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Caged Hopes for Good Life: The Necessity of Alternatives to Migrant Detention

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Migrant detention, the practice of holding migrants in custody under immigration control, while they wait for permission to enter or before they are deported from the country, is perhaps one among the most contentious issues in the global migration regime. This is addressed by the Objective 13 of the Global Compact for Migration (GCM)- “ […]

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Addressing the Intricacies of Labour and Migration : COVID-19 and its subsequent vulnerabilities

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An International E-Conference  was jointly organised by Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism (GRFDT), New Delhi, India, Center for Research on North America (CISAN), UNAM, Mexico and Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA), Manila, Philippines,  on the topic, ‘Migration, Diasporas and Sustainable Development: Perspectives, Policies Opportunities and Challenges’ between 2nd– 5th November 2020. On day 2 of

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Addressing Gulf Migration: COVID-19 and its Vulnerabilities

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An international E- conference on ‘Migration, Diasporas and Sustainable Development: Perspectives, Policies, Opportunities and Challenges’ was jointly organized by Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA), Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism (GRFDT) and Center for Research on North America (CISAN), from 2nd to 5th November, 2020.On the third day, i.e., 4 November 2020,five parallel discussions were held on varied subjects. The third session

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Proper Institutional Framework to Enable Transparent Migration Procedure

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A panel discussion on the Objective 12 of the Global Compact for Migration (GCM) which aims to ‘strengthen certainty and predictability in migration procedures for appropriate screening, assessment and referral’ was jointly organized by the Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA), Cross Regional Center for Refugees and Migrants (CCRM), Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism

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Dynamics of integration in migration and return processes between Mexico and the United States

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Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism (GRDT) https://grfdt.com/, Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA) https://mfasia.org/, and Center for Research on North America (CISAN) http://www.cisan.unam.mx/ organized the International Conference (November 2- 5, 2020) where the important session in Spanish language was chaired by Prof. Camelia Tigau on November 2, 2020. Some of the crucial inputs from

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Migrants, Diasporas, and Transnational Communities

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An International E-Conference was convened jointly by the New Delhi based Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism (GRFDT), Mexico based Center for Research on North America (CISAN), UNAM, and Philippines based Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA), with the overarching theme “Migration, Diasporas and Sustainable Development: Perspectives, Policies, Opportunities and Challenges” from 2nd -5th November 2020. The

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Exploring the different shades of COVID-19 and the surrounding issues

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The International E-Conference on Migration, Diasporas and Sustainable Development: Perspectives, Policies, Opportunities and Challenges (2-5 November 2020) was jointly Organised by Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism (GRFDT), New Delhi, India, Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA), Manila, Philippines, Center for Research on North America (CISAN), UNAM, Mexico. The session on COVID-19 and Migration on

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Migration and Diaspora: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

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An International E-Conference was convened jointly by the New Delhi based Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism (GRFDT), Mexico based Center for Research on North America (CISAN), UNAM, and Philippines based Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA), with the overarching theme “Migration, Diasporas and Sustainable Development: Perspectives, Policies, Opportunities and Challenges” from 2nd -5th November 2020. The

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Climate Change and Migration Policies

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An International E-Conference was held from 2-5 November, with the theme on ‘Migration, Diasporas and Sustainable Development: Perspectives, Policies, Opportunities and Challenges’. It was jointly organized by Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism [GRFDT] in New Delhi, CISAN in Mexico and Migrant Forum Asia [MFA] in the Philippines. On Day 4 of the conference,

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The Flawed Measure of Criminalization of Smuggled Migrants

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On 27th October 2020, a panel discussion  was jointly organised by Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism [GRFDT], Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA), Cross-Regional Center for Refugees and Migrants [CCRM] and Civil Society Action Committee (CSAC)  on the  Objective 9 of the Global Compact for Migration, “Strengthen the transnational response to smuggling of migrants”. Various

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