Field research on migration, climate mobility, Culture and heritage
We combine policy analysis with community voices, using mixed teams of local researchers, journalists and university students to deliver evidence decision-makers can act on.
WHO WE ARE
Where systems meet lived experience
Migration and climate change are reshaping the Caribbean faster than policy can follow. Too often, the decisions are made far from the people who live with them.
So in every project we ask two questions: what do the systems say, and what do the people experience? Our teams of local researchers, journalists and university students listen first. Then we turn those stories into evidence that governments and organisations can act on.
The Caribbean is our home, not our field site.
10
COUNTRIES
15+
REPORTS
5
LANGUAGES
WHAT WE ARE PROUD OF
1st
Best-performing of six country teams
Our Suriname team, Greater Caribbean Climate Mobility Initiative
6
Migration Governance Needs Assessments
Carried out with IOM in six countries
OUR APPROACH
Listen. Reframe. Connect.
Research
Fieldwork with communities, not on them. Local knowledge leads the way.
Narrative change
Clear analysis that changes how migration is talked about, and decided on.
Partnerships
Communities, governments and universities around one table, building solutions together.
SERVICES
What we offer
A whole research project, or the part you need.
Full research project
From the first question to the final presentation.
Desk research
Literature and policy reviews.
Data collection
Interviews, focus groups and surveys.
Report writing
Clear findings, ready to act on.
Interview training
For your research team.
INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS
International Organization for Migration
Global Centre for Climate Mobility
International Organization for Migration
INTERNATIONAL
Global Centre for Climate Mobility
INTERNATIONAL
Samuel Hall
RESEARCH
University of Aruba
ACADEMIA
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
ACADEMIA
Modern Language Association
ACADEMIA
GOVERNMENTS
10
national governments across the region
Aruba · Bahamas · Barbados · Belize · Curaçao · Guyana · Jamaica · Sint Maarten · Suriname · Trinidad and Tobago
CLIENTS & PARTNERS
Trusted by institutions
across borders
CLIMATE MOBILITY · SURINAME
Climate & mobility in frontline communities
MIGRATION GOVERNANCE · 6 COUNTRIES
Migration Governance Needs Assessments
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES · REGIONAL
Indigenous peoples and cross-border mobility
WHERE WE WORK
Belize
Jamaica
Bahamas
Aruba
Curaçao
Sint Maarten
Barbados
Trinidad and Tobago
Guyana
Suriname
“What do the systems say, and what do the people experience?”
Tiarra Simon, anthropologist, founder of Simon Global Consultancy and panelist at the International Conference on Small Island States and Sub-National Jurisdictions and the Modern Language Association