Were we all trapped? Reflections on immobility during a global pandemic

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This blog by Project MISTY’s Caroline Zickgraf has been reposted from IOM’s Environmental Migration Portal. As the COVID-19 pandemic spread globally, governments and international organizations – to various degrees – centered their responses on the prevention or…

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COVID-19, Climate Change and Migration: Constructing Crises, Reinforcing Borders

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This blog was authored by Elodie Hut, Caroline Zickgraf, Francois Gemenne, Tatiana Castillo Betancourt, Pierre Ozer and Céline Le Flour. It has been reposted from IOM’s Environmental Migration Portal. Migration, climate change and public health are three key policy…

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India’s cities are just not ready for the COVID-19 fight

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Dense neighbourhoods, inadequate healthcare and a plummeting informal workforce means India’s cities are just not ready for the COVID-19 fight. This blog post was written by Debolina Kundu, Tania Debnath, Biswajit Kar and Rakesh Mishra from…

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Sustainability and the migrant experience in the COVID-19 crisis

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This Project MISTY blog, by Neil Adger, Emily Boyd, Ed Carr, Sonja Fransen, Dominique Jolivet, Anita Fabos, Maria Franco Gavonel and Caroline Zickgraf, explores the intersections between migration, urbanisation and sustainability as the impacts of the…

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Essential, yet expendable: how a pandemic revealed the role of displaced migrants in the Cyprus labour market

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Governance and the Local Integration of Migrants and Europe’s Refugees (GLIMER) explores the opportunities for European cities to implement more  sustainable integration strategies for migrants and refugees, with a focus on Cyprus, Italy, Sweden and Scotland.…

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What staying at home can teach us about the housing experiences of many older people

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The COVID-19 virus and associated government responses have had a considerable impact on the housing system in the UK. This blog by the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE)’s Professor David Robinson, reposted from the…

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COVID-19 may be an urban crisis, but India’s small cities will be its ‘collateral damage’

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This post by Ayona Datta, Principal Investigator of the project Learning from Small Cities: Governing Imagined Futures and the Dynamics of Change in India’s Smart Urban Age. It has been reposted from the Learning from Small Cities…

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Human mobility spreads COVID-19. But whose mobility?

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This blog by Qiujie Shi and Tao Liu unpacks some of the connections between the COVID-19 pandemic and migration – and highlights the importance of whose mobility has played the most predominant role in its spread,…

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What is a circular economy? The case of circular catering and other examples from the Netherlands

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This blog by Racher Greer and Susan Pit outline some of the implications of circular economy approaches to catering in the Netherlands, drawing on their research with the WASTE FEW ULL (Waste Food-Energy-Water Urban Living Labs…

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How will our cities grow in the future? A new approach

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This blog by PEAK Urban’s Jairo Alejandro Gómez Escobar describes some of the work of the project’s Colombia team to model urban growth in the future in a context where the limited available data is ‘noisy’.…

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