World Refugee Day is an international day designated by the United Nations to honour refugees around the globe. It falls each year on June 20 and celebrates the strength and courage of people who have been forced to flee their home country to escape conflict or persecution. World Refugee Day is an occasion to build empathy and understanding for their plight and to recognize their resilience in rebuilding their lives.
“Europe can do more!” This is what the four leading German peace research institute call for in their current Peace Report, which they presented at the Federal Press Conference in Berlin on 8 June 2021. The European Union must increase its ability to act within the global power structure to respond to global challenges by providing non-military solutions.
The project “Forced Migration and Refugee Studies: Networking and Knowledge Transfer” (FFVT) is committed to strengthening interdisciplinary refugee and refugee research. Until now, the research field has largely lacked an institutional foundation (with professorships, degree programmes, etc.).
Displaced people face many challenges when integrating into the labor market in their host communities. They are also more likely than the host population to be employed in sectors that are highly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, such as manufacturing, accommodation, and food services. And they are mostly employed informally, and thus have no job security or access to social safety nets during the COVID-19 related economic downturn.
Rural-urban migration constitutes the principal pattern of internal and cross-border migration in West Africa. In alignment with environmental and health agendas, its drivers and effects need to be explicitly accounted for in migration and urbanization policies. For example, that households use rural-urban migration as a risk-diversification and livelihood strategy is a key consideration. Highly vulnerable migrant populations such as children, women, the elderly, or the forcibly displaced should receive particular attention.
This paper addresses the self-selection of potential migrants. In particular, the study examines whether risk and time preferences explain a significant proportion in the movement heterogeneity of individuals. It is further intended to shed light on the role of social preferences (trust, altruism, reciprocity) as potential migratory determinants. By making use of a unique cross-sectional data set on migration intentions (Gallup World Poll) and experimentally-validated preferences (the Global Preference Survey) covering 70 countries worldwide, a probit model is estimated.
The second German Citizens’ Council was established at the beginning of 2021: from now on, 160 people will discuss the important questions of our time and formulate recommendations for action to German policymakers. The participants have been selected by draw and represent the diverse perspectives of German citizens within the Council. They address significant topics in their ten virtual sessions, such as the question of Germany’s role in securing international cohesion or the country’s performance in EU migration policy.
The theme of this year’s International Migrants Day was re-imagining human mobility, and for Master’s of Geography of Environmental Risks and Human Security student Ronja Winkhardt-Enz, the theme directly relates to her master’s thesis research on human mobility and landslide risk perception in Brazil.
This year’s BICC Global Militarization Index (GMI) will be published on 3 December 2020 (in German and English). The Global Militarization Index (GMI) describes the relative weight of the military apparatus of a state in relation to society as a whole. For example, it puts the gross domestic product in relation to military expenditure. The GMI 2020 covers 151 countries.
Within the @BonnGlobal series during the Daring Cities 2020 Forum, the Bonn Alliance for Sustainability Research hosted a session on “Climate and Migration – Stories from the Field and the Role of Networked Science for Action to Change” which is now available on YouTube for you to watch!
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