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MAGYC Annual Meeting 2021
December 12 - 14, 2021
The annual meeting of the MAGYC consortium took place in a hybrid format on December 12th-14th 2021 under the premises of University of Milan. The research teams welcomed the opportunity to meet physically after the long interruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Research teams provided an overview of their progress, achievements, and remaining activities. The findings of different work packages were then presented with the aim of enhancing future synergies and collaboration. WP5 and WP6 researchers also had the opportunity to discuss and compare their case studies during a separate workshop. Moreover, annual meeting discussions focused on the planning of upcoming dissemination activities (including infographics, policy dialogues, and an international conference), and on enhancing synergies and the exploitation of project results through collaborations (in the form of joint academic articles, special issues, OpEds, policy briefs and conference attendance).
MAGYC Public Event: Migration and Asylum Policies after the Pandemic: and International Dialogue
December 13, 2021
During the annual MAGYC meeting hosted by the University of Milan, this public event featured Maurizio Ambrosini, François Gemenne and Meltem Müftüler-Baç, discussing migration and asylum policies after the pandemic.
Colloque : "Des migrations internationales privilégiées ?"
December 7 - 8, 2021
In this conference on privileged migration, Elodie Hut (Hugo Observatory) presented her work on migrant self-Identification and empathy amongst privileged migrants in Brussels.Read the conference paper here.
ECPR Online Seminar Series on the European Union: 'The EU’s attitude towards Afghan refugees: an analytical framework to account for EU immigration and policy'
October 21, 2021
Virginie Guiraudon was the speaker in this webinar, which proposed an analytical framework to account for the enduring features of EU immigration and asylum policy, including its efforts to delegate immigration control to third countries. Watch the event here.
ESPOL Inaugural Online Lecture: "Making Moral Migration Policies"
October 14, 2021
In this inaugural lecture of the European School of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Lille, Shoshana Fine explored the making of “moral” migration policies: what kind of legitimising rationales are behind these policies?
US withdrawal from Afghanistan: What it means for Turkey and the region
September 16, 2021
In this virtual panel, Başak Yavcan drew attention to the migration aspect of the Taliban’s takeover. Having already faced problems with the integration of Syrian refugees, the current flow of Afghan refugees make Ankara’s decision-making harder and put Turkey in difficult position from her point of view. Watch it here.
Migration Policy Center Webinar Series: 'The effects of refugee policy externalisation on target countries and international institutions: diluting or diffusing international norms?'
June 2, 2021
This webinar, featuring Tamirace Fakhoury, explored the effects of refugee policy externalisation on target third countries and international institutions.
Zooming in on Migration and Asylum #9: Ensuring comparability in cross-national research on migration
May 25, 2021
This webinar drew upon the challenges encountered and lessons learned in cross-national research projects, including MAGYC. Lea Müller-Funk gave insights from the project, particularly from Work Package 4.
UNU Merit Online Talk: 'Philosophies of Migration Governance in a Globalizing World'
May 18, 2021
In this talk, Antoine Pécoud presented his work on the five distinct patterns of migration governance, and the implications of this typology for understanding current and future prospects of migration governance.
Webinar series: ‘Comparing forms of border encampment in the EU, the Middle East, North Africa, and the Horn of Africa’ – Session 3
May 4, 2021
‘A processual analysis of the manufacture of border security from Israel, the USA to Europe’ with Damien Simonneau, and ‘Border Logics and Geopolitical Identities: Moroccan Usages of African and European Identities’ with Nora El Qadim.
Webinar series: ‘Trajectories, Settlements and Narratives of Syrian Refugees in Lebanon and Jordan’
March 31, April 21, May 19, June 16, 2021
In the frame of a cooperation between the MAGYC and ANR SHAKK research programs, this monthly webinar explored the issue of Syrian refugees in Lebanon and Jordan in its geographical, sociological, political and economic dimensions while analyzing the events that led to their departure from Syria. Thus, it emphasized the links between the conditions of departure of Syrians from their country and those of their arrival and settlement in Lebanon and Jordan. It examined both the Syrian military and political strategies deployed to force populations to flee their homes and the political and economic decisions of host countries regarding the settlement of Syrian refugees on their territory.
Webinar series: ‘Comparing forms of border encampment in the EU, the Middle East, North Africa, and the Horn of Africa’ – Session 2
April 26, 2021
The second session of this series of webinars explored two topics: ‘Borders of Governance: The Political Effects of Digital Humanitarianism in Refugee Camps’ with Christiane Fröhlich, and ‘Migration and Interventions in Africa. Understanding the International Politics of (Im)mobility’ with Thibaut Jaulin and Hélène Thiollet.
Zooming in Migration #8: ‘A Pact with the Devil? Robust Border Management and the EU’s New Pact on Migration’
March 31, 2021
Cooperation on migration and asylum has presented itself as one of the biggest policy challenges to the European Union. The Pact provoked a lively debate with some calling it a rational and realistic compromise and others finding it disingenuous, potentially ineffective and in violation of human rights due to lack of an independent monitoring mechanism. This webinar was an assessment of this border management dimension of the new pact based on the research findings from two H2020 projects MAGYC and ADMIGOV and the attestations of the NGO Pilotes Volontaires from the field, which performs aerial observations in the Mediterranean Sea to save the lives of people while crossing to Europe.
Webinaire : “Les migrants au Liban face à la double crise sanitaire et économique”
March 30, 2021
Les restrictions dues à la crise sanitaire ont profondément modifié la vie et la mobilité des individus dans les espaces urbains, et s’inscrivent dans un contexte économique très dégradé. Les populations les plus vulnérables, comme les migrants et les réfugiés, ont été particulièrement touchées par les effets conjoints du confinement et de la crise financière, et ce tant sur le plan économique que social.
Ce séminaire commun organisé par Cefas, Cedej, Cjb, Ifpo et Irmc, a exploré en compagnie de Kamel Doraï, chercheur au CNRS et actuellement directeur du Département des Études Contemporaines à l’Ifpo, la situation des migrants au Liban, face à la double crise sanitaire et économique.
Webinar: ‘Refugee Solidarity Along the Balkan Route’
March 29, 2021
Dans le cadre de ce webinaire, Céline Cantat, chercheuse postdoctorante au CERI où elle coordonne le Work Package « Constructing the crisis » du projet H2020 MAGYC, a présenté sa recherche sur les solidarités avec et par les migrants le long de la route des Balkans. Elle a exploré, en compagnie de Pierre Monforte (Associate Professor à l’Université de Leicester), la distinction entre humanitarisme et solidarité, et la manière dont cette distinction est comprise, négociée et mise en oeuvre dans le contexte des pratiques locales d’asile et de sanctuaire dans les Balkans.
Webinar: ‘Fifth Anniversary of the EU-Turkey Deal: An Academic Overview’
March 18, 2021
How did the five years of the EU-Turkey Refugee Deal inform our research on Syrian refugees and EU-Turkey relations? This webinar reflects on the ‘Fifth Anniversary of the EU-Turkey Deal: An Academic Overview’ and is organized by Dış Politikada Kadınlar, MetuMir, The Hugo Observatory and TOBB ETÜ with great panellists: Deniz Senol Sert, Başak Yavcan, Başak Kale, Ilke Toygür and Lucia Najšlová.
Webinar: ‘Comparing forms of border encampment in the EU, the Middle East, North Africa, and the Horn of Africa’,
Session 1 – ‘Comparing the EU and the Middle East’
February 11, 2021
A series of three Webinars from IFPO and the MAGYC project. Externalization of border management by the European Union has been largely studied (Frelick, Kysel, Podkul, 2016; Hyndman, Mountz, 2008; Rodier, 2008). Building up on studies looking at borders ‘beyond a line in the sand’ (Parker, Vaughan-Williams 2005, Agier, 2008) that offer a critical perspective to borderlands as such, this webinar aims to construct a comparison reshaping the usual eurocentric approach when it comes to migration (Thiollet, 2020), border and public policy studies. The first session, “Comparing the EU and the Middle East” took place on February 11th, 2021, with the presentations of Emma Empociello (CED-Sciences Po Bordeaux / Ifpo) and Céline Cantat (CERI-Sciences Po).
Webinar: ‘The Impact of European Policy on the Migration Crisis’
January 19, 2021
The third seminar of a partnership between the H2020 project MAGYC and ECFR Paris, entitled “Crises, migration and European cooperation”. With Thibaut Jaulin (CERI – Sciences Po), Andrew Lebovich (ECFR), and Gerasimos Tsourapas (University of Birmingham). Chaired by Rym Momtaz (POLITICO).
