On 23rd June 2020, The Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism organised an online panel discussion titled “Media Narratives on Migrants during COVID-19” where one of the speakers Ms. Anne Marie Jazzar el-Hage provided deep insights on migrants in Lebanon and how they are perceived by the two groups of the media. Ms. Anne […]
An international webinar on the topic, ‘Migrants and Displaced People Amid COVID-19: Issues, Challenges and Policy Options’, was jointly organized by Centre for Indian Diaspora Studies [CIDS], School of International Relations and Politics, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, in collaboration with Department of Social Sciences, FLAME University, Pune, Maharashtra and Global Research Forum on Diaspora
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Migration is abided by purpose. There is a need to understand what makes an individual leave their country of origin, the drivers that forces people to make a livelihood in another part of the world. A webinar was organized by Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism (GRFDT) to understand these drivers of migration out
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A webinar was jointly organized by Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism [GRFDT]and The Center For Research on North America (CISAN), UNAM on the topic ‘Student Migration During And Post COVID-19:Latin America And Mexico’. Miss Alma Maldonado, Researcher for the Center For Research And Advanced Studies, Mexico who was one of the eminent panellists said
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A panel discussion on the Objective 7 of the Global Compact for Migration (GCM) was jointly organized by Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism (GRFDT), Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA), Cross-Regional Centre for Refugees and Migrations (CCRM) and Civil Society Action Committee (CSAC), on 13th October 2020, on the topic “Address and Reduce Vulnerabilities
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On 6th October 2020, the Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism (GRFDT), Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA), Cross-Regional Centre for Refugees and Migrants (CCRM) and Civil Society Action Committee (CSAC), jointly organised a panel discussion on Objective 6 of the Global Compact for Migration (GCM) which aims to “Facilitate Fair and Ethical Recruitment and
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A virtual panel discussion on the GCM Objective 7: “Address and Reduce Vulnerabilities in Migration” was held on 13th October 2020,hosted by Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism [GRFDT], Migrant Forum in Asia, Cross-Regional Centre for Refugees and Migrants (CCRM) and Civil Society Action Committee. Migrants Highly Vulnerable to Health Risks Dr. Patrick Duigan,
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The speaker Miss Sonia Plaza, Senior Economist in the Finance, Competitiveness and Innovation Global Practice of the World Bank was one of the key panelists who added to the discussions on why data is important in the context of smaller nations within the global south and the challenges that exist in terms of creating data
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On 14th May 2020, a virtual seminar was conducted by Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism on the topic, “Indian Diaspora during COVID-19: Coping Strategies and Future Prospects”. The webinar consisted of panelists from different host countries who gauged the conditions of the Indian diaspora during the pandemic especially the Persons of Indian Origin
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On the 23rd of June 2020, the Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism organized an online webinar about the Media Narratives on Migrants during the COVID-19. One of the panellists of this online event was Stephanie H. Donald, who is a Distinguished Professor of Film at the University of Lincoln in the United Kingdom
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