MACIMIDE Newsletter 08.05.2015

New VIDEOS section on the MACIMIDE website with MACIMIDE Lectures on Citizenship, Migration and Development

In the new section VIDEOS of the MACIMIDE website you can find video recordings of MACIMIDE Lectures on Citizenship, Migration and Development. The following lectures are already available: 1 May 2015: “Elusive citizenship” – inaugural lecture by Prof. Maarten Vink 25 February…

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13 May: GTD Colloquium “A proper wife, a proper marriage. Orientalist identity constructions in Dutch political debates on family migration” by Saskia Bonjour

A proper wife, a proper marriage. Orientalist identity constructions in Dutch political debates on family migration Saskia Bonjour (University of Amsterdam) Globalisation, Transnationalism & Development Colloquium organised in association with Maastricht Centre for Citizenship, Migration and Development Abstract: In this talk I argue that…

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11-12 June: Workshop “The Contestation of Immigration, Ethnic Diversity and Citizenship”, Politicologenetmaal, Maastricht University

Politicologenetmaal- The Annual Conference of the Dutch and Belgian Political Science Associations, 11-12 June 2015, Maastricht University Workshop The Contestation of Immigration, Ethnic Diversity and Citizenship Organisers: Christof Roos, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Costica Dumbrava (Maastricht University – MACIMIDE) Description: In most European countries…

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17 June: PhD Defence “Family-Member Migration and the Psychosocial Health Outcomes of Children in Moldova and Georgia by Michaella Vanore

Family-Member Migration and the Psychosocial Health Outcomes of Children in Moldova and Georgia PhD Defence by Michaella Vanore UNU-MERIT / Maastricht Graduate School of Governance ABSTRACT: This dissertation examines the relationship between the migration of co-resident family members and the psychosocial…

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25 June: IMISCOE PhD Network, PHD Training Workshop

As part of the recently launched IMISCOE PhD Network, a special PhD training program (free of charge) is offered at the conference in Geneva this year (June 25th). The program will open with a key note speech by Zana Vathi (Edge…

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26 June: Conference Panel “Governing Transnationalism: Focusing on Diasporas and Citizenship”, IMISCOE Annual Conference, University of Geneva

IMISCOE Annual Conference, 25-27 June 2015, University of Geneva Panel Governing Transnationalism: Focusing on Diasporas and Citizenship Chair: Özge Bilgili (Maastricht University); Co-chair: Marta Bivand Erdal (PRIO, Oslo); Discussant: Godfried Engbersen (Erasmus University Rotterdam) Description: This panel focuses on ‘Governing Migrant Transnationalism’ with an open approach to exploring the different scales and…

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26 June: Conference Panel “Governing Transnationalism: New Actors of Diaspora Engagement”, IMISCOE Annual Conference, University of Geneva

IMISCOE Annual Conference, 25-27 June 2015, University of Geneva Panel Governing Transnationalism: New Actors of Diaspora Engagement Chair: Marta Bivand Erdal (PRIO); Co-chair: Özge Bilgili (Maastricht University); Discussant: Melissa Siegel (Maastricht University) Description: This panel focuses on ‘Governing Migrant Transnationalism’ with an open approach to exploring the different scales and sites, as…

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26 June: Workshop “People-making in the era of declining fertility, high migration and bio-technological change”, IMISCOE Annual Conference, University of Geneva

IMISCOE Annual Conference, 25-27 June 2015, University of Geneva Workshop People-making in the era of declining fertility, high migration and bio-technological change Organisers: Costica Dumbrava (Maastricht University – MACIMIDE) and Rainer Bauböck (European University Institute) Description States claim to represent trans-generational communities…

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Adrian Shin: New MACIMIDE Junior Visiting Fellow at FASOS

Adrian Shin, PhD student at the University of Michigan, has been awarded a GROW Visiting Fellowship (Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide) from the Dutch Science Foundation NWO, in collaboration with the US National Science Foundation, to do fieldwork in Europe for…

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CfP: 2015 EUDO dissemination Conference- 26-27 November 2015, European University Institute (Florence)

The 2015 EUDO conference will compare access to citizenship and the franchise in Europe and the Americas. The EUDO Observatory on Citizenship, which has recently expanded its geographical scope to North and South America, provides a wealth of data for…

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Applications Open: UNU-GCM Consultants

The UNU Institute on Globalization, Culture and Mobility (UNU-GCM) is accepting applications for consultants to work on our research program on Female Agency, Mobility and Socio-Cultural Change. The feminization of migration is one of the most significant social patterns to have…

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Call for papers: mini-symposium “Class, Gender and Migration”

Sebastien Chauvin and Saskia Bonjour will convene a mini-symposium on ‘Class, Gender and Migration’ in the framework of Conference Class in the 21st Century organized by the Amsterdam Research Center on Gender and Sexuality (ARC GS) on 22-23 October 2015 at the University…

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