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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Estate Watch: A new resource for communities going through estate demolition

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Over 35,000 homes on London council estates are earmarked for demolition. Estate Watch is a new website seeking to ensure tenants and residents have the information, tools and resources to fight their corner. Click here to visit…

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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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Online Seminar: Exploring Liveability in Regional Cities in Bangladesh

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The Centre for Sustainable, Healthy, and Learning Cities and Neighbourhoods (SHLC) will be hosting an online seminar on ‘Exploring liveability in regional cities in Bangladesh’ on 16 June 2020, 10..00 – 11.30 UK GMT. More details…

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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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Research and innovation ideas to address COVID-19

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ESRC intends to fund new research projects as part of the UK Research and Innovation response to the current COVID-19 pandemic. Proposals are invited for short to medium-term economic and social research activity aimed at addressing…

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