CfP: Transnational families and divorce: revisiting marital break-up in times of global (im)mobilities
Extended deadline Call for papers: International conference Transnational families and divorce: revisiting marital break-up in times of global (im)mobilities 27-29 September 2017, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands The ruptures affecting interpersonal relationships in ‘transnational families’ have received strong scholarly interest…
CfP: ‘From the mixed embeddedness approach to what? Migrant entrepreneurship at a glance’
Call for Papers ‘From the mixed embeddedness approach to what? Migrant entrepreneurship at a glance‘ Special Thematic Section of the journal ‘Sociologica. Italian Journal of Sociology’ E. Barberis & G. Solano The special section focuses on the mixed embeddedness approach…
Vacancy – Research Assistant at UNU-GCM
UNU-GCM is currently recruiting a Research Assistant to join their team later this June. The Research Assistant will work closely with the Senior Research Officer on identifying new research niches, as well as designing and implementing a resource mobilisation strategy. UNU-GCM welcomes…
07/06/2017 Migration Seminar with Dr. Theresa Beltramo
Next Wednesday, 7 June, we are very fortunate to welcome Dr. Theresa Beltramo as the next migration seminar speaker. The migration seminar series, which is offered jointly by MGSoG/UNU-MERIT in collaboration with MACIMIDE, features researchers and practitioners whose work addresses…
Vacancy: 3 PhD positions ‘Cities of Refuge’ (1.0 FTE)
Utrecht University in the Netherlands has 3 PhD positions on ‘Cities of Refuge’. What is the relevance of international human rights as law, discourse and praxis, to how local authorities welcome and integrate refugees? This is the central question in…
Vacancy: PhD in ‘Analyzing inequalities in civic engagement and perception of immigrants’
https://jobs.liser.lu/jobs/detail/call-for-applications-for-8-phd-candidates-in-economics-and-social-sciences-m-f-53 In the context of the new Doctoral Training Unit on “Migration, Inequalities and Labour Markets” established by the University of Luxembourg (UL) and the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), with the financial support of the Luxembourg National Research…
Macimide Board Member Prof. Valentina Mazzucato nominated to join AcademiaNet – the Expert Database for Outstanding Women in Academia
Professor Valentina Mazzucato has been nominated by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific research (NWO) to join AcademiaNet – the Expert Database for Outstanding Women in Academia. In becoming part of the database, Valentina joins colleagues such as Karin Bijsterveld, Jenny…
ITEM Scientific Coordinator, dr. Alexander Hoogenboom, awarded with ELFA Award 2016
ITEM’s scientific coordinator, dr. Alexander Hoogenboom, has been awarded ‘first place’ in the European Law Faculties Association 2016 doctoral thesis competition on European law for his thesis Balancing Student Mobility Rights and National Higher Education Autonomy in the European Union. The…
Vacancy: PhD Candidate ‘Immigrant Naturalization and Quality of Life’
Job description Professor Maarten Vink has recently been awarded a prestigious Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council for the 5-year project “Migrant Life Course and Legal Status Transitions (MiLifeStatus)”. The objective of this cutting-edge comparative research project is to…
Vacancy: Young Policy Leaders Fellowships
The European University Institute, in the context of the programme leading to a School of Transnational Governance, offers 3 to 12 months fellowships for the academic year 2017-18 to policy makers, civic leaders, civil servants, journalists or young scholars with…