Summer School on Migration Studies

About

The 2025 Summer school builds on previous editions of summer schools organized by IOM and the Geographic Migration Centre since 2009.
The United Nations Information Centre Prague UNIC is a partner of the program.

Experienced and respected scholars and practitioners will participate in the Summer School while delivering lectures and/or leading seminars, workshops, and panel discussions on issues related to migration.
It will be examined from political, economic, sociocultural, demographic, development, geographical, and other perspectives.
This year's event will focus on “Human migration's impact on development and social change”
The 2025 program will follow a similar format as in previous years. In addition to the listed below, experts on other subjects
will also give lectures, including representatives of IOM and UNHCR:
⮚ Marie Price, Department of Geography of the George Washington University, president of
the American Geographical Society
⮚ Migration Theories, Realities, and Myths
Dušan Drbohlav, Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of
Science, Charles University
⮚ Ethnicity, migration, and media stereotypes
Salim Murad, New York University Prague; EMMIR, University of South Bohemia
⮚ Migration, Climate Change and Global Risks
Michal Broža, Head of the United Nations Information Centre in Prague
⮚ Care Migration and Gender
Petra Ezzeddine, Department of General Anthropology and Department of Gender Studies
of the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University
⮚ Migration and Demography
Tomáš Sobotka, Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital, Vienna
⮚ The Realities of Irregular Migration from Africa
Eric Opoku Ware, Sahara Hustlers Association, Ghana - The Realities of Irregular Migration
from Africa
⮚ Transnationalism and Diaspora
Eva Janská, Faculty of Science, Department of Social Geography and Regional
Development, Charles University
⮚ Inclusivity as a Precondition of Integration
Michal Vašečka, Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts
⮚ Migration and Development
Josef Novotný, Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of
Science, Charles University
⮚ Labour migration
Jan Schroth, Migration policy expert Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, former consultant
for the OECD, ICMPD, IOM, UNHCR

Course leader

Professor Dušan Drbohlav, Head of Geomigration Center

Target group

University students, young professionals and practitioners in the filed of migration and integration

Course aim

The aim of the course is to provide participants with a comprehensive overview of various aspects of international migration and integration.
Experienced and respected scholars and practitioners will deliver lectures and seminars, workshops, and panel discussions on issues related to migration.
It will be examined from political, economic, sociocultural, demographic, development, geographical, and other perspectives.
This year's event will focus on “Human migration's impact on development and social change”

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