GCRF South-South Migration, Inequality and Development Hub
Lead Research Organisation:
Coventry University
Department Name: Ctr for Trust Peace & Social Relation
Abstract
Migration between the countries of the Global South, otherwise known as South-South migration (SSM), accounts for nearly half of all international migration, reaching almost 70% in some places. The potential of SSM to contribute to development and delivery of the SDGs is widely acknowledged but remains unrealised, largely due to existing inequalities at the global, national and local levels which determine who is (and is not) able to migrate, where to, and under which terms and conditions. These multidimensional inequalities are associated with a lack of rights for migrants and their families; difficult, expensive and sometimes dangerous journeys; and limited opportunities to access services and protection, which can, in turn, exacerbate inequalities. The challenge of ensuring that SSM reduces inequalities and contributes to delivery of the SDGs is intractable due to:
- A lack of evidence about the ways in which horizontal and vertical inequalities can undermine major development investments and policies, and about the types of interventions which can overcome inequalities associated with SSM;
- A failure of existing development approaches to take account of how SSM (and related policies) is/are influenced by broader economic, political and social processes (and relevant sectoral policies);
- A focus on individual ODA-recipient countries rather than on dynamic effects along migration 'corridors' which connect origin and destination countries and the development implications of (two-way) flows of people, finance, trade and knowledge;
- The politicisation of migration and a growing tendency to focus on migration management and border controls at the expense of equitable migration and development related outcomes;
- The top-down, high-level orientation of much development policy planning which can dehumanise migrants by focusing on economic indicators and outcomes rather than experiences and well-being, broadly defined; and
- A gap between policy and legal frameworks to limit inequalities associated with SSM (where these exist), and their equitable delivery / implementation in practice.
The Hub is oriented towards addressing this challenge and ensuring that SSM is able to make a more equitable and effective contribution to poverty reduction, development and delivery of the SDGs, particularly SDGs 1, 5, 8 and 10. It does so by bringing together, for the first time, research and delivery partners from 12 ODA-recipient countries which constitute six SSM 'corridors' (Burkina Faso-Cote d'Ivoire, China-Ghana, Egypt-Jordan, Ethiopia-South Africa, Haiti-Brazil, Nepal-Malaysia) who will work in partnership with five UN agencies and the OECD. The Hub will deliver challenge-led programmes of research and evaluation to address inequalities associated with SSM, undertaking extensive new data collection and policy analysis, and testing interventions and solutions in a range of geographical contexts. The Overseas Development Institute (ODI) will lead the Hub's communication and dissemination work, working alongside our research partners in the Global South to develop a range of outputs for different local, national and global audiences to maximise the Hub's impact on policy and practice.
The Hub builds on existing RCUK investments but also develops equitable new partnerships in order to generate novel and innovative perspectives on the intractable challenge which it seeks to address. In particular, by bringing together researchers from the Global South working across the countries making up the SSM corridors, and connecting these teams with leading migration scholars in the Global North, the Hub provides an opportunity for significant cross-learning within and between the corridors, and on SSM more generally. In so doing it offers considerable added value, strengthening capacity and capability for understanding - and responding to - the challenges associated with SSM and delivery of the SDGs.
- A lack of evidence about the ways in which horizontal and vertical inequalities can undermine major development investments and policies, and about the types of interventions which can overcome inequalities associated with SSM;
- A failure of existing development approaches to take account of how SSM (and related policies) is/are influenced by broader economic, political and social processes (and relevant sectoral policies);
- A focus on individual ODA-recipient countries rather than on dynamic effects along migration 'corridors' which connect origin and destination countries and the development implications of (two-way) flows of people, finance, trade and knowledge;
- The politicisation of migration and a growing tendency to focus on migration management and border controls at the expense of equitable migration and development related outcomes;
- The top-down, high-level orientation of much development policy planning which can dehumanise migrants by focusing on economic indicators and outcomes rather than experiences and well-being, broadly defined; and
- A gap between policy and legal frameworks to limit inequalities associated with SSM (where these exist), and their equitable delivery / implementation in practice.
The Hub is oriented towards addressing this challenge and ensuring that SSM is able to make a more equitable and effective contribution to poverty reduction, development and delivery of the SDGs, particularly SDGs 1, 5, 8 and 10. It does so by bringing together, for the first time, research and delivery partners from 12 ODA-recipient countries which constitute six SSM 'corridors' (Burkina Faso-Cote d'Ivoire, China-Ghana, Egypt-Jordan, Ethiopia-South Africa, Haiti-Brazil, Nepal-Malaysia) who will work in partnership with five UN agencies and the OECD. The Hub will deliver challenge-led programmes of research and evaluation to address inequalities associated with SSM, undertaking extensive new data collection and policy analysis, and testing interventions and solutions in a range of geographical contexts. The Overseas Development Institute (ODI) will lead the Hub's communication and dissemination work, working alongside our research partners in the Global South to develop a range of outputs for different local, national and global audiences to maximise the Hub's impact on policy and practice.
The Hub builds on existing RCUK investments but also develops equitable new partnerships in order to generate novel and innovative perspectives on the intractable challenge which it seeks to address. In particular, by bringing together researchers from the Global South working across the countries making up the SSM corridors, and connecting these teams with leading migration scholars in the Global North, the Hub provides an opportunity for significant cross-learning within and between the corridors, and on SSM more generally. In so doing it offers considerable added value, strengthening capacity and capability for understanding - and responding to - the challenges associated with SSM and delivery of the SDGs.
Planned Impact
The Hub will contribute to efforts to ensure that individuals, households, communities and countries in the Global South benefit fully and equitably from SSM and that its benefits are properly harnessed to support delivery of the SDGs. The Hub's impact work in countries at both ends of the corridors focuses on three main policy areas which are informed by UNDP's (2013) framework for addressing global inequalities: reducing income inequalities caused or exacerbated by SSM; closing gaps in education, health and other outcomes for migrants and their families; and tackling SSM-related prejudice, discrimination and exclusion. Specifically:
1. Policies to reduce income inequalities
Inequality, particularly income inequality, plays a key role in determining human well-being, intersecting with horizontal inequalities such as gender and age in specific ways in different geographical contexts. The Hub will generate evidence to support policies and approaches to ensure that SSM reduces these inequalities, for example by:
- Providing capital and other livelihood opportunities for those who do not want to migrate;
- Ensuring equal access to a range of (legal) migration opportunities;
- Regulating recruitment processes to ensure that migrant labour contracts are fair, accommodation is affordable, and abuses are minimised;
- Reducing the costs of migration, in particular recruitment fees and remittance transfers; and
- Supporting hometown, religious, community and wider diaspora associations which channel remittances and knowledge to community-level investments and initiatives.
2. Closing gaps in education, health and other outcomes
Delivery of the SDGs and economic growth depend on improved outcomes in education and health. Migrants and their families often experience difficulties in securing access to key services and social protections due to a lack of legal rights, knowledge and/or poverty, with disproportionate effects experienced by groups such as children who move independently or remain behind. The Hub will contribute to policy efforts that close gaps in education, health and other outcomes, for example by:
- Securing access to social protection for migrants regardless of status or sector;
- Expanding access to education, health and other opportunities for migrants (including migrant children and the children of migrants) through sectoral policies that address the needs of migrants and specific sub-groups;
- Developing appropriate legal frameworks to ensure migrants can access their rights to social protection; and
- Building legal empowerment movements to ensure migrants know about, and are able to access, their rights.
3. Tackling prejudice, discrimination and social exclusion
Prejudice, discrimination and social exclusion directed towards migrants serve to reinforce inequalities of outcomes and opportunities and impact on delivery of the SDGs. Anti-discriminatory legislation and universal service provision can help promote equal opportunity, but interventions are also required to develop and strengthen the agency, voice and political participation of migrants and their families so that they can shape their environment and the decision-making processes that affect their well-being. The Hub will work with project partners to shift dominant, often negative, political and policy narratives around SSM at local, national, regional and global levels, for example by:
- Strengthening civic engagement of socially excluded/marginalised groups;
- Working with policy makers and advocacy organisations to develop legislation based on the human rights principles of equality and non-discrimination;
- Using new technologies to create inclusive citizen networks and build transnational solidarity;
- Working with grassroots empowerment initiatives to ensure migrants are able to access legal rights and entitlements; and
- Creating political space for policy interventions that directly address inequalities arising from SSM.
1. Policies to reduce income inequalities
Inequality, particularly income inequality, plays a key role in determining human well-being, intersecting with horizontal inequalities such as gender and age in specific ways in different geographical contexts. The Hub will generate evidence to support policies and approaches to ensure that SSM reduces these inequalities, for example by:
- Providing capital and other livelihood opportunities for those who do not want to migrate;
- Ensuring equal access to a range of (legal) migration opportunities;
- Regulating recruitment processes to ensure that migrant labour contracts are fair, accommodation is affordable, and abuses are minimised;
- Reducing the costs of migration, in particular recruitment fees and remittance transfers; and
- Supporting hometown, religious, community and wider diaspora associations which channel remittances and knowledge to community-level investments and initiatives.
2. Closing gaps in education, health and other outcomes
Delivery of the SDGs and economic growth depend on improved outcomes in education and health. Migrants and their families often experience difficulties in securing access to key services and social protections due to a lack of legal rights, knowledge and/or poverty, with disproportionate effects experienced by groups such as children who move independently or remain behind. The Hub will contribute to policy efforts that close gaps in education, health and other outcomes, for example by:
- Securing access to social protection for migrants regardless of status or sector;
- Expanding access to education, health and other opportunities for migrants (including migrant children and the children of migrants) through sectoral policies that address the needs of migrants and specific sub-groups;
- Developing appropriate legal frameworks to ensure migrants can access their rights to social protection; and
- Building legal empowerment movements to ensure migrants know about, and are able to access, their rights.
3. Tackling prejudice, discrimination and social exclusion
Prejudice, discrimination and social exclusion directed towards migrants serve to reinforce inequalities of outcomes and opportunities and impact on delivery of the SDGs. Anti-discriminatory legislation and universal service provision can help promote equal opportunity, but interventions are also required to develop and strengthen the agency, voice and political participation of migrants and their families so that they can shape their environment and the decision-making processes that affect their well-being. The Hub will work with project partners to shift dominant, often negative, political and policy narratives around SSM at local, national, regional and global levels, for example by:
- Strengthening civic engagement of socially excluded/marginalised groups;
- Working with policy makers and advocacy organisations to develop legislation based on the human rights principles of equality and non-discrimination;
- Using new technologies to create inclusive citizen networks and build transnational solidarity;
- Working with grassroots empowerment initiatives to ensure migrants are able to access legal rights and entitlements; and
- Creating political space for policy interventions that directly address inequalities arising from SSM.
Organisations
- Coventry University (Lead Research Organisation)
- Medical Research Council (Co-funder)
- Arts and Humanities Research Council (Co-funder)
- International Centre for Migration Policy Development (Collaboration)
- Racines (Collaboration)
- Zanmi Lasante (Collaboration)
- NAWA, POLISH NATIONAL AGENCY FOR ACADEMIC EXCHANGE (Collaboration)
- School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London) (Collaboration)
- Scalabrini Centre (Collaboration)
- Scottish Crannog Centre (Collaboration)
- Government of Zambia (Collaboration)
- International Board on Books for Young People (Collaboration)
- UN University Centre for Policy Research (Collaboration)
- Government of Ghana (Collaboration)
- International Organization for Migration (Collaboration)
- United Nations (UN) (Collaboration)
- Association of Commonwealth Universities (Collaboration)
- International Committee of the Red Cross (Collaboration)
- University of Miami (Collaboration)
- Chipawo (Collaboration)
- GSMA (Collaboration)
- Chr. Michelsen Institute for Science and Intellectual Freedom (Collaboration)
- Migrants Worker Justice Initative (MWJI) (Collaboration)
- German Federal Enterprise for International Cooperation (GIZ) (Collaboration)
- European Commission (Collaboration)
- Noyam African Dance Institute (Collaboration)
- Society for Participatory Research in Asia (Collaboration)
- North South Initiative (Collaboration)
- Government of Zimbabwe (Collaboration)
- SOFA (Collaboration)
- United Kingdom Research and Innovation (Collaboration)
- National Autonomous University of Mexico (Collaboration)
- African Union Commission (Collaboration)
- Government in Botswana (Collaboration)
- One Journey (Collaboration)
- International Labour Organization (ILO) (Collaboration)
- Arnold Bergstraesser Institute (Collaboration)
- Center for Migrant Advocacy (Collaboration)
- Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) (Collaboration)
- Positives Negatives (Collaboration)
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development OECD (Collaboration)
- Dejusticia (Collaboration)
- Malawi Government (Collaboration)
- Praxis (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF GHANA (Collaboration)
- RLabs (Collaboration)
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Collaboration)
- United Nations Development Programme (Project Partner)
- Peace Research Institute (Project Partner)
- Organisation For Economic Co-Operation and Development (Project Partner)
- International Labour Organisation (Project Partner)
- United Nations Res Inst for Social Devel (Project Partner)
- International Organisation for Migration (Project Partner)
- United Nations Human Rights OHCHR (Project Partner)
Publications
Adiku G
(2021)
Co-creation of transnational livelihoods through 'door-to- door' shipping operations along the Ghana-UK migration corridor
in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Bastia T
(2019)
Women migrants in the global economy: a global overview (and regional perspectives)
in Gender & Development
Bastia T
(2022)
Reflections on intersectionality: a journey through the worlds of migration research, policy and advocacy
in Gender, Place & Culture
Bastia, T
(2020)
Migration and Development Handbook, Bastia, T
Bauloz C
(2022)
World Migration Report
| Title | Animated map of the Hub proposal |
| Description | Animated map of the Hub project proposal (aims, objectives, corrdors) produced by Positive Negatives with music provided by the Haa Orchestra |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The animated map has been used by project partners from the 12 countries to raise awareness about, and interest, in the MIDEQ Hub |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/resources-index-page/ukri-south-south-migration-inequality-and-development-... |
| Title | Calabash Greetings - Video (Gameli Kodzo Tordzro, Uni of Glasgow) |
| Description | Record of calabash greeting for MIDEQ project supportive cultural sensitivities and integration |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | This video helps others to understand how to open a session with a mixed group of participants in a way that ensure everyone is able to contribute because there are no linguistics or hierarchical barriers to participation/engagement |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/349247401 |
| Title | Choral |
| Description | Choral group formed by Haitian migrants living in Rio de Janeiro. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | The migrant community has a moment of meeting and practicing their own culture. The non-migrant community has the opportunity to get to know the culture of Haiti and change the narrative about a country that is mostly known for a negative image. |
| Title | Colouring Outside the Lines - Virtual Exhibition |
| Description | The first UNESCO RILA virtual art exhibition launched on 23 April 2021 and showcases over 70 pieces from all 23 members of the our Affiliate Artist Network. Since 2017, this network has brought together global artists, who work with and reflect on the role Arts and Languages play in bringing people together and strengthening social cohesion. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | It has developed networks of artists working in human migration and led to further collaboration. |
| URL | https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/unesco/events/colouringoutsidethelines/ |
| Title | Covid Chronicles |
| Description | The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have been felt by individuals and families all over the world. For migrant communities, the emotional and financial strains it left were acutely felt due to the vulnerability of those left behind, and the stresses and frustrations of the migrants themselves. In this comic and animation, we have worked directly with interviews conducted by the MIDEQ research teams in Nepal and Malaysia and adapted their findings into a story about a Nepalese wife, Aasha, whose husband migrates to Malaysia for work, just before COVID-19 struck. By positioning the story from the point of view of Aasha, looking after her two young children and her elderly parents in-law in rural Nepal, we explore an often overlooked story of a wife and mother at home after her husband migrates. Doing so illustrates the emotional and financial challenges migrant families face, amplified through the pandemic. Working in close collaboration with the MIDEQ Nepal and Malaysia teams, we commissioned Nepalese artist, Neeti Shrestha, to illustrate the comic. Neeti beautifully illustrated every scene and due to her intimate knowledge of Nepal, she managed to weave in cultural nuance in every scene, from clothes to food and even body language. We relied on field photographs and journalism to gather reference images for the mostly unseen experience of migrant workers in Malaysia. Neeti skillfully imagined the lived experiences of factory work and dormitory living conditions. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | We plan for this to be the first of a trilogy of Covid Chronicles that highlight the effects of the pandemic across other MIDEQ corridors and give a voice to some untold stories that communities have faced throughout the pandemic. |
| URL | https://positivenegatives.org/story/mideq-2/covid-chronicles/ |
| Title | Dami, Mini Kuraa Ji Dami? (Justice, What is Justice) |
| Description | Based on the outcomes of the WP8/WP11 impact intervention, a co-devised artistic piece 'Dami, Mini Kuraa Ji Dami?' was produced and presented in the community theatre of the Noyam African Dance Institute in Dodowa in January 2023. The piece involved dance, music and textile. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | Country team representatives from South Africa and Burkina Faso participated in the activities leading up to the final performance. The idea was to familiarize them with the artistic research methods and processes in for replication in the respective corridors. The WP8 researchers worked hand in hand with WP11 researchers to transform research data on Access to Justice into artistic language and representational forms in order to extend the reach and create access to academic research for the public in the local community. The performance took place on 2 consecutive evenings with an audience of around 150 people. |
| Title | Decolonising African costume and textile - naming, symbols and meaning in the Ghanaian context |
| Description | The virtual exhibit is based on practice led research over several years culminating in MIDEQ Researcher Naa Densua's work in WP11 and with textiles in the Ghana-China, Malaysia-Nepal corridors, as well as for the UNESCO Chair at University of Glasgow. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | The exhibit is used as a way to discuss how textiles travel with people and to people, the histories of wax prints in Ghana and how fashion trends create a shared culture that cuts across ethnic boundaries and taste, a constant mix of cultures. |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/resources-index-page/decolonising-african-costume-and-textile-naming-symbol... |
| Title | Ese ne tekrema blog |
| Description | Blog intended to engage a general non-specialist audience in the relationships between food, community and migration in the countries in which the Hub is located or otherwise associated. The focus is on the foods and recipes that connect people regardless of race, nationality or language. |
| Type Of Art | Creative Writing |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Intended to engage a much wider non-academic audience in some of the work in the Hub. Only just published and ongoing, impact as yet unknown |
| URL | https://ese-ne-tekrema.community |
| Title | Gifts are in the Feet - Poem |
| Description | Poem reading by MIDEQ Co-Director Alison Phipps and researcher Tawona Sitholé - "Gift of Feet" |
| Type Of Art | Creative Writing |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | The poem was recorded to accompany the book "Mapping Faith: Theologies of Migration and Community", edited by Lia Shimada, published by Jessica Kingsley. |
| URL | https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfkhhzmOmTey2QBJzcEgOjg6MrUBfK-zH |
| Title | Lungulungu Kpordomi (MIDEQ Inception Conceptual Interpretation Dance on Video) (Gameli Kodzo Tordzro, Uni of Glasgow) |
| Description | Video documentary of the South-South Migration Inequality and Development Hub inception |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | visual record |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/338505306 |
| Title | Mother Language Festival |
| Description | Performance at Festival |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | repeat invitations |
| Title | Muster Station |
| Description | Playwright and part of the creative directorship TS fed in emerging knowledge from MIDEQ to development and production process. E.g. Themes of migration, language, bordering, and separation. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | Performance and residency at Edinburgh International Festival Press Website Cultural; Societal; Economic |
| URL | https://gridiron.org.uk/portfolio-item/muster-station-leith/ |
| Title | NOYAM Consent Video (Gameli Kodzo Tordzro, Uni of Glasgow) |
| Description | NOYAM Consent Video |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The NOYAM Consent Video provides others with a resource for research delivery or teaching that can extend their understanding of how to secure oral consent from research participants. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/339527911 |
| Title | Performance |
| Description | UNESCO Chair Performance |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | Invitations to further events |
| Title | Performance of 'Dami, Mini Kuraa Ji Dami?' at MIDEQ Research Symposium (Ghana) |
| Description | Based on the outcomes of the WP8/WP11 impact intervention, a co-devised artistic piece 'Dami, Mini Kuraa Ji Dami?' was performed at the Centre for Migration Styudies, University of Ghana at the close of the first day of the MIDEQ Research Symposium. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | Good engagement from audience with subsequent discussions of how to reproduce in other MIDEQ countries. The performance was filmed and will be edited into a documentary exploring the role of the creative arts as a method for engaging different communities in the challenges associated withSouth-South migration. |
| Title | Presenting MiDEQ work in Schools |
| Description | performance and workshop including children's multilingual story telling |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | repeat invitations |
| Title | Short poem - Dead Beneath our Feet |
| Description | Short poem entitled 'The dead beneath our feet' reflecting on the Transatlantic slave trade following the Hub's visit to Elmina Castle, Cape Coast, Ghana |
| Type Of Art | Creative Writing |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Intended to stimulate engagement in the emotional impacts/implications of visiting historic sites which are associated with forced migration i.e.e slavery |
| URL | https://heavencrawley.com/2020/02/17/the-dead-beneath-our-feet |
| Title | TEDx Glasgow |
| Description | TEDx |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | repeat invitations |
| Title | The Story of Migration |
| Description | Seven minute animation telling the story of migration and its power dynamics |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Over 100,000 people viewed the animation online. Currently translated in 6 languages with 2 more in the pipeline. Used to promote the work of MIDEQ. Used in schools as discussion points with teachers and students. Used in conferences |
| URL | https://positivenegatives.org/story/mideq/ |
| Title | The artist and the professor, the mother and the wife: reflections on migration, resilience and hope in times of crisis |
| Description | An artistic collaboration between Laura Nyahuye (Maokwo Arts) and Heaven Crawley (Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University), respectively an artist and a professor based in Coventry, UK. Whilst theymight appear to have little in common, the COVID-19 lockdown has provided an opportunity to draw together their personal and professional experiences in order to reflect on issues of migration, resilience and hope in times of crisis. Individually and through conversations with each another by email, WhatsApp and Zoom, Laura and Heaven took the opportunity provided by the lockdown to explore their shared experiences as women, wives, (grand)mothers and survivors of hardship and domestic violence, producing a series of creative outputs (prose, drawings, body adornment, photography, video) which explore the ways in which personal and societal expectations of gendered and racialized roles and responsibilities have shaped theirlives. By sharing their experiences - often in very frank and explicit ways - the online exhibition highlights the ways in which, as women, can come together to push against the categories that limit individual and collective possibilities for change. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Online exhibition with multiple visual and oral outputs that has been incorporated into the Coventry Creates exhibition as part of Coventry City of Culture 2021. Ongoing collaboration between Heaven and Laura exploring the themes identified in the project |
| URL | https://theartistandtheprof.art.blog/ |
| Title | model junior UN Conference |
| Description | UN conference for schools - keynote artist on south south migration and borders |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | further invitations |
| Description | The past 12 months have seen a significant increase in the delivery of MIDEQ objectives, as reflected in the extensive and growing list of publications emerging from the project and extensive programme of engagement and impact activities. This has been made possible by the decision to focus the allocation of resources to the Global South when news of the GCRF funding cuts was received, which enable data collection and analysis to continue, albeit with a reduction in the size of the household/migrant survey. As anticipated, the Research Symposium which was held in Nepal in September 2022 provided an important opportunity to explore the findings of the research both within and between the corridors. This meeting was the first opportunity that researchers had to come together to discuss the project's findings in three years. A Regional Conference held in Ghana in March 2023 deepened understanding of the findings within the African context, with presentations of the findings from the five African research teams (Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, South Africa and Ethiopia) and China to a large audience of academics, policy makers and practitioners. Bearing in mind the very significant contextual differences between MIDEQ's countries and corridors, the key findings of our work to date are as follows: 1. It is clear that structural inequalities shape migration patterns and processes as well as the potential for South-South migration to contribute to development and delivery of the SDGs. These inequalities are associated with both historical processes which position countries of the Global South in a relatively less powerful position via-a-vis the Global North in terms of resources and political power, and contemporary processes which embed Global South countries in unequal systems of production and distribution. The findings of research from Ghana, for example, shows that income inequality between China and Ghana is a driving force of migration between the two countries; 2. Intersectional inequalities associated with gender, race, nationality, class and age (among other variables) shape migration processes and outcomes even within the contexts of these structural inequalities. Migration can reduce inequalities through the redistribution of resources at the household level, seen clearly for example in the findings from Haiti and Burkina Faso, but it can also increase them. In Ethiopia, for example, there is evidence of increased inequalities as a result of significant resource transfer to migrant households, and changing patterns of work, social organisation and investment; 3. Across virtually all contexts, the COVID-19 pandemic amplified and deepened existing inequalities, including those associated with migration. Malaysia, for example, is a country which is heavily dependent on the labour of both documented and undocumented workers. It produces two-thirds of disposable rubber gloves worldwide, largely using migrant labour from Nepal and Bangladesh. Whilst the companies producing disposable gloves thrived during the pandemic, migrant workers did not. MIDEQ researchers found that governments seeking to secure PPE for their frontline healthcare workers have chosen to overlook concerns about the appalling conditions experienced by many of these workers due to increased demand. Meanwhile, the Malaysian government chose to blame migrants for the pandemic and used it as a pretext for arbitrary detention and deportation; 4. It is important that migration is not approached as being separate or distinct from broader processes of socio-economic and political development and transformation. This has implication for the academic study of migration and also for policy making processes at the national, regional and global levels. A whole-of-government approach to migration policy making, which includes policies related to the labour market, rural development, urbanization and social protection (among others) is needed to harness the benefits of migration; 5. Migration is not just an economic process but is associated with the two-way transfer of knowledge, skills, language, culture, food, spirituality and other less tangible and understood resources and outcomes. These resources and processes, accessible only to those working and living in the contexts where migration takes place, need to be moved into the centre of our understanding of migration in the Global South; 6. The importance of access to rights, justice and documentation is a key theme across all receiving countries, as is the need to build solidarity between marginalized groups and communities who experience different forms of social injustice. If governments want to harness the benefits of migration for development processes, then providing access to justice, and in particular documentation for migrants and their families, including children born in destination countries, is a key policy priority; 7. Political, media and policy narratives are critical in shaping both the experiences of migrants and outcomes of migratory processes. Negative migration narratives, which have become a feature of countries in the Global South as well as the Global North limit the potential for South-South migration to contribute to development; 8. Methodologically, the findings of MIDEQ's research highlight the importance of flexible participatory approaches in times of pandemic, especially when working with populations and context rendered fragile by violence and political instability. MIDEQ's work also highlights the importance of the creative arts, not only as a means of communicating research findings but as a way of working with communities in order to understand migration processes and outcomes from a human perspective. |
| Exploitation Route | Since our previous submission, the reach and impact MIDEQ's work both within and outside academia has grown rapidly, facilitated by a comprehensive and nuanced understanding of how change happens based on the collective development of the Hub's Theory of Change (ToC). Our thinking in relation to the MIDEQ Hub's Pathways to Impact has evolved significantly since the proposal was first submitted and three main pathways have emerged through which MIDEQ's work might be taken forward and put to use by others, namely: 1) a pathway on contributing to knowledge production and academic capacity, particularly in the context of the Global South; 2) a pathway on making recommendations and supporting initiatives to improve the lives of migrants, their families and communities; and 3) a pathway on contributing to more nuanced and humanised narratives on migration. These pathways are not silos, but rather are mutually reinforcing and interconnected. They are also increasingly ambitious, so that pathway 1) lies more within MIDEQ's sphere of influence than pathways 2) and 3) with differential timescales that reflect this. Ensuring that the findings of the MIDEQ Hub are taken forward and put to use by others depends in part on socio-economic and political factors beyond on the Hub's control: the relationship between research and impact is rarely linear. Nonetheless we can clearly see that the decision to invest all of the Hub's resources in the research institutions in the Global South has placed in a position where we have excellent data and research relationships. The use of a wide range of different communication methods and tools (including blogs, policy reports, working papers, animation, performance and the visual arts) to engage different audiences has extended the project's reach and engagement with its findings. In addition, embedding multilingual working into the heart and soul of the Hub's work has been critical to ensuring that the findings of the work can be understood, taken forward and put to use by others. The MIDEQ website is in four languages and members of the team are encouraged to communicate and write in multiple languages as appropriate to the contexts in which they are working. |
| Sectors | Creative Economy,Education,Government, Democracy and Justice,Security and Diplomacy,Other |
| URL | http://www.mideq.org |
| Description | MIDEQ's impact and engagement work is framed by our Theory of Change, which sets out three impact pathways around which engagement activities are organised: building academic capacity in the Global South; improving the lives of migrants and their families; and changing narratives. At this stage in the project, we are seeing extensive engagement with policy makers, international organisations, NGOs and community organisations around these pathways and increasing take up of the research findings in policy and practice. Members of the MIDEQ Hub have numerous partners with whom they are working to ensure that the findings of the research are taken forward and put to use by others. This includes our formal partnerships with international organisations such as IOM, ILO, OECD, OHCHR, UNRISD and UNU-CPR, as well as a myriad of less formal partnerships and working relationships with local, national and regional organisations in the countries in which we are working, many of which are developing as the project progresses. The development of more than 30 impact interventions support by the flexible funding allocation, which was reinstated when funding was restored, has been a crucial mechanism for strengthening relationships with local partners and securing impacts. Some examples are provided below: • In Haiti, the results of INURED's research are being circulated among policy makers and shared with multilateral agencies with the aim of influencing policy decisions that affect the vulnerable populations in that country. In addition, partnerships are created with local civil society actors to boost advocacy for the vulnerable families; • In Ghana, MIDEQ researchers are working closely with policy makers and public officials involved in migration policy and practice, including through training programmes for security staff and immigration officials; • In South Africa, MIDEQ researchers are working closely with Ethiopian communities in the Western and Eastern Cape as well as UN agencies and NGOs to address the issues facing children born in South Africa in securing documentation in order to access education and other services; • In Brazil, MIDEQ researchers are supporting the process of community mobilisation with Haitian migrants for whom access to rights and justice remain elusive due to deep seated racial inequalities; • In Nepal, MIDEQ researchers are working with IOM and local partners to provide pre-departure orientation training to women in migrant households, for whom the consequences of migration are often neglected. At the global level, members of the MIDEQ Hub are working closely with the project's international partners to ensure that the findings of the research feed into policy discussions and dialogues, for example, through the OECD Policy Dialogue on Migration and Development and UN Network on Migration. MIDEQ organised an official side event at the International Migration Review Forum (IMRF) in new York (May 2022) which took stock of progress in the implementation of the Global Compact on Migration. Others are working with the European Commission, Praxis, UNESCO Art Lab and/or are represented on various guideline drafting committees and project Advisory Boards (see report for details of the engagement activities and their outcomes). We now have a regular Migration Policy Roundtable Series organised in partnership with UNU-CPR at which the findings of MIDEQ's research are showcased to an international audience which includes a range of UN agencies and Member States. In countries where our partners are directly involved in the development of national migration and national labour migration policies and programmes, MIDEQ's work has increased understanding of how to incorporate inequalities and developmental issues associated with South-South migration into policy. For example, inequalities associated with South-South Migration are now included in the National Labour Migration Policy of Ghana which was drafted by MIDEQ's Co-Director Professor Joseph Teye and approved by the Ghanaian government. Migration-related inequalities are also addressed in the draft national migration policies of Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Zambia with input from MIDEQ's researchers in Ghana. Dr Katharine Jones who leads the Hub's thematic work on intermediaries organised a global IOM conference for member states on the topic of ethical recruitment. The event brought together senior policymakers, leading experts and practitioners from ministries of Labour, Foreign Affairs and Immigration, supported by experts from international and regional organizations, including the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), International Labour Organization (ILO) and Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Dr Jones drafted the resulting Montreal Recommendations based on negotiated agreement at the two-day event. This led directly to formation of the IOM Policy Network on Ethical Recruitment. The new Global Policy Network on Recruitment will address shortcomings in regulation and enforcement that can exacerbate vulnerabilities and lead to gaps in the protection of migrant workers. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2020 |
| Sector | Creative Economy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Government, Democracy and Justice,Security and Diplomacy,Other |
| Impact Types | Cultural,Societal,Economic,Policy & public services |
| Description | "Rio de Janeiro: immigrant-friendly city" and "Maricá: immigrant-friendly city |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Artlab Working group: The imperative of cultural justice: arts for inclusion, equity and human rights" |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| URL | https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000375117 |
| Description | Author of IOM global recommendations to states on ethical recruitment (Katharine Jones) |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | Katharine Jones organised a global conference for IOM 173 member states on the topic of ethical recruitment. " With the aim of improving the inter-jurisdictional regulation of international labour recruitment, 100 regulators from more than 30 countries gathered at the Global Conference on the Regulation of International Recruitment, in Montreal, Canada. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) co-hosted this conference in partnership with the Government of Canada and the Gouvernement du Québec, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and the Department of State's Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration of the United States. The event brought together senior policymakers, leading experts and practitioners from ministries of Labour, Foreign Affairs and Immigration, supported by experts from international and regional organizations, including IOM, International Labour Organization (ILO) and Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Through two days of presentations, round-table discussions and break-out sessions, participants articulated recommendations to improve the regulation of international recruitment in nine principal areas (migrant welfare/ recruitment fees /protecting migrant workers/ Registration and licensing/ ratings rewards and rankings in regulatory systems / grievance mechanisms and access to justice/ bilateral and multilateral mechanisms). Participants included head of labour ministries immigration ministries and enforcement agencies. Katharine drafted the resulting Montreal Recommendations based on negotiated agreement at the two day event. This has led directly to the IOM Policy Network on Ethical Recruitment formation - The new Global Policy Network on Recruitment will address shortcomings in regulation and enforcement that can exacerbate vulnerabilities and lead to gaps in the protection of migrant workers. It will bring together policy makers, regulators, and practitioners from around the world to collectively identify solutions, highlight promising practices and address complex challenges. The Policy Network was launched by the IOM Director General Antonio Vitorino. |
| URL | https://www.iom.int/news/iom-launches-global-policy-network-promote-ethical-recruitment |
| Description | Chair Person of Inter Ministerial Steering Committee for the establishment of a Ghana National Commission on Migration |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Description | Chairperson, Inter Ministerial Committee on Implementing a National Migration Commission |
| Geographic Reach | Africa |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Chairperson, National Technical Committee for the establishment of National Migration Commission for Ghana /Implementation of National Migration Policy |
| Geographic Reach | Africa |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Contribution to World Bank and FCDO funded EdTech Hub report on Education for the Most Marginalised post-COVID-19 |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Impact | Participation of staff from our WP in the Educational for the Most Marginalised report ensured that this included appropriate and relevant materials related to migrants in general as well as refugees more specifically (as in the Giodance Note on refugees). Without this participation, it is unlikely that the report would have addressed these issues |
| Description | Development of National Labour Migration Policy for Malawi |
| Geographic Reach | Africa |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | Policy provides guidelines for harnessing benefits of labour migration for Development in Malawi |
| Description | Development of the migration profile of Burkina Faso |
| Geographic Reach | Africa |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Diaspora engagement policy of Ghana |
| Geographic Reach | Africa |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Policy proposals on how to leverage remittances for development are already being implemented |
| Description | English Curriculum development |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Equalities Steering Group, National Galleries of Scotland |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Evaluation of population policy in Burkina Faso |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Description | Feedback on migration sections in UNRISD flagship report 2022 on 'Crises of Inequality' |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://cdn.unrisd.org/assets/library/reports/2022/full-report-crises-of-inequality-2022.pdf |
| Description | Feedback on reintegration toolkit as country expert to Samuel Hall's work on building rural reintegration toolkit for migrants |
| Geographic Reach | Asia |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | For ILO : developing Ethical Guidelines for research on forced labour |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | These Expert Group Discussions were composed of specialist qualitative researchers, statisticians and service providers working with victims of forced labour and trafficking to draw from their experiences, key insights, needs and challenges in terms of conducting safe and ethical research with vulnerable groups. |
| Description | G. Harindranath, T Unwin, M R Lorini - Digital Technologies, Inequality, and Development in the context of South-South Migration |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | We organised a thematic discussion at the (UN) International Telecommunication Union (ITU)'s World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS 2022) (online) on 29th April 2022. WSIS is the largest international gathering of the ICT4D (ICT for development) community involving policy makers, ICT4D practitioners and academia. The forum's focus is on engaging with policy, research and practice on the use of digital aligned with WSIS action lines and SDGs. Our thematic forum brought together representatives from policy, academia and practice including migrant advocacy organisations, international agencies and civil society groups to identify pathways for the safe use of digital technologies to address inequalities faced by migrants and their family members. Participating organsiations included ILO, ICRC, IOM and migrant advocacy group, Migrant Forum in Asia |
| URL | https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2022/Agenda/Session/240 |
| Description | Gang Violence and Return Migration |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Heritage for Global Challenges. A Research Report by PRAXIS: Arts and Humanities for Global Development. |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/110/2021/02/Heritage-for-Global-Challe... |
| Description | Inclusion of mining and trading activities of Chinese migrants and other global south migrants into the policy |
| Geographic Reach | Africa |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | Facilitaed the finalisation of the National Migration Policy for Botswana |
| Description | Inclusion of mining and trading activities of Chinese migrants in Ghana in the labour migration policy of Ghana (Joseph Teye, University of Ghana) |
| Geographic Reach | Africa |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | More policy discussions on Chinese migration to Ghana The labour migration situational analysis conducted by Joseph Teye who drafted the policy relies on the background research on the China-Ghana corridor to problematize mining activities of Chinese in the policy |
| Description | Incorporation of issues on south-south migration and inequalities into development plans of ministries and district assemblies |
| Geographic Reach | Africa |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | The 2021 annual development working plans for ministries and agencies have addressed a number of issues on migration, as a result of the development of a toolkit and training organised for planners on migration and development |
| Description | Invited to participate in House of Lords Web Conference for World Refugee Day |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Description | Lords web conference: Refugees and migrants |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.oscepa.org/en/news-a-media/press-releases/2021/resettlement-and-assisted-voluntary-retur... |
| Description | Member of International Union for the Scientific study of population IUSSP) Advisory Panel on International Migration |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | National Labour Migration Policy for Ghana |
| Geographic Reach | Africa |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Description | Policy workshops on resettlement |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Changed attitudes through sharing research |
| Description | RSE response to Government reform of the asylum system |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://rse.org.uk/expert-advice/advice-paper/uk-asylum-system-proposed-reforms/ |
| Description | Regional Review of the Global Compact for Migration, Asia Pacific (OHCHR) |
| Geographic Reach | Asia |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.unescap.org/intergovernmental-meetings/asia-pacific-regional-review-implementation-globa... |
| Description | Review of the EAC Common Market Protocol and IGAD's Free Movement Protocol |
| Geographic Reach | Africa |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | Reviewed and made recommendations on optimising labour migration within Regional Economic Communities in the East and Horn of Africa region |
| Description | Social Science Research Council |
| Geographic Reach | Africa |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Improved gender representation in the award of grants |
| Description | The Global Compact for Migration - European Regional Review - UK submission |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Training of practitioners and policy makers in Ghana |
| Geographic Reach | Africa |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | integrate some lessons learnt from the Chinese diaspora engagement with their home countries |
| Geographic Reach | Africa |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | Drafted the National Academic Program |
| Description | AMIF: New Scots Integration Strategy towards an exemplar of international best practice |
| Amount | ÂŁ4,500,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Home Office |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2020 |
| End | 12/2022 |
| Description | Academic Scholarship |
| Amount | ￥4,000 (CNY) |
| Organisation | China Agricultural University (CAU) |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | China |
| Start | 11/2020 |
| End | 11/2020 |
| Description | CUSP |
| Amount | ÂŁ2,000,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2019 |
| Description | Coventry Creates |
| Amount | ÂŁ2,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Warwick |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2020 |
| End | 09/2020 |
| Description | Irish Aid (ODI, Stephen Gelb) |
| Amount | ÂŁ300,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Government of Ireland |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Ireland |
| Start | 03/2019 |
| End | 03/2024 |
| Description | Migration and Translocality in West Africa |
| Amount | € 1,900,000 (EUR) |
| Organisation | West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Burkina Faso |
| Start | 03/2021 |
| End | 03/2024 |
| Description | National Natural Science Foundation of China |
| Amount | ￥300,000 (CNY) |
| Organisation | National Natural Science Foundation of China |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | China |
| Start | 06/2022 |
| End | 06/2025 |
| Description | Research Grant from EU Horizons 2020 |
| Amount | € 2,000,000 (EUR) |
| Organisation | European Union |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 03/2021 |
| End | 12/2021 |
| Description | Royal Holloway-Internal GCRF Funding - Global Visitors Scheme |
| Amount | ÂŁ7,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Royal Holloway, University of London |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2020 |
| End | 07/2021 |
| Description | SOAS has provided 10% of the researcher salary (Giulia Casentini) during funding cuts |
| Amount | ÂŁ3,800 (GBP) |
| Organisation | School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London) |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2021 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | Southern African Migration Management |
| Amount | $89,000 (USD) |
| Organisation | International Organization for Migration |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Start | 05/2021 |
| End | 01/2022 |
| Description | UNESCO Chair In Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts (Phase 2) |
| Amount | ÂŁ1,250,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Glasgow |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| End | 12/2024 |
| Description | University of Cape Town COVID-19 support |
| Amount | R1,700,000 (ZAR) |
| Organisation | University of Cape Town |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | South Africa |
| Start | 04/2021 |
| End | 02/2022 |
| Description | Arnold Bergstraesser Institut |
| Organisation | Arnold Bergstraesser Institute |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Worked with Arnold Bergstraesser Institut (ABI), specifically Dr Franzesca Zanker and Dilshad Muhammad on a working paper and presented the paper at a conference panel. We also contributed to making a video explaining the findings from the working paper. The paper, and subsequent work, is part of ABI's project Pandemic (im) mobility: COVID-19 and Migrant Communities in the Global South. The project explores migrants communities in Mexico, Nepal, Qatar and Zimbabwe. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Acquired funding to support the creation of the working paper, conference panel and the video. Also did ABI worked on the collaboration and management work |
| Impact | Working paper, video and conference panel |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) Summer School 2020 |
| Organisation | Association of Commonwealth Universities |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The 2020 ACU Summer School entitled 'The Migration generation? Climate, youth and refugees' was due to be held at the University of Cape Coast in July 2020 but moved online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Professor Heaven Crawley contributed to the development of the course content, took part in teh shortlisting and selection process for participants from across the Commonwealth and delivered one of the opening lectures with Professor Mariama Awumbila (University of Ghana) and Nnamdi Iwuora (IOM) on 'Who is migrating...and why?'. She also chaired the discussion that followed. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The ACU Summer School provides a forum for students from every corner of the Commonwealth to discuss multidisciplinary issues of global importance. Established in 2011, a key element of the School is its aim to mix local and regional students with their peers who may have not had the opportunity to leave their own regions. The School is hosted in a different country each year. In previous years, it has been held in Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Ghana, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Mauritius, Rwanda and the United Kingdom. In past years, themes have spanned public health, building sustainable communities, big data, global food security and more. This online event was organised by ACU as part of their programme. |
| Impact | Successful delivery of the ACU Summer School in an online format with more than 60 participants from across the Commonwealth. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | CUSP |
| Organisation | Racines |
| Country | Morocco |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Grant collaborator |
| Collaborator Contribution | Intellectual and artistic development |
| Impact | N/A |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | CUSP - NOYAM African Dance Institute |
| Organisation | Noyam African Dance Institute |
| Country | Ghana |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Research collaborator, safeguarding training, access to resources. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Artistic and intellectual development. Expertise contributed to designing strand 2 of research. |
| Impact | TBC |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | CUSP - University of Ghana |
| Organisation | University of Ghana |
| Country | Ghana |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Grant collaborator, held safeguarding training, access to resources. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Expertise contributed to designing strand 2 of research. Made intellectual input by conducting original research. Contributed to an upcoming literature review. |
| Impact | TBC |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Chipow |
| Organisation | CHIPAWO |
| Country | Zimbabwe |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | impact work on multilingual theatre and deaf sign language theatre Tourism drama co-design of new grant application |
| Collaborator Contribution | impact work on multilingual theatre and deaf sign language theatre Tourism drama co-design of new grant application |
| Impact | Performance of several plays at Theatre Fest Harare New grant application |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Dami; Mini Kuraa Ji Dami? |
| Organisation | Noyam African Dance Institute |
| Country | Ghana |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Based on the outcomes of the A2J/WP11 flexible funding and project week-long research and development/setup in May, a co-devised artistic piece 'Dami, Mini Kuraa Ji Dami?' was produced and presented in the community theatre of the Noyam African Dance Institute in Dodowa. The work was led by Gameli Tordzro and Naa Densua Tordzro, with Heaven Crawley and Caroline Nalule. Participating from the MIDEQ Hub were country team representatives from South Africa and Burkina Faso. . Their interest was to familiarise with the artistic research methods and processes in for replication in the respective corridors. The A2J researchers worked hand in hand with WP11 researchers to transform Research data on Access to Justice into artistic language and representational forms in order to extend the reach and create access to academic research for the public in the local community. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Members of the Noyam African Dance Institute in Dodowa actively participated in the project to create a new performance which was publicly presented on two separate occasions.The artistic process and methodologies incorporate employability skills training and development, creative production of tangible outputs and the reflection on lived experiences and the idea of local understanding of justice and injustices. The reflection takes into consideration opportunities that exists within multiple traditional languages to contextualising understanding, practices that can lead to improving access to justice. Additionally, the process utilised opportunities to change participants mindsets on how they can effect change within their communities with the new understanding of access to justice using their artistic skills. |
| Impact | The performances were presented to the Dodowa community at the Noyam African Dance Institute's Community Theatre with a cast of 10 musicians and 13 Dancers, 1 stage manager 2 tech assistants 2 video production trainers, and 2 professional technical staff and 1 videographer. On both nights the venue was filled to capacity; 150 each night plus an estimated outside spillage of at least 40 per night. The performance was video recorded for sharing on MIDEQ's online platforms. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Development of Action Plan for Implementing Global Compact on Refugees (GCR) in the ECOWAS region |
| Organisation | United Nations (UN) |
| Department | United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | CMS (Joseph Teye as lead consultant) worked with ECOWAS and UNHCR to develop action plan on Global Compact on Refugees for ECOWAS countries |
| Collaborator Contribution | Financial contribution |
| Impact | ECOWAS Action Plan on Global Compact for Refugees |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Development of National Labour Migration Policy for Ghana |
| Organisation | Government of Ghana |
| Department | Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations |
| Country | Ghana |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | CMS (Joseph Teye) was a lead consultant for the drafting of National Labour Migration Policy for Ghana |
| Collaborator Contribution | N/A |
| Impact | National Labour Migration Policy document |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Development of National Labour Migration Policy for Ghana |
| Organisation | International Labour Organization (ILO) |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | CMS (Joseph Teye) was a lead consultant for the drafting of National Labour Migration Policy for Ghana |
| Collaborator Contribution | N/A |
| Impact | National Labour Migration Policy document |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Development of National Labour Migration Policy for Ghana |
| Organisation | International Organization for Migration |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | CMS (Joseph Teye) was a lead consultant for the drafting of National Labour Migration Policy for Ghana |
| Collaborator Contribution | N/A |
| Impact | National Labour Migration Policy document |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Development of toolkit for incorporating migration issues into development planning |
| Organisation | Government of Ghana |
| Department | National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) |
| Country | Ghana |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | CMS ( Joseph Teye) developed a toolkit for use by planning officials at ministries and district assemblies to integrate migration issues into development planning . The toolkit was also used to train planning officials on how to develop plans that would address migration issues |
| Collaborator Contribution | Financial contribution |
| Impact | Toolkit on how to incorporate migration into development planning |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Development of toolkit for incorporating migration issues into development planning |
| Organisation | International Organization for Migration |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | CMS ( Joseph Teye) developed a toolkit for use by planning officials at ministries and district assemblies to integrate migration issues into development planning . The toolkit was also used to train planning officials on how to develop plans that would address migration issues |
| Collaborator Contribution | Financial contribution |
| Impact | Toolkit on how to incorporate migration into development planning |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Diaspora Finance |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Department | Joint Research Centre (JRC) |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Contributing to writing, publishing and presentations on diaspora finance |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contributing to writing, publishing and presentations on diaspora finance |
| Impact | Creation of technical report for Joint Research Centre and presentation on technical report to public audience |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Digital tech, inequality and migration |
| Organisation | GSMA |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Leading and facilitating digital interventions in Nepal and South Africa working in partnership with migrants, local and international organisations. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Making it possible to collaborate with migrants on the ground and to collaborate with local tech organisations. |
| Impact | Multi-disciplinary collaboration (information systems, development, migration studies, media studies, human-computer interaction (HCI), ICT4D |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Digital tech, inequality and migration |
| Organisation | RLabs |
| Country | South Africa |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Leading and facilitating digital interventions in Nepal and South Africa working in partnership with migrants, local and international organisations. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Making it possible to collaborate with migrants on the ground and to collaborate with local tech organisations. |
| Impact | Multi-disciplinary collaboration (information systems, development, migration studies, media studies, human-computer interaction (HCI), ICT4D |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Drafting of National migration policies in Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Zambia and National Labour migration policy in Malawi |
| Organisation | Government of Malawi |
| Country | Malawi |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | CMS led by Joseph Teye has been facilitating the development of migration policies in the countries mentioned |
| Collaborator Contribution | N/A |
| Impact | Draft national labour migration policies ( yet to be approved by cabinet) |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Drafting of National migration policies in Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Zambia and National Labour migration policy in Malawi |
| Organisation | Government of Zambia |
| Country | Zambia |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | CMS led by Joseph Teye has been facilitating the development of migration policies in the countries mentioned |
| Collaborator Contribution | N/A |
| Impact | Draft national labour migration policies ( yet to be approved by cabinet) |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Drafting of National migration policies in Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Zambia and National Labour migration policy in Malawi |
| Organisation | Government of Zimbabwe |
| Country | Zimbabwe |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | CMS led by Joseph Teye has been facilitating the development of migration policies in the countries mentioned |
| Collaborator Contribution | N/A |
| Impact | Draft national labour migration policies ( yet to be approved by cabinet) |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Drafting of National migration policies in Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Zambia and National Labour migration policy in Malawi |
| Organisation | International Organization for Migration |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | CMS led by Joseph Teye has been facilitating the development of migration policies in the countries mentioned |
| Collaborator Contribution | N/A |
| Impact | Draft national labour migration policies ( yet to be approved by cabinet) |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Effects of Externalisation: EU Migration Management in Africa and the Middle East (EFFEXT), |
| Organisation | Chr. Michelsen Institute for Science and Intellectual Freedom |
| Country | Norway |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | We carried out a detailed policy review, qualitative research and quantitative surveys. Joseph and Leander were involved in integrating into the survey south-south migration issues which are usually overlooked in policy circles. |
| Collaborator Contribution | We carried out a detailed policy review, qualitative research and quantitative surveys. Joseph and Leander were involved in integrating into the survey south-south migration issues which are usually overlooked in policy circles. We were involved in the data collection and analysis |
| Impact | In-depth understanding on the effectiveness of information campaigns on the trends of irregular migration . My knowledge from the south-south migration project was useful in analysing the policy aspects of migration and identifying to policy makers the existing gaps |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Interventions undertaken with Migrant Advocacy Centre |
| Organisation | Center for Migrant Advocacy |
| Country | Philippines |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Our collaboration with Migration Advocacy Centre is enabling us identify areas of intervention, especially in countries in the Hub with dedicated organisations advocating with and for migrants |
| Collaborator Contribution | We are working in partnership with the Migration Advocacy Centre because they provide support services to migrants |
| Impact | No outputs or impacts yet |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Joint WP9 online survey of migrants' use of digital technologies |
| Organisation | International Committee of the Red Cross |
| Department | International Committee of the Red Cross, South Africa |
| Country | South Africa |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Design, dissemination and analysis of online survey |
| Collaborator Contribution | Sharing and encouraging migrants to complete online survey in Brazil, Malaysia and South Africa |
| Impact | Two multidisciplinary working papers and a policy brief |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Joint WP9 online survey of migrants' use of digital technologies |
| Organisation | International Organization for Migration |
| Country | Brazil |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Design, dissemination and analysis of online survey |
| Collaborator Contribution | Sharing and encouraging migrants to complete online survey in Brazil, Malaysia and South Africa |
| Impact | Two multidisciplinary working papers and a policy brief |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Joint WP9 online survey of migrants' use of digital technologies |
| Organisation | One Journey |
| Country | Malaysia |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Design, dissemination and analysis of online survey |
| Collaborator Contribution | Sharing and encouraging migrants to complete online survey in Brazil, Malaysia and South Africa |
| Impact | Two multidisciplinary working papers and a policy brief |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Joint WP9 online survey of migrants' use of digital technologies |
| Organisation | Scalabrini Centre |
| Country | South Africa |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Design, dissemination and analysis of online survey |
| Collaborator Contribution | Sharing and encouraging migrants to complete online survey in Brazil, Malaysia and South Africa |
| Impact | Two multidisciplinary working papers and a policy brief |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | MOU |
| Organisation | University of Ghana |
| Country | Ghana |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Institutional MoU co-design of new research project |
| Collaborator Contribution | Institutional MoU co-design of new research project |
| Impact | new grant awards embargoed. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Making domestic and international migration safe and dignified: Experiences from Africa and Asia |
| Organisation | Society for Participatory Research in Asia |
| Country | India |
| Sector | Learned Society |
| PI Contribution | We collaborated in a webinar and made a presentation. We have written a joint working paper for publication (forthcoming). |
| Collaborator Contribution | Input into joint publication, input in discussions for further collaboration. |
| Impact | Presentation at joint webinar (COVID-19, Policy Responses and Migrants in Ghana). Joint working Paper (Leaving no one behind: COVID -19 Response strategies and implications for Migrants in Ghana, South Africa and India) . (Forthcoming). |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Nawa |
| Organisation | NAWA, POLISH NATIONAL AGENCY FOR ACADEMIC EXCHANGE |
| Country | Poland |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | research design of new grant |
| Collaborator Contribution | research design of new grant |
| Impact | embargoed |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | PRAXIS |
| Organisation | Praxis |
| Country | Estonia |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Submitted evidence to Heritage for Global Challenges A Research Report by PRAXIS: Arts and Humanities for Global Development; assisted with workshops feeding into report development. Hosted panels at HERITAGE AND OUR SUSTAINABLE FUTURE Research, Practice, Policy and Impact / Virtual Conference 22nd February - 2nd March 2021 |
| Collaborator Contribution | PRAXIS focuses on Arts and Humanities research across the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) and Newton Fund portfolio. Specifically, its aims are to consolidate learning across research projects funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), to amplify their impact and policy relevance, and to champion the distinctive contribution that Arts and Humanities research can make to tackling urgent development challenges. PRAXIS authored report and hosted Conference. |
| Impact | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/110/2021/02/Heritage-for-Global-Challenges-Report-2021.pdf |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Partnership With Partners in Health - Haiti |
| Organisation | Zanmi Lasante |
| Country | Haiti |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Building up education network on Haitian migrant women's health. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Sharing INURED's study results for community education |
| Impact | Early beginning. No output yet. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Partnership around South-South Migration and Health (Louis Herns Marcelin, INURED) |
| Organisation | University of Miami |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Parntership with Uni of Miami Global Health and Society Program to create additional proposals for submission to funders in the US; Develop internship programs for students. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Conceptualization of the project |
| Impact | Early beginning. No output yet. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Partnership with ILO |
| Organisation | International Labour Organization (ILO) |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | We are working closely with ILO as one of the Hub's formal international project partners to ensure that the findings of the project's research inform the development of ILO's thinking, policy and practice in relation to South-South migration, both centrally and in the countries in which the project is working. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contribution to Research Symposium, attendance at Executive Meetings, input into thinking around the Theory of Change, ongoing discussion of possible publishing options/avenues for MIDEQ research findings and anaysis, blogs to raise awareness of MIDEQ's work and direct traffic to our website |
| Impact | Input of ILO expertise into development of Hub-wide survey instrument |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Partnership with IOM |
| Organisation | International Organization for Migration |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | We are working closely with IOM as one of the Hub's formal international project partners to ensure that the findings of the project's research inform the development of IOM's thinking, policy and practice in relation to South-South migration, both centrally and in the countries in which the project is working. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contribution to Research Symposium, attendance at Executive Meetings, input into thinking around the Theory of Change, ongoing discussion of possible publishing options/avenues for MIDEQ research findings and anaysis, blogs to raise awareness of MIDEQ's work and direct traffic to our website |
| Impact | Partnership and associated relationships are still being developed, however there have been some initial outputs e.g. IOM blog https://weblog.iom.int/south-south-migration-hub-kicks-accra-ghana-0 |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Partnership with IOM in South Africa |
| Organisation | International Organization for Migration |
| Country | South Africa |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The IOM contacted us because they think the findings of our work will be useful for them. We are going to make our findings available to them . |
| Collaborator Contribution | The IOM Southern Africa office reached out to us after seeing our preliminary survey on Migrants use of ICTs that we rolled out in conjunction with WP 9. They shared the survey among their migrant contacts and that increased the response rate for the survey. |
| Impact | By sharing the survey amont their network, the IOM Southern Africa helped to increase our response rate |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Partnership with North South Initiative, Malaysia |
| Organisation | North South Initiative |
| Country | Malaysia |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Providing preliminary findings |
| Collaborator Contribution | Helping to source migrant worker interviewees and civil society groups working with migrant workers |
| Impact | Generation of data from interviews which have resulted in working papers and conference papers |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Partnership with OECD |
| Organisation | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development OECD |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | We are working closely with OECD as one of the Hub's formal international project partners to ensure that the findings of the project's research inform the development of OECD's thinking, policy and practice in relation to South-South migration, both centrally and in the countries in which the project is working. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contribution to Research Symposium, attendance at Executive Meetings, input into thinking around the Theory of Change, ongoing discussion of possible publishing options/avenues for MIDEQ research findings and anaysis, blogs to raise awareness of MIDEQ's work and direct traffic to our website |
| Impact | Various blogs written by OECD or members of the MIDEQ Hub and published by them. Contribution of MIDEQ members to annual OECD Policy Dialogue. Full details are listed under the relevant sections of the report. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Partnership with Positive Negatives |
| Organisation | Positives Negatives |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | We have worked closely with Positive Negatives to ensure that findings and key messages emerging from the MIDEQ Hub are able to be transformed into creative outputs (comics, animations, online courses) and communicated with a wide range of audiences. This includes the production of teaching materials, development of a script for 'The Story of Migration' animation and forthcoming work on the COVID Chronicles, a series of online comics designed to tell teh story of how COVID has impacted on migration and the lives of migrants in our six corridors |
| Collaborator Contribution | Positive Negatives lead the creative thinking around animation and comic outputs based on information and material associated with the MIDEQ Hub's research and produce the outputs themselves by employing a range of artists in the Global South and North |
| Impact | This is a highly interdisciplinary collaboration involving MIDEQ researchers from a range of disciplinary backgrounds working alongside artists, narrators and secondary school teachers. Outputs to date include: - FutureLearn online course - 'The Story of Migration' animation (to be launched April 2021) Details of these outputs and their outcomes are reported under the relevant sections of the form |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Partnership with SOAS (and others) to submit ESRC Centre proposal for Global Knowledge Lab |
| Organisation | School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration with SOAS around the possibility fo establishing a Global Knowledge Lab, submitted as a proposal to the ESRC Centre competition. Unfortunately the application was unsuccessful but we are exploring ways in which the ideas contained within it can be reworked into a new funding proposal which builds on the work of MIDEQ regarding the production of knowledge on migration |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contribution to the conceptual thinking and proposed methodology |
| Impact | No outputs or outcomes as yet beyond the original funding proposal. Multidisciplinary team (Geography, Development Studies, Economics) |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Partnership with SOFA - Haiti |
| Organisation | SOFA |
| Country | Haiti |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Building up education network on Haitian migrant women's rights. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Sharing INURED's study results for community education |
| Impact | Early beginning. No output yet. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Partnership with UN Human Rights |
| Organisation | United Nations (UN) |
| Department | Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | We are working closely with UN Human Rights as one of the Hub's formal international project partners to ensure that the findings of the project's research inform the development of UN Human Rights' thinking, policy and practice in relation to South-South migration, both centrally and in the countries in which the project is working. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contribution to Research Symposium, attendance at Executive Meetings, input into thinking around the Theory of Change, ongoing discussion of possible publishing options/avenues for MIDEQ research findings and anaysis, blogs to raise awareness of MIDEQ's work and direct traffic to our website |
| Impact | Partnership and associated relationships are still being developed |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Partnership with UNRISD |
| Organisation | United Nations (UN) |
| Department | United Nations Research Institute For Social Development |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | We are working closely with UNRISD as one of the Hub's formal international project partners to ensure that the findings of the project's research inform the development of UNRISD's thinking, policy and practice in relation to South-South migration, both centrally and in the countries in which the project is working. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contribution to Research Symposium, attendance at Executive Meetings, input into thinking around the Theory of Change, ongoing discussion of possible publishing options/avenues for MIDEQ research findings and anaysis, blogs to raise awareness of MIDEQ's work and direct traffic to our website |
| Impact | Partnership and associated relationships are still being developed, however there have been some initial outputs e.g UNRISD conrtribution to MIDEQ blog series https://www.mideq.org/en/blog/better-migration-governance/ |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Partnership with UNU-CPR |
| Organisation | UN University Centre for Policy Research |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | UNU-CPR is now an international project partner, generating considerable opportunities to bring the findings of MIDEQ's research into contact with the UN system, with a focus on MIDEQ's A2J work programme. Professor Heaven Crawley is responsible for bringing MIDEQ's work into contact with the UN system though this partnership in her new role as Head of Equitable Development and Migration |
| Collaborator Contribution | Examples of the benefits of the partnership in year 1 include a co-branded side event at the International Migration Review Forum, 2 co-branded Migration Policy Roundtables (New York and Geneva) and a MIDEQ Showcase with UN agencies and Members States in New York. The partnership has also generated opportunities of the work of MIDEQ partners to be published through the UNU-CPR website |
| Impact | Full details reported elsewhere |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Partnership with the Migrant Worker Justice Initative (MWJI) |
| Organisation | Migrants Worker Justice Initative (MWJI) |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | This partnership builds on the work being undertaken in relation to the 'Access to Justice' theme, including contributions throgh access to research data, partners in the countries in which the Hub is working and our international partners. |
| Collaborator Contribution | MWJI are working with us to identify ways in which the Hub's work in relation to 'Access to Justice' can be mobilised and extended around their own research areas and areas of campaigning and advocacy work. They also contributed to development of questions relating to these issues for the Hub-wide survey instrument. We anticipate that this will include new research and primary data collection towards the end of 2021 onwards, COVID-19 permitting. |
| Impact | At this stage there are no specific outputs but the conversations and exchanges of information around the partnership have helped develop the project's thinking in relation to the issue of how to secure access to justice for migrant workers and their families. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Productive Use of Remittances |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Department | Knowledge Centre on Migration and Demography |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration in preparation of report for EC |
| Collaborator Contribution | Publication of report |
| Impact | report to be published in June 2021 |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | RSE |
| Organisation | Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Phipps sits on Africa working group; member of the International Committee and advises RSE on ARAR (At-Risk Academic/Refugee) matters. Is engaged as a speaker at party conferences in association with RSE (Greens and Lib Dems) |
| Collaborator Contribution | Hosted a number of collaborative events and talks (ARAR scholar portraits); |
| Impact | ARAR scholars continue to be named in Young Academy of Scotland annual intake |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Scottish Crannog Centre |
| Organisation | Scottish Crannog Centre |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | 9-10 October 2021 at the Scottish Crannog Centre's Celtic Autumn Story Weaving Weekend - MIDEQ researchers led storytelling, song and textile workshops over the weekend. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Hosting interactive workshops for the public |
| Impact | Video of event (https://www.facebook.com/ScottishCrannogCentre/videos/4351632394950322) and podcast episode https://soundcloud.com/unescorila/e19-crannog-centre-part-1 Music; Storytelling; Textiles; Poetry The event is part of the International Storytelling Festival 2021 'Go Local Programme'. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Situational Analysis of ethical recruitment in Botswana |
| Organisation | Government in Botswana |
| Country | Botswana |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | CMS researchers ( J Teye and Mary Setrana) are carrying out a situational analysis of ethical recruitment in Botswana |
| Collaborator Contribution | Funding provided by IOM |
| Impact | Situational analysis report on ethical recruitment |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Situational Analysis of ethical recruitment in Botswana |
| Organisation | International Organization for Migration |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | CMS researchers ( J Teye and Mary Setrana) are carrying out a situational analysis of ethical recruitment in Botswana |
| Collaborator Contribution | Funding provided by IOM |
| Impact | Situational analysis report on ethical recruitment |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Support on diaspora engagement to General Authority for Investment and Free Zones (GAFI), Egyptian investment promotion agency |
| Organisation | International Centre for Migration Policy Development |
| Country | Austria |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Assisting on programme development |
| Collaborator Contribution | Assisting on programme development |
| Impact | Not outputs as of yet |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Teaching Migration Through Data and Storytelling - Future Learn Online Course |
| Organisation | School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | There have been urgent recent calls for curricula to address issues of migration yet 78% of British teachers asked by the Runnymede Trust said they needed more support "to equip them to teach migration more sensitively and effectively." On this course developed as a partnership/collaboration between the University of Coventry and SOAS in partnership with Positive Negatives and Oaklands School, teachers can develop their skills to explain where and why migration happens. They also learn how to interpret big data sets, examining migration research through video and learning activities and explore creative methods of storytelling, visual arts, and design to humanise migration stories through arts and empathic learning. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Members of the MIDEQ consortium have contributed directly to the course content SOAS has hosted the Future Learn course Positive Negatives have coordinated content and engagement Oaklands School have contributed to lesson planning and content |
| Impact | A free three week online course, offered via the Future Learn platform, for teachers to develop their skills in explaining where and why migration happens, using the MEDMIG data set to teach how to interpret big data sets and with input from MIDEQ researchers from Nepal, Ethiopia and the UK. This is a multidisciplinary collaboration with contributions from migration studies, geography, anthropology and the creative arts.The first edition of this course ran from October - November 2020 with 632 learners from 31 countries, many of whom are teachers. Those taking the course provided very positive feedback on the impact on their own thinking around migration, with many indicating that they intend to use the ideas and resources provided by the course in their own lesson planning. Some feedback from the course: "I have become aware of friendly techniques allowing [students] to take a great interest in data sets and large research reports, and got a great data set for work." "I am planning to show students the animations and the data set too. I read many creative ideas on how to engage students in a deeper understanding of the experience of migrants, and I am convinced that I will definitely take the time to cover some personal stories of migrants. I discovered interesting projects and sources, the updates of which I intend to follow and tell about them to other people (in particular, not only students but also colleagues)." "[I learnt about] methods of showing stories to teach about migration... and that we should incorporate this with storytelling in the classroom. I love telling stories and from now on I will try using data sets and infographs as visual aids.On top of that, I will never miss a chance of discussing such issues as migration with my students." "The things I took away are more about my understanding of migration than about learning new facts, although I did learn new facts! People migrating often resettle various times, maybe integrating in a community and leaving it behind again-what does that do to your sense of belonging? I saw one of my students sending pictures about the earthquake in Izmir, and thought that maybe they have made friends there on the way or have family members still there." "I never thought before that the reason why people migrate is actually that diverse." "It has also made me want to show pupils data sets, rather than just processed/presented data." "I gained access to exciting examples of stories and student works on the topics of migration I had never knew before. I have advanced in my ability to streamline teaching. It was a fascinating time, thank you!" "Thank you for the insights into teaching data storytelling through a migration lens, teaching critical thinking and empathy." |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Training of African government officials on migration governance |
| Organisation | African Union Commission |
| Country | Ethiopia |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Development of training modules and facilitating training |
| Collaborator Contribution | CMS worked in partnership with GIZ and African Union to organise training for African governments |
| Impact | contribution to development of modules on migration governance |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Training of African government officials on migration governance |
| Organisation | German Federal Enterprise for International Cooperation (GIZ) |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Development of training modules and facilitating training |
| Collaborator Contribution | CMS worked in partnership with GIZ and African Union to organise training for African governments |
| Impact | contribution to development of modules on migration governance |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | UKRI GCRF Hub Cohort Programme Management Coordination Group |
| Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The MIDEQ Hub Operations Team have collaborated with the other funded Hubs to establish a working group on Hub programme management to exchange ideas and best practice and address common areas of concerns with the Funder. Monthly calls are held between the programme management teams from all Hubs with biannual face to face meetings. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The MIDEQ Hub Operations Team have collaborated with the other funded Hubs to establish a working group on Hub programme management to exchange ideas and best practice and address common areas of concerns with the Funder. Monthly calls are held between the programme management teams from all Hubs with biannual face to face meetings. |
| Impact | Alignment on UKRI GCRF Risk Management approach for the Hubs Exchange of knowledge and ideas concerning management of the Hubs. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | UNESCO ART LAB |
| Organisation | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Intellectual conceptualisation; policy briefs; partnerships; networks; arts praxis UNESCO ART LAB The Art Lab Platform was initiated during a Design Thinking workshop co-organized by UNESCO and OHCHR in Geneva in February 2020. The worksho brought together practitioners, cultural operators, artists, experts in human rights, cultural rights and intercultural dialogue, and humanitarian workers. The workshop resulted in a workplan to mainstream the arts in humanitarian and development programmes, basedon three major pillars: Raising awareness within UN agencies and other stakeholders on the transformative power of art and culture in humanitarian work; Consolidating the Art Lab Platform in facilitating exchanges between cultural and humanitarian workers, artists and researchers; Strengthening research and capacity-building, and pilot-testing tools in the field. The UNESCO Chair is a key collaborative partner in Art Lab. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Art Lab Platform was initiated during a Design Thinking workshop co-organized by UNESCO and OHCHR in Geneva in February 2020. The worksho brought together practitioners, cultural operators, artists, experts in human rights, cultural rights and intercultural dialogue, and humanitarian workers. The workshop resulted in a workplan to mainstream the arts in humanitarian and development programmes, basedon three major pillars: Raising awareness within UN agencies and other stakeholders on the transformative power of art and culture in humanitarian work; Consolidating the Art Lab Platform in facilitating exchanges between cultural and humanitarian workers, artists and researchers; Strengthening research and capacity-building, and pilot-testing tools in the field. The UNESCO Chair is a key collaborative partner in Art Lab. |
| Impact | https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000375018 |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | UNESCO Gender Based Violence |
| Organisation | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Authoring Guidelines on Gender Based Violence and Culture |
| Collaborator Contribution | Invitation to author; editorial and guidance |
| Impact | Awaiting publication of report on GBV and Intercultural Dialogue |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | UNESCO ICD |
| Organisation | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | UNESCO Report on Culture for Institute of Economics and Peace |
| Collaborator Contribution | Authored. |
| Impact | Multidisciplinary. Arts and Intercultural Studies. Peace Studies |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | UNESCO Multilingual Education |
| Organisation | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Authoring Guidelines for next 2 decades for Multilingual Education in 160 Member States |
| Collaborator Contribution | Authoring Guidelines |
| Impact | To be published end 2023 - meetings and networking of expert group in process |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
| Organisation | National Autonomous University of Mexico |
| Country | Mexico |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | co-design of research |
| Collaborator Contribution | co-design of research |
| Impact | not available - news embargoed |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Workshop with Dejustica (Colombia) on Access to Justice |
| Organisation | Dejusticia |
| Country | Colombia |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration to deliver a training workshop on issues of Access to Justice as part of the 9th Global Action-Research Workshop for Young Human Rights Advocates - delivered with partners South Africa, Brazil and Nepal |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above |
| Impact | Training workshop |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | ibby |
| Organisation | International Board on Books for Young People |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | research design |
| Collaborator Contribution | research design |
| Impact | embargoed |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | "COVID-19 and the methodological challenges of producing knowledge in the Global South" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Organized plenary for MIDEQ Research Symposium |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | "I regret to be in Malaysia": COVID-19 and work migration |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ blog from Dr Andika Ab.Wahab, Corridor Advisory Board member for MIDEQ's Malaysia team on how COVID-19 has impacted migrant workers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/blog/i-regret-to-be-in-malaysia-covid-19-and-work-migration/ |
| Description | "South-South Migration and Development" Seminar series |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The seminar series will invite those distinguished scholars to present the theories or evidence-based research on SSM & Dev. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | "We wanted workers, but human beings came": Human rights gaps in temporary labour migration programmes |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ researcher Anita Ghimire along with MIDEQ partners OHCHR organised a side event at the 4th UN South Asia Forum on Business and Human Rights. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.safbhr.com/event-details/ |
| Description | 'Decolonising and Contextualising Migration Studies' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ researcher Dereje Feyissa Dori was a resource person for the African Academy for Migration Research (AAMR). AAMR is an initiative of the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) being implemented and managed by the African Centre for Migration and Society (ACMS) at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Dereje presented on 'Decolonising and Contextualising Migration Studies' to early career African migration scholars with the aim of changing narratives surrounding migration and building research capacity of young scholars. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | 'Musings of a migration researcher' blog by Heaven Crawley |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Personal blog written by Heaven Crawley entitled 'Musings of a migration researcher' which aims to engage a non-academic audience in some of the issues arising from the research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://heavencrawley.com/ |
| Description | 'Wasting Time' Disruptive Arts in Figuring the Refugee - Expert Panel |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ colleagues sat on an expert panel in the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration-18. The panel was titled "Wasting Time' Disruptive Arts in Figuring the Refugee". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | http://iasfm.org/iasfm18/about/ |
| Description | 2022 HDCA conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of work in progress |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | 30th anniversary of the UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs Programme |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Transforming knowledge for just and sustainable futures This anniversary conference will celebrate the accomplishments over the last three decades and advance authentic interdisciplinary dialogues and the cross-sectoral mobilization needed to confront complex challenges on the horizon. Dedicated to the theme of "Transforming knowledge for just and sustainable futures", the two-day event is grounded in the spirit of scientific, moral, intellectual, and academic solidarity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://articles.unesco.org/en/articles/30th-anniversary-unitwinunesco-chairs-programme-transforming... |
| Description | 8th Global Action Research Workshop for young Human rights advocates |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ researcher from Brazil, Jailson, was invited by Director Heaven Crawley to contribute to Dejusticia's action-research workshop, on the topic of 'Migration, inequalities and access to justice'. These workshops aim to strengthen these young Human Rights activist's knowledge and expertise in action research methodologies, as well as narrative writing skills in order to improve their advocacy strategies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | ?utefe ??driba (Memory Dragon) - MIDEQ Blog (Gameli Tordzro) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ blog from Gameli Tordzro introducing his concept of the 'Memory Dragon'. This blog is part of a larger series from the researcher-artists working in the MIDEQ Hub we will begin introducing some concepts from traditions outwith those which are more normally associated with the discourse of migration studies or intercultural communication in the academic literature. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/blog/memory-dragon/ |
| Description | ACU piece on engagement with the MIDEQ Hub |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Article from the American University in Cairo on their involvement in the MIDEQ Hub |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://schools.aucegypt.edu/GAPP/cmrs/resaffl/Pages/InhouseResProj.aspx |
| Description | ARTLAB - Working Group - Imperative of cultural justice |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Working group brought together to generate report for UNESCO - Imperative of cultural justice: Arts for inclusion, equity and human rights |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | About the non/sense of distinguishing between migrants and refugees |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Panel debate organised by Forced Migration and Refugee Studies: Networking and KNowledge Transfer (FFVT) at the Institute for Migration Research and International Studies (IMIS), Osnabruek University. The panel explored the distinctions often made in policy and public debates between 'migrants' and 'refugees'. This panel debate, hosted by IMIS, aimed to shed light on the diverse legal, scholarly and discursive practices and carve out lines of controversies to better understand the reasoning behind the different approaches. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwUYVSreHGs&feature=youtu.be |
| Description | Adaptive programming brief (Cathy Zimmerman) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ brief on work package ten: adaptive programming. The brief explains what methodology the team will employ to evaluate other work packages and outlines key research questions for the package. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/resources-index-page/adaptive-programming-brief/ |
| Description | Addressing the multilingual global challenge: Impact case study |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Impact case study outlining the potential impacts emerging from multilingual work in MIDEQ Hub. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/impact/addressing-the-multilingual-global-challenge/ |
| Description | Advent Journey 2021: Advent ~ Hope and Promise |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A discussion from thematic area 11 team on social transformation and behavioural change through employing the soft power of art and culture as a non-intrusive approach |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | African Perspectives conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Co-organised an event with Friends of Europe to showcase African perspectives on migration to Europe This event entitled 'African perspectives: holding a mirror up to Europe's migration policies' specifically aimed to engaged policy makers and practitioners based in Brussels in the different perspectives on migration of those originating from and/or based in Africa, especially West Africa. The Hub Director contributed to the conceptualisation of the event and brought in speakers. Follow up discussions also held with Friends of Europe to ensure that these voices are front and centre of future events |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.friendsofeurope.org/events/african-perspectives-holding-a-mirror-up-to-europes-to-migrat... |
| Description | African Studies Global Virtual Forum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 30 October 2020: PENN STATE COLLEGE OF THE LIBERAL ARTS African Studies Global Virtual Forum-Alison Phipps and Piki Diamond Alison Phipps from the University of Glasgow and Piki Diamond of the Auckland University of Technology speak on "Decolonizing Multilingualism" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://events.la.psu.edu/event/african_studies_global_virtual_forumalison_phipps_and_piki_diamond#.... |
| Description | African businessmen in Yiwu: differentiation under the pandemic (MIDEQ blog) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Blog from MIDEQ team in China on the impact of COVID-19 on African business men |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/blog/african-businessmen-in-yiwu-differentiation-under-the-pandemic/ |
| Description | Ale School of Fine Arts, College of Performing and Visual Arts, Addis Ababa university engagement meetings (Dereje Feyissa Dori, PDC Ethiopia) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Exploratory contact is also made with the of Ale School of Fine Arts, College of Performing and Visual Arts, Addis Ababa university. Inspired by the innovative art exhibition organised by Gebre Kiristos Desta Cente with graduates of the Ale School of Fine Arts, the Ethiopian team is exploring the possibility of partnering with local artists), and have them travel to different locations and talk to people in all kinds of positions and migration experiences. That could help them capture the complex migration processes, and then present it in some form as an exhibition. This will also help in the policy communication section and bring a range of media attention |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Anti-xenophobia activities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | We spoke at different Ethiopian churches in Cape Town, George, Hermaus, PE and East London We co-organised the anti-OperationDudula march in Cape Town We attended Heritage Day in Port Elizabeth under the anti-xenophobia theme We presented part of our findings regarding collaborations in Scalabrini Centre emphasising the importance of using various technological platforms available in support of WP8 We attended an access to justice performance that combines art Migration and art at the Noyam African Dance Institute, Accra, Ghana |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Art-Lab 4 - The imperative of cultural justice: Arts for inclusion, equity and human rights |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On 10 December 2020, Human Rights Day UNESCO Art-Lab hosted a special event "The imperative of cultural justice: arts for inclusion, equity and human rights." The Art-Lab Platform was initiated during a Design Thinking workshop co-organized by UNESCO and OHCHR in Geneva, in February 2020, bringing together practitioners, cultural operators, artists, experts in human rights, cultural rights and intercultural dialogue, and humanitarian workers. The workshop resulted in a workplan to mainstream the arts in humanitarian and development programmes, based on three major pillars: Raising awareness within UN agencies and other stakeholders on the transformative power of art and culture in humanitarian work; Consolidating the Art-Lab Platform in facilitating exchanges between cultural and humanitarian workers, artists and researchers; Strengthening research and capacity-building, and pilot-testing tools in the field. At the event on 10 December, members of the Art-Lab platform presented findings and recommendations of the four working groups. A key issue running through the entire programme is the exploration of the idea that cultural rights might be brought to embrace cultural justice. What new spaces can be accessed through such a move and with what gains for human rights and dignity? This event featured RILA Artists in Residence Dr Gameli Tordzro and Tawona Sitholé, and UNESCO Chair Prof Alison Phipps. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000375117 |
| Description | Article published by The Conversation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Blog entitled 'I've been watching desperate people seek protection in Europe for 20 years - it's time the narrative, and policies, changed' examining the politics of migration in teh UK and the historical evolution of narratives in relation to migration across the English Channel |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://theconversation.com/ive-been-watching-desperate-people-seek-protection-in-europe-for-20-year... |
| Description | Article published in national media (Pierre Rigaud Dubuisson) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ blog published as an article in Haitian national press |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.alterpresse.org/spip.php?article26508#nb1 |
| Description | Arts and migration |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Two online webinars given by Gameli Tordzro and Naa Densua Tordzro on 'Migration and the Arts' as part of a Masters module on social change, migration and development as part of the MA programme at the University of Ghana |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Audience with the team of the consul of Burkina Faso in Abidjan, Ivory Coast (IGDP) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This audience with the Consul followed the meeting with of the platforms, a presentation and planning of the quantitative survey. It was an opportunity to strengthen the links between MIDEQ and the Burkinabè community in Côte d'Ivoire for a better impact of the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Blog - Haitian migrants and the US-Mexico Border Crisis: A broader view |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ Haiti researchers Toni Cela and Louis Herns Marcelin penned a blog post on MIDEQ's website which discussed the situation of Haitian migrants at the US-Mexico border. This article was picked up by other media outlets including The New Humanitarian and Le National, a national newspaper in Haiti. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/blog/haitian-migrants-and-us-mexico-border-crisis-broader-view/ |
| Description | Blog - Les migrants haïtiens face à la pandémie de la Covid-19 au Brésil et au Chili |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ blog from researcher Dabouze Estinvil on Haitian migrants in Latin America. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/fr/blog/les-migrants-ha%C3%AFtiens-face-%C3%A0-la-pand%C3%A9mie-de-la-covid-19... |
| Description | Blog for Friends of Europe #criticalthinking insights blog series |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Blog for the Friends of Europe #Criticalthinking insights blog series entitled 'The politics of migration in a (post) COVID-19 world |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.friendsofeurope.org/insights/the-politics-of-migration-in-a-post-covid-19-world/ |
| Description | Blog for The Conversation on how COVID-19 became a cover to reduce refugee rights |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | This blog, which draws on research undertaken for Heaven Crawley's 2021 article in Social Sciences argues that COVID-19 has been used as an excuse by governments already restricting access to refugee protection to further reduce their rights, by closing borders and but using migration policies to demonstrate the robustness of their response to the pandemic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://theconversation.com/how-covid-19-became-a-cover-to-reduce-refugee-rights-156247 |
| Description | Blog piece by IOM on the launch of the MIDEQ Hub in Accra |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Blog piece written by Adrian Kitimbo at IOM on the launch of the Hub's work in Accra and the importance of focusing on South-South migration in the context of development |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://weblog.iom.int/south-south-migration-hub-kicks-accra-ghana |
| Description | Blog to mark 'Unravelling Europe's Migration Crisis' being made available open access by Policy Press |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Blog entitled 'Crocodile tears: Why safe and legal migration routes are the only answer' published by Policy Press on their 'Transforming Society' webpage in response to the deaths of migrants crossing the English Channel and the decision to make the findings of our MEDMIG research available free of charge so that they could inform public and policy understanding of the reasons why people feel they have no alternative other than to get in boats |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2021/11/29/crocodile-tears-why-safe-and-legal-migration-routes... |
| Description | Book launch for The Refugee System |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This webinar, hosted by UNU-CPR, was held to launch The Refugee System: A Sociological Approach - the story of how one Syrian family, spread across several countries, tried to survive the civil war and live in dignity. Departing from studies that create siloes of knowledge about just one setting or 'solution' to displacement, the book's sociological approach describes a global system that shapes refugee movements. The event provided an opportunity to engage an online audience in new approaches to refugee policy thinking and making |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://cpr.unu.edu/events/archive/event/launch-of-the-refugee-system.html |
| Description | Border discourses: on the grammar of EU's asylum policies. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Leander Kandilige was invited to be part of this discussion together with top migration experts on EU's asylum policies |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Border discourses: on the grammar of EU's asylum policies. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Border discourses: on the grammar of EU's asylum policies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Borders & Belonging: The migrants that the West doesn't talk about |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Hear from Vani Saraswathi, a journalist who has spent years documenting the experiences of migrants working in the Gulf states. Then host Maggie Prezyna speaks with experts Nicola Piper (University of Sydney) and Joseph Teye (University of Ghana) to explore the unique patterns and challenges of South-South migration. Why does this get so little coverage? What are the most popular destinations for migrants in the Global South? Do migrants moving South to South face the same problems as those headed North: harassment at border crossings, problems with documentation and discouragement from destination countries? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | http://www.opendemocracy.net/en/podcasts/podcast-borders-belonging/global-south-migration/ |
| Description | Brazil keynote - Decolonising Languages in Rural Settings: Towards Equatorial Epistemologies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Alison Phipps gave a keynote talk on "Decolonising Languages in Rural Settings: Towards Equatorial Epistemologies", this event was organised by Abralin. A recorded version of the talk is available on their YouTube channel which currently has 30.7K subscribers. Nazmi Al Mansri (CUSP Co-I at the Islamic University of Gaza) also presented. The talk provided a genealogical view of the urban and rural political economy. Artists were also invited to get their reflections on speech and its urban, educational, and rural, educational inflections. The talk aimed to explore the rural dimension of language. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWr5h7nYiAc |
| Description | Broadcast on national television to talk about the MIDEQ (Dabiré Bonayi) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | An interview during the MIDEQ launch with the television channel the Canal+ bouquet. It was an interview of the Co-I on the MIDEQ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Building capacity and engaging policy makers in Ghana: Impact case study |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Impact case study on the work that the MIDEQ team is Ghana is engaged in, specifically outlining the potential impacts of workshop trainings with government officials. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/impact/building-capacity-and-engaging-policy-makers-in-ghana/ |
| Description | Building migration research and policy infrastructure in Haiti : Impact case study |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Impact case study exploring the work of the MIDEQ team in Haiti and their engagement with policymakers |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/impact/building-migration-research-and-policy-infrastructure-in-haiti/ |
| Description | Burkina Faso - Côte d'Ivoire migration corridor brief (Dr Bonayi Hubert Dabiré and Dr Kando Amédée Soumahoro) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Brief on Burkina Faso - Côte d'Ivoire specifically focused on relevant work packages and research questions for this corridor. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/resources-index-page/burkina-faso-c%C3%B4te-divoire-migration-corridor-brie... |
| Description | Business only - why are most African businessmen in Yiwu young men? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Blog post from MIDEQ China team focused on African businessmen in Yiwu |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/blog/business-only-why-are-most-african-businessmen-in-yiwu-young-men/ |
| Description | CHCI-Global Humanities Institute Webinar, "Interventions from the South: Theoretical perspectives and pragmatic issues of migration, logistics and unequal citizens in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This is a global webinar organised by the Institute for Social Research and Cultural Studies, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan funded by the Mellon Foundation and the Ministry of Education, Taiwan. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | COVID-19 and Remittance Losses in Haiti - MIDEQ Blog (Dr Toni Cela and Professor Louis Herns Marcelin) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ blog on COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on remittance in Haiti. For Haiti, any substantial reduction in remittances will further weaken an already feeble economy while negatively impacting the livelihood and health of families and communities. Written by MIDEQ researchers Dr Toni Cela and Co-Director, Professor Louis Herns Marcelin |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/blog/covid-19-and-remittance-losses-haiti/ |
| Description | COVID-19 and food security in China - MIDEQ Blog (Dongsheng Wang) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ blog on COVID-19 and its impact on food security in China. Blog written by researcher Dongsheng Wang |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/blog/covid-19-and-food-security-china/ |
| Description | COVID-19 and housing for migrant workers in Malaysia (Yvonne Khor Gee-Weon) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ blog on COVID-19 and its impact on housing for migrant workers in Malaysia |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/blog/covid-19-and-housing-migrant-workers-malaysia/ |
| Description | COVID-19 and women migrant workers: impacts and implications (Nicola Piper) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | IOM Research Office created this high level advisory group of migration experts to discuss new trends in migration |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | COVID-19 as a "crisis" to Egyptian labor migration? - MIDEQ Blog (Dr. Nada El-Kouny and Sarah Yousry) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ blog on understanding the historical context of migration and labour in Egypt and how that is changing due to COVID-19. Blog written by Dr. Nada El-Kouny and Sarah Yousry, MIDEQ researchers in Egypt. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/blog/covid-19-as-a-crisis-to-egyptian-labor-migration/ |
| Description | COVID-19 in South Africa: Whither Migrants? (Ncumisa Willie and Faisal Garba) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | African Arguments article on South Africa's response to COVID-19 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://africanarguments.org/2020/06/covid-19-in-south-africa-whither-migrants/ |
| Description | COVID-19's impact on Bangladeshi international migrants - MIDEQ blog (Mohammad Rashed Alam Bhuiyan) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ blog by researcher Mohammad Rashed Alam Bhuiyan on how COVID-19 has impacted international migration from Bangladeshi migrants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/blog/covid-19s-impact-bangladeshi-international-migrants/ |
| Description | COVID-19, migration et vulnérabilités des femmes haïtiennes - MIDEQ blog (Kéthia Charles) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ blog that explores the vulnerabilities that impact Haitian women and their ability to migrate as a way to analyse why more Haitian men migrate rather than women. Blog written by Kéthia Charles, researcher with MIDEQ. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/fr/blog/covid-19-migration-et-vuln%C3%A9rabilit%C3%A9s-des-femmes-ha%C3%AFtien... |
| Description | COVID-19: the humbling and humbled virus - MIDEQ Blog (Professor Francis B. Nyamnjoh) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ blog on COVID-19 has exacerbated social and economic inequalities rather than serving was "the great equaliser". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/blog/covid-19-humbling-and-humbled-virus/ |
| Description | CTPSR/CDS Bath online event on COVID-19: consequences for global inequalities and prospects for development |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Jointly hosted by the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University and the Centre for Development Studies, University of Bath. Presenters Heaven Crawley - The great amplifier: Covid-19, migration and inequality Yixian Sun - Mask diplomacy? China's Covid-19 aid and the changing international development landscape |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/covid19-consequences-for-global-inequalities-and-prospects-for-develo... |
| Description | Can 'Stop the Boats' solve the UK's migration problems? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In a new blog that examines the UK Government's 'Stop the Boats' legislation, Heaven Crawley outlines a more effective approach that works for both the Government and refugees. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://cpr.unu.edu/publications/articles/can-stop-the-boats-solve-the-uks-migration-problems.html |
| Description | Centering Equality in the Implementation of the IMRF |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Co-convened by UNU-CPR and OHCHR, this event brings together high-level speakers from the UN, OECD, academia and civil society to deepen academic and policy understandings of the relationships between migration and inequality, focusing on the implications of these relationships for the implementation of the GCM. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Challenging the rhetoric around migration and digital technologies: Virtual ICT4D Non-Conference 2020 Panel Discussion (Tim Unwin, G Hari Harindranath) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | An interactive panel session at the Virtual ICT4D Non-Conference 2020 on exploring what affecting digital migrants. What roles are international agencies and regional/local civil society organisations playing in this space? Panellists from key stakeholder organisations (IOM, Migrant Forum Asia) and research institutions (Oxford Refugees Centre, Oxford University; AUT University, Auckland; Royal Holloway): Tanja Dedovic - Senior Regional Thematic Specialist on Labour Mobility and Human Development for the Middle East and North Africa, International Organisation for Migration (IOM); Antonio Diaz-Andrade - Associate Professor, AUT University, Auckland; Evan Easton-Calabria - Senior Research Officer, ; Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford; William Gois - Regional Coordinator, Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA); Tim Unwin, Chairholder, UNESCO Chair in ICT4D, Royal Holloway, University of London. The panel was chaired by G Hari Harindranath (WP9). The panel has led to further discussions with IOM and MFA for future collaboration to extend WP9 work beyond MIDEQ countries. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://ict4d.org.uk/2020/09/28/challenging-the-rhetoric-around-migration-and-digital-technologies-v... |
| Description | Channelling remittances for local development - IOM event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ researcher Stephen Gelb participated in a policy debate webinar organised by the International Organisation of Migration. The webinar convened a group of policy makers and experts to determine how migrants and their economic capital, such as remittances, can be engaged for local investment and entrepreneurship such that migrants can become actors for sustainable development. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Childhood inequalities brief (Nassim Majidi) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Brief on work package two: Child Inequalities. The brief focuses on research questions and methodological tools being employed to examine child inequality in the context of South-South migration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/resources-index-page/childhood-inequalities-brief/ |
| Description | China - Ghana migration corridor brief (Joseph Teye and Jixia Lu) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | China - Ghana migration corridor brief focusing on research questions and relevant work packages |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/resources-index-page/china-ghana-migration-corridor-brief/ |
| Description | China-Ghana Migration corridor: Unpacking the invisible representation of women - MIDEQ Blog (Professor Mariama Awumbila and Mary Setrana) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ blog written by Co-Investigator Professor Mariama Awumbila and researcher Mary Setrana on the increase of women migrating, specifically from Ghana to China. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/blog/china-ghana-migration-corridor-unpacking-invisible-representation-wome... |
| Description | Cited in an article in The Economist |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interviewed for an article on Channel crossings by The Economist and findings of MEDMIG research cited |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.economist.com/britain/2021/08/05/a-country-with-few-asylum-seekers-wants-even-fewer |
| Description | Closing plenary speaker on "Focus for the Future: Learning, Leadership and Digital Inclusion", in Digital Inclusion Summit convened by ITCILO on Leaving No One Behind |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Inspirational keynote at ITCILO Summit |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.itcilo.org/courses/digital-inclusion-summit-leaving-no-one-behind |
| Description | Communities of Humanitarian Thought: The Case for Change in a Time of Crisis |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Launch of "Communities of Humanitarian Thought: The Case for Change in a Time of Crisis" an essay collection bringing together leading thinkers from political and civil society to mark the British Red Cross' 150th year and to outline a vision for the future |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.redcross.org.uk/about-us/what-we-do/we-speak-up-for-change/communities-of-humanitarian-t... |
| Description | Community Mobilisation for Survey Data collection |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | As part of the survey data collection, at the level of each enumeration area or city, the opportunity was given to explain and raise awareness about the objectives of the MIDEQ and the validity of the citizen commitment of the actors. These explanatory sessions were given on the radio but also and above all in person to community representatives, consultants, administrative authorities representing the regions and the target populations. This allowed an optimal commitment of all actors and an implementation of MIDEQ activities among the beneficiaries. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Community and Institutional Mobilisation for Qualitative Data collect fieldwork 1 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | As part of the collection of qualitative data, in each town, the team in Côte d'Ivoire met with community representatives, consulates and administrative authorities representing the region and target populations. These explanatory sessions provided an opportunity to for community members and leaders to learn more about MIDEQ and its work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Comparing north-south and south-south remittances in the case of Burkina Faso |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ Regional Conference on Migration for Development and Equality - Migration policy and resource flow |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/events/mideq-regional-conference-on-migration-for-development-and-equality/ |
| Description | Conference Paper/Conference Proceeding, Digital technologies and migration: Reducing inequalities or creating new ones? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | TREO Talk, International Conference on Information Systems, 15th Dec 2019, Munich on digital technologies and migration. Presented by Hari Harindranath and Tim Unwin |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Conference Presentation - 2021 African Migration Summit (Joseph Teye) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Joseph Teye was a named speaker on the topic Labour migration: what is it going to take to make the paradigm shift to benefit Africa' during the 2021 African migration summit in Accra. The presentation focused on the policy changes needed to ensure that all forms of migration (including south-south) benefit Africans. Presenting alongside all the leading migration experts and policy makers in Africa enhanced the image of the Centre for Migration studies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Conference Presentation - Africa Knows! Conference (Leander Kandilige) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Leander Kandilige was invited as a named a speaker on the topic "West African migration regimes in the context of EU externalised migration management policies: the case of EU-Niger agreement." This was during Africa Knows! Knowledge migration conference.The presentation enhanced participants understanding of how Niger-EU border management agreements affect free movement of Africans across Niger. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Conference Presentation - Critical migration narratives from West Africa (Joseph Teye) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Joseph Teye was a named speaker on the topic "Critical migration narratives from West Africa" during a conference on migration narratives at the age of global compacts which was organised by Ryerson University in Canada in 2020. The presentation enhanced the image of the Centre for Migration Studies as many of the named speakers were top migration scholars. The presentation also challenged the notion that there is an exodus from West Africa towards Europe. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ryerson.ca/research/news-events/2020/03/cerc-migration-conference/ |
| Description | Conference presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference held at the University of Newcastle in September 2022. Talk delivered by Anna Lindley and entitled "Migrants' remittances through mobile global crisis: interrogating resilience" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Conference presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Academic conference International Labour Process Conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ilpc.org.uk |
| Description | Conference presentation - African Academic Union Diaspora Homecoming: Advancing African and Diaspora Academic Relations (Mary Setrana ) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Mary Setrana was invited as a named speaker to speak at the virtual conference on African Academic Union Diaspora Homecoming: Advancing African and Diaspora Academic Relations. The virtual conference organised from the US and attended by over 300 participants. Presentation enhanced participants understanding of Ghana's academic diaspora programme |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Conference presentation - State of Arts of Migration Governance in Africa (Mary Setrana) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Mary Setrana was invited to speak at this virtual conference on Knowledge Platform for Migration Governance in Africa. The presentation enhanced the visibility of the Centre for Migration Studies. It also enhanced understanding of participants on migration governance in Africa. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Conference presentation on China-Ghana Corridor and Inequalities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The presentation was made during the dissemination workshop and policy dialogue in Ghana as part of MIDEQ project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Conference presentation on the importance of south-south migration and the development impact of the diaspora |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | To enhance policy makers knowledge about importance of South-south migration |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Conference presentations on migration and development (Centre for Migration Studies) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Researchers from CMS made several face-to-face and virtual conference presentations in Ghana and internationally |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Consultation workshop with experts from CSOs and development partners on the draft continental guidelines on return, readmission and reintegration (RRR) of migrants. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Consultation workshop with experts from CSOs and development partners on the draft continental guidelines on return, readmission and reintegration (RRR) of migrants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Consultation workshop with experts from CSOs and development partners on the draft continental guidelines on return, readmission and reintegration (RRR) of migrants. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Top academics in the area of return migration were invited to review and validate draft guidelines on return migration for the African Union. I was invited as an academic representing West Africa |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Contribution for conference panel on Migration in Development Policy - ODI |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Contributed to a panel with five others speakers including policy-makers from the EC to discuss the aims of migration policies, their impact and links with development policy. Attended by Dr Jessica Hagen-Zanker |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.accelevents.com/e/OxFID2021#agenda |
| Description | Contribution to panel on CONTRIBUTION OF THE GFMD TO GCM IMPLEMENTATION |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Contributed to a panel, discussing the GFMD and the Global Compact for Migration and how it links with development policy, particularly the 2030 Agenda, with more than 200 policy/ practitioners; they were particularly interested in my comments on the link between social protection and migration and inequalities in portability of benefits. Panellist was Dr Jessica Hagen-Zanker |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.gfmd.org/files/documents/gfmd_summit_2021_-_dialogue_gcm_imrf_-_final_biographies.pdf |
| Description | Corona-Impfungen oder die Suche nach globaler Solidarität (Faisal Gabra and Isabelle Ihring) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Blog on MiG AZIN, which is an independent online magazine. The article by Co-Investigator Faisal Garba and Isabelle Ihring is on the race for the COVID-19 vaccines. This process is leaving countries in the Global South at a significant disadvantage in terms of access. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.migazin.de/2020/11/02/postkoloniale-intervention-corona-impfungen-suche/ |
| Description | Coventry University website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Webpage on Coventry University site outlining the project and providing a summary so that those outside of academia are easily able to access information about the project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/research-directories/current-projects/2019/ukri-gcrf-south/ |
| Description | Covid-19, the Working Class and the Poor in South Africa - African Arguments (Ncumisa Willie and Faisal Garba) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Article in African Arguments on the impact of COVID-19 and its impact on inequality, specifically focusing on the working class in South Africa. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://africanarguments.org/2020/06/covid-19-the-working-class-and-the-poor-in-south-africa/ |
| Description | Crannog Story Weaving Weekend |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ researchers participated in the Celtic Autumn Story Weaving Weekend as part of the Scottish International Storytelling Festival at The Scottish Crannog Centre, which is a replica Iron Age village. Walking around the wooden structures, it becomes clear that this is more than the past. This is a potential future, created from a shared point in history. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/unesco/resources/podcast/#unescochairpodcasts |
| Description | Creation of online course with the Global Health Program (INURED) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Created a course based partially on migration and health in the Global South |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Critical Reflections on Afro-European Relations in Migration Governance |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ colleagues Professor Joseph Teye, Dr Mary Setrana and Professor Heaven Crawley presented at the online lecture series, Critical Reflections on Afro-European Relations in Migration Governance. Professor Teye's keynote speech focused on migration narratives from Africa. Professor Crawley's keynote speech will explore African migration and the politics of representation in Europe. This webinar was hosted by The Arnold Bergstraesser Institute (ABI), the Centre for Global Migration Studies (CeMig) at the University of Göttingen, the Centre for Migration Studies at the University of Ghana, the Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA) and the Nordic Africa Institute . |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/events/critical-reflections-afro-european-relations-migration-governance/ |
| Description | CĂ´te d'Ivoire: Press conference on provisional results from MIDEQ research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Researchers from our MIDEQ team were featured in an article/press release from Abidjan.net. The article discusses a conference held by the team which highlighted the teams work in Cote d'Ivoire. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://news.abidjan.net/articles/704851/cote-divoire-les-resultats-provisoires-dune-etude-sur-la-mi... |
| Description | DSA panel on migration and inequality (Tanja Bastia, University of Manchester, Laura Hammond, SOAS and Anita Ghimire, Nepal Inst. Social and Environmental Research) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Panel discussion on migration and inequality, organised between Tanja Bastia, Laura Hammond and Anita Ghimire |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.devstud.org.uk/conferences/2020/ |
| Description | De Carle |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | De Carle Distinguished Fellowship - 20 public lectures on Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts; South South Migration and Idioms of Distress |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| Description | Decolonising gender and migration research through collaborative thinking and practice - MIDEQ Blog (Tanja Bastia, Nicola Piper, Kavita Datta, Matthew Walsham, Dr. Katja Hujo) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ blog recapping a virtual two day session on the MIDEQ gender work package from ranging on topics intersectionality to methodology. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/blog/decolonising-gender-and-migration-research-through-collaborative-think... |
| Description | Decolonising knowledge production on south-south migration (MIDEQ blog) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ blog focused on one pathway to impact - decolonising research on south-south migration |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/blog/decolonising-knowledge-production-on-south-south-migration/ |
| Description | DevTalks: New waves of migration: are developing countries ready? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Event organized by the OECD Development Centre as part of the DevTalks series. Discussion focused on whether developing countries can take full advantage of the new waves of migration as a driver of development. Panel drew on research and insights from the new African Union African Migration Observatory, the United Nations University and the MIDEQ Hub. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.oecd.org/dev/devtalks-news-waves-migration-are-developing-countries-ready.htm |
| Description | Diaspora Development Dialogue (DDD) hosted by ADEPT (Africa Europe Diaspora Development Platform) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Event raising awareness about the value of diaspora investment |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | http://www.adept-platform.org |
| Description | Digital tech, inequality and migration: Impact case study |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Blog post providing further details on one of MIDEQ's impact initiatives. The digital tech team is specifically working in South Africa and Nepal to improve digital literacy and skills among migrant communities in the respective countries. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/impact/digital-tech-inequality-and-migration/ |
| Description | Digital technologies and migration: Reducing inequalities or creating new ones? TREO Talk, International Conference on Information Systems, 15th Dec 2019, Munich, Germany (Harindranath, G & Unwin T, ) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Around 30 academics and PG students attended a session at the conference on social inclusion related research talks. There was a lot of interest in MIDEQ's work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://github.com/mschermann/treoaticis2019 |
| Description | Digital technologies for community empowerment with Dr Mahabir Pun, NIC Nepal |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ colleagues participated on a panel with Dr Mahabir Pun, an activist, scientist and more known for his work in applying wireless technologies to develop remote areas of the Himalayas. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-technologies-for-community-empowerment-dr-mahabir-pun-virtual... |
| Description | Digital technologies, migration and inequality, Copenhagen Business School-Royal Holloway School of Management Joint Workshop, (Harindranath G) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on Digital technologies, migration and inequality at a joint workshop between Copenhagen Business School-Royal Holloway School of Management |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Discussant of Conference Proceeding (Louis Herns Marcelin) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Served as a discussant for the "International Migration and Social Change at a Global Turning Point" conference hosted by the University of Miami |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Discussion with the United Nations |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | We established working relationship with the UN Human Rights outfit in Southern Africa around changing narratives. On the basis of that we were invited to be part of a workshop with CSOs and activists. We are using the materials as part of our activist training for WP 7 - Migrant Mobilisation and Solidarity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Disseminating WP9 work to the wider community of researchers and general public (Hari Harindranath and Tim Unwin) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 'Get to Know' column on Royal Holloway Newsletter highlighting WP9 work - available on College website for general access. We are already using this to highlight our work and to seek potential collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://intranet.royalholloway.ac.uk/staff/news-events/news-articles/2021/february/get-to-know...gcr... |
| Description | Disseminating WP9 work to the wider community of researchers and practitioner (Royal Holloway University of London) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | A dedicated website at Royal Holloway's UNESCO Chair in ICT4D to disseminate the work of WP9-Digital technologies and inequality |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://ict4d.org.uk/technology-inequality-and-migration |
| Description | Diversifying the roles of recruitment agencies for post-pandemic livelihoods in Nepal - MIDEQ Blog (Karan Kunwar) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ blog on how recruitment agencies are supporting Nepali workers returning home due to COVID-19. Blog written by Karan Kunwar, MIDEQ researcher |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/blog/impact-covid-19-nepals-recruitment-sector/ |
| Description | Documentary |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The documentary showcases the experiences of a Nigerian immigrant in Ghana and the challenges she faces as a female cross-border trader in this COVID-19 pandemic era |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Documentation and mobility: a case of Ethiopian migrants operating businesses in South Africa |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ Regional Conference on Migration for Development and Equality - Inequality and Migration |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/events/mideq-regional-conference-on-migration-for-development-and-equality/ |
| Description | Doing Development Research Differently during and beyond Covid-19 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ colleagues Heaven Crawley and Toni Cela participated on a panel discussion about the impact of COVID-19 on international development research and field work. The discussion was co-organised by Coventry University and the University of Bath. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQCDW3HzPOY |
| Description | Drawing Lessons from COVID-19 to Migration Management - National Center of Competence in Research Blog ( Dr. Henrietta Nyamnjoh) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Blog written by MIDEQ researcher Dr. Henrietta Nyamnjoh on how to draw lessons on migration management from the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://nccr-onthemove.ch/blog/drawing-lessons-from-covid-19-to-migration-management/ |
| Description | ECAS 2019 Panel Discussion |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Chaired a panel discussion at the European Conference on African Studies: Chaired a panel entitled 'Decolonising Africanist migration research?' at the invitation of Jesper Bjarnesen, The Nordic Africa Institute |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | ECAS 2019 Roundtable |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Participant on roundtable at the European Conference on African Studies: Member of a roundtable discussion entitled 'Turning Down the Heat: (Mis-) Representation of African Migration in the Media and the Role of Researchers' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://ecasconference.org/2019/home |
| Description | ENYA Network presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ Co-Director Alison Phipps presented at the European National Young Academies network on the scientific and material aims of National Academies, in relation to the current global crisis of human migration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.youngacademyofscotland.org.uk/events/european-network-of-young-academies-enya-meeting-20... |
| Description | EU Global Diaspora Facility Future Forum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop to publicise and disseminate work on diaspora finance in broader conference of EU-based diaspora organisations |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://diasporafordevelopment.eu/save-the-date-future-forum-22-24-june/ |
| Description | Economic and cultural resource flows between China and Africa (MIDEQ blog) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ China team blog post on resource flows from migrants in China and West Africa |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/blog/economic-and-cultural-resource-flows-between-china-and-africa/ |
| Description | Egypt - Jordan migration corridor brief (Ibrahim Awad and Zaid Eyadat) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Brief on the Egypt - Jordan migration corridor focusing research questions and outlining the work packages. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/resources-index-page/egypt-jordan-migration-corridor-brief/ |
| Description | Enforcing migrant workers' labour rights: lessons from trade unions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ joined the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), Migrant Justice Institute, Solidarity Center, the ILAW Network for a global discussion on the ways in which unions are successfully supporting migrant workers to achieve labour justice. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/events/migrant-workers-labour-rights-trade-unions/ |
| Description | Engagement meetings with North-South Initiative, Malaysia (Yeoh Seng-Guan, Monash, Malaysia) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Series of meetings between Monash and key stakeholder - the North-South Initiative -- to help us design and execute the MIDEQ research in Malaysia with regards to the Malaysia-Nepal migration corridor. The NSI is also key in getting the Malaysian team in contact with civil society groups involved with Nepali migrant workers etc. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Engagement with Migration Policy Group, Nepal |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Participation of members of the Migration Policy Group led by IOM at MIDEQ's Research Symposium in Kathmandu, Nepal. Opportunity for information exchange and dialogue to ensure that MIDEQ's research and approach informs the government's policy and practice |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Engaging with Civil Society (Mariama Awumbila and Faisal Garba) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation as panellist on "COVID-19, Policy Responses and Migrants in Ghana" at Webinar organised by PRIA On October 16, 2020. Other panellist were senior policymakers form India and other Asia countries. Several questions and interests was raised on south-south migration and its potential for reducing inequalities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Ethiopia - South Africa migration corridor brief (Dereje Feyissa and Faisal Garba) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Ethiopia - South Africa brief on migration corridor, focusing on research questions as well as relevant work packages for this corridor. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/resources-index-page/ethiopia-south-africa-migration-corridor-brief/ |
| Description | European Development Days 2019 Lab Debate |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Lab Debate held as part of EDD entitled 'Maximising the benefits of South-South migration for development' chaired by Professor Heaven Crawley with contributions from Prof Joseph Teye (University of Ghana), Dr Katja Kujo (UNRISD) and Jason Gagnon (OECD) Opportunity to engage a very informed development audience in the aims and objectives of the MIDEQ Hub leading to in-depth audience questions and discussion and a number of follow up opportunities and events, both at the EDD and beyond |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://eudevdays.eu/past-editions#anchor-2027 |
| Description | Experiences of Haitians in Brazil event, Casa Rio, Brazil |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Event organised by IMJA and held at Casa Rio in central Rio to present the findings of MIDEQ's research on the experiences of Haitian migrants in Brazil |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Expert Group Meeting on Asia-Pacific Migration Report 2020, UNESCAP Bangkok (Nicola Piper) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of expert commentary on "supporting the integration of migrants and their contribution to development" from gender perspective. Regional UN Commissions have to provide reports on the implementation activities on the Global Compact for Migration; UNESCAP organised this event to gain input from external experts and I was invited as one of those; the commentary was then considered for the final revision of the regional report for the Asia Pacific. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Expert consultation on human rights and temporary labour migration programmes in and from Asia and the Pacific (Nicola Piper) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ Co-I Nicola Piper provided consultation on human rights and temporary labour migration programmes focused on the Asia and the Pacific region. This resulted in a follow up meeting with a key consultant. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Experts review meeting on the AU draft continental guidelines on return, readmission and reintegration. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Top academics in the area of return migration were invited to review and validate draft guidelines on return migration for the African Union. Leander Kandilige was invited as an academic representing West Africa. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Experts review meeting on the AU draft continental guidelines on return, readmission and reintegration. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Top academics in the area of return migration were invited to review and validate draft guidelines on return migration for the African Union. I was invited as an academic representing West Africa |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Exploitative and ineffective international engagement created Haiti's migration crisis (Toni Cela and Louis Herns Marcelin) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr. Toni Cela and Dr. Louis Herns Marcelin wrote an op-ed in The New Humanitarian about Haitian migrants and their journeys from South America to the US-Mexico border now. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2021/10/12/whos-to-blame-for-Haiti-migration-crisis |
| Description | Exposing the cracks: COVID-19 and global inequality |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ researchers Anita Ghimire and Faisal Garba joined researchers from GCRF funded Hubs, Arise Hub and The Gender, Justice and Security Hub, for a discussion on whether the pandemic can be used as a disruption to the system - exposing cracks that can be exploited to confront power and inequality - or whether it is business-as-usual, exacerbating inequalities and privileging those with power. The event was hosted by The Gender, Justice and Security Hub. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/events/exposing-cracks-covid-19-and-global-inequality-hosted-gender-justice... |
| Description | Facilitation of a session of the virtual AAMR (African Academy for Migration research) workshop on Knowledge Production and Politics in Migration Studies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Discussion led on session - How is migration studied? How else could it be studied? Migration research and decolonisation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Facilitator on return migration of vulnerable migrants from south-south and north-south migration and reintegration strategies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Mary Setrana (Ghana) facilitaed a workshop on return and reintegration and the role of government agencies and the nature of partnership that can be developed in the implementation of the National Referral Mechanism. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Feminist Fridays: Conversations about Labour Migration from a Feminist Lens (Tanja Bastia, Nicola Piper and Mary Setrana) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID), Focus on Labour Exploitation (FLEX), Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW), Solidarity Center, and Women in Migration Network (WIMN) host Feminist Fridays, an event series focused on labour migration and gender. MIDEQ researchers Tanja Bastia, Nicola Piper and Mary Boatemaa Setrana participated as panellists. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.gaatw.org/events-and-news/68-gaatw-news/1098-feminist-fridays |
| Description | Fieldwork training for the Burkina Faso survey (ISSP) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The Burkina Faso MIDEQ team, coordinated by Dr Bonayi Dabiré, began training enumerators who will carry out the quantitative survey. In total, around fifty candidates were selected to take part in this training. The training lasted 10 days during which participants will learn about the various questionnaires and fundamental elements of this research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/events/fieldwork-training-burkina-faso-survey/ |
| Description | Five Takeaways on Migration and Development - Blog (Jason Gagnon) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Blog based on the Policy Dialogue on Migration and Development (PDMD), organised by OECD Development Centre - with major players, governments, experts and policy-makers looking at the links between migration and development across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Blog written by Jason Gagnon, OECD Economist |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://oecd-development-matters.org/2019/12/23/five-takeaways-on-migration-and-development/#more-11... |
| Description | Forced Return Migration to Haiti during the COVID-19 Pandemic - MIDEQ Blog (Olriche Fortin) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ blog on Haitians return migrants during COVID-19, many of whom have come from flights via the United States or the Dominican Republic. The blog examines how these waves of mass deportations will further weaken the country's health system, which was already characterized by its limited capacity to meet the needs of the population. Blog written by Olriche Fortin, MIDEQ researcher. French version: https://www.mideq.org/fr/blog/covid-19-et-la-migration-de-retour-forc%C3%A9e-en-ha%C3%AFti/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/blog/forced-return-migration-haiti-during-covid-19-pandemic/ |
| Description | Fredrich Ebert Foundation, Migration Competence Centre engagement meetings, Addis Ababa ( Dereje Feyissa Dori, Peace and Development Centre Ethiopia) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Initial contact made with the Fredrich Ebert Foundation in Addis Ababa and its Migration Competence Centre - the FMCC (Flight and Migration Competence Centre). FMCC was founded to coordinate and strategically align the work of the FES in the areas of flight and migration on the African continent. The aim is to improve the dialogue between Africa and Europe and to ensure an objective and fact-based discussion. FMCC is very keen to work with the Hub in generating and sharing knowledge about migration dynamics and in the design of appropriate policies in the nexus between migration and development. FMCC is also closely networked with the Addis Ababa Goethe Institute which it uses for the artistic representation of migration processes - also relevant for the Hub's intervention packages. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | From Despair to Hope? Securing Rights for Haitian Migrants in the New Brazil |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Blog to mark Lula's succession as Brazilian President, intended to raise awareness of the needs of Haitians and other migrants after a period of significant anti-immigrant rhetoric |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://cpr.unu.edu/publications/articles/securing-rights-for-haitian-migrants-new-brazil.html |
| Description | From promises to practice: Towards the effective implementation of the Global Compact on Migration (MIDEQ event) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This hybrid event was the first in a series of migration policy roundtables and provides an opportunity to reflect on progress related to the implementation of the Global Compact on Migration (GCM). The event was organised by the UN University Centre for Policy Research (UNU-CPR) in partnership with the MIDEQ Hub and Geneva Science-Policy Interface (GSPI). Speakers came from government, international organisations, civil society and academia. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/events/from-promises-to-practice-towards-the-effective-implementation-of-th... |
| Description | G. Harindranath & M R Lorini- Digital tech, inequality and migration |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation and discussion with researchers and practitioners |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | G. Harindranath, Maria Rosa Lorini - Digital technologies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This three-day event (12th-14th September) for c.21 people built on our previous research into the use of digital technologies by migrants and their family members. It resulted in proposals for three digital interventions that will help to reduce Nepali migrant-defined inequalities. We brought together returnee migrants, local tech-developers |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | G. Harindranath, Maria Rosa Lorini - Digital technologies, inequality and migration' Sandpit & Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This three-day event (12th-14th September) for c.21 people built on our previous research into the use of digital technologies by migrants and their family members. It resulted in proposals for three digital interventions that will help to reduce Nepali migrant-defined inequalities. We brought together returnee migrants, local tech-developers and media companies, local migrant organisations, and international organisations to do three main things: • Explore how inequalities are experienced by migrants and their family members and how the use of digital tech can reduce these; • Facilitate collaboration between migrant organisations and tech developers to craft appropriate and relevant digital interventions; and • Plan the necessary follow-up co-design activities and modes of collaboration between parties who decide to engage with this work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | G. Harindranath, Tim Unwin, M R Lorini - Digital Technologies, Inequality, and Development in the context of South-South Migration |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | We organised a thematic discussion at the (UN) International Telecommunication Union (ITU)'s World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS 2022) (online) on 29th April 2022. WSIS is the largest international gathering of the ICT4D (ICT for development) community involving policy makers, ICT4D practitioners and academia. The forum's focus is on engaging with policy, research and practice on the use of digital aligned with WSIS action lines and SDGs. Our thematic forum brought together representatives from policy, academia and practice including migrant advocacy organisations, international agencies and civil society groups to identify pathways for the safe use of digital technologies to address inequalities faced by migrants and their family members. Participating organsiations included ILO, ICRC, IOM and migrant advocacy group, Migrant Forum in Asia. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2022/Agenda/Session/240 |
| Description | GIZ Gender and Migration Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Panel Discussant at GIZ Gender and Migration Conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Gender and Migration - Training (Nicola Piper) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Organised by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and the Women in Migration Network as a training session for civil society organisations around the world |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Gender and migration in the Global South - Intersectional reflections on International Women's Day (Matthew Walsham and Tanja Bastia) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Blog on International Women's Day reflecting on the heavy toll that Covid-19 has had on migrants across the world and how the pandemic has highlighted and exacerbated the gendered inequalities that many migrant women face. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | http://blog.gdi.manchester.ac.uk/gender-and-migration-in-the-global-south/ |
| Description | Gender considerations: the role of the EAC-CMP and the IGAD-FMP in facilitating labour mobility in the EHoA region. Regional Ministerial Forum on Migration (RMFM) Technical working group on gender and diaspora |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Leander Kandilige was invited to be part of the technical working group to integrate gender into labour mobility issues |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Gender considerations: the role of the EAC-CMP and the IGAD-FMP in facilitating labour mobility in the EHoA region. Regional Ministerial Forum on Migration (RMFM) Technical working group on gender and diaspora |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Gender considerations: the role of the EAC-CMP and the IGAD-FMP in facilitating labour mobility in the EHoA region. Regional Ministerial Forum on Migration (RMFM) Technical working group on gender and diaspora |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Gender inequality brief (Kavita Datta, Nicola Piper, Tanja Bastia) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Brief on gender work package which outlines research questions and approach to understanding the relationship with gender and migration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/resources-index-page/gender-inequality-brief/ |
| Description | Gendered migration in the COVID-19 era - MIDEQ Blog (Laura Foley, Nicola Piper, Matthew Walsham) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ blog by researchers Laura Foley, Nicola Piper and Matthew Walsham on exploring two main issues in relation to gender, labour migration and the pandemic - care work and gender responsive policies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/blog/gendered-migration-covid-19-era/ |
| Description | Gendering Nepal-Malaysia's Migration |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ researcher Nadiah Ahmad presented on current findings on the gender dimensions of Nepal-Malaysia corridor. This includes findings on how gender shapes migratory desires, expectations and decisions, the everyday experiences between Nepali men and women in Malaysia, as well as the extent to which migration positively or negatively reconstructs pre-existing gender inequalities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/events/gendering-nepal-malaysias-migration-corridor/ |
| Description | German Young Academy's panel discussion on "Inclusion of academics and artists from the Global South" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ co-director Alison Phipps was a panellist on German Young Academy's discussion on "Inclusion of academics and artists from the Global South". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Glasgow Motherlanguage Day Keynote |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | At the opening ceremony of the BHASHA Glasgow Language Festival on Sunday 21 Feb 21, Professor Alison Phipps, UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and Arts took the opportunity to call for a Languages Strategy for Scotland "Fostering multilingualism for inclusion in education and society" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.greatergovanhill.com/latest/unesco-chair-calls-for-languages-strategy-for-scotland |
| Description | Global interstate bilateral labour migration agreements (BLMA) as migration governance tools: An analysis from a gender lens (Nicola Piper) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ researcher Nicola Piper spoke at an event hosted by Tel Aviv University. The aims to create a space for an interdisciplinary and international conversation on bilateral labour agreements, the motivations behind them, their implications for migration governance, the rights of workers and their unique character as international law documents |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.trafflab.org/bilateral-labor-agreements |
| Description | Governance: how do we learn collectively and navigate difference? Lessons from migration governance and policy development. Collective Leadership Institute Transformation Literacy Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Leander Kandilige - this involved scholars and practitioners on governance and policy development. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Governance: how do we learn collectively and navigate difference? Lessons from migration governance and policy development. Collective Leadership Institute Transformation Literacy Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Governance: how do we learn collectively and navigate difference? Lessons from migration governance and policy development. Collective Leadership Institute Transformation Literacy Conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Grappling with South-South migration and inequalities at the Development Studies Association annual conference - MIDEQ Blog (Matthew Walsham) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ blog written by researcher Matthew Walsham on a panel discussion with MIDEQ researchers on Global South-South migration and inequality. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/blog/grappling-south-south-migration-and-inequalities-development-studies-a... |
| Description | H THOMAS: ONLINE EXHIBITION FOR UN 75TH ANNIVERSARY |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Hannah Rose Thomas is PhD student with MIDEQ. Her PhD thesis is in 'Evaluating the human and social Impact of Art for migratory and marginalized people - An Intercultural, Multilingual Approach to Equity.' Her research interest is in investigating the restorative and transformative potential of the arts to support conflict-affected and migratory communities to reconcile, to heal the past and to re-build a future. Hannah's work is featured in a virtual exhibition with Google Arts & Culture to mark the UN's Official 75th Anniversary Programme, 'The Future is Unwritten: Artists for Tomorrow'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/the-future-is-unwritten-hannah-thomas-tears-of-gold/lQKC25... |
| Description | Haiti - Brazil migration corridor brief (Professor Louis Herns Marcelin) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Published brief on the Brazil -Haiti migration corridor including research questions that are being considered and relevant work packages. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/resources-index-page/haiti-brazil-corridor-brief/ |
| Description | Haiti and Ethiopia team collaboration |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Launched the Haiti-Ethiopia collaboration with a trip to Ethiopia to begin planning/structuring/solidifying the collaboration between the Haiti Migration Network and Center for Migration Studies at Wachemo University. Participated in the workshop on Migration Processes in the Ethiopia-South Africa Corridor: Drivers and Impact in Hosana, Ethiopia |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Haitian Families and Loss of Remittances During the COVID-19 Pandemic - OCED Development Matters (Toni Cela and Louis Herns Marcelin) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Blog on OCED Development Matters on COVID-19 and its impact on remittances in Haiti. The blog is part of a larger series covering COVID-19 in developing countries. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://oecd-development-matters.org/2020/05/29/haitian-families-and-loss-of-remittances-during-the-... |
| Description | Haitian United Council |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The goal of these discussions are to generate dialogue between political factions in Haiti; to create awareness on violence and migration, particularly migration of young people. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Hamadzi, memory as silence: memory in sound, silence and the compassion of music - MIDEQ Blog (Gameli Tordzro) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ blog from Gameli Tordzro on the relationship between migration and music. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/blog/hamadzi-memory-silence-memory-sound-silence-and-compassion-music/ |
| Description | Hamadzi, memory as silence: memory, language learning and remembering a forgotten language - MIDEQ Blog (Gameli Tordzro) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ blog from researcher Gameli Tordzro on reflections on memory, language learning and remembering a forgotten language |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/blog/hamadzi-memory-silence-memory-language-learning-and-remembering-forgot... |
| Description | Hannah Rose Thomas and 'Tears of Gold' Ukraine Portrait unveiling and panel discussion in Westminster |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The weeklong exhibition of 'Tears of Gold' to mark World Refugee Day (20 June 2022) was sponsored by UNHCR UK, the UN Refugee Agency, and Rehman Chishti MP. This series of portraits of women from across the world profiles the stories, suffering, and search for justice that define just a handful of those millions forced from their homes worldwide. A new portrait of Ukrainian refugees Maria and her mother Nadiia from Kyiv was unveiled. Hannah took part in a panel discussion alongside Vicky Tennant, UNHCR's Representative to the UK; Ferozan, a former female judge from Afghanistan who features in the exhibition and Baroness Sarah Ludford, sponsor of the Refugees (Family Reunion) Bill. Hannah's portraits of Yezidi, Rohingya, and Nigerian women are a visual testimony not only of war and injustice but also of humanity, dignity, and resilience. The works use art as a tool for advocacy and bringing stories into places of influence in the West. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | http://hannahrosethomas.com |
| Description | Heading south: a reflection of child migration patterns from southern Ethiopia - MIDEQ Blog (Meron Zeleke) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ blog on child migration in southern Ethiopia specifically from the lens of irregular migration and gender. Blog written by MIDEQ researcher Meron Zeleke |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/fr/blog/heading-south-reflection-child-migration-patterns-southern-ethiopia/ |
| Description | HeartEdge event for 'Mapping Faith' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Book launch for Mapping Faith: Theologies of Migration and Community. MIDEQ researchers Tawona Sitholé and Alison Phipps a have chapter in the book. The book explores how poetry emerges from, and gives voice to, diverse experiences of exile, flight, abuse, hope, refuge and belonging. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-refuge-exile-voices-of-migration-tickets-153707195359 |
| Description | Heritage and Our Sustainable Futures |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | WP11 team chaired and led sessions on reducing inequalities through people centred and decolonising approaches |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://nomadit.co.uk/heritage-and-our-sustainable-future/programme#day-four |
| Description | How We Talk About Migration |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discussion with Laura Hammond (MIDEQ CO-I) and Benjamin Dix (PositiveNegatives) on using art to represent and communicate migration narratives |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.rgs.org/h0wd0w3ta1kab0utm1grat10n/ |
| Description | How and why do migrants use digital tech? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Blog from MIDEQ researcher Tim Unwin which summarises key findings from survey results in Nepal, Malaysia and South Africa. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/blog/how-and-why-do-migrants-use-digital-tech/ |
| Description | How are migration policies encountered by migrants? (MIDEQ blog) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ researcher Jessica Hagen-Zanker's blog focuses on the implementation of migration policies, specifically analysing the effectiveness of migration management in influencing migration decision-making. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/blog/how-are-migration-policies-encountered-by-migrants/ |
| Description | How has digital technology impacted & shaped migration intermediaries - Panel discussion at the Migrant Belongings conference, 22nd April 2021. Organised by Utrecht University - Maria Rosa Lorini & Francisca Sassetti |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Panel discussion at the Migrant Belongings conference, 22nd April 2021. The panel included a WP9 researcher (Dr Maria Rosa Lorini) and PhD student (Francisca Sassetti) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://migrantbelongings.sites.uu.nl/ |
| Description | How migrant entrepreneurs find their way in South Africa |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Blog discussing the experiences of migrant entrepreneurs in South Africa. The blog was published on 360 Info hosted by Monash University |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://360info.org/how-migrant-entrepreneurs-find-their-way-in-south-africa/ |
| Description | How migrants are changing the male face of Ghana's gold mines - Mary Setrana |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Mary Setrana discusses in a podcast: "I work with the MIDEQ ('Migration for Development & Equality') project, and our research shows that women are migrating independently between countries in the Global South and doing male-dominated work such as mining and construction. It is evident that Chinese women are moving to Ghana for better job opportunities in mining - challenging the assumption that mining is for men." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/podcasts/podcast-borders-belonging/migrant-ghana-gold-mine-women-hu... |
| Description | How migrants can best benefit from the use of digital tech |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | OECD development blog from MIDEQ Co-I Tim Unwin on how migrants use digital technologies and recommendations on how to utilise digital technologies already used by migrants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://oecd-development-matters.org/2022/02/07/how-migrants-can-best-benefit-from-the-use-of-digita... |
| Description | How to improve data security and ethics when using big data, UCL Workshop on big data and migration, 3rd July 2019, London (Unwin T) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Panel discussion on How to improve data security and ethics when using big data at the UCL Workshop on big data and migration, 3rd July 2019, London. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | How to improve data security and ethics when using big data, UCL Workshop on big data and migration, 3rd July 2019, London (Unwin, T, ) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | All day event at UCL, London on bid data and migration attended by around 30 academics and PG students. The audience were keen to find out about MIDEQ. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/grand-challenges/events/2019/jul/workshop-can-big-data-help-migration-research |
| Description | Hub-wide survey: migrants, migrant households, returnees - Impact case study |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Case study exploring the potential impacts from the Hub wide survey conducted in the Global South |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/impact/hub-wide-survey-migrants-migrant-households-returnees/ |
| Description | I am Tiger |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | this is a drama for ages 12+ about how to survive when the worst has happened. To accompany Perth Theatre and Imaginate's production of I Am Tiger in May 2022, we worked with four Writers and Drama Artists to create and facilitate writing workshops with 12-18 year olds. These workshops explored the language we use to express our emotions and considered how writing can help our mental health. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.horsecross.co.uk/learning-and-engagement/schools-and-nurseries/secondary-schools/we-are-... |
| Description | IASFM18: Disrupting Theory, Unsettling Practice: Towards Transformative Forced Migration Scholarship and Policy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Members from MIDEQ's creative arts thematic area team gave the keynote and a performance (Mmere Dane) as well. The event focused on creative and artistic representations, debates and discussions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://pheedloop.com/iasfm18/site/ |
| Description | ICT/education of women in East London - South Africa |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Basic training for migrants on how to apply for permit extension and how to look for materials that relate to the regularisation of stay in South Africa. The idea emerged as a result of the a request by a group of women in East London for training to enable them to apply for permits etc to reduce their dependence on men |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| Description | INURED article featured in national newspaper in Haiti |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ researchers Dr Toni Cela and Dr Louis Herns Marcelin article was featured in a Haitian national newspaper, Le National. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.lenational.org/reader.php?rebmun=1326 |
| Description | Impact Initiatives: building capacity |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Summaries and explores the impact initiatives and interventions specifically focused on building capacity and shifting knowledge production from the Global North towards the Global South |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/impact/impact-initiatives-building-capacity/ |
| Description | Impact Initiatives: changing narratives |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Explores impact initiatives and interventions specifically focused on changing the narrative on migration and migrants in the Global South. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/impact/impact-initiatives-changing-narratives/ |
| Description | Impact Initiatives: improving migrant lives |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Provides a summary of the impact initiatives and interventions through the MIDEQ Hub. This one specifically focuses on projects aimed at improving migrant lives. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/impact/impact-initiatives-improving-migrant-lives/ |
| Description | Impact of free trade agreements on migration, development and human rights: the case of Jordan (MIDEQ blog) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Blog from MIDEQ colleagues in Jordan about Jordan's free trade agreements and it impact on migrant labour in Jordan |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/blog/free-trade-agreements-migration-development-human-rights-jordan/ |
| Description | In conversation; Tanja Bastia and Ronald Skeldon on Migration and Development (Tanja Bastia and Ronald Skeldon) - Podcast |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Podcast with MIDEQ researcher Tanja Bastia. They discuss their long-term collaboration in the fields of migration and development and their wish to build on long-standing research by bringing together established thinkers and new areas of research - an approach which has culminated in a new handbook, Routledge Handbook of Migration and Development. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://blog.gdi.manchester.ac.uk/in-conversation-bastia-skeldon-migration-development/ |
| Description | In search of greener pastures: unsafe migration in Sri Lanka's tea plantation sector (MIDEQ blog) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ blog exploring gender and migration within the context of tea plantations in Sri Lanka. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/blog/in-search-of-greener-pastures-unsafe-migration-in-sri-lankas-tea-plant... |
| Description | Inaugural Iona Community lecture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | "These Stones Will Shout Aloud: gathering global voices on themes of climate justice, hospitality, faith and the integration of the whole of life." Through this annual lecture the Iona Community brings to public notice the voices of people from across the globe who connect faith with action. This reflects our conviction that 'the radical, inclusive community we seek must be embodied in the community we practice.' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.westreamit.co.uk/iona2022 |
| Description | Inclusive Growth and Migration webinar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ colleagues Heaven Crawley and Oliver Bakewell participated in a thought-provoking conversation on how inclusive growth can be framed, how it can enrich discussions around migration and development, and how MIAG's work can inform more effective policymaking. The event was hosted by the Open University's Migration for Inclusive African Growth (MIAG) research project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/events/inclusive-growth-and-migration-webinar-hosted-international-developm... |
| Description | Inequalities, Arts and Culture in Migration Studies Podcast |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The WP11 - Multilingual Arts, Creative Resistance and Wellbeing Work Package - undertook a detailed review of the published, extant literature on arts, language and culture and migration in each of the countries and corridors in the MIDEQ research design. The team chose to record their work as a podcast as part of their work of both accessibility and creative resistance. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/resources-index-page/inequalities-arts-and-culture-migration-studies/ |
| Description | Inequality, migration and return migration along the China-Ghana corridor |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ Regional Conference on Migration for Development and Equality - Inequality and Migration |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/events/mideq-regional-conference-on-migration-for-development-and-equality/ |
| Description | Infrastructures of mobility: rural-transnational migration and social mobilization in Egypt's Nile Delta - Hosted by Center for Migration and Refugee Studies, The American University in Cairo |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Disseminated findings from qualitative research on migration infrastructures on Egypt's Nile Delta to members of the general public and professional practitioners in the field of migration in an online webinar hosted by CMRS. Led by Nada El-Kouny, MIDEQ Researcher |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/events/infrastructures-mobility-rural-transnational-migration-social-mobili... |
| Description | International Forum on Migration Statistics - How can statistics better reflect migration realities in Africa? (Jason Gagnon, OECD) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Jason Gagnon presented at the International Forum on MIgration Statistics with a talk on - How can statistics better reflect migration realities in Africa? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://gmdac.iom.int/iom-oecd-undesa-organise-second-international-forum-migration-statistics |
| Description | International Migrants Day event - Contribution of Migration to Development in the MENA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | On the occasion of International Migrants Day, UNU-CPR and the Institute for Migration Studies (IMS) at the Lebanese American University, in partnership with the MIDEQ Hub and the International Labour Organization (ILO), organized an online panel that aimed to address the contributions of migration to development in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, focusing on Jordan and Lebanon more specifically. Moderated by Professor Heaven Crawley (UNU-CPR), panelists from MIDEQ (Jordan) and the ILO Regional Office (Lebanon) discussed how migratory practices have contributed, and continue to contribute to, development priorities and narratives in both contexts. Dr Jasmin Lilian Diab (IMS and UNU-CPR) provided introductory remarks on the MENA context. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://cpr.unu.edu/events/archive/event/contributions-of-migration-to-development-in-the-mena.html |
| Description | Interview for Sunday Times |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview with Sunday Times based on finding of MEDMIG and MIDEQ research, views/findings cited in the published article |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/why-do-migrants-come-to-the-uk-mzgfhdk9k |
| Description | Interview on BBC Coventry and Warwickshire breakfast show |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview on BBC Coventry and Warwickshire breakfast show about the drowning of 27 people crossing the channel and the reasons why people come to the UK in search of protection |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Interview on BBC Radio Wales breakfast show |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Radio interview on BBC Radio Wales in response to drowning of people crossing the English Channel in search of protection |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_radio_wales_fm |
| Description | Interview to the New Humanitarian (Faisal Garba) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Co-Investigator Faisal Garba granted an interview to the New Humanitarian in February 2021 on COVID's impacts on migrants, asylum seekers and refugees |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Interview with Eric Reidy (The New Humanitarian) about refugee protection in context of COVID-19 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Media interview with Eric Reidy (The New Humanitarian) about the politics of protection in a post COVID-19 world and exploring both the impacts of the pandemic on refugee protection over the first year (2020) and anticipated impacts over year two (2021). One of the consequences of this discussion was an agreement that MIDEQ will be able to pitch op-ed ideas to The New Humanitarian in future and/or he may approach MIDEQ colleagues about potential contributions |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/migration |
| Description | Interview with Hadiya TV |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview on the drivers and impact of Hadiya migration to South Africa |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://fb.watch/ej_8TJnSn7/ |
| Description | Interview with La Vanguardia, a Catalan newspaper based in Barcelona |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The interview was related to the recently discovered mass-grave of Ethiopian migrants in Malawi on their way to South Africa with the objective of what needs to be done to provide for the protection needs of migrants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Introduce MIDEQ to Policymakers at OECD in Paris - INURED |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | About 25 policymakers and diplomats participated in a policy briefing at the OECD Headquarter in Paris. INURED introduced the objectives and methodology of MIDEQ in the Haiti-Brazil corridor. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Introduction to MIDEQ meeting - Open Day hosted by Center for Migration and Refugee Studies, The American University in Cairo |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hosted introductory meeting with various professional practitioners in the migration field to introduce MIDEQ and explore potential for future collaboration and synergies; attendees included the ILO, IOM, and officials from the Egyptian Ministry of Planning |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
| Description | Invited Attendee - Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | World Refugee Day on the 70th Anniversary of the 1951 Refugee Convention: European solidarity and protection UK Parliament, House of Lords, London Web Conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Invited seminar: digital technologies and migration - Tim Unwin |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Seminar and lectures were held at Institut de Géographie de l'Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland. The presentation led to future collaboration with researchers working beyond the MIDEQ corridor countries. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Invited speaker by ILO: digital technologies and skills development |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited speaker at meeting convened by ILO to explore development of migrant worker organisations, esp. in Zimbabwe. This led to Future collaboration and policy influence as well. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Invited speaker, Migration and Refugees, Royal College of Defence Studies (Ministry of Defence), London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Lecture to senior MoD staff on the topic of migration and refugees, drawing on data and evidence from the MIDEQ and MEDMIG projects |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://da.mod.uk/colleges-and-schools/royal-college-of-defence-studies/ |
| Description | Irregularity, informality and inequality: Ethiopian migrant entrepreneurs in the South African informal economy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ researcher Yordanos S. Estifanos from the Ethiopia-South Africa research corridor presented his research on Ethiopian entrepreneurs at an open seminar series hosted at the University of Cape Town. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/events/irregularity-informality-and-inequality-ethiopian-migrant-entreprene... |
| Description | Item about MIDEQ Hub on News Ghana website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | News item in Ghanaian press on the work of the MIDEQ Hub and the University of Ghana's involvement through Professor Joseph Teye's role as Co-Director |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.newsghana.com.gh/migration-study-centre-gets-opportunity-to-participate-in-global-resear... |
| Description | Ivoirian migrants in Burkina Faso: the other side of the dynamic in the Burkina Faso- Cote d'Ivoire corridor (MIDEQ blog) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ blog looking at the history of Ivorians in Burkina Faso and their experiences finding jobs and settling in country. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/fr/blog/des-immigres-ivoiriens-burkina-faso-cote-divoire/ |
| Description | Joy News media item, Ghana |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Media coverage of the MIDEQ Regional Symposium held at the University of Ghana on 14-15 March 2023, with pieces to camera by Heaven Crawley (MIDEQ Director), Mary Setrana (Director, Centre for Migration Studies, University of Ghana) and Joseph Teye (MIDEQ Co-Director and Co-I for Ghana). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://fb.watch/jhWCzyISqQ/ |
| Description | Keynote at 17th Annual LESLLA Symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Alison Phipps and Tawona Sitholé gave keynote at LESLLA - Hospitality through Languages: Pain, Joy, Gist. This paper will bring a rich seam of work from within refugee experience and story and the poetic patterning of learning and orality. Expect spoken surprises, southern epistemologies and maybe some lessons from the stars |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Keynote at Scottish Paediatric Society |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ co-director Alison Phipps delivered keynote speech at the Scottish Paediatric Society, the Charles McNeil lecture at our St Andrews Day meeting. The keynote focused on the problems for refugee children, the Asylum system and a way forward. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/scotpedsociety/status/1458868872090734594?s=20&t=nTCOUjy6ekhT-njgAgCDvQ |
| Description | Keynote speech at International Migrants Day Conference 2021: The Pandemic and Beyond, 'Overcoming (im)mobility in an era of crisis: who bears the brunt?' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ researcher Nicola Piper participated in a keynote speech at International Migrants Day Conference 2021. The panel was hosted at the Institute of Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn University, Asian Research Center for Migration. It was co-organised with ILO and IOM with 60 participants including academics, NGO staff, international organisation staff). Points from speech featured in the final conference report. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Lab Panel on south-south migration, inequality and development - European Development Day (Joseph Teye, University of Ghana) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The engagement activity was a lab panel organised by MIDEQ consortium members to discuss the ways in which South-South migration help to address developmental inequalities. About 100 attendants of the EDD participated in our lab presentation and discussion. Four members of the consortium presented on different issues related to south-south migration, inequality and development and there was a general discussion on the issues |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Launch of Handbook of Migration and Development at the Development Studies Association conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was the launch of the Routledge Handbook of Migration and Development. In addition to Tanja Bastia, multiple chapters are authored by academics involved in MIDEQ . |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Lecture for A level students at Highgate School |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Online lecture given to A level students at Highgate School on the MIDEQ project and the relationships between migration, inequality and development in the context of South-South migration |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Left behind, anxious and forgotten: the impact of COVID-19 on the wives of migrants - MIDEQ Blog (Indu Dhungana and Anita Ghimire) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ blog on COVID-19 and its impact on the family members that Nepali workers leave behind. Blog written by Indu Dhungana, Researcher and Anita Ghimire, Co-Investigator. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/blog/left-behind-anxious-and-forgotten-impact-covid-19-wives-migrants/ |
| Description | Leveraging ICT to address inequality brief (Hari Harindranath and Tim Unwin) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ brief on work package nine: leveraging ICT to address inequality. The brief examines digital technology in the context of migration, the proposed workplan and key research questions that their work aims to address. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/resources-index-page/leveraging-ict-address-inequality-brief/ |
| Description | Linguistic Circle Edinburgh March 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ researchers Alison Phipps & Tawona Sitholé presented a talk at the University of Edinburgh's seminar series. The talk focused on Languages and Cultural Justice: Tentative steps towards a third age of common heritage of humankind. It considered the possibility of a third age which might see the intangible and tangible common cultural heritage of humankind as which might be amenable to the framings and exemplars offered by the concept of cultural justice. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ed.ac.uk/ppls/linguistics-and-english-language/events/linguistic-circle-2021-03-25 |
| Description | LitFest Harare - Tawona Sitholé - Opening Keynote |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Tawona Sitholé - A Poetic Address on the State of Being in the Face of a Pandemic LitFest Harare 2020 International literature festival, Harare Zimbabwe |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://fb.watch/3TgiWCweQW/ |
| Description | Looking at home from afar: Right to vote for overseas Nepalese workers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ researcher Yvonne Khor Gee-Woen and Sarmila Mainali opinion piece Nepali migrant workers in Malaysia and their political participation in Nepali elections. The blog was also published on Online Khabar, a local media outlet in Nepal. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/blog/looking-at-home-from-afar-right-to-vote-for-overseas-nepalese-workers/ |
| Description | MIASA Conference Panel on 'Decolonising migration research' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Professor Heaven Crawley chaired a panel discussion at the MIASA conference entitled 'Migration, Mobility and Forced Displacement' held at the University of Ghana, Accra as part of the MIASA Interdisciplinary Fellowship Programme (IFG) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.ug.edu.gh/mias-africa/content/follow-conference-migration-mobility-and-forced-displaceme... |
| Description | MIASA Fellowship for Heaven Crawley |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Professor Heaven Crawley spent one month in Accra as part of the first International Fellowship Group of the MIASA programme where she engaged fellow academics and postgraduates in the work of the Hub generating considerable engagement with the project's work |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.ug.edu.gh/mias-africa/interdisciplinary-fellow-group-%E2%80%98migration-mobility-and-for... |
| Description | MIASA Public Lecture by Heaven Crawley at the Universty of Ghana |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Public lecture at the University of Ghana, Accra as part of the MIASA programme entitled 'Europe's war': African migration and the politics of representation in European policy making. Active particpation of around 40 postgraduate and undergraduate students, and a lot of interest in the work of the Hub |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.ug.edu.gh/mias-africa/content/ifg-1-public-lecture-series-%E2%80%98europe%E2%80%99s-war%... |
| Description | MIDEQ ASEAN region Stakeholder Engagement workshop (Philippines, February 2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | A meeting with stakeholders in the Philippines to explore issues related to South-South migration in the ASEAN region Around 20 stakeholders from different backgrounds (government, third sector and international organisations, migration-led organisations) attended a stakeholder meeting to explain the Hub's strructure and objectives and identify opportunities for future collaboration |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | MIDEQ Blog - Decentring Knowledge Production |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ blog written on decentring knowledge production, specifically in migration studies, from the Global North to the Global South. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/blog/decentring-knowledge-production/ |
| Description | MIDEQ Project Introduction (Rufaro Moyo) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The Project was introduced to Ethiopian women migrants |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | MIDEQ Project Introduction in Belville, Epping and the Cape Town (Edewin Nsah) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The project was introduced to groups of Ethiopian businesses in Belville, Epping and the Cape Town CBD, Cape Town |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | MIDEQ Project Introduction in Cape Town, South Africa (Dr. Henrietta Nymanjoh) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The MIDEQ Project was introduced with a presentation to a group of Ethiopian Orthodox church members in Cape Town |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | MIDEQ Project Introduction in Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa (Yordanos Seifu) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Online sessions were held to introduce the Project to groups of Ethiopian migrants in Johannesburg and Durban |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | MIDEQ Project Introduction in Hermanus, South Africa (Faisal Garba, Azwi Netshikulwe, Nurudeen Oladokun) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The Project was introduced to a group of Ethiopian business owners and workers in the town of Hermanus |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | MIDEQ Project Introduction in Langa, Khayelithsa and Phillipi Townships of Cape Town (Mujib Rahman) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The Project was introduced to groups of Ethiopians living and working in Langa, Khayelithsa and Phillipi Townships of Cape Town |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | MIDEQ Share Out - 'Changing the Story': Piensamento y libertad (Thought and Freedom) and Tribal Education Methodologies in Venezuela and India |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This MIDEQ Share Out event focussed on arts-based methodologies, youth/participant led research and sustainability in two Changing the Story (CTS) projects: Pensamiento y libertad (Thought and Freedom) in Venezuela and Tribal Education Methodology (TEM) in Kerala, India. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/events/mideq-share-out-changing-the-story-piensamento-y-libertad-thought-an... |
| Description | MIDEQ Share Out - COVID-19 and the resilience of systemic suppression, oppression and repression (Professor Francis B. Nyamnjoh) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ webinar on the notion of individual resilience without an analysis on the structural inequalities that exist and have been exacerbated by COVID-19. In order to generate true resilience to, rather than reinforce, suppression, oppression and repression, Professor Nyamnjoh called for carefully negotiated and inclusive action, creativity and innovative and convivial solidarity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/events/covid-19-and-resilience-systemic-suppression-oppression-and-repressi... |
| Description | MIDEQ Share Out - Diaspora finance for development: from remittances to investment |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ researcher Stephen Gelb and Simon McMahon and Sona Kalantaryan, from the European Commission, participated in a webinar discussing on their technical report, Diaspora finance for development: from remittances to investment. The report was published by the Joint Research Centre (JRC), the European Commission's science and knowledge service. The webinar was hosted by MIDEQ. The report identifies over 300 diaspora finance initiatives and highlights the broad diversity of diaspora finance mechanisms around the world. It also points out the lack of systematic international data on diaspora investment flows and quality evidence on the development outcomes of different diaspora finance initiatives. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/events/mideq-share-out-diaspora-finance-development-remittances-investment/ |