Agenda

De expositie laat bezoekers kennismaken met verhalen en sporen van migranten in Groningen door de eeuwen heen.

Info: Noordelijk Scheepvaartmuseum

The central theme of the conference is the cross-border portability of refugees’ and migrants’ personal status (age, parental status, marital status, etc.). It will address several legal problems encountered by refugees and migrants with regard to their personal status acquired in one country and taken along to another country. Several legal questions/hurdles arise: How do people prove their family ties? How can families be reunited? How do unaccompanied refugee and migrant children prove their minority? How do asylum and migration authorities assess foreign documents that relate to the personal status of refugees and migrants, such as birth and marriage certificates? What happens if no (authentic) documents can be presented? How to combat fraud relating to personal status documents in an efficient manner without depriving migrants of their right to family life? 

The conference will put the spotlight on the ‘people’ (subject of all kinds of legal procedures). Therefore, the programme will be centred around three groups of people: persons in need of international protection, refugee and migrant children, migrants and their families. Both academics and experts with experience from the field will take and share the floor.

https://www.ugent.be/re/mpor/internationaal-privaatrecht/en/iprconference2019

Het vrouweneetcafé geeft aan vrouwen met een verblijfsvergunning de mogelijkheid om een bijzondere groep vrouwen te leren kennen en solidariteit met hen te tonen. We doen dit met een maaltijd, elke laatste zaterdag van de maand vanaf 18:00 uur. Graag aanmelden vantevoren als je wil komen.

Adres: 'de Peper', Overtoom 301, in Amsterdam (tram 1, halte j. P. Heijestraat).
Contact via Steungroep Vrouwen Zonder Verblijfsvergunning: www.svzv.nl.

Irregular migration across the Mediterranean is still high on Europe's political agenda. Admittedly, there are fewer people attempting to cross, but the current situation may not last.

This half-day conference explores concrete policies in the field of labour migration to reduce incentives for irregular migration, in the medium to long term, and in strengthening cooperation with countries of origin. Specifically, the discussion will focus on skills partnerships between destination and countries of origin and whether they could be an effective tool for the future of EU migration policy vis-à-vis African countries. An international panel will bring experience and knowledge about these two important migratory corridors: the Mexico-US border and the Mediterranean Sea. What can be learned from each other's experience? Would skill partnerships be effective in managing migration and spurring development? What role could European institutions have in the process?

https://www.ceps.eu/events/new-pathways-labour-migration-what-role-skills-partnerships-eu-migration-policy

COA, CoMensha, Nidos, Rode Kruis en VluchtelingenWerk presenteren op 4 april het eindresultaat van twee jaar samenwerking: de toolkit ‘Het bespreken van mensenhandel/uitbuiting met (voormalig) asielzoekers’. Deze toolkit bevat handvatten voor medewerkers in de asielketen om de belangrijkste informatie over te brengen aan asielzoekers.

Na de lancering gaan we in gesprek over hoe we samen kunnen bereiken dat asielzoekers vanaf 12 jaar door voorlichting beschermd worden tegen mensenhandel.

U kunt zich aanmelden via deze link.

De wakes bij het detentiecentrum Rotterdam vinden plaats elke eerste zondag van de maand, van 16-17u.

Adres: Portelabaan 7, 3045 AT Rotterdam. Contact: connie@maraprojecten.nl

As an unprecedented number of people are on the move, international mobility has become one of the most important global challenges of our times. Mounting economic inequality, climate change, natural disasters, civil conflict and political instability, have triggered mass migration on a regional and global scale. This mobility has been increasingly framed as a security problem, linked to terrorism and organized crime, and managed through increasingly punitive and coercive measures, including through criminal justice practices and institutions, to identify, eject and repel irregular migrants and foreign convicts. The containment of migration is also taking place outside the territorial borders of the receiving state with increased border controls, processes and institutions established in migrant transit or home countries aimed at controlling emigration and enabling the repatriation and rehabilitation of foreigners.

https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/news/2018-05-22-cfp-workshop-security-borders-and-international-development-intersections

PICUM is het Internationale Platform voor Ongedocumenteerden.
www.picum.org

The Migration Policy Centre has a long-standing experience in organising summer schools and executive trainings. It has been selected by the European Commission (DG DEVCO) to train civil servants in Brussels and in the EU Delegations worldwide. It coordinates the provision of training in the field of migration for the European University Institute’s new School of Transnational Governance.

Deadline :  24 March 2019. More info : http://www.migrationpolicycentre.eu

Undertaking migration research is an exercise fraught with a number of potential pitfalls.  Migration researchers work with vulnerabilised populations, in areas oft-described as crisis zones. Researchers are also encouraged to take on positions of ‘experts’, people able to explain the complexity of contemporary human mobility, re-iterating and recycling modes of understanding and framing that sometimes speak more to the conceptualizations and concerns of Euro-American academia than to the complex realities of contemporary migration.

The course will centre on the concept of the field: how is the field of migration studies produced and bordered? How are are our individual fieldwork experiences framed and navigated? Based on non-traditional, interactive lectures combined with group work sessions and peer-to-peer engagement, the course will focus on problematising how knowledge about and around migration is produced, ‘owned’ and circulated. By the end of the course, participants will gain knowledge of key social and political issues that impact on the study of migration and be able to reflect on these in relation to their field.

https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/migration-2019

Over the last years, the flight routes to Europe have shiften from the Balkans to the Central Med, to Spain. Each shift creates structures of solidarity in new places and lets our network grow, while old structures slowly fade away. Moreover, in the last five years about two million people arrived in Europe via these flight routes. Many are still struggling against deportations and for their right to stay. Many others achieved a status and struggle for better living conditions. We call for this summer camp, to bring together different struggles to fight for freedom of movement and equal social rights. Transborder means for us to bridge structures along different flight routes and to create common strategies to fight for a society based on openness and solidarity and not on exclusion and exploitation.

Please contact us, if you have any questions: tsc2019@protonmail.com