{"id":1827,"date":"2021-04-26T04:08:13","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T08:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/metropolis\/?p=1827"},"modified":"2021-04-26T06:53:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T10:53:43","slug":"join-us-for-the-webinar-series-on-african-migration-hosted-by-imea-metropolis-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/metropolis\/2021\/join-us-for-the-webinar-series-on-african-migration-hosted-by-imea-metropolis-international\/","title":{"rendered":"Join us for the Webinar series on \u2018African Migration\u2019 (Hosted by IMEA & Metropolis International)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Webinar 1 \u2014 <\/span>African Migration: dreams and trajectories<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Date: Wednesday April 28, 2021, 15:00-16:15 WET (UTC+0)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Webinar 2 \u2014 <\/span>African Migration: the making of the \u2018responsible migrant\u2019<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Date: Wednesday May 12 2021, 15:00-16:15 WET (UTC+0)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Wondering how people from Africa are motivated to move and to creatively pursue their hopes and aspirations, even when faced with enormous hurdles? Join us for the upcoming webinars organized by the Moroccan Institute of Advanced Studies (IMEA) in collaboration with Metropolis International.<\/b><\/p>\n

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Registration\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Click here to register<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Description<\/b><\/p>\n

The African continent has always been a site of population mobility, due to a host of structural determinants varying from economic inequality, environmental risks, social and political conflicts, education, adventure and so forth. In some ways, the root causes of migration in Africa are exactly the same as everywhere else.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Taking these well-known structural causes as a starting point, the <\/span>first webinar<\/b> aims to explore what individuals and families do with it. Key words then are hope and aspiration, motivations, dreams. Those who decide to move to greener pastures embark on an unknown journey into an ever changing environment full of uncertainties, risks and new opportunities. How are they able to maneuver through life and across space by circumventing social, cultural and political hurdles, and by finding the narrow path from one small opportunity to the other?<\/span><\/p>\n

The <\/span>second webinar<\/b> revolves around European and African attempts to regulate these processes. The European Union (EU) and its members states have been uneasy with African migration to the North and aims to intervene in a variety of ways, with unprecedented force, and to a certain extent in collaboration with African partners so as to contain African mobility. How do these efforts, that some see as paternalistic and exclusionist, intervene in the journeys that many Africans are undertaking?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Convenors<\/b><\/p>\n