05/10/2023 – PhD defence of Julia Reinold on Attracting and Retaining Highly Educated Migrants

Essays on Attracting and Retaining Highly Educated Migrants Julia Reinold, UNU-MERIT Highly educated migration has been increasing during the past years and is likely to continue doing so in the future because of improved educational levels worldwide, the move to…

20/06/2023 – PhD defence of Onallia Esther Osei on Stayer Youth Shaping Their Transnational Family Lives

Onallia Osei, PhD candidate at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, will defend her PhD thesis titled Stayer Youth Shaping Their Transnational Family Lives: Experiences and aspirations of migrants’ children living in Ghana on June 20, 2023 at 13 o’clock. The defence…

23/01/23 – PhD Defence of Talitha Dubow on migrant decision-making in the Western Balkans

Migrant decision-making is not simply a one-off decision to leave a country of origin in order to reach a specific destination country. Rather, migrants may revisit and revise their decision-making and plans in response to new information, experiences, opportunities and…

02/06/2022 – PhD defence of Gladys Akom Ankobrey on the Mobility Trajectories and Transnational Engagements of young Dutch-Ghanaians

On 2 June 2022 at 16:00, Gladys Akom Ankobrey will defend her PhD thesis entitled ‘You can’t limit yourself to one country’: Mobility trajectories and transnational engagements of young Dutch-Ghanaians, in the Aula of Maastricht University at Minderbroedersberg 4-6. You…

30/05/2022 – PhD defence of Sarah Anschütz on the impact of mobility on the lives of transnational migrant youth

On Monday 30 May 2022 at 13:00, Sarah Anschütz will defend her PhD dissertation “Young lives on the move: The mobility trajectories and transnational affective engagements of Ghanaian-background youth living in Belgium” in the Aula of Maastricht University at Minderbroedersberg…

01/06/2022 – Laura Ogden’s PhD defence – Transnational Youth Mobility Trajectories

On Wednesday 1 June at 10.00, Laura Ogden will defend her PhD thesis, “Transnational Youth Mobility Trajectories: An ethnography of young people with a migration background between Ghana and Germany.” The defence will be held in the Aula at Maastricht…

20/04/2022 – Christophe Leclerc will defend his PhD thesis on ‘Naturalisation and residential environment of immigrants in the Netherlands‘

Christophe Leclerc will defend his thesis called ‘Naturalisation and residential environment of immigrants in the Netherlands​‘ on Wednesday 20 April 2022 at 10.00 in the Aula at Minderbroedersberg 4-6. You are cordially invited to attend the defence in-person, or online via this link. In his thesis,…

07/12/2021 – Phd defence of Yip Ching Yu on “Immigrant Welfare Dynamics in the Netherlands”

Yip Ching Yu will defend her PhD dissertation entitled “Immigrant Welfare Dynamics in the Netherlands” on Tuesday, 7 December 2021, at 10:00 hours. For a Livestream of the defense, please use this link: https://phd-defence.maastrichtuniversity.nl.

03/11/2021 - PhD Defence of Marie Labussière on the Educational Outcome of the Children of Immigrants

03/11/2021 – PhD Defence of Marie Labussière on the Educational Outcome of the Children of Immigrants

Marie Labussière will defend her PhD dissertation “Native born but not yet citizen. Citizenship and educational outcomes of the children of immigrants in the Netherlands” on Wednesday 3 November at 10.00 in the Aula at Minderbroedersberg 4-6.   Her supervisors…

18/10/2021 – PhD Defence: A Multidimensional Perspective on Education in Developing Countries

Michelle S. M. Momo, The aim of this thesis is to increase knowledge on educational outcomes in low income and lower-middle-income countries by examining the intergenerational correlation of education in multiple dimensions, given the complexity inherent in the concept and…