Thanks to the efforts of our Senegalese partner, the Centre de Recherche pour le Développement Economique et Social (CRDES), the second wave of data collection was completed on Friday, July 31st. After intensive follow-up, CRDES managed to keep the attrition rate at 15%, meaning the longitudinal dataset will capture the perceptions of 1,020 young adults from Casamance across 18 months. A picture of the enumerator training that took place in April 2026.3

The 1st of July, Nicolás Caso and Naiara Rodríguez Peña co-chaired a panel at #IMISCOE2026 in Girona. The panel brought together five compelling contributions that showed how far the field has come. Polina Koriukina opened with a mapping of emigration bans across Asia and Africa ➡️ a much-needed contribution to a migration policy field that almost exclusively focuses on immigration restrictions. Jørgen Carling then unpacked the vicious circle between involuntary immobility an

Data collection for the first wave was completed successfully thanks to the efforts of our partner, the Centre de Recherche pour le Développement Economique et Social (CRDES). The survey began after an intensive 5-day training of the enumerators, conducted jointly by the Ghent University team (Nicolás Caso and Charlotte Scheerenes) and the CRDES team. The main goal of the training was to familiarize enumerators with the details of the questions, alongside discussing nuances o