Last week, on Wednesday (29th of September) our project director Ludger Pries and our project coordinator Berna Zülfikar presented at panel 3 of the Workshop "Comparative Forced Migration and Refugee Studies - reflexive, postcolonial, international" of the project "FFVT" - "Forced Migration and Refugee Studies: Networking and Knowledge Transfer", which belongs to the IMIS - Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies in Osnabrück. As a part of the Panel about "Diverse Parameters of Comprative Forced Migration Reserach or Internal and International Displacement: Comparing Drivers, Geographies and Groups", they presented on the meaning of Mexico and Turkey for forced migrants as transit countries.