On the 10th of May 2020, the Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism [GRFDT] held a panel discussion on ‘Migrants and Immigrants during COVID 19: Country Specific Cases.’ Professor Biman Prasad, Member of Parliament in Fiji and former Professor at the University of South Pacific, Fiji, discussed the unprecedented economic fallout in the Pacific […]
Professor Luciana Sparta, Professor and researcher at the University of Buenos Aires, discussed the effects of COVID-19 in Argentina, in a virtual panel discussion on ‘Migrants and Immigrants during COVID 19: Country Specific Cases’ hosted by the Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism [GRFDT] on the 10th of May 2020. Shift in social composition
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On 17 May 2020, a panel discussion was conducted by Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism [GRFDT] on the topic, “Migration, Gender and COVID-19: Socio-Economic and Policy Perspectives”. During the webinar series organized by GRFDT, Paddy Siyanga Knudsen, a well-known Development Economist, urged the need to ensure safer migration of women to informal sector.
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Prioritising data will pave the way towards understanding the more profound interrelationship between migration process and sustainable development. As the whole world is facing the adverse impacts of COVID-19 pandemic, restrictive measures are being imposed by several countries as a short-term measure to restrict the mobility of people. In this context, there is a need
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This Tuesday (15th of September, 2020), Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism together with the Migrant Forum in Asia,Cross-Regional Centre for Refugee and Migration, and Civil Society Action Committee organized an online webinar regarding all stages of migration. The whole webinar was moderated by William Gois, the regional coordinator of the Migrant Forum in
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On 10 May 2020, a panel discussion was conducted by the Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism [GRFDT] on the topic, ‘Migrants and Immigrants during COVID 19: Country Specific Cases”. The speaker Dr. A. Didar Singh spoke on the “Indian migration to the Gulf”. Dr. A. Didar Singh, the panelist speaker, is a Former
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On 10 May 2020, a panel discussion was conducted by Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism [GRFDT] on the topic, ‘Migrants and Immigrants during COVID 19: Country Specific Cases”. Professor Binod Khadria, the speaker, was Professor of Economics at the School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He was also the Director
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Dissemination of right information at the right time plays a pertinent role in enabling safe, orderly and regular migration. This was looked into by an international panel of scholar and practitioners in a recent webinar organized jointly by the Migrant Forum in Asia [MFA], the Cross–Regional Center for Refugees and Migrants [CCRM], the Global Research
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Part I Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism(GRFDT) along with The Centre for Research on North America (CISAN), UNAM organized an insightful and dynamic discussion on “High Skilled Migration during and post COVID-19: Perspectives from Latin America and Asia” on August 4th 2020. This session was moderated by Professor Enrique Camacho from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma
