Programme for the Study of Global Migration

Created in January 2008, The Programme for the Study of Global Migration (PSGM), based at the Graduate Institute, is devoted to the interdisciplinary study of migration linked to armed conflicts, generalized violence, persecution and ecological disasters. The Programme also focuses on the phenomenon of 'economic migration' and its contemporary implications.

Forthcoming events

• Global Migration Seminar: "Detention of Immigrants: Enforcement, Non-compliance and Punishment", a presentation by Daniel Wilsher (City Law School, University London), author of: Immigration Detention: Law, History, Politics, CUP, 2012. An event linked to the Global Detention Project
  16 Voie Creuse, 3rd floor, Room 342
  Thursday, 8 March 2012, 12:15pm-2:00pm

• Seminar co-organised with the History of International Organization Network (HION)
  Dr. Jessica Reinisch (Birkbeck College, London) and Dr. Silvia Salvatici (Università degli studi di Teramo): "Relief Work in Cold War Europe: the Role of UNRRA"
  16 Voie Creuse, 2nd floor, Room 201
  Thursday, 22 March 2012, 6:15pm-8:00pm
  

Announcements

• The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation mandated Dr. Philippe Gazagne, Research Fellow at the Program for the Study of Global Migration, to work on a new project aiming to assess the capabilities of Sri Lankan migrants to invest productively in Sri Lanka. For more info click here
• The Swiss National Science Foundation awarded funding to a research project headed by Professor Vincent Chetail entitled “Statelessness in international law: which regime(s) for which right(s) ?”. Starting in 2012, the project will be hosted by the PSGM. More info

members' activities

• Professor Monsutti was Visiting Professor at the University of Vienna, Departement of Social and Cultural Anthropology from 15 to 30 January 2012. He gave a course on "Insurgents, Refugees and Humanitarian Activists: A Political Anthropology of the Afghan Crisis" and a conference on "Afghans Without Borders: Mobility and the International World of Nations" (18 janvier 2012).
• Professor Monsutti gave a lecture on “The Politics of Reconstruction in Afghanistan: Rural Development, Local Participation and the Workshop Culture” at Austrian Academy of Sciences on 24 of January 2012. More info
• La première projection du film « Dit vouloir mourir en Suisse » de Dr. Philippe Gazagne a eu lieu le mardi 20 décembre au Théâtre du Loup à Genève. Pour plus d'info cliquer ici

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In the News 

• The Global Detention Project's report on Immigration Detention in Switzerland... has been subject of the  news articles in Le Courrier (25 November 2011), L'Hebdo (24 November 2011), Le Temps (20 October 2011) and at the Graduate Institute. The report was published in October 2011.

Call for Papers

• The Programme for the Study of Global Migration invites you to submit high quality research papers addressing global migration issues from a variety of perspectives. Interdisciplinary approaches are especially encouraged... For more info click here

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last PUBLICATION

Global Migration Research Paper – 2011 | Nº 2

• Adele Galipo, Diaspora and Peacebuilding in Post-Conflict Settings: Insights from Somaliland.

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