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)
- International Centre for Migration Policy Development (Collaboration)
- Racines (Collaboration)
- Noyam African Dance Institute (Collaboration)
- Society for Participatory Research in Asia (Collaboration)
- Zanmi Lasante (Collaboration)
- North South Initiative (Collaboration)
- Government of Zimbabwe (Collaboration)
- SOFA (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)
- United Kingdom Research and Innovation (Collaboration)
- National Autonomous University of Mexico (Collaboration)
- Government of Zambia (Collaboration)
- International Board on Books for Young People (Collaboration)
- African Union Commission (Collaboration)
- Government in Botswana (Collaboration)
- One Journey (Collaboration)
- International Labour Organization (ILO) (Collaboration)
- Arnold Bergstraesser Institute (Collaboration)
- UN University Centre for Policy Research (Collaboration)
- Government of Ghana (Collaboration)
- Center for Migrant Advocacy (Collaboration)
- Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) (Collaboration)
- Positives Negatives (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)
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development OECD (Collaboration)
- Dejusticia (Collaboration)
- International Organization for Migration (Collaboration)
- Migrants Worker Justice Initative (MWJI) (Collaboration)
- Malawi Government (Collaboration)
- Praxis (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF GHANA (Collaboration)
- RLabs (Collaboration)
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Collaboration)
- German Federal Enterprise for International Cooperation (GIZ) (Collaboration)
- European Commission (Collaboration)
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
Ajarmeh D, Rbihat R, Haddad D, Damagh M
(2023)
Egyptian migrant workers in Jordan
Asiedu E; Tapsoba A. T; Gelb S
(2024)
Palgrave Handbook of South-South Migration and Inequality
Awumbila M; Garba F; K. Darkwah A; Zaami M
(2024)
Palgrave Handbook of South-South Migration and Inequality
Bastia T
(2019)
Women migrants in the global economy: a global overview (and regional perspectives)
in Gender & Development
| Title | "Mapping Journeys" website and virtual exhibition |
| Description | This exhibition focused on the labour migration of Nepali migrant workers to Malaysia. This virtual exhibition is part of the MIDEQ Malaysia team and is a culmination of the outputs the team and its partners produced. A physical exhibition took place from the 16th of October 2023 till the 10th of November 2023 at Monash University Malaysia, with panel sessions as well as an immersive experience element. This virtual exhibition is divided into 3 main nodes; Before, Becoming, and Being. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | No notable impact yet. |
| URL | https://www.mappingjourneyproject.com/ |
| Title | Afamba Apota (Arts, creative resistance and well-being team output) |
| Description | Afamba apota is a Zimbabwean proverb recited to remind ourselves of the unpredictability of going on a journey. This radio play is a playful look at the important matter of migration. Join self-proclaimed master documentary maker Paul Lamont as he enters the migration corridor and meets the inhabitants. Curated by MIDEQ researcher Tawona Sitholé featuring the MIDEQ Hub. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | No record of notable impact yet. |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/resources-index-page/afamba-apota/ |
| 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 | Dance performance |
| Description | In September 2023, MIDEQ, People's Palace Projects Brazil and our partners IMJA brought together around 140 people at the Museum of Tomorrow, in Rio de Janeiro to talk about migration between countries in the Global South - with a focus on Haitians in Brazil - migration policies, development and racism. The event included roundtable discussions with key stakeholders, the unveiling of our latest book on access to justice: Acesso à Justiça: Reafirmando direitos para as populações haitianas no Brasil, the Peripheries journal and the launch of our 'Unstoppable Beat' animation. It also included performance from Haitian and Afro-descendant artists, celebrating the diverse cultures of Brazil. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | The artistic performance brought new perspectives on Haitian migration to the audience present at the event. |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/resources-index-page/dialogues-changing-narratives-about-migration/ |
| 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 | Digital comics - Malaysia |
| Description | 3 digital comics were produced based on research findings from the Nepal-Malaysia Corridor. The digital comics are primarily aimed at different migrant workers based in Malaysia as well as the Malaysian public. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | The digital comics has the potential to travel to different countries when migrant workers share them |
| URL | http://mappingjourneyproject.com/ |
| Title | Documentary film "Chache Lavi (Seeking Life)" |
| Description | The documentary supports the construction of a narrative about the power of the Haitian migrant in Brazil and tells how the process of migrating is and how it was. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | The Chace-Lavi documentary affirms a new narrative to be disseminated about the experience of Haitian migration to Brazil. It takes them out of a place of passivity and isolation to demonstrate networks of solidarity, strength and resilience. The documentary is being launched at film festivals around the world through its Director, Clementino Junior; and will compete for awards. Subsequently, it will be widely disseminated within the Haitian community in Brazil and in large Brazilian public places to spread the new narrative, confronting pre-existing narratives fuelled by xenophobia and racism. |
| 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 | Five community videos produced by the Nepali migrant workers. |
| Description | Five community videos produced by the Nepali migrant workers. The community videos were co-produced together with Nepali migrant workers through working over 9 months by Gaia Creatives. This output was produced and facilitated by MIDEQ in Malaysia. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | Some of the community videos will be screened in villages in Nepal as well as with various non-Nepali migrant worker and refugee groups based in Malaysia. |
| Title | Fusion Avenue YouTube channel by migrants in South Africa |
| Description | 28 videos of different lenghts and subjects (on YouTube only the videos with a relevance for migrants had been posted. Not all the videos done by the people tarined by WP9 in video creation). |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | 1557 views among the videos, 90 subscribers to the page. The videos are mainly shared on whatsapp groups (with 50 to 100 people per diaspora group). SIHMA NPO requested the video makers to do videos for their ATLAS project. Cape Town TV is interested in broadcasting some of the videos in their programs. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/@FusionAvenueOfficial/videos |
| Title | Ghana Must Go, song and fashion show |
| Description | Working with Gameli Tordzro and Naa Densua Tordzro of MIDEQs creative arts team, the MIDEQ South Africa team produced a song and held a well-received fashion show that brought together people from Ghana, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Germany and the USA. This exhibition was based on the 1983 expulsion of Ghanaians from Nigeria. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | It stimulated a great deal of conversation that is leading into a collaboration with an NGO in Accra called CinGaban Niman. The outcome is directly linked to the under-production MIDEQ documentary. |
| 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 | Haitian choir |
| Description | The Haitian choir, made up of migrants living in Brazil who sing Haitian folk songs, performed at the research dissemination event at the Museum of Tomorrow at the International Symposium on Migration in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | The Haitian choir's performance had an impact on the dissemination of Haitian culture, changing the narrative about migration not producing anything for the receiving community and showing the power of the diversity that the receiving country can have. |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/resources-index-page/dialogues-changing-narratives-about-migration/ |
| 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 | MIDEQ research symposium, clothing and artefact exhibition |
| Description | "Gbeefal?i", (Travellers) series, is an exhibition garments and musical performances from MIDEQ creative arts team in collaboration with the Haitian community based in Rio. The garments were on display along with performances at a MIDEQ event at the Museum of Tomorrow event in Rio de Janeiro. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | No notable impact yet. |
| Title | Migration and Arts - MIDEQ South Africa and MIDEQ Creative Arts teams |
| Description | This activity brought together young artists and involved co-creating songs and performing music to raise awareness about migration around issues of social cohesion, Pan-Africanism and other challenges that face migrants. In brief, the objective was to use art, more specifically musical drama, as a medium to transmit research findings to audiences outside of academia including the media. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | The creative process not only transformed the perception of the participants and uplifted their spirit and changed their attitude, but also improved their perceptions of immigrants and their lives. Both locals and migrants participants were able to co-create musical drama and share their knowledge about migrants. This is very important way of disseminating the finding beyond the academia but also to empower young artist who are mostly neglected in our societies. In addition, this work was done in collaboration with a non-governmental organisation called Africa Unite signifying building capacity outside academia. |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/impact/migration-and-arts-intervention-story-in-south-africa/ |
| 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 | Our Story of Migration and Inequality |
| Description | Our Story of Migration and Inequality continues the narrative of MIDEQ, first shared in The Story of Migration. Taking the complex stories of four migrants from Haiti, Burkina Faso, Nepal and Ethiopia, the animation explores their relationship between migration and global inequalities. This animation is created by MIDEQ partner PositiveNegatives Org, in collaboration with the MIDEQ hub. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | Teaching material to be created from the animation. |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/resources-index-page/our-story-of-migration/ |
| Title | Pardesi.org.np migrant information portal for Nepali migrants |
| Description | A one-stop-shop / website for all the important information for Nepali migrants by the MIDEQ Digital Tech team. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | Widely disseminated through Nepal - news media and through 300+ community radio stations. |
| URL | https://ict4d.org.uk/2023/12/10/launch-of-mideq-wp9-interventions-in-nepal/ |
| 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 | Radio Play |
| Description | Radio Play performing affective dimensions of MiDEQ experience and research |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | BBC and Festival commissioning process. |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/resources-index-page/afamba-apota/ |
| 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 | Tears of Gold Exhibition |
| Description | This collection, by Hannah Rose Thomas of the MIDEQ Creative Arts team, showcased Ukrainian women who had sought safety in the UK, Syrian refugees in Jordan, Rohingya women who had fled violence in Myanmar, and the Nigerian and Yazidi women who inspired the title of the exhibition. At that time, the number of people fleeing conflict and persecution around the world had surpassed 100 million for the first time. Given that women were often exposed to the greatest risks during displacement, these portraits served as a visual testimony not only of war and injustice but also of humanity, dignity, and resourcefulness. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | Supported by King Charles, this body of work not only serves as a reminder to remain concerned about the ongoing persecution of people around the world based on their backgrounds and beliefs, but also reflects on the complexities and limits of empathy as we look to pursue justice more compassionately. |
| URL | https://www.tearsofgold.co.uk/ |
| Title | The Boy with More? |
| Description | The Boy with More tackles the psycho-social issues of a Nepali boy growing up as the child of a migrant worker. Made by PositiveNegatives Org in collaboration with MIDEQ Nepal. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | Over 2000 views across social media channels, the animation is used in Nepal by MIDEQ Partner NISER. |
| URL | https://positivenegatives.org/story/mideq-2/the-boy-with-more/ |
| 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 | Unstoppable Beat |
| Description | The film tells the story of a Haitian migrant in Brazil fighting for his rights to work, buy a house and most importantly, reunite with his family from Haiti. Made by Positive Negatives Org in collaboration with MIDEQ Haiti, MIDEQ Brazil and Heaven Crawley. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | Over 2000 views across social media channels. Presented at UN MIDEQ symposium in Geneva, Presented at MIDEQ Symposium Rio. currently selected for 4 international film festivals, currently being used by MIDEQ Partners INURED in Haiti and Uniperiferias in Brazil. |
| URL | https://positivenegatives.org/story/mideq-2/unstoppable-beat/ |
| Title | Videos promoting the safe, secure/private, wise use of digital tech by Nepali migrants |
| Description | MIDEQ digital tech team facilitated creation of videos by migrant organisations, returnee migrants and local tech people in Nepal. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | Disseminates important messages about digital safety. |
| URL | https://ict4d.org.uk/technology-inequality-and-migration/nepal-videos/ |
| Title | Videos promoting the use of Pardesi.org.np migrant information portal for Nepali migrants |
| Description | Videos by migrant organisations, returnee migrants and local tech people in Nepal. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | Disseminates important messages about the migrant information portal. |
| URL | https://ict4d.org.uk/technology-inequality-and-migration/nepal/pardesi/ |
| 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 final 12 months of UKRI saw a significant increase in the delivery of MIDEQ objectives, as reflected in the extensive and growing list of publications and creative outputs emerging from the project and extensive programme of engagement and impact activities - as reflected in our ResearchFish submission. This was 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 enabled data collection and analysis to continue during this period, albeit with a reduction in the size of the household/migrant survey. As anticipated, the Research Symposia which were held in Nepal (September 2022) and Brazil (September 2023) together with the Regional Symposia in Ghana(March 203), Malaysia (November 2023) and Costa Rica (February 2024), provided important opportunities to explore the findings of the research both within and between the corridors and for MIDEQ researchers to work together on the development of collective outputs. Bearing in mind the very significant contextual differences between MIDEQ's countries and corridors, the key findings of our work are as follows: 1. 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 have been encouraged to communicate and write in multiple languages as appropriate to the contexts in which they are working. The outcomes of the research are increasingly being taken forward and used by others by within and beyond the project's corridors, including by the many civil society organisations and NGOs engaged through our impact interventions Examples can be found on the MIDEQ website (https://www.mideq.org/en/impact/ ). The following examples are illustrative: - Training resources on the safe, wise, and secure use of digital tech for migrants, initially crafted in Nepal by the MIDEQ digital technologies team have been effectively utilised by partners at the Domestic Workers Association Zimbabwe (DWAZ) to train 1911 members across Zimbabwe, South Africa, Botswana, and Namibia (https://www.mideq.org/en/impact/training-on-safe-wise-and-secure-use-of-digital-technology/) - MIDEQ researchers in South Africa have scoped the potential for rolling out education and training sessions with coordinators of the Back to Work Campaign (B2WC), an organisation that focuses on unemployment. The aim is to strengthen B2WC at different levels and to support its initiatives to facilitate and amplify the building of migrant solidarity (https://www.mideq.org/en/impact/support-and-training-migrant-and-worker-issues-back-to-work-campaign/) - The Information and Research Center of the King Hussein Foundation led a discussion on key issues concerning Egyptian migrant labour with the Government of Jordan ahead of Jordan's Fourth Universal Periodic Review to the United Nations (https://www.mideq.org/en/impact/policy-egyptian-migrant-workers-jordan-rights/) MIDEQ funding has provided CMS in Ghana with an opportunity to continue building the evidence base to inform policy development in Ghana and to bring together researchers to address migration issues in West Africa more generally. The findings of MIDEQ research are also being used to develop migration policies and annual work plans in Ghana (https://southsouth.contentfiles.net/media/documents/Impact_case_study_Ghana.pdf) - hrough its work with the MIDEQ Hub, INURED is raising awareness on migration and its links with inequality and development in the Haiti-Brazil corridor. INURED's work has resulted in the establishment of important and innovative partnerships as well as the consolidation of existing partnerships between government entities, civil society institutions and international organisations aiming to use MIDEQ's research to bring migration into the core of Haiti's policy approach (https://www.mideq.org/en/impact/building-migration-research-and-policy-infrastructure-in-haiti/) MIDEQ has worked closely with its international partners to take forward the findings of the research both in the countries where MIDEQ's research is based and at the global level (https://southsouth.contentfiles.net/media/documents/Impact_case_study_international_partners.pdf) In addition to the policy report and Geneva policy symposium led by UNRISD, the OECD Development Centre has worked closely with ODI on issues of social protection for migrants in low- and middle income countries (https://www.mideq.org/en/events/links-between-social-protection-and-migration/) and ILO is working with MIDEQ's survey data to better understand the gendered nature of remittances (https://www.mideq.org/en/resources-index-page/gender-specific-patterns-in-remittance-behaviours-in-mideq-countries/) and vulnerability to labour exploitation in the MIDEQ migration corridor between Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire (https://www.mideq.org/en/resources-index-page/vulnerability-to-labour-exploitation-in-mideq-migration-corridor-from-burkina-faso-to-cote-divoire/) |
| Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy Creative Economy Education Government Democracy and Justice Culture Heritage Museums and Collections 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. As project funding comes to an end, there is evidence of 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 were formed organically as the project progressed. The delivery 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 and support for vulnerable families; - In Ghana, the National Labour Migration Policy of Ghana 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. - 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; - In Ethiopia, MIDEQ researchers have drawn on the findings of their research with the Ethiopian community in the Hadiya region to development an investment guide to support local investment decisions by migrants working in South Africa with the aim of reducing migration-related inequalities in communities of origin; and - MIDEQ's digital technologies team has worked with the Association of Community Radio Broadcasters Nepal/Community Information Network (ACORAB /CIN) to produce public service announcements about the safe, wise, and secure use of digital tech for migrants over the radio and on Facebook. The association network reaches 300+ community radio stations in Nepal which can reach up to 6.7 million listeners. 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 have delivered a Migration Policy Roundtable Series organised in partnership with UNU-CPR and a range of UN agencies In New York at which the findings of MIDEQ's research have been showcased to an international audience including Member States. We have also worked with UNRISD to showcase MIDEQ's work to policy makers in Geneva. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2020 |
| Sector | Creative Economy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Government, Democracy and Justice,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections,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 | African Union Experts Review Meeting - Ghana |
| Geographic Reach | Africa |
| 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 |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory 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 | Consultation with the Ethiopian Directorate for Diaspora Affairs |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| 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 | 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 | The MIDEQ digital tech team organised a thematic discussion at the (UN) International Telecommunication Union (ITU)'s World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS 2022) (online) on April 29, 2022. WSIS was the largest international gathering of the ICT4D (ICT for development) community, involving policymakers, ICT4D practitioners, and academia. The forum's focus was on engaging with policy, research, and practise on the use of digital technology aligned with WSIS action lines and SDGs. The thematic forum brought together representatives from policy, academia, and practise, 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 organisations included ILO, ICRC, IOM, and the migrant advocacy group Migrant Forum in Asia. |
| URL | https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2022/Agenda/Session/240 |
| Description | ECOWAD Advisory Committee - Ghana |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | ECOWAS Action Plan - Ghana |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | Considerable influence over action plan. |
| Description | Engagement with Hadiya Zone Administration |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| 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 | 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 | Integrate 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 | 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 | Main Consultant of review of EU & IOM return migration - Ghana |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | Influence on the outcomes of the meeting and general program as the main consultant. |
| 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 | Migration Governance workshops - Ghana |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Ministerial level sharing and inputs into the Migration policy with MOLE and other relevant government ministry |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | National Consultation - Ghana |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| 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 | Recommendations endorsed by Jordanian government based on MIDEQ Jordan's report |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| 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 | Training: Ministry Agencies - Ghana |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | US State department and translation of survey questions for surveys on trafficking in Brazil and West Africa |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Workshops: Security Perception - Ghana |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | Changed public attitudes by influencing policy. |
| Description | AMIF: New Scots Integration Strategy towards an exemplar of international best practice |
| Amount | £4,500,000 (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 | £2,000,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2019 |
| Description | Coventry Creates |
| Amount | £2,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Warwick |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2020 |
| End | 09/2020 |
| Description | Coventry University ESRC Impact Acceleration Account |
| Amount | £4,950 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2023 |
| End | 02/2024 |
| Description | Follow-on funding for impact and engagement - Moving mindsets: changing migration narratives in Brazil and beyond |
| Amount | £99,895 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2023 |
| End | 08/2024 |
| Description | Irish Aid (ODI, Stephen Gelb) |
| Amount | £300,000 (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 | Modern Slavery Risks Among People Lacking Official Documentation |
| Amount | $216,000 (USD) |
| Organisation | Freedom Fund UK |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2023 |
| End | 09/2024 |
| 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 | £7,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Royal Holloway, University of London |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2020 |
| End | 07/2021 |
| Description | Social Science Impact Accelerator funding from Royal Holloway via ESRC |
| Amount | £9,985 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 12/2023 |
| End | 07/2024 |
| 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 | £1,250,000 (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 | The MIDEQ Ghana team carried out a detailed policy review, qualitative research and quantitative surveys. Researchers were involved in integrating into the survey south-south migration issues which are usually overlooked in policy circles. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The team carried out a detailed policy review, qualitative research and quantitative surveys. Researchers were involved in integrating into the survey south-south migration issues which are usually overlooked in policy circles. They 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 | "Chinese Learning" Workshop in Yiwu, Zhejiang Province |
| 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 | The MIDEQ China team held a workshop with local partner ? Dr Lu Cheng and his colleagues at Yiwu Industrial & Commercial College, in Yiwu City, Zhejiang Province. The purpose of this activity is to meet the language-learning needs of migrants who come to Yiwu for business, study and living. Moreover, the team used this opportunity to understand social integration status among migrants and locals through interviews during and after the workshop. Jixia Lu, Co-Investigator of the China team, and researchers Dongsheng Wang and Junjie Zhao, participated in the planning and organisation of this activity. A total of 28 students from 7 countries including Iran, Yemen, Pakistan, India, Egypt, Colombia and Brazil participated in this activity. The lessons include Chinese pronunciation, intonation, and writing, and practice conversation and discussion that focuses on day-to-day activities, business operations, and social integration of foreign migrants in Yiwu. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| 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 invited distinguished scholars around China 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 | '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' by Hannah Rose Thomas 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 | '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 Human Development and Capability Association conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ researchers Jessica Hagen-Zanker and Caterina Mazzilli presented at a parallel session on their work regarding intangible and subjective factors of migrant decision making . |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | 2nd Soubré/Méagui Awareness Day on the declaration of births and the schooling of young girls within the Burkinabè community |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In the consular district of Soubre (Méagui precisely) there was an awareness raising event on the declaration of births and the schooling of young girls. The demonstration took place precisely in Meagui but required the presence of actors from Soubre since Soubre is not only the regional capital but also the location of the consulate of Burkina Faso in the Zone. As a prelude to this activity, a contact mission was carried out by two actors from the migrant association from October 16 to 18, 2023. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.aip.ci/cote-divoire-aip-la-communaute-burkinabe-de-meagui-sensibilisee-sur-letat-civil-e... |
| 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 conference celebrated the accomplishments of the last three decades and aimed to advance authentic interdisciplinary dialogues, along with 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 was 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 | A consultative meeting with the Human Rights Unit in the Prime Minister's Office and civil society organisations |
| 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 | MIDEQ in Jordan - IRCKHF hosted an event with the Head of the Human Rights Unit, the Prime Minister, and representatives from the Ministry of Labour, Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and other government agencies, in addition to civil society organizations. During this event, the government received recommendations in a face-to-face meeting. The session occurred on July 10, 2023, in the form of a consultative meeting with the government and were included in the Government's National Report for October 2023. This event received a wide media coverage wither on Tv, radios, newspaper. The center received around 14 media hits from the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://jordantimes.com/news/local/meeting-gathers-govt-csos-ahead-jordans-4th-universal-periodic-hu... |
| Description | A digital hub for Nepali migrants |
| 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 | This blog highlights the launch of pardesi.org.np - a trusted online platform that brings together links to all the existing support for migrants in a single place. This platform was created in collaboration with several organisations by the MIDEQ digital technologies team. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/impact/digital-hub-for-nepali-migrants/ |
| 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 | ALAAP Keynote |
| 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 | Keynote speaker at the 13th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice (ALAPP). Lectured on Joy, Hope, and Survival: Decreating Professional Discourse from Below. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://alapp2023.wordpress.com/ |
| Description | AMMODI Virtual Roundtable - Making African(ist) Research Visible |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Global academia is in the midst of renewed debates and interventions against the persistent inequalities in African and Africanist higher education following calls for decolonising academia. Migration patterns and policies, as well as research on them, are often deeply informed by post-/colonial relations, and migration research has been slow in exposing and addressing its post-/coloniality. This roundtable therefore sought to address the structural inequalities embedded in Africanist migration research through a set of dialogues between researchers, journal editors, and librarians who confront these issues in different ways. The event was moderated by Leander Kandilige and Faisal Garba and Heaven Crawley was one of the panellists. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/ammodi-virtual-roundtable-making-africanist-migration-researc... |
| 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 | Aboisso Awareness Day on the declaration of births and the schooling of young girls within the Burkinabè community |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The town of Aboisso was the third and final stage of MIDEQ in Côte d'Ivoire's awareness campaign on the declaration of births in the civil registry and the schooling of the young girls followed by social actions in favour of vulnerable families of the Burkinabè Community in partnership with the Collective of Burkinabè Youth Associations and Movements in Côte d'Ivoire (CAMJBCI). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.aip.ci/9275/la-jeunesse-burkinabe-sensibilise-a-la-declaration-de-naissance-et-a-la-scol... |
| 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 | Access to justice for migrants: Can academics do more? |
| 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 | Should academics remain content with merely producing academic outputs as they research and study issues of access to justice in migration? Or can they and should they engage more actively in addressing these injustice? MIDEQ researchers and partners share their views. Written by MIDEQ researcher of the Access to Justice thematic area - Caroline Nalule - based on conversations which took place at the MIDEQ annual research symposium in Brazil. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/blog/access-to-justice-for-migrants-can-academics-do-more/ |
| Description | Adaptive programming brief |
| 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 employed 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 forced displacement with a HDP Nexus approach, INCAF/PDMD Policy Roundtable |
| 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 | Heaven Crawley moderated one of the sessions at this INCAF/PDMD/OECD Policy Roundtable on Addressing forced displacement with a HDP Nexus approach. The event created a space for senior policy makers to share experiences in policy development and implementation of HDP nexus approaches in forced displacement contexts, and to charter a way forward. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://one.oecd.org/document/DCD/DAC/INCAF(2023)4/en/pdf |
| Description | Addressing inequalities: Empowering Burkinabè migrants in Côte d'Ivoire |
| 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 | The MIDEQ Hub in Côte d'Ivoire, IGDP, has garnered media attention for its efforts to identify and combat various forms of inequalities faced by Burkinabè nationals living in Côte d'Ivoire. This blog highlights how through research and outreach, the project has shed light on the issue of unregistered births, which poses challenges for migrants and their children in accessing state resources and recognition as citizens. To bridge this gap, the team plans to leverage media coverage, particularly through the radio, to raise awareness and educate communities on the importance of declaring births and accessing citizenship. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/impact/addressing-inequalities-burkinab%C3%A8-migrants-c%C3%B4te-divoire/ |
| 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 | Addressing the relationships between migration and inequality is key to Africa's development |
| 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 | Written by Heaven Crawley and Mary B Setrana, this blog highlights negative representations that reflect long-standing biases in how we think about migration in the African context, and how they limit the possibility of harnessing the benefits of migration for development and delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/blog/migration-and-inequality-africa-development/ |
| 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 Humanities Associations (AHA) Conference Presentation |
| 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 focus of the presentation was to elucidate the innovative methodology employed by researchers at UCT MIDEQ South Africa, in collaboration with creative artists from the MIDEQ arts team, to translate research findings on the Ethiopia-South Africa migration corridor into an artwork. The presentation highlighted the tools (food, costume, language, musical tune, and melody) and soft values used, as well as the open methodology employed in the translation process. It also underscored the selection and planning processes, which constituted a crucial component in integrating art and science to produce the outcome. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/impact/migration-and-arts-intervention-story-in-south-africa/ |
| 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 | MIDEQ digital tech team spoke at various Ethiopian churches in Cape Town, George, Hermanus, Port Elizabeth, and East London. They co-organised the anti-OperationDudula march in Cape Town and participated in Heritage Day in Port Elizabeth under the anti-xenophobia theme. The team presented a portion of their findings regarding collaborations at the Scalabrini Centre, emphasising the significance of utilising various technological platforms available to support the MIDEQ Access to Justice team. Additionally, they attended an access to justice performance that combined migration and art at the Noyam African Dance Institute in 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 | Artistic approaches to translating academic research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The round table, hosted at the University of Ghana by MIDEQ arts researchers, delved into the exploration of artistic approaches for translating academic research on migration, particularly within the Access to Justice thematic area of MIDEQ. This initiative has significantly enhanced comprehension among academics, as the outlined approaches from the round table have been embraced and subsequently employed by colleagues at both the University of Ghana and the University of Cape Town. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| 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 | Association of University Languages Centres Annual Conference - Keynote |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Alison gave the Dr Joy Northcott Memorial Lecture at Association of University Languages Centres Annnual Conference held at the University of Edinburgh. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://aulc.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/AULC-2023-conference-full-programme.pdf |
| Description | Attendance of European Public Health Conference in Dublin |
| 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 survey team (LSHTM) Attended migration research events/sessions; connected with other researchers working on similar migration issues as MIDEQ, particularly on methods among migrants from the Global South (including combining surrvey, statistical methods with participatory methods; use of arts/cultural approaches; access to justice approaches); shared information and promoted MIDEQ's work with scholars in other disciplines (i.e. legal scholars) and discussed areas of potential learnings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Attendance of IMISCOE Conference in Poland |
| 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 survey team (LSHTM) presented findings on children's outcomes from MIDEQ destination survey, as part of the MIDEQ panel. The number of attendees inputted are based on in-person attendance. |
| 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 | Awareness Day On the declaration of births and the schooling of young girls within the Burkinabè community |
| 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 | Awareness Day for declaration of births (certification) and the schooling of young girls within the Burkinabè community (MIDEQ Côte d'Ivoire) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Awareness campaign for Burkinabè nationals living in Ivory Coast on the declaration of births in the civil registry and the schooling of young girls |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MIDEQ Côte d'Ivoire in partnership with the Collective of Burkinabè Youth Associations and Movements in Côte d'Ivoire (CAMJBCI) carried out on Saturday at the Mo Faitai Center in Yamoussoukro the official launch of the awareness campaign for Burkinabè nationals living in Côte d'Ivoire on the declaration of births in the civil registry and the schooling of the young girls. The teams initiative aims to encourage this community to declare births at the civil registry and to give the same opportunity to boys and girls with regard to schooling. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0oSVv9C6oyr7FQYD58a7RBj6Ero6Coj4jxRVkiHMwrTYTfNp2Kk... |
| Description | BAAL Keynote |
| 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 | Plenary speaker at BAAL conference: What's so good about transparency? Decolonising Applied Linguistics for whom |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/#/event/4140/program?session=76184&s=533 |
| Description | Beyond stereotypes: recognizing the positive contributions of refugees and overcoming negative perceptions |
| 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 | MIDEQ in South Africa: Building on the successful three editions of SAMIN annual policy conferences that took place in 2019, 2021, and recently in 2022, SAMIN introduced an annual refugee month lecture with the aim to raise awareness, promote understanding, and facilitate discussions on the challenges, experiences, and rights of refugees in Southern Africa. This annual lecture delved into the causes of forced displacement, the experiences of refugees in different regions and countries, the legal frameworks and policies governing refugee protection, the humanitarian response, and the role of various stakeholders in addressing the needs of refugees. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/events/beyond-stereotypes-refugees-africa/ |
| 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 - "Migration and love", a book by Yonas Tadesse, Hadiya returnee migrant (MIDEQ Ethiopia) |
| 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 in Ethiopia organised and supported the publication of a book written by a migrant based on his lived experiences. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Book launch at the Association of Haitians in Porto Velho, Rondônia. |
| 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 | The book launch, titled "Access to Justice: Reaffirming Rights for Haitian Populations in Brazil," produced by the Brazilian team under the Flexible Fund's Access to Justice Work Package, took place in the city of Porto Velho, Rondônia - Brazil. The event was attended by more than 70 individuals at the Haitian Association in Porto Velho. This association had been the subject of research activities by the teams, focusing on engaging, mapping, and creating a political agenda favorable to the rights of Haitian immigrants in Brazil. The Brazilian team's proposal, following the conclusion of the MIDEQ research, was to continue advocating for a political agenda for the Haitian community. Through the content of the book and the launch activity, we aimed to impact the Haitian community, highlighting the necessity of building this agenda. The book launch occurred in two events on October 22, 2023, and December 2, 2023. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| 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 | MIDEQ researcher (Ghana team) 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 |
| 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 |
| 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? |
| 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 | Challenges and Protection-Centered Responses to Transit Migration (MIDEQ regional symposium in Costa Rica by INURED and UNA) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This two-day conference focused on the problematic of transit migration as a complex and multifaceted phenomenon that required a comprehensive approach, involving humanitarian assistance, legal frameworks, and collaboration among nations, that were necessary to address the challenges posed by this regional phenomenon. Invited guests discussed regional case studies from South and Central America and benefited from a comparative perspective with other contexts studied by MIDEQ Hub members in other migration corridors and contexts. Attention was given to transit processes in countries such as Colombia, Panama, Mexico, Costa Rica, and other Central American countries, with a particular focus on the following topics: 1) The impact of transit migration on local communities; 2) Vulnerabilities, access to services, and support systems available to people on the move in these communities; 3) Responses from governments and international organisations at local, national, and regional levels; 4)Potentials and pathways for integrated policy protection-centered frameworks and partnerships with civil society and international organisations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://migration.unu.edu/news/news/summary-of-discussions-from-the-imrf-side-event-centring-equalit... |
| 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 | Changing narratives - challenging xenophobia and racialised portrayals of migration (MIDEQ Share Out) |
| 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 Roundtable explored how researchers, working in partnership with others, could effectively challenge anti-migrant and xenophobic narratives and promote narratives grounded in empathy and diverse human stories. Different and creative approaches were discussed, ranging from animations conveying migrants' stories to curating immersive exhibitions. Panellists drew on their experiences to discuss how creative storytelling could be a powerful tool to provide alternative accounts that both humanise people who migrate and confront hegemonic narratives. The objectives for this Roundtable were: Explored which types of activities and messages were most effective in engaging different types of audiences. Panellists were asked to consider why and how they identified which narratives and which audiences they wished to target in their activity. Considered the importance of centring migrants' own experiences and voices in such activities aimed at changing problematic narratives. Panellists were asked to reflect on how they involved people with migration experience in developing their activities or through providing platforms for migrants. Explored the role of creative storytelling in humanising migrants and migration. Panellists were asked to discuss their creative processes and think about the difference that utilising creative storytelling - as opposed to more traditional research methods - made. Discussed the role of partnerships in changing narratives. Panellists were asked to deliberate on which partners they sought to engage in developing and implementing their creative outputs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/events/changing-narratives-challenging-xenophobia-and-racialised-portrayals... |
| 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 |
| 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 and Rural Development 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 | The MIDEQ China team successfully organised a "China-Ghana Population Mobility and Rural Development" workshop in Shanglin County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The workshop was titled "The Impact of COVID-19 on Transnational Population Mobility and Response Strategies". A total of 55 participants attended which include village cadres, returned migrants, and left-behind population, including women, children, and elderly in the surveyed villages of the project. The discussions covered the current situation of transnational migrant workers' survival and development, the impact of COVID-19 on transnational migration and response strategies, the plight faced by the left-behind population, and others. Through this workshop, members of the MIDEQ China team gained a deeper understanding of the working and living conditions of Shanglin's transnational labour groups in Africa. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| 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 | Commemoration of Ghana Must Go |
| 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 | The exhibition themed "Gbefál?i"(The Travellers) focuses on South-South migration and objects of migration were on display in Gallery/Art spaces in Europe and South America. The garment by MIDEQ creative arts researcher Cecilia Naa Densua Tordzro was on display, for a short period of time at the Antique Lemonade Art Space in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of "Ghana must Go", completes the trilogy of exhibitions across continents. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| 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 | Community screenings of creative outputs based on research findings from Nepal-Malaysia Corridor |
| 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 | Community screenings of creative outputs (videos & comics) based on research findings by the MIDEQ Malaysia team for foreign migrant workers groups in Malaysia, refugee groups in Malaysia and villages in Nepal where migrant labour is sourced. Aim was to provide different foreign citizens in Malaysia a better understanding of issues faced by the Nepali migrant workers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| 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 Burkina Faso team presented on "Comparing north-south and south-south remittances in the case of Burkina Faso" for a policy maker/professional practitioner audience at the MIDEQ regional conference in Ghana. |
| 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 on "South-South Migration and Development" held at China Agricultural University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The MIDEQ China team successfully hosted this academic conference in Beijing. The conference focused on better understanding the role and contribution of South-South migration in eliminating inequality and promoting social development, as well as its connection with development issues such as poverty, gender, and climate change. The conference included six sub-forums: 1) China-African Relations and New Chinese Migrants in Africa 2) Multiple Involvements of South-South Migration and Contemporary Politics 3) Climate Change, Migrants Infrastructure and Development 4) Education and Inheritance in Cultural Exchange 5) Social Integration and Cultural Adaptation of South-South Migration; 6) Gender in Mobility, Labour and Livelihood. A total of 17 scholars from 14 universities and research institutions, such as Peking University, Beijing Foreign Studies University, and Sun Yat-sen University, shared their academic work at the conference; over 50 participants participated in the conference. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| 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 |
| 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 - 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 along with MIDEQ in Ghana team. |
| 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 |
| 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 | Creating videos to uplift communities - Scalabrini Centre for Cape Town |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This blog is about the Digital Technologies Thematic area of MIDEQ, as described: "The WP9 (digital tech, inequality and migration) Team of the Migration for Development and Equality (MIDEQ) project collaboratively worked on designing an intervention that would enable people living in South Africa to have a platform for their voices; to share knowledge and to learn from one another's lived experiences. This would be done through the production of high-quality videos. The positive feedback (see also video interviews here) provided by the participants is testament to the overall success of the initiative." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.scalabrini.org.za/creating-videos-to-uplift-communities/ |
| 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 | Creative Exploration on Access to Justice |
| 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 | A design and tie & dye, costumes workshop as part of the Access to Justice Flexible funding intervention held by MIDEQ creative arts team in collaboration with access to justice team, and MIDEQs local partner, Noyam Dance Institute in Ghana Dodowa which led to a theatre dance production. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Creative explorations on 'Access to justice' |
| 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 | Written by MIDEQ researcher Gameli Tordzro, this blog highlights the collaboration between two MIDEQ thematic areas - Arts, Creative Resistance and Well-being thematic area, Access to Justice - and their joint outputs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/blog/creative-explorations-on-access-to-justice/ |
| Description | Creative outputs on the road in Malaysia and Nepal |
| 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 co-investigators Anita Ghimire and Seng-Guan Yeoh, of the Nepal-Malaysia corridor, explore how creative outputs based on research findings can provide a forum for engagement and dialogue with a variety of audiences through community screenings held in Malaysia and Nepal. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/blog/creative-outputs-on-the-road-in-malaysia-and-nepal/ |
| 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 explored 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 | Côte 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 | Dialogs: Changing Narratives about Migration |
| 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 | In September 2023, People's Palace Projects and Uniperiferias, MIDEQ's partner in Brazil, hosted a public event - Dialogues: Changing Narratives about Migration - in Rio de Janeiro. The event, which was open to the public, took place in the Museum of Tomorrow. Civil society, representatives of Brazilian government and NGOs were invited to talk about migration, racism and inequality. The event provided a unique opportunity to engage a Brazilian audience in the findings of MIDEQ's research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://peoplespalaceprojects.org.uk/en/projects/mideq-decolonizing-the-story-of-migration-in-the-gl... |
| Description | Dialogues - Changing narratives about migration |
| 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 | In September 2023, MIDEQ, People's Palace Projects Brazil and our partners IMJA brought together around 140 people at the Museum of Tomorrow, in Rio de Janeiro to talk about migration between countries in the Global South - with a focus on Haitians in Brazil - migration policies, development and racism. The event included roundtable discussions with key stakeholders, the unveiling of our latest book on access to justice: Acesso à Justiça: Reafirmando direitos para as populações haitianas no Brasil, the Peripheries journal and the launch of our 'Unstoppable Beat' animation. It also included performance from Haitian and Afro-descendant artists, celebrating the diverse cultures of Brazil. This video is based on the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/resources-index-page/dialogues-changing-narratives-about-migration/ |
| 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 Interventions Addressing Inequalities in the Context of South-South Migration - IMISCOE Conference 2023 Panel contribution |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | IMISCOE conference panel presentation by MIDEQ Digital Tech team. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.imiscoe.org/conference/news/1830-booklet-available-for-download |
| 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 sandpit event in Nepal |
| 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 21 people built on 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. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | 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 | 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 | The political mobilisation and translational solidarity team established working relationship with the UN Human Rights outfit in Southern Africa around changing narratives. On the basis of that the team were invited to be part of a workshop with CSOs and activists. The team are using the materials as part of their training package. |
| 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 | Documentary - Ghana |
| 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. This is in line with the CUSP goals: covid as a source of conflict. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.migrantlives.net/?/migrant/11 |
| 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 | Edzai Isu Centre - Litfest |
| 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 | Poetry shows recorded at Edzai Isu Centre and broadcast on social media in June, July and August. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| 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 | Embedded inequalities in migration from the Global South. (MIDEQ Haiti) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Toni Cela of MIDEQ Haiti (INURED) highlights restrictive border policies for Routed magazine. There is disproportionate focus on South-North versus South-South migration. Global inequalities, environmental threats, and heightened border controls are intertwined, limiting mobility for Global South citizens. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.routedmagazine.com/post/embedded-inequalities-in-migration-from-the-global-south |
| 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 | Expert policy 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 | Conference on South-South migration (participation by MIDEQ partners OECD) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Expert prescence in discussion - Ghana |
| 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 | Discussion on my expert experience on how migrants from the Global South particularly Ghana adjust in the African context and the development inequalitites. This was done with other members of the consortium from other corridors |
| 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, MIDEQ in Ghana was invited to represent 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. Leander Kandilige 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 | Exploring emotions through art: Insights from a workshop for migrant workers' wives |
| 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 the small town of Rajbiraj in the Saptari District, Nepal, a transformative three-day workshop was organised by MIDEQ Nepal (NISER), bringing together 108 wives of migrant workers. The workshop was organised in collaboration with the Women, Children, and Community Development Centre (WCCDC), along with the assistance of three local facilitators who provided translation services and helped identify participants. MIDEQ researcher Swastika Ghimire wrote about the impact of these workshops on the MIDEQ blog. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/impact/emotions-through-art-insights-migrant-workers-nepal/ |
| 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 | FLIP - Feira Literária de Paraty (Paraty Literary Fair) |
| 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 | More than 350 people took part in 3 conversation circles at the Paraty Literary Fair, located in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In the round table discussions held by MIDEQ Brazil (IMJA), participants asked questions about MIDEQ research findings on the Haitian-Brazilian migration corridor, generating enthusiasm among participants to understand new narratives about Haitian migration and providing greater knowledge about the rights of this population. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0RoWL9r5Zj/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link |
| 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 learned 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 | Forum on Advancing Migrant Rights |
| 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 | The forum brought together migrants, migrants' groups, activists, CSOs, trade unions, religious organisations, and researchers who are working to advance the issues faced by migrants as part of larger working and subaltern classes who have to struggle for access to housing, healthcare, education, employment and against discrimination. This one-day online forum, organised by MIDEQ's thematic area on political mobilisation and transnational solidarity building, in collaboration with the International Trade Union Confederation Africa (ITUC-Africa) was aimed at sharing lessons, building connections, and fostering solidarity across national, regional, and continental boundaries. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/events/forum-on-advancing-migrant-rights/ |
| 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 Ethiopia to South Africa: The human cost of a neglected migration route |
| 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 | This article was adapted in the MIDEQ blog but originally published by The New Humanitarian and written by Obi Anyadike, Senior Editor, Africa. The contribution made by Yordanos S. Estifanos (researcher from MIDEQ South Africa) to the section titled "Heading south". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/blog/ethiopia-to-south-africa-the-human-cost-of-a-neglected-migration-route... |
| Description | From left behind to staying back: rethinking policy responses to children in migrant households |
| 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 | This roundtable organised by UNU-CPR in partnership with the MIDEQ Hub provided an opportunity to learn about new research and analysis that challenges this dominant policy and practice narrative. Researchers from the MIDEQ Hub advocated for the term "stay back," which better encapsulates the ways in which migration forms a part of household strategies aimed at improving children's educational and other opportunities, and called for a rethink of policy responses to reflect children's realities and their agency. UNICEF colleagues reported that they found the term useful and intended to use it in their policy engagement work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://unu.edu/cpr/event/left-behind-staying-back-rethinking-policy-responses-children-migrant-hous... |
| 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, 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 | MIDEQ researcher (Ghana) 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 | Geneva Policy symposium: Evidence from the MIDEQ Hub |
| 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 | This hub-wide major MIDEQ event took place at the United Nations office in Geneva. This Policy Symposium started from the premise that if we want migration to work for everyone, we need to better understand and ultimately address the structural inequalities-poverty, gender inequalities and racism-that drive migration and limit its potential to contribute to personal, societal and global development. Highlighting the structural inequalities with which migration is often associated is therefore necessary to understand contemporary patterns of international migration and their interconnected consequences at the individual, household, community, national and global scales. This event was a key outreach and impact activity that built on the expertise and networks of the MIDEQ international partner group. The event was coordinated by UNRISD in close collaboration with MIDEQ international partners: ILO, IOM, OECD, OHCHR and UNU-CPR. The symposium brought together the Geneva UN and policy community and key MIDEQ researchers to discuss findings from MIDEQ research and implications for migration policy and governance. The policy symposium presented an opportunity for dissemination of MIDEQ research findings as well as policy impact through engaging with international organizations, decision makers and change advocates. It increased the visibility of the project and promoted a new narrative on migration, one that focused on migrants' rights and capabilities; interdisciplinary, intersectional and power-centered approaches; and human rights for all. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.unrisd.org/en/activities/events/migration-and-inequality-in-the-global-south-geneva-poli... |
| 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 | Ghana Must Go: engagement with University students |
| 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 | A group of students from the University of Ghana were invited to view the Ghana Must Go exhibition organised by MIDEQ in South Africa. Participants engaged in a conversation about the elements of anti-migrant sentiments in present-day Ghana. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Ghana Must Go: engagement with migrants and locals |
| 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 Political mobilisation and transnational solidarity team were approached by the National Media Commission of Ghana to train journalists on anti-xenophobia reporting. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| 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 Forum on Migration and Development side event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This side event was organised in partnership with ODI and GK Partners. Co-collaborators on the panel included MIDEQ; African Foundation for Development (AFFORD); OECD Development Centre; United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) ; GIZ; MIGNEX and the government of The Gambia. This event shared insights and sparked new ideas on how to achieve Objective 19 of the Global Compact on Migration to create conditions for migrants and diasporas to fully contribute to sustainable development in all countries. Expert speakers reflected on lessons learned and best practices of recent, pioneering national and international initiatives, and offered their recommendations on future policy options. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/events/global-forum-on-migration-and-development-side-event/ |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | MIDEQ researcher (Ghana) - this involved scholars and practitioners on governance and policy development. |
| 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) |
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