The interdisciplinary migration research theme focuses on the relation between the receiving countries (immigration) and the sending countries (emigration) and its dynamics. While most research in other institutes is directed towards the determinants of emigration and the problems of integration of the immigrants in the receiving countries, research at the MGSoG emphasizes that effects goes both ways not only in financial streams (remittances) but also by transferring and transforming citizens across borders. Modern communication and travel technology play a pivotal role in keeping migrants and the indigenous population at both sides of the migration flow in touch with each other (both directly and throughout the media). These information-, financial- and human- flows have a decisive impact on the labour market behaviour, the cultural exchange, the integration behaviour and the potential further migration behaviour (circular migration) of migrants.

1. Migration flows and their effects
2. Migration and integration and
3. Migration and development.

Migration channel

Welcome to our migration channel, where we share the latest findings on a range of migration activities from lectures, interviews and conferences. Click on the playlist icon to see the rest of the series.

More specific areas of expertise

Countries of expertise

Selection of (research) projects

Current projects:
• IS Academy on Migration and Development (Migration, a World in Motion) (2009-2014)
• Study on Children and Elderly left behind in Moldova and Georgia (2010-2013)
• Volkswagen Foundation Project Europe’s Global Linkages and the Impact of the Financial Crisis: Policies for Sustainable Trade, Capital Flows, and Migration (2011-2013)
• IOM Afghanistan Migration Profile and New Data Collection (2011-2012)
• Return Migration and Entrepreneurship: Determinants of Business Success (2011-2014)
• Cooperation with DFD on Mobility and Development and Remittances and Development
• UNHCR Shelter Assistance Evaluation Afghanistan (2012-2013)
• Evaluation of the ILO Strategy on International Labour Migration (2013)

 

Previous projects:

• International Civic Integration Network (2012-2013)
• Migration for Development in the Western Balkans: Evaluation of the EC IPA 2009 Multi-beneficiary programme 2-funded IOM Project (2012)
• Study on educational support for newly arrived migrant children (NAMS) Project Netherlands Country Expert (2011)
• Evaluation of the Dutch Government Migration and Development Policy (2012)
• Evaluation of the Dutch Government "Blue Birds" Circular Migration Pilot (2011-2012)
• The Policy Response to Repatriation and Reintegration in Burundi
• Evaluation of the IOM Temporary Return of Qualified Nationals to Afghanistan (2010)
• OxfamNovib Remittances study on the needs and wants of African migrants in Europe (2010)
• Netherlands-Afghanistan Remittances Corridor Study (2009)
• Netherlands-Surinam Remittances Corridor Study (completed by staff but not MGSOG) (2005)
• ‘Geld Naar Huis’ remittances price comparison website evaluation (2010)
• IMISOCE commissioned papers on diaspora engagement in Ethiopia, Turkey and India (2010)
• Study of World Bank Expatriates Program in Afghanistan (2009)