to Cambridge and the UK. Events around the country include history and heritage, arts and culture, news and ideas from a range of communities. It...

EU Migrant Worker Project: EU-8 Migrants and Their Access to Tribunals

16 October 2018

The EU Migrant Worker Project has been exploring the experiences of people who come to work in the UK from other EU Member States. Their aim has been to gather robust empirical evidence about EU migrants' experiences of finding work and being in employment in the UK, as well as exploring EU migrant workers’ use of social...

Past and Present Musical Encounters across the Strait of Gibraltar Project

16 October 2018

Past and Present Musical Encounters across the Strait of Gibraltar (MESG) is a five-year research project (2018–23) funded by a European Research Council Starting Grant. It will examine the importance of music for the construction of a collective cultural memory between North Africa and Southern Europe, both in the...

Camps Revisited: Multifaceted Spatialities of a Modern Political Technology

16 October 2018

Facing the current growing global archipelago of encampments, this book project intends to develop a geographical reflection on ‘the camp’, as a modern institution and as a spatial bio-political technology. Edited by Irit Katz, Diana Martin, and Claudio Minca, this book focuses on past and present camp geographies and on...

PREA Project: Ethical issues in health research in humanitarian crises

16 October 2018

Post-Research Ethics Analysis (PREA) is a research project by Anglia Ruskin University investigating ethical issues in health research in humanitarian crises. PREA aims to identify good ethical practice from lessons learned in the field and develop a tool that assists reflection on ethical issues in humanitarian research...

UNICEF - Refugee and Migrant Crisis in Europe Humanitarian Situation Report #29

GCM Commentary: Objective 23: Strengthen international cooperation and global partnerships for safe, orderly and regular migration

GCM Commentary: Objective 3: Provide accurate and timely information at all stages of migration

GCM Commentary: Objective 1: Collect and utilize accurate and disaggregated data as a basis for evidence-based policies

UN’s Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) Commentary: Editors’ Introduction

Balck History Month - October 2018, Cambridge programme of events

EU Migrant Worker Project: EU-8 Migrants and Their Access to Tribunals

Past and Present Musical Encounters across the Strait of Gibraltar Project

Camps Revisited: Multifaceted Spatialities of a Modern Political Technology

PREA Project: Ethical issues in health research in humanitarian crises

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