Migration

DIIS researches internally displaced persons, international migrants and refugees, and the industries and infrastructures that enable, hinder or redirect mobility.

Research and activites

  • Soldater i Vestafrika
    Livestreaming
    DIIS Auditorium
    This seminar sheds light on the myriad challenges shaping West Africa and discusses the recent political upheavals, the growing influence of Russia, and the complex web of migration patterns intersecting the region and beyond
  • Everyday Humanitarianism in Tanzania
    Livestreaming
    DIIS Auditorium
    This seminar brings together leading scholars on humanitarianism to discuss the state of humanitarianism today, its historical entanglements and its future
  • Ship and boats with immigrants
    DIIS Auditorium
    What does it mean to rescue at sea? And how does it feel to be rescued? This seminar sheds light on the work of Doctors without Borders on the current situation on the deadliest migration route in the world, the Mediterranean Sea
  • shepherds walking in Africa
    Webinar
    Online via Zoom
    How should climate change adaptation be governed? This webinar examines how climate change adaptation policies and projects govern mobility, land rights and finance in the African context, and what the lessons are for adaptation governance.
  • Guatamala and mexico funeral because of accidant
    Livestreaming
    DIIS Auditorium
    This seminar focuses on the ways structural roots, such as inequality, as well as sudden events like natural catastrophes or conflicts enable and constrain current international migration flows. Furthermore, it highlights the importance of theory and categorisation in how we understand climate change and migration
  • kenya food distribution via fingerprint tech system
    Livestreaming
    DIIS Auditorium
    How do NGOs use algorithms and data-driven tools for predictive analysis in their humanitarian response?
  • Ministry of Livestock, Somaliland
    DIIS Auditorium
    A retrospective seminar with and for senior researcher Finn Stepputat
  • Livestreaming
    DIIS Auditorium
    When disaster strike, diaspora groups are often first responders and remain engaged during lengthy and complex crises. Join this roundtable where we discuss practices, possibilities and pitfalls
  • Trade makes states book cover
    Livestreaming
    DIIS Auditorium
    The control of trade and transport is key to statemaking. A new book suggests that this, rather than the control of people and territory, can make or unmake state projects in areas like Somalia. This seminar introduces the ideas behind the book
  • judge from texas performing wedding on mexican border
    Livestreaming
    DIIS Auditorium
    Laura Sjoberg introduces the notion of "sex rule" in this talk. Looking at marriage, reproduction, migration and asylum cases, and homonormativity, she argues that sex rules matter in global politics and international security
  • Poster - seminar In search of a new social order
    Livestreaming
    DIIS Auditorium
    How to develop societies that benefit the weakest sections in the Global North as well as in the Global South? What are the possibilities of anti-capitalist democratic development?
  • Drought in Somalia Dead animal because of climate change
    Livestreaming
    DIIS Auditorium
    This seminar brings together scholars and practitioners to discuss pathways for a broadened climate security agenda on fragile states centered on addressing livelihood and security needs of populations
  • Livestreaming
    DIIS Auditorium
    Join us for this seminar with Professor Mirca Madianou on how data practices revitalise colonial legacies in humanitarianism and technological development itself
  • Dødt dyr pga. tørke
    Livestreaming
    DIIS Auditorium
    At this seminar, we assess recent developments in loss and damage policy, research and practice to identify possible ways forward towards COP27 and beyond
  • Migrants on a truck
    Livestreaming
    Auditorium
    Climate change is often seen as causing migration. This excludes the many other causes of, and responsibilities for, crises that follow climate-change. Join us for this seminar where expert Jesse Ribot offers an insight into the multiple causes producing precarity and shaping migration in Senegal
  • Soil erosion in the Upper West Region, Ghana
    Livestreaming
    DIIS, Auditorium
    How is climate change and mobility linked and how do people cope through moving or staying? These are some of the questions four researchers discuss based on their research at this seminar
  • Cover DIIS Report 2022 01 Women on the move
    Webinar
    Online via Zoom
    In the past years we have seen images of West African women en route to Europe crossing the Mediterranean and currently newspapers and media are brimming with images of Ukrainian women.
  • African women on a market with poster of remittances tranfer bank
    Livestreaming
    DIIS Auditorium
    Lessons from Central America
  •  Sahra Ahmed Koshin
    Blogpost
    A Somali Mother’s Journey
  • kidal mali harvest of vegtables
    Webinar
    Unpacking the relationship between migration and development and the implication for development policy
  • New york busy street
    Livestreaming
    DIIS Auditorium
    The dynamics of racialized inclusion and exclusion between and within groups
  • tyrkey demonstration with flags and a book cover
    Livestreaming
    DIIS Auditorium
    Presentation of Soner Cagaptay’s new book “A Sultan in Autumn: Erdogan Faces the Uncontainable Forces of Turkey” and a discussion on the mounting challenges to President Erdogan’s rule
  • bog af lars erslev oprør og alliancer mellemøsten efter det arabiske forår
    Livestreaming
    Auditoriet - DIIS
    Kom til boglancering for seniorforsker Lars Erslev Andersens nye bog og bliv klogere på, hvor Mellemøsten er på vej hen
  • jason de leon
    Livestreaming
    DIIS Auditorium
    Migrant life and death along the US/Mexico border
  • west africa
    Webinar
    Online via Zoom
    It matters how the dynamics of West Africa are discussed. Join this webinar to understand why, and hear more about appropriate responses to some of the main challenges that the region is facing.
  • BorderImages: Migration, Trafficking & Rescue

    The research initiative conducts field work among, and with, undocumented migrant women en route from West Africa to Europe’s Southern borders; In red light districts among trafficked women and...

  • West African migrants travelling to Europe across the Sahara desert. Photo by Christian Vium ©

    Borderwork - An Ethnographic Study of Migrants, Brokers and European Border Governance in West Africa

    In recent years, West Africa has become the scene for a wide range of European...

  • Photo: Rajo Organisation, Wada Biris, 2017

    This collaborative research project explores how Somali diaspora groups mobilize, channel and deliver humanitarian assistance to Somalia during complex humanitarian crises.

    Based on multi...

  • Photograph: Central Ethiopia, Neil Webster

    The Governing Climate Mobility programme (GCM) examines how governance contexts influence mobility options and decisions in areas affected by climate change. Development literature and...

  • ©Dorthe Thorsen
    The social effects of migration management for West African migrants. ‘New Geographies of Hope and Despair’ is a five-year research programme on West African migration, running between 2012 and...