I am one of the latest people in a long line of around 130 years of continuous migration in my family – a privilege to which I owe many of my accomplishments. My mother is Iranian and my father is German. Although I was born in Germany, I was still a baby when my parents decided to migrate to Paraguay, where I grew up until the age of 11. After that, we moved to England, followed by another move to Zimbabwe, where we stayed for four years. Finally, we moved back to England, where I finished my h...
My migration story began in Honduras, a beautiful country, at the heart of the Americas. This is the land where the sacred pyramids of our Mayan ancestors stand tall among the jungle canopy, and where the coffee beans grow strong at the skirt of our mountains. We are mestizos, which is Spanish for ‘people of mixed race’. Since colonisation the blood of our indigenous ancestors has been mixed with the blood of African slaves and that of the European colonisers who settled there. It is these three...
Migration risks bringing Europe to a breaking point. It is about refugee boats, borders, Islam — about us and them. These are themes that not only concern society and politics, but also science and academia. … For more than 13 years, Prof. Melissa Siegel has been working on the theme of migration, most recently as Head of Migration Studies at UNU-MERIT. She is currently working on a book about the links between migration and many other themes such as employment, children and health. ...
A joint post by Tamara Kool and Theresa Ammann In this blog post we connect the current political climate with our current research project that systematically analyses the existing literature on ‘Gender’ and ‘Human Security’. … The global rise of authoritarian movements and the entry of far-right parties into parliaments and governments alike (for example but not limited to, Denmark, Brazil, Hungary, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, the Netherlands, USA) is a concerning trend. Looking close...