Dr. Melissa Siegel, who runs the Migration and Development group at UNU-MERIT, was appointed Professor of Migration Studies at Maastricht University in August 2016. She gives her inaugural lecture on ‘Migration &: The Depth and Breadth of Migration Studies’ on 2 June 2017. Howard Hudson caught up with her to find out more. What’s the backstory to your intriguing lecture title? It was meant to be thought-provoking. The point is to show how migration is linked to so many things in the wo...
Dr. Khalid Koser was appointed Extraordinary Professor in Conflict, Peace and Security at the Faculty of Humanities and Sciences of Maastricht University on 18 September 2014. “When is Migration a Security Issue?” was the title of his inaugural lecture. About the speaker Beside his position at Maastricht University, Khalid Koser is the Deputy Director and Academic Dean at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. He is also a non-resident Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Ins...