Prof. dr. P.W.A (Peter) Scholten
Professor of Migration & Diversity Policy, Erasmus University Rotterdam Director of IMISCOE
UNPACKING THE CHALLENGES AND POSSIBILITIES FOR MIGRATION GOVERNANCE
Keynote presentation (18 October 2019, University of Cambridge)
Read Moreby Noorulain Naseem| National Defense University NDU, Islamabad, Pakistan
They say to be a woman is to behold great secrets of this world, to smile while being in pain and to retain tenderness while surviving a harsh world. I don’t know what stirred in me when I saw the image of that Syrian boy stranded and motionless at the foot of Mediterranean, or the little girl who smiled while telling how she lost her parents to the Syrian war and hadn’t eaten anything in days; until tears came running down her freckled cheeks. Leaving me compelled to know more, perhaps these images took me back to when I was a child and suddenly the neighborhood started filling with Afghan migrants, and refugee tents started to show in the outskirts of Islamabad…
Read Moreby Aurora Rossi | Uppsala University
On 17-19 October 2019, the RESPOND project organised a conference at Newnham College, University of Cambridge. More than 175 participants attended this inspiring conference which aimed to unpack the challenges and possibilities for migration governance.
The conference hosted 114 paper presentations, which were organized in 10 different panels https://www.respondmigration.com/conference-1 In addition, four keynote speeches were delivered by distinguished scholars.
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