MITRA-PhD-network future activities and events

The MITRA PhD representative Yichi Zhang (University of St Andrews) is collecting expressions of interest to join future activities and events of the MITRA-PhD-network. If you are already a MITRA PhD member and are interested in joining reading groups on…

“I could have married in Europe, if I wanted to” How black migrant men challenge moralizing and racializing discourses when returning to Senegal

Strijbosch, K. and Mazzucato, V. (2024). “I could have married in Europe, if I wanted to” How black migrant men challenge moralizing and racializing discourses when returning to Senegal. Ethnic and Racial Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2024.2320775  

Pacing mobility trajectories: Temporality and agency in ‘home’ visits by migrant youth

Anschütz, S., & Mazzucato, V. (2024). Pacing mobility trajectories: Temporality and agency in ‘home’ visits by migrant youth. Population, Space and Place, e2762. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2762 

17/04/2024 – Migration Seminar: Maximizing the development impact of labor migration

Migration Seminar Series: Maximizing the development impact of labor migration Helen Dempster , Center for global development In the last few years, there has been a growing government interest in expanding regular labor migration pathways from Global South to Global…

15/05/2024 – Migration Seminar: Equal Partnerships – African intermediary cities as actors in urban migration governance

Equal Partnerships – African intermediary cities as actors in urban migration governance Dr. Janina Stürner-Siovitz , the Centre for Human Rights of the University of Nuremberg Africa is witnessing an ongoing transformation from rural to increasingly plural urban societies. While…

Vacancy: PhD Candidate Migrants’ Country Ownership Perceptions (Utrecht University)

PhD Candidate Migrants’ Country Ownership Perceptions FACULTY: Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences DEPARTMENT: Social Sciences HOURS PER WEEK: 36 to 40 APPLICATION DEADLINE: 15 April 2024 The department of Interdisciplinary Social Science  has a job opening for a PhD candidate interested in…

Vacancy: (junior) researcher on Italian migration policy (PACES, Leiden University)

Call for (junior) researcher on Italian migration policy What assumptions drive policy decisions on migration? Do you wonder what role expert knowledge plays in them? Are you interested in Italian migration policy and speak Italian? If so, then this flexible…

Vacancy: Post-Doctoral Researcher in Migration and Health (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research)

Post-Doctoral Researcher The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) is seeking to appoint a full-time post-doctoral researcher to join the newly established ERC-funded Research Group on Migration and Health Inequalities. The group, led by Silvia Loi, will bring together experts from…

Vacancy: PhD researcher in (Multi-Disciplinary) Legal Research in the Field of Migration (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

PhD researcher in (Multi-Disciplinary) Legal Research in the Field of Migration 1 – Working at the VUB For more than 50 years, the Vrije Universiteit Brussel has stood for freedom, equality and solidarity, and this is very much alive on our campuses…

CfP: European Social Science History Conference

The European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC) is one of the largest conferences on migration research (with about 40 panels on migration). The conference will take place in Leiden 26-29 March 2025. The Call for Paper deadline for the ESSHC…