Changing the Narratives of Migration | Interactive Session
13 november 2024 14:30 t/m 16:30 - Locatie: Leiden | Zet in mijn agenda
On 13 November 2024 (14:55 – 15:55), Ingrid Mulder (IDE) and Simona Vezzoli (ISS, EUR) will lead an interactive session, “Changing the Narratives of Migration”, at the annual Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Governance of Migration and Diversity conference in Leiden.
Panellists include Matthijs van Dijk (IDE), IDE alumnus Ariele Empirio, and migration experts Nina Staal (IOM Netherlands), Katharina Natter (Leiden University), and Riccardo Biggi (Leiden University).
This session aims to engage diverse perspectives to reframe migration narratives.
More about the interactive session
The transdisciplinary debate elaborates upon how design roles such as framing and cocreation can empower the audience to create more informed opinions and create dialogues for alternative migration policies with policymakers, representing citizens' perspectives on migration issues. Participants will learn new ways to contribute to migration debates that challenge current positions and inform policies constructively.
In recent decades, migration has been framed as a challenge for the European Union and its Member States resulting in an arsenal of financial instruments, strategies, and initiatives to ‘mitigate’ migration. However, these policy interventions are frequently not based on scientific evidence about the drivers of migration decisions. Instead, migration policies are underpinned by assumptions that further polarize the public debate on migration.
This panel kicks off with ten statements that demonstrate how facts of migration dynamics and often polarizing narratives are not aligned. Next, we illustrate how design roles such as framing and cocreation can empower the audience to create more informed opinions and create dialogues for alternative migration policies with policymakers, representing citizens' perspectives on migration issues. Participants will learn new ways to contribute to migration debates that challenge current positions and inform policies constructively.
Following a fishbowl setup, participants are invited to join the panellists for a transdisciplinary debate.
Organisers
- Ingrid Mulder (Human-Centered Design, TU Delft).
- Simona Vezzoli (International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) EUR)
Panelists
- Nina Staal - IOM the Netherlands, Moving the Middle project
- Katharina Natter - Leiden University, ‘Teaching Immigration in European Schools’ (TIES) project
- Riccardo Biggi - Leiden University, Here to Support
- Matthijs van Dijk - Reframing Studio, TU Delft
- Ariele Empirio - Strategic social designer
