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
Thursday, 24 May 2012, 12:15pm-2:00pm

Prof. Edward Schumacher-Matos, Ombudsman of National Public Radio (NPR) in Washington DC and the James K. Madison Visiting Professor of Journalism at Columbia University
Room: CV 342, 3rd floor (Voie-Creuse, 16)

Seminar co-organised with the Department of Anthropology and Sociology of Development
Tuesday, 22 May 2012, 4:00pm-6:00pm

Dr. Gabriele Rasuly-Paleczek, Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie (Universität Wien)
Room: CV 342, 3rd floor (Voie-Creuse, 16)

Announcements

• The Programme for the Study of Global Migration published the "Report on the Symposium: Joint Reflections on Migration and Development held at the Graduate Institute – Geneva, on August 23-24 2011".
  

• 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

• Professeur Monsutti will give an Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture on "State, Sovereignties and Refugees:A View from the Margins?", University of Oxford, 6 June 2012.

• On 29 May 2012, Mariette Grange of the Global Detention Project will take part in Dispelling Myths about Migration, a panel discussion about challenging everyday misperceptions about migrants and migration, organized jointly by IOM and British Council.

• Dr. Jerome Elie represented the Programme for the Study of Global Migration at the IOM workshop on Moving to Safety: Migration Consequences of Complex Crises, 24-25 April 2012, Geneva.

• Ms. Izabella Majcher represented the Programme for the Study of Global Migration at the 'Mini-Symposium' on Migration, Family, Human Rights, organized by Global Migration Policy Associates, Geneva, 24 April 2012.

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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 PUBLICATIONS

• Dr. Jérôme Elie (with the assistance of Ms. Marina Peterhans) contributed to the following publication: Jorge Martínez Pizarro, Leandro Reboiras Finardi (eds.), Development, Institutional and Policy Aspects of International Migration between Africa, Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean, Project document, LC/W.461, ECLAC, January 2012, pp. 190-208.

• The Programme for the Study of Global Migration, "Report on the Symposium: Joint Reflections on Migration and Development held at the Graduate Institute – Geneva, on August 23-24 2011", 2012.

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