Events

Migration under the conditions of socio-ecological change

The event explored how socio-ecological factors such as climate change and political instabilities are threatening livelihoods and forcing migration across the world. Increased vulnerability, conflict and insecurity are only some of the consequences as individuals move within their own nations or across borders in search of new forms of resources, assets and activities to survive.

The expert panel consisted of Luca Puttemann, Regional Awareness Raising Officer at the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Regional Office in Dakar, Senegal who coordinates projects such as Street Art Together ; Dr. Kees van der Geest, documentary film maker and Head of the Migration and Environment Section at the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS); and Dr. Bayes Ahmed, lecturer at the Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction (IRDR) at University College London (UCL) whose background includes research in the field of disaster risk reduction (DRR).

The event explored how coloniality influences knowledge production within academia and what alternatives exist to end the reproduction dynamics of injustice within our own research practices. Two key experts; Dr. Noa K. Ha, acting Scientific Director at the Deutsche Zentrum für Integrations- und Migrationsforschung (DeZIM) and Dr. Antony Pattathu, founding member of the Interdisciplinary Center for Global South Studies at Tübingen University, highlighted examples from their work to open the dialogue on current challenges and future opportunities.