Maisie Fitzmaurice

Maisie Fitzmaurice is a Contributor on a PRIO project or a publication with a PRIO person, and is otherwise not associated with PRIO.

Email: maifit@prio.org

Website: maisiemaisie.no

Research Interests

Migration policy
Decolonisation
Legal mobilsation
Citizenship deprivation
Border activism

Maisie Fitzmaurice
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Multimedia

Monday, 24 Mar 2025

Mumbai MigrationRhythms animation. Illustration: PRIO/PositiveNegatives

Rahul, Varsha, Shankar and the City of Opportunity (Hindi)

Rural to urban migration is contributing to improved living standards and realising life aspirations for many across Asia. This animation tells multiple migration stories across generations, to Mumbai. Watch in Hindi or English, or read the comic in either.

News

Wednesday, 11 Dec 2024

Karachi (photo from MigrationRhythms fieldwork, Marta Bivand Erdal). Photo: n/a

The urban middle classes in Asia are growing: Does migration matter?

The urban middle classes in Asia are growing. What characterizes urban Asian middle-class families and their processes of becoming middle-class? And does migration matter for families’ social mobility?

News

Wednesday, 22 May 2024

MIGNEX Insight: What`s next for EU policy on migration and development

In April, MIGNEX convened a major Policy Conference on future EU migration and development policy, in partnership with ODI. See below for a brief summary of our discussions on longstanding and emerging EU policy agendas.

Event

Thursday, 25 April 2024

Registration open for MIGNEX Policy Conference in Brussels: What’s next for EU migration and development policy?

On 25 April, the MIGNEX project is convening a high-level Policy Conference on EU migration and development policy. Register your interest now.

Recorded event

Friday, 10 Nov 2023 08:30–10:00 UTC+01

Hanoi, Vietnam. July, 2023. Photo: Karen Liao

01:30:20

Rethinking Development Through Global Urban Middle Classes

In this seminar we draw on examples from cities in Africa and Asia to discuss how these emerging realities challenge current notions of ‘development’.

News

Tuesday, 13 Dec 2022

Presenting: Professor Jonathan Rigg. Photo: PRIO / Angelica Estevez

Recording available! 'It depends: Unpicking the Development Impacts of Migration in Asia'

In this talk given at PRIO on 11 November 2022, Jonathan Rigg draws on work across rural areas of Southeast Asia (Thailand, Laos and Vietnam) and South Asia (Sri Lanka and Nepal), and sheds light on the mixed developmental origins, effects and impacts of migration on people, communities and environments.

Recorded event

Friday, 11 Nov 2022 08:30–10:00 UTC+01

Presenting on stage: Professor Jonathan Rigg. Photo: PRIO / Angelica Estevez

01:18:09

It Depends: Unpicking the Development Impacts of Migration in Asia

Welcome to a seminar on development impacts of migration in Asia, and how we can make sense of them, with professor Jonathan Rigg (University of Bristol).

News

Friday, 10 Dec 2021

Pakistani Migration Research in Focus

The online workshop 'Migrating from Pakistan today: Interrogating the regular/irregular divide' brought together close to twenty researchers and practitioners working in the field of migration from and in Pakistan, centre-staging knowledge-production with local and origin context grounding.

Multimedia

Monday, 24 Mar 2025

06:31

Rahul, Varsha, Shankar and the City of Opportunity (English)

Rural to urban migration is contributing to improved living standards and realising life aspirations for many across Asia. This animation tells multiple migration stories around education, work or love, enabling social mobility across generations, to Mumbai.

PRIO Paper

2024

Middle Classes, Moving and Staying in Hanoi

PRIO Paper

PRIO Paper

2024

Middle Classes, Moving and Staying in Metro Manila

PRIO Paper

Report – external series

2023

The overlooked opportunities of short distance and short-term migration

Mignex Policy Briefs

Report – external series

2023

The determination of migration through focus group data

MIGNEX Background Paper

Report – external series

2022

Documentation of qualitative data collection

MIGNEX Handbook Chapter

News

Tuesday, 31 May 2022

Next Steps toward New Insights on Migration, Development and Policy from MIGNEX

Successful MIGNEX consortium meeting in Istanbul, with inspiring discussion as the project members continue to build new knowledge on migration, development and policy.

News

Wednesday, 15 Sep 2021

Photo: Alun McDonald for Oxfam (CC-BY-NC-ND, via flickr)

Call for Papers: Geographies of Migration in Conflict Settings

What about conflict drives some people to move, while others stay behind? Proposed session for the Annual Meeting of American Geographers 2022, on the geographies of migration during conflict and the dynamics of migration-decision making in conflict settings.

Current projects

Project

May 2021 – Apr 2026

Migration Rhythms in Trajectories of Upward Social Mobility in Asia

Led by Marta Bivand Erdal. Funder: European Research Council.