ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2023
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. 44,000+ student leaders from 3,300+ campuses across 170+ nations applied to join the Class of 2023. 260+ campuses worldwide (just 9%) in 38 countries were selected to host 4,000+ Millennium Fellows for the Class of 2023.
UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT YASMIN ABBASOY, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2023.
Sciences Po Menton | Menton, France | Advancing SDG 3 & UNAI 7
Millennium Fellowship Project: Stories in Motion
Our project focused on creating an investigative research report on the Franco-Italian border focusing on the migration crisis in the region through regular border permanence. It included articles on relevant news and developments surrounding the border, especially as the city of Ventimiglia continues to expand commercial development. We also included testiomonies from our border permanence project, where we conducted interviews at the border and collected data on who gets pushed back and why. We then compiled this information into a gallery which we exhibited on our campus, sharing stories to shed light on the people behind the statistics.
About the Millennium Fellow
Yasmin Abbasoy, a student in the Dual BA Program between SciencesPo and Columbia University, is going into her second year studying Political Science in the sun-drenched south of France. She is especially interested in the ever-present process of democratic backsliding and its diverse manifestations and justifications in political discourse, particularly in her native Turkey. Born in Istanbul and raised elsewhere, she now studies a stone's throw from the increasingly tense Franco-Italian border where she hopes to contribute to documenting the increasing number of harmful practices as a Millennium Fellow.
