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The International Migration Institute gathers researchers who are committed to develop new thinking about migration and mobility across the world.
New partnership to study migration futures in the Horn of Africa
9 January 2012
The Global Migration Futures (GMF) project at the International Migration Institute (IMI) is extending its reach into the Horn of Africa and Yemen through an innovative partnership with the Regional Mixed Migration Secretariat (RMMS), funded by the Danish Refugee Council
New article on the effects of integration policies
3 January 2012
IMI's Evelyn Ersanilli has co-written an article for the International Migration Review
New paper on transnational strategies among Ghana’s ICT entrepreneurs
20 December 2011
This paper uses fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) to investigate the relative importance of mobility in the formation and viability of the internet cafes that are responsible for most local internet access in poor countries
New working paper on African perspectives on human mobility
18 December 2011
This new paper draws on insights from the African Perspectives on Human Mobility research programme, which included four research teams based at universities in Ghana, Nigeria, Morocco and the Democratic Republic of Congo
New project on mobility in the African Great Lakes region
14 December 2011
The MacArthur Foundation has awarded IMI a grant of US$400,000 to study the complex interrelationships between patterns of migration and displacement in the context of violent conflict
Two new papers from our THEMIS project
8 December 2011
Staff working on the THEMIS project (Theorizing the Evolution of European Migration Systems) have brought out a paper on the dynamic between different waves of immigrants from the Ukraine to the UK and the Netherlands, and a paper on pioneer migrants and their agency
New 2-page briefing on Global Migration Futures workshop
7 December 2011
Read a short summary of what took place at the Global Migration Futures project workshop in the Azores in September 2011
Funding boost to understand drivers of global migration
10 November 2011
The International Migration Institute (IMI) has been awarded a grant of nearly US$1million to advance research into the drivers and dynamics of high-skilled migration
New report on migration, rural development, poverty and food security
10 November 2011
Thomas Lacroix, a Research Associate of the International Migration Institute, has written a report comparing seven country case studies, initiated by the Food and Agriculture Organization to help maximize the benefits of cross-border migration for the pro-poor development of Commonwealth states
IMI contributes to workshop organised by the International Network on Migration and Development
6 November 2011
Earlier this month IMI Researcher Ayla Bonfiglio attended a workshop at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in Italy entitled 'A Comprehensive Approach to Monitor International Migration: Joint Reflections'
New Research Assistant joins IMI
3 November 2011
We are pleased to welcome Olivia Sheringham to the International Migration Institute
New Migration and Culture book edited by IMI staff
1 November 2011
A new edited volume has been published by Edward Elgar in the 'International Library of Studies on Migration' series
Hein de Haas contributes to major UK Government report on future migration and environmental change
20 October 2011
On 20 October 2011 Foresight, an organisation set up to help the UK Government think systematically about the future, published a report on human migration and global environmental change over the next 50 years
IMI researcher attends expert migration meeting
18 October 2011
On 3–5 October Ayla Bonfiglio attended a meeting in Boulder (USA) run by the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital
New paper on how the Dutch Government stimulated the unwanted immigration from Suriname
17 October 2011
A tenth paper has been published in the series arising from the IMI project 'The Determinants of International Migration'. This paper looks at the post-colonial migration from Suriname to the Netherlands, which became an important theme in Dutch politics in the 1970s
Visiting Study Fellow joins IMI
13 October 2011
Sally Khallash from the Copenhagen Business School is visiting IMI for three months and will contribute to the work of the Global Migration Futures project
African Perspectives on Human Mobility: research findings now available
5 October 2011
This programme explored alternative conceptions of human mobility based on empirical research undertaken by partners in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Morocco and Nigeria
Hein de Haas to give keynote at Population Europe event
5 October 2011
IMI's Co-Director Hein de Haas will speak at the event, entitled 'Population on the move: Migration, citizenship and identity in Europe'
New IMI seminars for Michaelmas Term 2011
3 October 2011
IMI has put together a new list of seminars for this term