Upcoming Events
| Date | Type of event | Researcher(s) | Paper / events |
| 13 December 2017 | VU Philosophy Colloquium | Prof. Tommy J. Curry and dr. Annemie Halsema | Phallicism as Comparative Theory: conceptualizing sexual violence against racially subjugated males in American slavery, Jim Crow, and early 20th century genocides. |
Past events
| Date | Type of event | Researcher(s) | Paper / events |
| 3 November 2017 | Feedback Forum | Runa Laila (Discussant: prof. dr. R. S. Gowricharn) | Culture, Gender and Mobility: Patterns of (im)mobility & female labour participation in the ready-made garment industry of Bangladesh |
| 1 May 2017 | Lunch Feedback Forum | Artwell Cain (Discussant: Gloria Wekker) | Inventariserend (literatuur-)onderzoek en beleidsperspectieven over uitsluitingsmechanismen voor mensen van Afrikaanse afkomst in Nederland |
| 25 April 2017 | Feedback Forum | Jos van Beurden (Discussant: Pál Nyíri) | Chances for Cross-fertilisation? Dealing with migration of objects, taken during European Colonialism and the Second World War. |
| 23 March 2017 | Seminar Read the reflections on the seminar by guest speaker Philomena Essed here. | Gloria Wekker (Keynote)
Philomena Essed (Guest Speaker) Nancy Jouwe (Moderator) | Racial Exclusion in and at the Borders of Europe
With the intensifying debates in Europe on refugees, migration and populism, we asked ourselves what happens when we analyze these issues in terms of race. During this seminar, we aimed to investigate the idea that racism is a much more powerful and omnipresent form of exclusion in Europe than is generally assumed. The Migration and Diversity Center invited Gloria Wekker as keynote speaker, guest speaker Philomena Essed and many more presenters to reflect on these issues. Parallel sessions: Nawal Mustafa; Tamara Last; Ildikó Plájás; Amade M’charek; Guno Jones; Dorrie Wilson; Halleh Ghorashi & Leila Kian; Tesseltje de Lange & Lisa Berntsen; Karin de Vries; Thomas Spijkerboer; Giovanni Picker; Artwell Cain |
| 30 January 2017 | Feedback Forum | Dimitris Dalakoglou(Discussant:Thomas Spijkerboer) | The Violent Refugee: The Right to Mobility and the Borderisation of Europe |
| 31 October 2016 | Feedback Forum | Richa Kumar (Discussant: Zsuzsa Kovács) | Résumé of a security professional: mapping the capitals of the security professionals |
| 20 September 2016 | Feedback Forum | Nina van Egmond (Discussant: Martijn Stronks) | Labour, Work and Migration - Migration policy built on a concept of dignity as non-humiliation |
| 21 June 2016 | Roundtable Session | Migration and Diversity Centre (MDC) and Centre for international criminal Justice (CICJ) | If You Don't Count, You Don't Count:How to extract migration data from states |
| 7 June 2016 | Feedback Forum | Jill Alpes (Discussant: Rivke Jaffe) | Transnational migration control and sending states: The unifying force of 'fraud' at the airport of Douala, Cameroon |
| 10 May 2016 | Feedback Forum | Jasmijn Slootjes (Discussant: Tineke Abma) | Narratives of Meaningful Endurance: Critical Transitions Between Vicious and Virtuous Cycles Between Health and Employment in Migrant Women's Life Histories |
| 14 April 2016 | Feedback Forum | Lonneke Geerlings (Discussant: Kathy Davis) | Cultural mobility |
| 29 March 2016 | Feedback Forum | Laura Kok (Discussant: Christian Reinhardt) | forcasting violence induced human mobility flows |
| 24 February 2016 | Feedback Forum | Emanuela Roman (Discussant: Ben Crum) | Cooperation on readmission in the Mediterranean area and its human rights implications |
| 28 January 2016 | Feedback Forum
| Hannah Leyerzapf (Discussant: Janna Wessels) | We are all só different that it is just.. normal.” Processes of normalization in health care teams in an academic hospital in the Netherlands. |
| 27 May 2015 | Seminar | Thomas Spijkerboer, Tamara Last, Orçun Ulusoy, Paolo Cuttitta and Henk Van Houtum | bmStartTekstPresentation of the Deaths at the Borders of Southern Europe Database |
| 26 May 2015 | Feedback Forum | Devyani Prabhat | Proportionality Analysis and the Cancellation of British Citizenship for Conduct by Categories- paper |
| 13 February 2015 | Feedback forum | Mehdi Bozorgmehr | Panethnicity Revisited: Contested Group Formation in the Post-9/11 Era |
| 9 December 2014 | Feedback forum | Martijn Huisman and Silvia Klokgieters | LASA-Project; a study on the rational of resilience in Turkish and Moroccan young, old and elderly migrants |
| 25 November 2014 | Feedback forum | Marieke Slootman (Discussants: Machteld de Jong and Ismintha Waldring) | ‘I am… who I am…’. Ethnic identifications in social contexts among ethnic minority individuals |
| 21 October 2014 | Book presentation | Dienke Hondius(Discussants:Siep Stuurman, Amade M'Charek, and Gloria Wekker; Master of Ceremony: Nancy Jouwe) | Blackness in Western Europe: Racial Patterns of Paternalism and Exclusion |
| 19 June 2014 | Feedback forum | Fiore Geelhoed (Discussant: Vanessa Vroon-Najem) | Identity under construction: Global pathways to Islamic orthodoxy, radicalism and extremism in the Netherlands |
| 28 March 2014 | Feedback forum | Diana van Bergen (Discussant: Sawitri Saharso) | Parental ethnic socialization and intergroup antagonism among Muslim immigrant youth and native youth in the Netherlands |
| 20 March 2014 | Feedback forum with visiting scholar, co-organised with IDI | Kathy Davis (Discussant: Dubravka Zarkov) | Tango: Passionate Encounters in a Globalizing World |
| 28 January 2014 | Feedback forum | Marja van Heese (Discussant: Wouter Veraart) | RESPECT - The UNESCO Cultural Conventions, armed conflict and the battle for peace in the minds of men |
| 10 December 2013 | Feedback forum | Juan Amaya-Castro(Discussant:Brian Burgoon) | Emigration policies in the context of global governance |
| 26 November 2013 | Forum for visiting scholar, co-organised with the Amsterdam Critical Discourse Community | Robert Barsky | Asocial injustice: Refugees lost without translation |
| 18 October 2013 | Symposium with visiting research team from Norway | Various, including Eli Støa and Halleh Ghorashi | ‘What Buildings do: The Effect of the Physical Environment on the Quality of Life of Asylum Seekers’ |
| 17 October 2013 | Migration PhDs networking meeting | All PhDs working on migration-related issues are invited | Kick-off meeting of the IMES-MDC PhD network |
| 25 June 2013 | Feedback forum with visiting scholar | Heleen de Jonge van Ellemeet (Discussant: Joke Reijven ) | Crimmigration: the convergence of criminal law and immigration policy reflected in the case law of the Dutch Supreme Court |
| 21 May 2013 | Feedback forum | Efe Kerem Sözeri (Discussant: Liza M. Mügge) | National connectedness and political identities |
| 18-19 April 2013 | Symposium | Various (see programme) | Regulating transnational work and family in times of crisis |
| 26 February 2013 | Feedback forum with visiting scholar | Reza Hasmath (Discussant: Dimitris Pavlopoulos) | The Ethnic Penalty in the Labour Market? Prevalence, Causes and Policy Options |
| 22 January 2013 | Public lecture and feedback forum | Nayarana Jayaram and Ellen Bal | Public lecture on Indian diaspora by professor Nayarana Jayaram, Research Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, followed by feedback forum with Ellen Bal discussing her work on Indian diaspora. Introductions by Susan Legêne and Chan Choenni |
| 15 November 2012
| Feedback forum | Martijn Stronks (Discussant: Annemie Halsema) | Time and Identity. An interdisciplinary analysis of the relation between time and identity in the context of family migration law |
| 27 September 2012 | Feedback forum | Younous Arbaoui (Discussant: Miranda Poeze) | Effective family bonds of Somali refugees |
| 26 June 2012 | Feedback forum with visiting scholar | Froukje Santing (Discussant: Boris Slijper) | We are all citizens of the Netherlands |
| 8 June 2012 | Symposium | Adam McKeown (Discussant: Betty de Hart ) Saskia Sassen (Discussant: Juan M. Amaya-Castro) | Looking Historically at the Role of the State in Migration Law Video 1 Video 2 |
| 17 April 2012
| MDC launch event for 2012 activities | Caroline Drieënhuizen (Discussant: Thijs Sunier)
Bahija Aarrass (Discussant: Chan Choenni) Sylvia van der Raad (Discussant Guno Jones) | Becoming Dutch by means of the empire: foreigners in the Dutch East Indies and Holland 1811-1870.
Education through migration. The relevance of the right to education in the European Convention of Human Rights in migration issues. The other side of workplace diversity discourse: how do those who personify the main object of diversity policies act and processes of inclusion and exclusion. |
| 13 December 2011 | Feedback forum | Diana van Bergen | Ethnic Socialization and the Onset of Radicalization. The Case of Turkish-Dutch Youth in The Netherlands |
| 18 October 2011 | Feedback forum | Jacomijne Prins | Exploring in-group diversity through storytelling: how intersecting stories work to construct a diverse Moroccan Dutch experience |
| 20 September 2011 | Feedback forum | Juan Amaya-Castro | Illegality Regimes and the Corrosion of Citizenship |
| 26 April 2011 | Feedback forum | Ellen Bal | Dreaming of leaving: The construction of migration aspirations among young middle class Bangladeshis in Dhaka |
| 15 March 2011 | Feedback forum with visiting scholar | Sébastien Chauvin | Sans-Papiers Striking for Legalization: Labor Unions and the Contradictions of French Migration Policy |
| 16 December 2010 | Feedback forum with visiting scholar | Manuel Abrantes | The Employment Situation of Brazilian Immigrants in Dutch Cities |
| 16 November 2010 | Feedback forum with visiting scholar | Peter Geschiere | Autochthony, Belonging and Exclusion, The Pitfalls of a Culturalization of Citizenship |
| 13 September 2010 | Feedback forum with visiting scholar | Ines Michalowski | Citizenship Tests in Various European Countries in Relation to Political Liberalism |