The Latest from ISIM

• Upcoming Short Course on Global Trends in International Migration

  April 17, 2013
  ISIM is pleased to announce that registration is open for the gateway course to the Certificate in International Migration Studies: Global Trends in International Migration. The course, which can be taken on its own or in conjunction with the certificate, will take place from May 7-10, 2013. For more information, please click here to visit Georgetown University's Center for Continuing and Professional Education.
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  Crisis Migration Year One Report

  April 15, 2013
  This recently published report introduces the conceptualization and purpose of 'Crisis Migration', provides highlights from the first year of the project and looks ahead to forthcoming activities and publications. For more information on the project and to read the Year One Report, please click here.
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  A Conversation with JRS on Syrian Refugees in Jordan

  April 26, 2012
  JRS Jordan Country Director, Colin Gilbert, spoke to students and faculty at Georgetown on the plight of urban refugees, and the experiences of JRS in serving Syrian, Iraqi, Somali and Sudanese refugees in Jordan.
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• Joanna Foote Awarded Fulbright Research Grant

  March 29, 2013
  Congratulations to ISIM Research Assistant, Joanna Foote, who has received a Fulbright award for research on the re-integration of deported and return migrants in central Mexico. Read more about Joanna's research here.
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  ISIM's Dr. Susan Martin Testifies Before Senate

  March 18, 2013
  Dr. Susan Martin testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee at the hearing, "How Comprehensive Immigration Reform Should Address the Needs of Women and Family." Read more for the complete text and video of her testimony.
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• Launch of EUDO/UNHCR Database on Statelessness in Europe

  March 19, 2013
  ISIM Visiting Scholar, Dr. Olivier Vonk has been heavily involved with preparing the EUDO CITIZENSHIP / UNHCR Database on Protection Against Statelessness in Europe, launched earlier this month. The database has been developed by the EUDO CITIZENSHIP Observatory, in cooperation with the UNHCR Statelessness Unit, and includes information on the extent to which citizenship laws in 36 European states provide sufficient protection against statelessness, in light of the most important international standards, such as the 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. The database is organized around a comprehensive typology of modes of protection against statelessness which outlines, in a systematic way, 17 categories of persons that are at risk of being or becoming stateless.
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• Children and Migration: Disease and Illness

  February 20, 2013
  ISIM's Elzbieta Gozdziak has authored an entry on 'Children and migration: disease and illness', which appears in the latest 'Encyclopedia on Global Human Migration. You can access the full encyclopedia on the Wiley Online Library, and read Professor Gozdziak's entry on ISIM's publications shelf below.
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  Remarks of Mira Sorvino at January 30 'Anti-Human Trafficking Symposium: Transforming the Coalition'

  January 30, 2013
  Actress Mira Sorvino and others spoke at the symposium, sponsored by Deloitte and SFS' Institute for the Study of International Migration and Master of Science in Foreign Service Program. Sorvino's remarks were entitled, "Beyond Awareness: Putting the Human Back in Human Trafficking."
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• ISIM and COMPAS Comparative Report on Undocumented Children Coincides with Recent Move in US Senate

  January 29, 2013
  A Georgetown and Oxford report suggesting the U.S. and UK should ease undocumented minors' access to education, health care and citizenship comes as a group of U.S. senators revealed an immigration reform plan Jan 28. You can find the report, entitled "Dreams Deferred: Undocumented Children and Access to Education, Healthcare and Livelihoods in the United Kingdom and the United States, on ISIM's online publications shelf.
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• International Migrants Bill of Rights

  A group of students, alumni and scholars from Georgetown University Law Center and the Institute for the Study of International Migration has released the International Migrants Bill of Rights (IMBR), a first-of-its-kind universal declaration of human rights for all categories of international migrants. The timing of the release coincides with International Migrants Day, Tuesday, December 18.
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• New ISIM Publications on Urban Refugees in Amman and Cairo

  November 12, 2012
  ISIM and CCAS present a three-part series on urban refugees in Amman and Cairo.
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