MACIMIDE Newsletter 17.04.2015

April 17, 2015 · by macimide · in Uncategorized

Please find below the latest announcements from the Maastricht Centre for Citizenship, Migration and Development (MACIMIDE).

Maastricht Centre for Citizenship, Migration and Development (MACIMIDE)

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1st of May: Inaugural lecture “Elusive citizenship” by Dr. Maarten Vink

Elusive citizenship Inaugural lecture by Dr. Maarten Vink On 1st of May 2015 dr. Maarten Vink appointed as professor of Political Science and Political Sociology in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences will accept this position with the delivery of an…

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…

The inaugural WUN Migration Conference explores the issue of migration through the lens of WUN’s identified Global Challenges in public health, in responding to climate change, in understanding cultures and in global higher education. The conference aims to facilitate discourse…

On April 10, 2015 Karlijn Haagsman will defend her PhD thesis “Parenting across borders – Effects of transnational parenting on the lives of Angolan and Nigerian migrant parents in the Netherlands.”

Why Diaspora Matters: New Trajectories in Diaspora Engagement and Research by Dr. Martin Russell (Diaspora Matters) Abstract: In 2012, Khachig Tölölyan wrote a formative contribution on the past, present and promise of diaspora studies. The challenges and the promise outlined…

On March 20, 2015 Claudia Engelmann will defend her PhD thesis Common Standards via the Backdoor. The Impact of Asylum Policy Coordination in the European Union. Event page.

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OTHER NEWS

Professorship/Readership in Human Geography (Population and/or Health), University of St Andrews

Professorship/Readership in Human Geography (Population and/or Health), University of St Andrews, ref. SB1850 Following our recent excellent outcome from REF2014, the Department of Geography and Sustainable Development at St Andrews invites applications for a Professorship (or Readership) in Human Geography…

The UNU Institute on Globalization, Culture and Mobility (UNU-GCM) Visiting Researchers Programme gives qualified individuals an opportunity to research topics related to the ongoing programme on Female Agency, Mobility and Socio-cultural Change, and to participate in other UNU-GCM activities. Visiting Researchers…

The feminisation of migration is one of the most significant social patterns to have emerged in the course of the last century. Too often, female migrants occupy vulnerable positions in their host societies, engaging in domestic work, sex work and other unregulated…

The DAMR spring meeting 2015 that will be held at Leiden University on Thursday 28 May. The meeting is organised in cooperation with the Leiden Institute for Migration Studies (LIMS). During the meeting, researchers from different disciplines will reflect on the central…

Call for papers Unravelling the Talent Tale: Skilled Migration Policies between National Image, Membership Bonds and Economic Priorities Keynote Speaker: Peter J. Spiro, Temple University University of Sheffield, September 15 2015. While dominant contemporary narratives on migration and immigration seem…

The European Network on Statelessness (ENS) is pleased to announce its conference “None of Europe’s Children Should be Stateless” which will take place in Budapest on the 2nd and 3rd June 2015. The full programme is attached and can also be…

The Institute for European Studies (IES) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) is calling for applications for one full-time doctoral researcher in migration, cultural diversity and citizenship policies. Prospective PhD candidates are hereby invited to submit project proposals on the…

UNU Newsletter on Migration – a quarterly news update from UNU-MERIT and MGSoG keeping you up-to-date on migration activities, events and publications at UNU-MERIT and its School of Governance. Read online Issue 11, April 2015: http://www.merit.unu.edu/migration-news/

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