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🚀 Applications are now open for the 2026 Migration Policy Centre Winter Academy ⭐ Fair Work and Safe Opportunities for People on the Move ⭐ 🗓️ February 2-6 2026 🇮🇹 Florence, Italy All the relevant application information can be found here: exed.eui.eu/open-courses...

😎 Not quite finished this one yet but already looking forward to next academic year. 2025-26 kicks off with a seminar by Daniel Ghezelbash of UNSW Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law on countering misinformation about asylum seekers & refugees. migrationpolicycentre.eu/events/?id=5...

When does a temporary crisis become permanent & who is responsible for fixing it? ➡️Nora Söderberg & Dr Otwori Dennis share testimonials from displaced residents & humanitarian workers in Western #Kenya to show why so-called “temporary” #displacements are anything but temporary.    📌 loom.ly/dvebWr8

Minding the gap or missing the gaps?​ 🧵 Jeff Crisp (Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford) draws on his policymaking experience to explain why migration research frequently struggles to have real-world impact. migrationresearchtopolicy.eu/2025/06/19/t...

“We are a centre for advanced research, so we don’t have students at the Schuman Centre. But when you came, you were researchers, and you experienced what it means to build a community, which is essential for doing #research.”– said Director Erik Jones at the U-LEAD closing ceremony.

How well can migrants access public services? Mediation is key to non-discriminatory access to public services, but for many foreign nationals, barriers remain. ‘Mediation Grammar’ can help policymakers & service providers improve access to public services for migrants. 📌 loom.ly/hwSEyxs

🌍 How do international organisations influence #education policies for #immigrant #students? Louis Volante explores how international assessments shape global #education reforms, with a focus on 1st & 2nd generation #immigrant #students. 🗓️ 28 May/15:00 CEST 📍 Hybrid 👉 Register: loom.ly/OxKaI8c

☕️È stato un piacere partecipare al Caffè Europa su RAI Radio Uno con Tiziana di Simone sul tema della politica d'asilo nell'UE, dei paesi terzi sicuri, dell'Albania ecc. www.raiplaysound.it/audio/2025/0...

🚨 Despite major investment in migration research, policy impact remains limited— ideology and misinformation can dominate. 📊 Based on 70+ interviews across 38 EU projects @eleonoramilazzo.bsky.social and me ask why research-policy collaboration is so hard to achieve. 🔍 Read more: loom.ly/t916yCs

‘Measures to address the root causes of migration could be wasteful as development policy & inefficient as migration policy’ Jessica Hagen-Zanker & Jørgen Carling for the Migration Research to Policy Co-Lab on policies focused on the root causes of migration. lnkd.in/dUmjrx8n

Immigration and asylum are now second most salient issues in the UK. Only Reform benefits from this

At the @mpc-eui.bsky.social we’re working with UNICEF Europe & Central Asia office on the U-LEAD project bringing together high school students and unaccompanied young migrants in Florence to build participation and inclusion Find out more migrationpolicycentre.eu/u-lead/ Find out more

🔍 Ever wondered where migration research is taking place? ➡️ 75% of migration research centres in Europe & N. America Lorenzo Piccoli shares insights from a new tool that maps migration research & explores what this imbalance means for policy and future studies. 📌 lnkd.in/dnUX4QZk

Two days well spent at the @mpc-eui.bsky.social @globalcit.bsky.social annual conference with a great bunch of interesting contributions on the contested boundaries of global migration and citizenship

MP: ‘Labour seen as party of migrants, minorities, and people on benefits’ labourlist.org/2025/04/hind...

In First 100 Days, Trump 2.0 Has Dramatically Reshaped the U.S. Immigration System, but Is Not Meeting Mass Deportation Aims www.migrationpolicy.org/article/trum...

What a refugee camp reveals about economics economist.com/finance-and-...

New analysis from @migrationpolicy.bsky.social shows that the Trump administration cut funding to the value of $2.3 billion to projects on migration and displacement funded by USAID or the State Department

Inspiring visit to Kenya to work with Dr Linda Oucho on the INNOVATE project linking migration research to policy, or at least trying to. We met with a great group of researchers/research users & the students of the PG Diploma in migration studies at Univ of Nairobi www.migrationresearchtopolicy.eu

Very happy to connect at the INNOVATE project meeting in Nairobi with 5 of our MPC summer school/winter academy alumni Dorothy Omboto, Jacqueline Owigo, Gabriel Lubale, Victor Nyamori and Mary Muyonga plus our @mpc-eui.bsky.social colleague Liinda Oucho

Gender polarisation in Italy - young men to the right and young women to the left

French researcher denied entry at US border for expressing critical views about the US government on social media www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

An honour and a pleasure to have participated in the 50th anniversary conference of @wepsocial.bsky.social Many thanks to the editors and participants for a fascinating 2 days.

Today! Tuesday 18 March 12.00-14.00 How can we better connect migration research and policy? In person and online. ✍️ Register: migrationpolicycentre.eu/events/?id=5...

Thanks to @federicazardo.bsky.social and Stefania Panebianco for convening a great round table discussion on sliding doors in human mobility at #isa2025 Chicago

The Migration Research to Policy Co-Lab is organising an event in Brussels: Tuesday 17 March Residence Palace 11.30-14.00. Better together: Building engagement between migration research and policy Register: apps.eui.eu/EUI_API/EVEN... The project: www.migrationresearchtopolicy.eu Agenda ⬇️