After a hiatus of nearly five years, we are pleased to announce that we are relaunching our Charles Cooper Memorial Lecture Series – which has been running since 2007 – with a public lecture from United Nations University Rector Professor Tshilidzi Marwala on Thursday 26 October 2023. Prof. Marwala will discuss the topic of AI governance; for more details, please see our event page. History of UNU-MERIT’s Charles Cooper Memorial Lecture Series Charles Cooper was the foun...
How to master the art of compromise? “So these would be my last words to you as future policymakers: Try to see a compromise not as a watered down opinion, but as a very strong common ground.” Lilianne Ploumen Enter keywords...
Does citizenship acquisition have a positive effect on the socio-economic integration of immigrants? Empirical support for this so-called citizenship premium is ambiguous, but there is little development of theory that explains why some migrants in certain countries seem to benefit from citizenship, while others do not. See below or click here for more details....
“Human Migration: Myths, Hysteria and Facts” was the title of the inaugural lecture of Prof. Hein de Haas on 27 June at the Aula of Maastricht University. Hein de Haas is the Co-Director of the International Migration Institute (IMI) and University Lecturer in Migration Studies within the Department of International Development at the University of Oxford. De Haas holds a professorship in Migration and Development at UNU-MERIT and its School of Governance and has taught migration the...