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What counts as a crisis, and who gets to decide? And how do you build a database around a concept that researchers themselves cannot agree on? These were some of the questions behind the development of CrisisMigRef, a database developed during the final phase of nccr – on the move ...
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The word “narrative” increasingly appears in discussions of migration, but its analytical meaning is rarely specified. Campaigners often speak of the need for a “new narrative” on migration, while some narratives, such as “the Great Replacement,” have entered public consciousness. Narratives are not just stories or slogans. They are selective
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After finishing my PhD dissertation, I was somewhat disappointed not to have exploited the full potential of my dataset. In other words, months of work can result in valuable datasets that remain largely unexplored once our PhD dissertations are complete. Yet this data holds great potential for further analysis and ...
+ Read moreIn the spirit of a hackathon, we, a team of researchers, launched an ambitious project to write a complete academic paper in a day. While facing challenges such as time constraints as well as difficulties in collaborative simultaneous writing, by the end of the day, we kind of succeeded in ...
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There are two kinds of uncertainties we as researchers are faced with: There are those things we are aware of that we do not know, but also those we are unaware of that we do not know. Dealing with this range of uncertainties can be demanding in ‘normal’ times and
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