Migration Matters hosted the second evening of its Film & Talk Series with the theme STAYING, featuring the award-winning film L’histoire de Souleymane, which tells the story of a Guinean gig worker living in Paris, as well as expert insights into belonging, solidarity, and the conditions that determine who can remain in Europe.
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Migration Matters launched its new Film & Talk Series on October 30 with an evening dedicated to the theme LEAVING. Through the award-winning documentary The Mind Game about a young Afghan’s journey to Belgium, and insights from experts and practitioners, the event explored the realities of flight, resilience, and how we discuss migration today.
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What can people in Germany learn from communities in Senegal about climate migration? How can cities respond to climate-driven mobility? Two of the videos produced by Migration Matters as part of our series on climate change and migration are now included in the permanent exhibition at the newly opened Learning and Remembrance Site Emergency Reception Center Gießen.
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On October 23, Migration Matters hosted a launch event celebrating the new podcast series “Voices on the Move”. It is the first podcast series that Migration Matters has produced, and explores questions at the intersection between climate change and migration, with stories primarily from the global south, where climate induced migration is already…
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Our podcast series, “Voices on the Move,” is officially available for streaming! This seven-episode series brings new insights into the intersection of climate change and human mobility. Throughout the series, we explore how environmental challenges are influencing global migration patterns, with a particular focus on the experiences and voices from the Global South.
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Renowned climate scientist Dr. Adam Levy, aka ClimateAdam on YouTube, joins our co-founder Sophia Burton in a special collaboration video to explore why the link between climate change and migration is not as straightforward as you might think. Full video available to watch on ClimateAdam’s YouTube channel.
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In February 2024, we conducted a media training aimed at amplifying the voices of forcibly displaced people in the media. Organized by the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience (ICSC), this event brought together 20 CSOs from around the world to develop new communication and advocacy tools.
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Migration Matters together with CERC Migration led an interactive session on multimedia storytelling and alternative modes of knowledge production at the 20th annual IMISCOE conference in July 2023.
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At IL KINO Berlin, we celebrated the culmination of our three-year ‘I Am European’ project with engaging film screenings and a dynamic panel discussion. Commemorating the 5th anniversary of our ‘Rethinking Us & Them’ series, a popular MOOC on the iversity platform, we explored integration and diversity in Germany today. The evening featured insightful screenings from our series and a panel with speakers like Hafiza Hamoud, Chiponda Chimbelu, Mine Nang, and Dr. Jihad Alabdullah, moderated by Sophia Burton
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We recently hosted a screening and discussion event in collaboration with Give Something Back to Berlin, featuring documentary shorts from the “Migrant Lives in Pandemic Times” project. This series, created by Migration Matters and CERC Migration, highlights the resilience of migrants during Covid-19 through personal stories from Berlin, Johannesburg, Singapore, and more.
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Erasmus+ Virtual Exchange empowers youth in Europe and the Southern Mediterranean with meaningful online intercultural experiences, enhancing education through Virtual Exchanges. This initiative fosters intercultural dialogue, employability, and citizenship, engaging young people aged 18-30 in a safe online community.
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Since the summer of 2016, a lot has been written about the fact that the term “refugee crisis” – used constantly in the media and politics – suggests that Europe is receiving unprecedented numbers of refugees. We know it is not.
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