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Migration and Modernity: Historical and Cultural Challenges

Project description

Historical analysis for facing contemporary mass migrations

An estimated billion people have emigrated from their homeland, including some 60 million migrants in Europe. The recent enormous scale of migrations has become a leading global challenge. However, today’s ‘migration crisis’ remains unsolved and is mainly seen through economic, national identity or security threats by nation-states. The EU-funded MOVES project aims to provide a comprehensive, modern understanding of the roots of social, historical and cultural mass movements issues through a comparative study providing an urgent, necessary historical analysis. A unique doctoral programme with a collaboration between university researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences and their partners across migration-related sectors in five European countries will support an effective way to face contemporary migration problems.

Objective

Today’s world sees masses on the move: across the globe, there are almost one billion international and internal migrants; in the EU alone, there are 57 million residents living outside their country of birth, amounting to over 11% of the EU28 population. This unprecedented global situation requires serious political action. Yet this action will only be effective once the historical, cultural and social roots of migration are properly understood. It is this understanding that the ITN MOVES will provide.
The project’s chief objective is to undertake a comparative study of the social and cultural roots of mass mobility, and provide the urgently needed historical analysis that can address the so-called migration crisis of the present through an understanding of the population movements of the past. The network has been set up as an interdisciplinary collaboration between researchers in the Humanities and the Social Sciences who will approach migration as both a condition of modernity and one of its greatest challenges, placing the systematic confrontation of past and present forms of migration at the centre of their activities.
Through its innovative training programme, carried out in conjunction with 18 non-academic partners (including NGOs, charities, and the cultural and creative industries), MOVES will enable a new generation of experts gain the historical knowledge required to respond to future migration crises with innovative solutions.
The project will generate new knowledge about the shaping of the modern world and provide conceptual tools to avoid short-termism in migration management through its emphasis on enduring cultural patterns, historical context, and migration flows over the long term. The links between contemporary and historical migration that MOVES research will uncover can be used to improve educational provision, inform future policy, and counter the rise of anti-immigrant sentiment across the EU.

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(opens in new window) H2020-MSCA-ITN-2018

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Coordinator

UNIVERZITA KARLOVA
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€ 704 614,68
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OVOCNY TRH 560/5
116 36 Praha 1
Czechia

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Česko Praha Hlavní město Praha
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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