by Tuuliki Hakala Dear ENIEC members and other readers, greetings from Finland! I am Tuulikki Hakala, a new member of ENIEC. I had a great pleasure to meet so many members of the professional ENIEC family at AM2019 in Bristol. I wanted to participate in the meeting especially because of the focus of caregiving. […]
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Report of the AM in Bristol
by Ela Czapka and Hanna Murray-Carlsson This year ENIEC’s annual meeting was held in Bristol, UK, thanks to hard work of the organizing committee, especially our colleague Aandeloris Chacon together with her team from Bristol Black Carers, and Bristol City Council. Even strong wind could not have stopped us. However, it caused numerous flight delays and […]
Board Meeting in Tallinn
The new year has started and our busy board has already launched a meeting last January 16th which has been a long-awaited event as we did not meet in person since Bristol last June. Of course, the board has been well connected through Skype and emails, but it is always easier to work when we meet […]
Reaching Consensus on Migration Health Data
written by Nikolett Arnold In order to facilitate the realization of those tasks highlighted in numerous high level documents and declarations as well as acting in line with our WCC TOR, we propose that University of Pécs Medical School and its WCC, in cooperation with WHO EURO PHAME program and with the support and participation […]
New Research Group ‘Migration, Care and Ageing’ Established in Finland
by Ulla Buchert Members of the research group from left to right: Vanessa May, Sirpa Wrede, Anastasia Asikainen, Laura Kemppainen, Anne Kouvonen, Anna-Leena Riitaoja, Nuriiar Safarov, Ulla Buchert, Veera Koskinen, Antero Olakivi. A new Finnish research group ‘Migration, Care and Ageing’ (MICA) started its’ work in the beginning of the last year. The group is […]
Talking about life and death
written by Dr Gudule Boland Intercultural palliative care Talking about life and death isn’t easy for anyone. Migrant families find it even more difficult. To stimulate conversations about the last phase of life, Pharos – centre of expertise on health disparities – has made films to stimulate families to talk about it. Important topics in […]
Invoice for Membership Fee 2019
Dear ENIEC-member, it’s time to renew your ENIEC membership for the year 2019. In 2019 our annual meeting will be held in Bristol on March 13, 14, 15 and we are excited to invite you to the UK ! Kindly, be aware that this year we have a new bank account number. You are […]
Eniec members in the Conference “Care for and social well-being of older migrants”
Next year on the 19th of February five of our ENIEC members will contribute to a conference in Leiden, The Netherlands, which is organised by Imiscoe, a European network of scholars of migration and integration with a focus on comparative research. The theme of this conference is ‘Care for and social well-being of older migrants’. Hanna […]
Specialist in Migration Health course launched in Pécs
written by Nikolett Arnold The University of Pécs Medical School Department of Migration Health has launched the Specialist in Migration Health course this fall. The course is full-time postgraduate training course for students who already have at least a Bachelor’s degree in a one of the specified fields. The course is a 120 ECTS course […]
Power to older migrants
written by Fatos Ipek Demir In my career of 20 years in the field of welfare and care I noticed that the voice of older migrants in The Netherlands is not heard. Furthermore they are almost non visible in pictures or in policies. A lot is said about them and policies and projects are not […]
