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Please find here the video of our fourth episode in a new series "Global Conversations - Frontlines during Covid-19."There is an urgent need for scalable, sustainable and replicable models of job creation for refugees, and technology has the potential to provide this. Yet, this potential has not been fully realised for refugees. The current disrupt…

EVERYONE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE - EVERY ACTION COUNTSWorld Refugee Day is an international day designated by the United Nations to honour refugees around the globe. It falls each year on June 20 and celebrates the strength and courage of people who have been forced to flee their home country to escape conflict or persecution. World Refugee Day is an…

The Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement stands with students and all other colleagues in the University of Cambridge who wish to acknowledge that universities are not free from racial discrimination and who wish us all to do better to ensure equality and fairness in all that we do and say, working towards full inclusion.  The tragedy of t…

As social scientists studying migration and racism, we have long been concerned with the ways in which racism impacts all of society, both migrants and citizens. We strongly condemn the ways in which racism inflicts violence and structural disadvantages on racialised Black, minority ethnic, refugee and migrant groups. Social science scholarship has…

Please find here the video of our second episode in a new series "Global Conversations - Frontlines during Covid-19."We were joined from San Antonio, Texas, by Mr Isaac Bencomo, who is part of efforts aimed at delivering primary and emergency care to displaced and migrant populations in Matamoros, Tamaulipas in Mexico. He explored the situation of …

Policy Report on COVID-19 in Syria and possible policy responsesAim: The aim of this policy report is to summarise key aspects relating to the COVID-19 response across Syria, documenting existing vulnerabilities and proposing locally appropriate policy recommendations. This report has been developed by the Syria Public Health Network in close colla…

Please find here the video of our first episode in a new series "Global Conversations - Frontlines during Covid-19."Mr Froilan Malit, a migration specialist at Gulf Labour Markets and Migration, joined us from Dubai for this virtual seminar. Froilan has worked for many years across the Gulf region with migrant workers, consulates and international …

Covid-19 brings to our attention the importance of migrant workers for host economies: nurses, doctors, care workers, delivery personnel and agricultural workers are now being praised as essential frontline workers.  Many migrant frontline workers are exposed to the virus.  Concern is growing about the high number of BME members of such services an…

Trailer for the film SHELTER WITHOUT SHELTER, the feature documentary debut of Emmy-nominee, director and cinematographer MARK E BREEZE, and producer and screenwriter TOM SCOTT-SMITH.Run time: 2 mins 26 secsSHELTER WITHOUT SHELTER explores the great hopes and profound challenges of providing refugee shelter across Europe and the Middle East since t…

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Designs for a Refugee Shelter Rooftop: Architectural Summer School.A short film about a collaborative architectural summer school for students from the University of Cambridge and the Technical University in Berlin. Twenty-six students from both universities collaborated together to temporarily transform the roof terrace of an initial reception cen…

 News The Centre is running a very virtual operation at present as we all work from our homes, physically separate but still very much in touch with each other. It will not be surprising to you in the current situation that we have events that need to be postponed, these are listed below. We are currently investigating ways to host online events an…

HighlightsAlthough overall fewer people crossed through Mediterranean migration routes in 2019 compared to 2018, the proportion of children has increased. Moreover, September saw a notable spike of sea crossings to both Greece and Italy, where arrivals were respectively 140 and 164 per cent higher than the same period in 2018.Between January and …

In this era of rising authoritarianism, growth of the security state, Rohingya genocide, and increasing populism, xenophobia and racism, citizenship is under threat in ways not seen for generations. As more states instrumentalise nationality and treat it as a privilege that can be taken away, members of minority communities, human rights defenders,…

Justice for People on the Move - Gillian BrockBy executive order, the US has adopted an immigration policy that looks remarkably similar to a Muslim ban, and there are new threats to deport long-settled residents, such as the so-called Dreamers. Our defunct refugee system has not dealt adequately with increased refugee flows, forcing desperate peop…