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By Giacomo Solano The Netherlands passed two major asylum laws just before the summer to get a tighter grip on migration. Other Western countries also want stricter policies and at the European level, many policy makers are also thinking along these lines. Against this backdrop, Salvo Nicolosi (Utrecht University) and RUNOMI member Giacomo Solano (RadboudContinue reading “Rethinking Refugee Policies: Admission and Integration as Two Sides of the Same Coin”

By Catherina Wilson What happens when music leaves Nigeria, travels across the Atlantic, and reaches Colombia, the US, and The Netherlands? How are rhythms, instruments and dance styles mediated, consumed and commodified in these different contexts? How does music change across borders and what can we learn about the AfroDiaspora through these changes? And howContinue reading “Reflections on the “Urban Cultures in the AfroDiaspora” Working Group”

By Noemi Mena Montes 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 alwaysContinue reading “A Silent Exodus: Climate Change and the Crisis of Displacement”

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.

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.

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….