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The Inside Story PodcastWhy are more governments in Europe cracking down on migration?Recent elections in Europe have seen wins for parties with harsh stances on migration. That mirrors Donald Trump's success in the US. Inflammatory claims shape political debate, while statistics deny a link between rising crime and migration. So why is this happening? In this Episode: Suzanne Lynch, Associate Editor and author of the Global Playbook newsletter at POLITICO. Zoe Gardner, Independent migration policy researcher and advocate of rights-based policies. Meghan Benton, Director of the International Program at the Migration Policy Institute, an independent research organisation. Host: Sami Zeidan Connect with us:@AJEPodcasts on...2025-02-2724 min
Latest 300 | LSE Public lectures and events | VideoHomelessness in London: why youth homelessness needs its own solutionContributor(s): Ellie Benton, Meghan Roach, Alicia Walker | An estimated 20,000 young people in London were experiencing homelessness, or were at risk of homelessness, in 2022/23. This represents a 10% increase compared to 2021/22, with a similar trend seen nationally. Crucially, estimates suggest that 48% of all young people experiencing homelessness do not contact their local authority, or face barriers in doing so. The event will explore why youth homelessness in London has increased; the special needs of young people experiencing homelessness; the challenges for London’s local authorities and voluntary organisations in addressing these issues; and proposals for helping solve the problem of youth ho...2024-11-071h 31All items | LSE Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfHomelessness in London: why youth homelessness needs its own solutionContributor(s): Ellie Benton, Meghan Roach, Alicia Walker | An estimated 20,000 young people in London were experiencing homelessness, or were at risk of homelessness, in 2022/23. This represents a 10% increase compared to 2021/22, with a similar trend seen nationally. Crucially, estimates suggest that 48% of all young people experiencing homelessness do not contact their local authority, or face barriers in doing so. The event will explore why youth homelessness in London has increased; the special needs of young people experiencing homelessness; the challenges for London’s local authorities and voluntary organisations in addressing these issues; and proposals for helping solve the problem of youth ho...2024-11-071h 31All items | LSE Public lectures and events | All media typesHomelessness in London: why youth homelessness needs its own solutionContributor(s): Ellie Benton, Meghan Roach, Alicia Walker | An estimated 20,000 young people in London were experiencing homelessness, or were at risk of homelessness, in 2022/23. This represents a 10% increase compared to 2021/22, with a similar trend seen nationally. Crucially, estimates suggest that 48% of all young people experiencing homelessness do not contact their local authority, or face barriers in doing so. The event will explore why youth homelessness in London has increased; the special needs of young people experiencing homelessness; the challenges for London’s local authorities and voluntary organisations in addressing these issues; and proposals for helping solve the problem of youth ho...2024-11-071h 31All items | LSE Public lectures and events | AudioHomelessness in London: why youth homelessness needs its own solutionContributor(s): Ellie Benton, Meghan Roach, Alicia Walker | An estimated 20,000 young people in London were experiencing homelessness, or were at risk of homelessness, in 2022/23. This represents a 10% increase compared to 2021/22, with a similar trend seen nationally. Crucially, estimates suggest that 48% of all young people experiencing homelessness do not contact their local authority, or face barriers in doing so. The event will explore why youth homelessness in London has increased; the special needs of young people experiencing homelessness; the challenges for London’s local authorities and voluntary organisations in addressing these issues; and proposals for helping solve the problem of youth ho...2024-11-071h 31Latest 100 | LSE Public lectures and events | VideoHomelessness in London: why youth homelessness needs its own solutionContributor(s): Ellie Benton, Meghan Roach, Alicia Walker | An estimated 20,000 young people in London were experiencing homelessness, or were at risk of homelessness, in 2022/23. This represents a 10% increase compared to 2021/22, with a similar trend seen nationally. Crucially, estimates suggest that 48% of all young people experiencing homelessness do not contact their local authority, or face barriers in doing so. The event will explore why youth homelessness in London has increased; the special needs of young people experiencing homelessness; the challenges for London’s local authorities and voluntary organisations in addressing these issues; and proposals for helping solve the problem of youth ho...2024-11-071h 31
גוף חטוב, ראש בריאמעבר למעברים: חשיפת טקטיקות השיווק מאחורי מזון אולטרה-מעובדSend us a textהצטרפו אלינו כשאנחנו חושפים את הנשק הסודי של הסופרמרקט: אסטרטגיות שיווק חכמות שגורמות לנו – ולילדים שלנו – לקנות יותר ממה שאנחנו צריכים. נחלוק סיפורי ילדות על קניות עם המשפחות שלנו וכיצד החשיפה המוקדמת למיקום אסטרטגי של מוצרים עיצבה את הרגלי הקנייה שלנו. התכוננו לפענח את הפסיכולוגיה מאחורי תצוגות הממתקים המפתות בגובה העיניים וללמוד להבדיל בין מה שבאמת בעל ערך לבין מה שרק דרך של מותג לגרום לכם להיפרד מהכסף שהרווחתם בעמל רב. ReferencesAramburu, Adolfo, Giancarlo Alvarado-Gamarra, Rubelio Cornejo, Katherine Curi-Quinto, Carmen Del Pilar Díaz-Parra, Gabriela Rojas-Limache, and Claudio F. Lanata. "Ultra-Processed Foods Consumption and Health-Related Outcomes: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials." Frontiers in Nutrition 11 (June 26, 2024): 1421728. Benton, Duane, and Andrew Benton. "Ultra-Processed Food Exposure and Adverse Health Outcomes: Umbrella Review of Epidemiological Meta-Analyses." The BMJ 384 (2023): e077310. Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. "Processed Foods and Health." The Nutrition Source. Accessed October 14, 2024. Poelman, Marlijn P., Maria J. Verschuren, Joreintje D. Mackenbach, and Carlijn B. M. Kamphuis. "The Influence of Food Price Promotions on Supermarket Purchases: A Systematic Review." BMC Public Health 21, no. 1 (2021): 474.Small, Dariush Mozaffarian, and Meghan Slining. "GroceryDB: Prevalence of Processed Food in Grocery Stores." medRxiv (April 27, 2022). תעקבו אחרינו באינסטוש@rotemlahav_nutrition2024-10-1559 min
Moving Beyond PandemicDigital Health Credentials in India and Africa: Are COVID-19 Travel Passes Catalyzing New Tech Innovations?Digital health credentialing is one of the main tools to safely return to pre-pandemic levels of mobility and plan for the next public health crisis. Digital innovations—including automatic verification of health and vaccination results—are reopening economies and global mobility while setting the standard for new ways of managing mobility and health that will outlast the pandemic, especially in regions that had lower levels of digital use and more limited health and border management systems. Notably, India’s DIVOC system and the African Union Trusted Traveler system are examples of how the pandemic fueled large-scale innovation in this regard...2022-08-0234 min
Migration Policy Institute PodcastsStrengthening the Social Innovation Ecosystem in Challenging TimesIn this session, MPI's Meghan Benton led a conversation between Brian Ssebunya, the Economic Recovery and Development Senior Technical Advisor at International Rescue Committee; Awmaima Amrayaf, DLA Piper's Pro Bono Legal Officer and Coordinator of ‘Know Your Rights’ program; and Asma Naimi from Esade Business School on the following questions:
How can we maximise the contribution of social-innovation models and players to advance refugee and migrant inclusion, as Europe and North America re-emerge from crisis?
How can promising innovations for inclusion leave their "comfort zone" and reach underserved places and groups where the challenges are tougher, but where the ret...2022-04-011h 17Migration Policy Institute PodcastsSI4RI Conference: Planning and Shaping Inclusive Post-COVID-19 RecoveryIn this session moderated by MPI's International Program Director of Research Meghan Benton, panelists Anila Noor, Member, European Commission's Expert Group on the Views of Migrants, and Founder, New Women Connectors, the Netherlands; Scarlet Cronin, Acting Executive Director, The Tent Partnership for Refugees; Katharina Bamberg, Policy Advisor on Migration and Integration, Eurocities; and Christina Pope, Senior Director of Welcoming International, Welcoming America discussed the following questions:
Over the past year-and-a-half, we have heard a lot of conversations about (and calls for) "inclusive recovery". If we were to make this more concrete: what does inclusive recovery look like for yo...2021-12-101h 13Moving Beyond PandemicThe Corporate World’s Response to COVID-19 Pandemic, its Omicron Variant, Digital Nomad Visas & MoreThe COVID-19 pandemic has had a dramatic effect on the corporate sector, disrupting operations, ushering in changed thinking about the office environment, and chilling business travel. How has the business world responded? And in what way are COVID-19 protocols, new innovations, and trends in working practices affecting the decisions that companies make about the mobility of their workforce? In this episode, we speak with two former government officials who are now in the private sector—Ian Robinson of the immigration law firm Fragomen and Brendan Ryan, CEO of Nomadic, which provides digital solutions for corporate travel—about the trends and...2021-12-0929 minMigration Policy Institute PodcastsMPI 20th Anniversary Conference: Migration & Humanitarian Protection in a Rapidly Evolving World - Armchair DiscussionIn the 20 years since the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) was founded, international migration trends and policies have changed in dramatic ways. The number of migrants has increased, many more migrants are in mixed flows with humanitarian protection needs, and migration has become a much more salient political issue in countries around the world. What do these trends presage for the future in terms of international migration governance and humanitarian protection?
During an armchair discussion, the Director-General of the International Organization for Migration, António Vitorino, and MPI cofounder and President Emeritus Demetrios G. Papademetriou discussed the evolution o...2021-12-021h 04Moving Beyond PandemicRevisiting the Role of COVID-19 Travel Restrictions in Light of Delta and Other VariantsNo one expected the travel restrictions imposed early in the COVID-19 pandemic to last so long or remain such a messy patchwork, in part because of the arrival of more contagious variants such as the delta variant – with significant effects on family reunification and humanitarian protection, travel for business and pleasure, and international migration. More than 18 months on, debates continue over the effectiveness of these measures in meeting public-health goals. Experts are working, though, to learn from the COVID-19 response to improve decision-making for handling future cross-border pandemics. In this episode, we speak with Dr. Kelley Lee, head of th...2021-10-1129 min
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ruthe-benton/message2021-03-1423 minMoving Beyond PandemicCould Curbing Globalization Prevent Future Pandemics?Pre-COVID-19, we lived in a hyper-global world. There were 1.5 billion international tourism trips annually, nearly 40 million flights, and 272 million international migrants. This raises a provocative question: Does international mobility contribute to the spread of pandemics? In this episode, we speak with Michael Clemens and Thomas Ginn of the Center for Global Development. Drawing on their research of global pandemics dating as far back as 1889, they make the case that limits on cross-border mobility delay the arrival of pathogens by a matter of days at best. Instead, they argue that the greater success is achieved with domestic measures, not permanent...2020-12-1730 minMoving Beyond PandemicWhat’s Next for Global Migration? Gazing Into the COVID-19 Crystal BallWith news that viable COVID-19 vaccines are on the horizon, what might 2021 hold in store for the global movement of people, whether for tourism, business travel, or more enduring forms of migration? Alan Gamlen, associate professor of human geography at Monash University in Australia, tackles some of the big questions in this episode, including whether cities will be reshaped by immobility and if countries will need less labor migration. He paints a picture of a world with lower levels of mobility for the next few years, punctuated by periodic spikes.
2020-12-1030 minMoving Beyond PandemicThe COVID-19 Shock to the System of Human Mobility and the International ResponseThe pandemic has been a huge shock to the international mobility system, from the chaotic way that countries closed their borders in March 2020, leaving countless travelers and migrants stranded, to the freezes imposed on visa processing, which halted much international migration. As the world reopens, how does global governance need to be improved to restart human mobility safely and securely? In this episode, we speak to Elizabeth Collett, Special Advisor to the International Organization for Migration’s Director General to get a global overview of what is happening with migration and mobility and discuss the challenges and opportunities the pan...2020-10-2834 minMoving Beyond PandemicHuman Smuggling in an Age of PandemicAs COVID-19 chilled global mobility, harmed economies, and sparked border closures and travel bans around the world, the pandemic has had an effect on the shadow migration world. In this episode, we speak with Matt Herbert, an expert in irregular migration and human smuggling, about how the public-health crisis has scrambled the decision-making calculus for would-be migrants, pushing many into more dangerous routes. We also examine the business models of smugglers who facilitate many irregular movements.
2020-10-2224 minMoving Beyond PandemicIs Airport COVID-19 Testing Ready for Takeoff?Austria’s Vienna airport was an early adopter for in-airport COVID-19 tests, with results turned around within a few hours, sparing those with medical certificates from a mandatory 14-day quarantine. Can this serve as a model for restarting business travel and tourism? We talk to Vienna airport official Peter Kleemann to learn more.
2020-10-0727 minMoving Beyond PandemicAustralia and the 'Biosecure Border' in the Age of COVID-19Amid the COVID-19 outbreak, Australia has worked to develop a “biosecure” border, using hard travel lockdowns, internal borders, and quarantine to stem spread of the virus. Is it working? We talk to Brendan Dowling of the Australian Department of Home Affairs.
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The UK in a Changing EuropeBrexit Brits Abroad - likely impacts of Brexit for UK citizens in the EU27Michaela Benson is joined by Dr Meghan Benton, senior policy analyst for the Migration Policy Institute, where they discuss UK citizens living in the EU27 and what Brexit might mean for them.2017-11-1018 min
Brexit Brits AbroadIn this episode, Michaela is joined by Dr Meghan Benton to discuss the the question of who are the UK citizens who live in the EU27 and the diverse outcomes of Brexit for their lives.In this episode, Michaela is joined by Dr Meghan Benton, senior policy analyst for the Migration Policy Institute. They revisit the question of who are the UK citizens who live in the EU27, highlighting the diversity of this population in terms of employment status, family circumstance and age, and talk about what Brexit might variously mean for the lives of these Britons. As they discuss, while citizens’ rights are the headlines in the negotiations, beyond legal status, there are a whole host of structures, regulations and arrangements that currently support the lives of these individuals that need to be considered in...2017-11-0300 min
Brexit Brits AbroadEP012 | About the likely diverse impacts of Brexit for the lives of UK citizens resident in the EU27In this episode, Michaela is joined by Dr Meghan Benton, senior policy analyst for the Migration Policy Institute. They revisit the question of who are the UK citizens who live in the EU27, highlighting the diversity of this population in terms of employment status, family circumstance and age, and talk about what Brexit might variously mean for the lives of these Britons. As they discuss, while citizens’ rights are the headlines in the negotiations, beyond legal status, there are a whole host of structures, regulations and arrangements that currently support the lives of these individuals that need to be considered in...2017-11-0318 min
Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory PodcastEpisode 017 - MetafictionIn this very “insider-baseball” episode we discuss Metafiction! What is it? Who is it for? Why should you read it? Plus: Children’s books that help kids figure out what’s real and what isn’t, comic books with a lot of bondage, and marginalia written by library patrons. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jessi Recommended No Bears by Meg McKinlay, illustrated by Leila Rudge This is My Book by Mick Inkpen We’re in the Wrong Book by Richard Byrne Logicomix: An epic search for truth by Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos H. Papadimitrio...2016-11-151h 09