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About Karin Heissler

Karin Heissler is a child protection specialist in UNICEF Headquarters. She has a D.Phil in development studies from the University of Oxford. She is most recently the author of ‘Rethinking “trafficking” in children’s migratory processes: the role of social networks in child labour migration in Bangladesh’ in Children’s Geographies.

Articles by Karin Heissler

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Francesc Badia i Dalmases is Editor and Director of democraciaAbierta.

European integration

Six countries. Six different paths to EU integration.

Technical, geopolitical, or transformative: what future for the Eastern Partnership?
Laure Delcour
'Practical wisdom' and EU integration
Can Büyükbay
Serbia’s choice: EU membership or eastern promises?
Srdja Pavlovic

No to TTIP

The secretive EU-US trade deal explained

TTIP: we were right all along
Thomas Fazi
TTIP and the right to protect personal data
Keno Franke
What we talk about when we talk about TTIP
Sam Lowe
The great rebranding: how the EU tried to fool us into thinking it has removed ISDS from TTIP
Virginia López Calvo

Young people's migration and the pursuit of status

Karin Heissler 22 July 2015

Young people’s mobility must be understood within processes of change. Migration provides opportunities to achieve status, an under-recognised yet important aspect of young persons’ lives.