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Call for Papers: Contested Meanings of Migration Facilitation

March 16, 2020

COVID-19 Update: The deadline for this call has been extended until May 25, 2020. We will update people as soon as possible whether the event can take place as scheduled or if it will be postponed.

In October, Allison Schmidt “[interrogated] perceptions of smugglers with Joseph Roth.” Now Ulf Brunnbauer and Andrea Westermann are devoting an “academic and policy symposium” to the subject: Contested Meanings of Migration Facilitation: Emigration Agents, Coyotes, Rescuers, and Human Traffickers.

GHI PRO at Berkeley, November 16–17, 2020
Deadline: April 30, 2020

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