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Read more at: The Learning Passport Collaboration between Cambridge and UNICEF
The Learning Passport Collaboration between Cambridge and UNICEF

The Learning Passport Collaboration between Cambridge and UNICEF

14 February 2020

The Learning Passport is a partnership with UNICEF to help children and young people facing barriers to learning because of poverty, discrimination, conflict and disaster. It is a true pan-Cambridge collaboration, drawing on people from Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Assessment and various parts of the academic...


Read more at: Cambridge Displacement and Emergency Group (CDEG)
Cambridge Displacement and Emergency Group (CDEG)

Cambridge Displacement and Emergency Group (CDEG)

6 December 2018

The interdisciplinary Cambridge Displacement and Emergency Group (CDEG) brings together existing research groups, projects and individuals working on displacement, emergency relief, on refugee camps and holding centres globally, particularly but not only in the Global South. It aims to draw upon extensive research...


Read more at: Movement and Waiting
Movement and Waiting

Movement and Waiting

6 December 2018

Movement and Waiting Convenor: William O’Reilly (History) Barriers, fences and borders in Europe force many prospective migrants to lead lives in suspension, a state of waiting, not knowing when the moment of departure will be, if it will ever arrive. Waiting determines the everyday lives of many refugees and migrants...


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Storytelling

Storytelling

4 December 2018

Storytelling Convenor : Jenny Mander (Modern and Medieval Languages) This project aims to reflect broadly on questions of social isolation and cultural exchange through the theoretical, philosophical and historical lens of hospitality. More specifically we focus on the central place within the practice and theory of...


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

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...


Read more at: Past and Present Musical Encounters across the Strait of Gibraltar Project
Past and Present Musical Encounters across the Strait of Gibraltar Project

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...


Read more at: Shelter Design Project: Healthy Housing for the Displaced
Shelter Design Project: Healthy Housing for the Displaced

Shelter Design Project: Healthy Housing for the Displaced

16 October 2018

Healthy Housing for the Displaced


Read more at: RESPOND Project: Multilevel Governance of Migration in Europe and Beyond
RESPOND Project: Multilevel Governance of Migration in Europe and Beyond

RESPOND Project: Multilevel Governance of Migration in Europe and Beyond

15 October 2018

More than a million migrants and refugees crossed into Europe in 2015, sparking a crisis as countries struggled to cope with the influx. The so-called refugee crisis has created deep divisions and policy incoherence in the EU among member states. The crisis foregrounded the vulnerability of European borders, the tenuous...


Read more at: Flying in Cyberspace: Policing Global Travel Fraud - 10/09/18
Flying in Cyberspace: Policing Global Travel Fraud - 10/09/18

Flying in Cyberspace: Policing Global Travel Fraud - 10/09/18

11 October 2018

Airline tickets that have been obtained illicitly represent a truly global crime


Read more at: Global Labour and the Migrant Premium - 04/07/18
Global Labour and the Migrant Premium - 04/07/18

Global Labour and the Migrant Premium - 04/07/18

11 October 2018

A systematic account of the premium costs that migrants pay to live and work abroad