Author: Maria Grazia Montella
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The Contribution of Ethnic Minority Firms to Innovation, Growth and Trade: An interview with Monder Ram
Professor Monder Ram is the Director of the Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship (CREME). He is a leading authority on small business and ethnic minority entrepreneurship research and has published widely on the subject, and has extensive experience of working in and acting as a consultant to small and ethnic minority businesses. Together…
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Using art to explore the Refugee Experience: An interview with the artist, Jeton Muja
Today, the world witnesses the highest levels of displacement on record. Nearly 70.8 million people throughout the world have been forced from home by conflict and persecution at the end of 2018. Among them are around 30 million refugees, over half of whom are under the age of 18. With the increased number of people…
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Nobody is just a refugee: a conversation with Jeton Muja
20 June, World Refugee Day, is an international day designated by the United Nations to honour refugees around the globe. 22 years ago, The Refugee Week was born in the UK to celebrate the contribution of refugees and migrants to the host societies and, at the same time, to sensitize the local communities towards the…
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UNITEE participates to the Refugee Week 2020: A campaign to imagine and build new perspective
The Refugee Week was born in 1998 in the UK to celebrate the contribution of refugees and migrants to the host societies and, at the same time, to sensitize the local communities towards the challenges that refugees encounter when fleeing their countries. In these 22 years of life, the festival has become a global movement…
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Women and their mobile use: understanding the mobile gender gap in 2020
“In 2020, connectivity is more important than ever. Internet access is a gateway to critical information, services and opportunities available to many people for the first time. Growth in internet access has been remarkable in low- and middle-income countries, where 2.9 billion people now access the internet on their mobile phones”, as set forth in…
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Social Inclusion of Migrants: an interview with Brando Benifei, Member of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in European Parliament
While the concept of social inclusion is broad and extends to all segments of the European community, it also concerns the challenges that the EU still faces in its efforts to ensure that migrants and their descendants are included and participate in society. On 19 May 2020, UNITEE has conducted an interview with Brando Benifei, Member…
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COVID19 and its effects on mobility of migrants
Among the many changes the global pandemic COVID-19 has brought to the world, an important change is that hundreds of millions of people across the globe have encountered serious restrictions on their mobility. Although, associating mobility with the threat has adverse consequences in the long run. Such severe constraints on mobility negatively impact the situation…