By Tesseltje de Lange, Karen Geertsema & Ricky van Oers What a day! On 22 May 2025, over 170 people gathered in Nijmegen to share knowledge on the topic of ‘Work and Migration Law’. Topics discussed included Central and Eastern European workers in distribution, posted drivers from outside Europe, international students and researchers, and theContinue reading “Work and Migration Law Congress: the value of dialogue”
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A Silent Exodus: Climate Change and the Crisis of Displacement
UNHCH tents in the Jordanian desert, Al Zaatari Refugee Camp in Jordan “My name is Aya, and I am 32 years old. I was born in southern Syria, near Daraa. My family worked in agriculture, and at 18, I married a local farmer. We lived a modest life, but we always had enough to eat.Continue reading “A Silent Exodus: Climate Change and the Crisis of Displacement”
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Thinking, feeling, changing: how Cyprus reshaped my understanding of research
Have you ever experienced a moment at which your research became deeply personal? Or when a place you had studied from a distance suddenly confronted you with emotions you had not anticipated? When I first set foot in Cyprus for my fieldwork, I thought I was well prepared. Months of reading, writing, and thinking about Cyprus and its buffer zone had given me what I thought was a reasonable understanding of the country and its many complexities. But once there, I realized that no amount of reading could prepare me for the emotions and contradictions I encountered.
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The cabinet plans on naturalisation and integration
Reposted and translated from Verblijfblog (November 12, 2024)
As previously announced in the outline agreement , the government program of the Schoof cabinet contains several plans that relate to naturalization and nationality that, taken together, will complicate access to Dutch citizenship and make the loss of Dutch citizenship easier. Verblijfblog provides an overview of these plans, the legal bottlenecks and expected effects.
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Digital networks and serendipitous encounters
Repost from Voice4Thought (November 24, 2023)
In September 2023, I participated in MIASA’s (Maria Sibylla Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa) midterm conference on Sustainable Governance in a Time of Global Flux at the University of Accra in Ghana….