Human Mobility

A tribute to Prof. John Oyaro Oucho

On August 5th 2017, Prof John Oucho, passed away after a short illness. At the time of his demise, Prof. Oucho was Director of the African Centre for Migration and Development and...

Paris, the Refugees and Europe

ROME, Nov 18 2015 - The focus on terrorism is obscuring the issues of refugees, and it is important to consider its impact on Europe, after the shock of Paris. Of course, the...

Immigration, Myths and the Irresponsibility of Europe

ROME, Jun (IPS) - With little fanfare, the German IFO Institute for Economic Research recently published a report on population projections for Germany which states simply that...

The suicide of Europe

The fact that in a referendum Switzerland has taken a path that is opposite that of Europe is an unusual fact which calls for reflection, especially because Switzerland has taken...

The Cognitive Landscape of a Refugee Camp. Conversation part I

  by Bethany Ojalehto In refugee camps, the confinement and pervasive violation of human rights alters the relevance of time and space to daily life and challenges the individual...

Migration Development and Global Governance: Two views in comparison

In his interview on migration and development that was published on the SID Forum on 22 November 2010, Alexander Betts pointed out that there are significant numbers of people who...

Migration and Development. Interview with Alexander Betts

In this interview, Alexander Betts (Oxford University) explains the concept of survival migrants, and how it differs from that of refugees and forced migrants. He describes how...

The Controversy Over Roma People Shakes the Foundation of the European Union

by Ferruccio Pastore The split that took place in the European Council on 16 September is without precedents. Not only for its visceral tones, which however send a worrying...

Serial Migration

by Susan Ossman Animated conversations about the intensification of mobility and its relationship to emerging political forms and programs have circled around figures of the...

The East African Community and the Refugee Question

by Kenechukwu C. Esom According to the World Refugee Survey 2009 statistics, the five East African Community States host a combined population of 949,000 refugees. Of this number...

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