PACES: Making migration and migration policy decisions amidst societal transformations

Drivers

Funding

Horizon Europe

Geographic focus

Algeria, Ethiopia, Italy, Libya, Slovakia, Spain

Dates

3/1/2023 to 30/06/2026

About

Insights into migration decision-making and policy processes.

Project Outcomes

  • Migration narratives are often one-sided, misrepresent the true nature of migration, and largely disregard migrant agency.
  • Researchers should communicate their insights directly to the general public based on a long-term vision of migration as a global phenomenon rather than a ‘problem to be solved’ or a ‘solution to problems’.
  • Closing the knowledge-policy gap on migration requires an in-depth understanding of the politics of knowledge, i.e. the power dynamics that characterize (migration) research and policymaking, and the various roles that knowledge plays in the policymaking process.  

Highlighted Publications and Tools

  • Working Paper – Changing the migration narratives: on the power of discourse, propaganda and truth distortion
  • Working Paper Researching the politics of knowledge in migration policy
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Coordinator

Thea Hilhorst, Full Professor, International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University

 Simona Vezzoli, Postdoctoral Researcher, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University

 

Partners

  • Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
  • Dansk Flygtningehjaelp Forening
  • Universite Paris 13
  • Universiteit Leiden
  • Centrum Spolocenskych A Psychologickych Vied Slovenskej Akademie Vied
  • Migration Policy Institute Europe
  • Universita Degli Studi Di Milano
  • Samuel Hall East Africa Limited
  • Universiteit Van Amsterdam
  • Universidad De Alicante
  • Mareena

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