Webinar 'Migrant lives in pandemic times' with Professor Nando Sigona

While the first wave of Covid-19 took many by surprise, it seems that the pandemic and the diverse national and local policies that are designed to tackle its further spread will keep staying with us for a while. This time, we as migration researchers, migrant civil society organisations and migration policy makers can prepare ourselves.

Earlier this year, Mieke Kox and llse van Liempt documented in a triptych and as part of an ongoing research project the impact of the initial Covid-19 outbreak and its related policies on undocumented migrants, asylum seekers and refugees. In our webinar on 18 September, we will take the time to further discuss the impact of the pandemic and pandemic-policies on migrants and on migrant and migration policies. On the preliminary programme:

• Professor Nando Sigona (University of Birmingham) starting off the discussion with an agenda setting presentation on migration research during and after the pandemic.

• Associate Professor Maggi Leung (Utrecht University) following up with reflections and preliminary insights from her research project 'COVID: Countering the Virus: Discrimination and Protestation in Europe’

• Jan Braat (senior policy advisor migration, diversity and integration @ Utrecht municipality) following up with reflections and insights from the policy making perspective

• De Voorkamer/Stichting Collective Nouns: Salma Fayyad: reflections and insights on the impact of the pandemic on the creation of inclusive spaces in the city.

The webinar is a public event and there will be plenty of room for questions and discussion.