MACIMIDE Newsletter 5.06.2015

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

Maastricht Centre for Citizenship, Migration and Development (MACIMIDE)


MACIMIDE NEWS


MACIMIDE Activity Report 2013-2014

We are delighted to present the MACIMIDE Activity Report over 2013 and 2014, which summarizes MACIMIDE activities over its first 1,5 years of existence. Download Full Report (PDF, 3.26MB) Download Executive Summary (PDF, 61 KB) MACIMIDE Activity Report 2013-2014.

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Internal opening of the The Institute for Transnational and Euregional Cross Border Cooperation and Mobility (ITEM)

The Institute for Transnational and Euregional Cross Border Cooperation and Mobility (ITEM) Due to the increasing economic globalisation and the internationalisation of societies, the European Union will face major challenges. Cross border labor mobility, international services and improvement of both….

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PhD Position ITEM: Cross-Border Liability in Subcontracting Chains

PhD Position ITEM – The Institute for Transnational and Euregional Cross Border Cooperation and Mobility is looking for a PhD Candidate Cross-Border Liability in Subcontracting Chains (Grensoverschrijdende inleners- en ketenaansprakelijkheid) Specifications – (explanation) Location Maastricht, Faculty of Law, Bouillonstraat 1-3 Function types...

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PhD Position ITEM: Qualification problems: between social security and supplementary pension

The Institute for Transnational and Euregional Cross Border Cooperation and Mobility is looking for a PhD Candidate. Qualification problems: between social security and supplementary pension (Kwalificatieproblematiek: tussen sociale zekerheid en aanvullend pensioen) Specifications – (explanation) Location Maastricht, Faculty of Law, Bouillonstraat….

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10 July: PhD Defence “The Margins of Discretion in European Expulsion Decisions” by Kathrin Hamenstädt

National expulsion decisions following a criminal conviction in light of European standards and their effects on the European level PhD Defence by Kathrin Hamenstädt Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Hildegard Schneider and Dr. Elise Muir Abstract: Foreigners who have been convicted of crimes and….

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25-27 June: IMISCOE Annual Conference (University of Geneva) – MACIMIDE Participants

Panels 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) 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) Governing Transnationalism: New Actors….

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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 health….

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10 June: GTD Colloquium “Union formation among (children of) migrants in Europe: new patterns and determinants?” By Helga de Valk

Union formation among (children of) migrants in Europe: new patterns and determinants? By Helga de Valk (University of Amsterdam) Globalisation, Transnationalism & Development Colloquium organized in association with Maastricht Centre for Citizenship, Migration and Development (MACIMIDE)  Abstract: Research on the transition to adulthood emphasizes the….

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9-10 June: Workshop “The languagecultural conceptualisation of belonging”- FASOS

WORKSHOP The languagecultural conceptualisation of ‘belonging Organizers: Jolien Clijssen, Lotte Thissen, Vincent de Rooij & Leonie Cornips Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University, The Netherlands While the concept of ‘belonging’ has been much theorized across other fields, in….

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3 June: Migration Seminar “Stigma, Coercive Isomorphism and Pakistani Migrant Organizations in London, Toronto and New York City” by Ali Chaudhary

Stigma, Coercive Isomorphism and Pakistani Migrant Organizations in London, Toronto and New York City  by Ali Chaudhary (University of California, Davis/International, Migration Institute) MGSoG/UNU-MERIT in collaboration with MACIMIDE Abstract: In this seminar, Mr. Chaudhary will present a paper from his doctoral research,….

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New EUDO Citizenship Forum: “Bloodlines and Belonging: Time to Abandon Ius Sanguinis?” Kickoff by Costica Dumbrava (MACIMIDE)

EUDO Citizenship Forum: Bloodlines and Belonging: Time to Abandon Ius Sanguinis? Kickoff contribution by Costica Dumbrava (University of Maastricht/MACIMIDE) EUDO CITIZENSHIP launched a new forum debate on the future of ius sanguinis. So far Costica Dumbrava’s kickoff contribution was followed by replies by Rainer Baubock and Jannis Panagiotidis.

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OTHER NEWS


Call for Nominations: 2015 Inaugural Best Paper Award of the CES Immigration Research Network

We are delighted to announce the inauguration of the CES Immigration Research Network Best Paper Award. The award will honor the best paper to be presented at the CES International Conference of Europeanists. Kindly sponsored by the journal Comparative Migration Studies,….

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ENMISA Distinguished Book Award

The ENMISA Book Award, sponsored by the ENMISA Section, recognizes the best book published over the past two years in the study of the international politics of ethnicity, nationalism or migration. The criteria for the award include the originality of….

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Conference on “Migrants in the City : New Dynamics in of Migration in Urban settings”

This international conference will provide a forum for the consideration of a number of key questions related to contemporary international migration in the context of urban development and growth. The registration deadline is the 13th September 2015. If you would….

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Job Vacancy: Lectureship in Migration and Development

The Oxford Department of International Development (ODID) invite applications for a Departmental Lecturership in Migration and Development. Applications are invited for a Departmental Lecturership in Migration and Development. This full-time post is to start on 1 September 2015 and is….

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New IMISCOE Publications

IMISCOE is happy to announce that recently 3 new books have been published by Springer International Publishing, these are: Migrating and Settling in a Mobile World: Albanian Migrants and Their Children in Europe by Zana Vathi; Migration in the Southern Balkans: From Ottoman….

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CFP: “Transnational Return? Family Constellations, Expectations and Negotiations in Remigration”

Guest editors Claudia Olivier and Sarah Scholl-Schneider invite you to submit proposal abstracts for the focus topic “Transnational Return? Family Constellations, Expectations and Negotiations in Remigration” of the journal Transnational Social Review –A Social Work Journal (TSR). The issue focusses….

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MIPEX 2015 results released country-by-country

The new edition of the Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX) was released in May 2015. MIPEX is co-led by the Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB), Barcelona, and the Brussels-based Migration Policy Group (MPG).   MIPEX is a unique tool… Read More.

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Council of Europe: Final conference on “Building Inclusive Societies”

23/06/2015 10:00, Committee of the Regions The Council of Europe is organising a final conference and a networking event on “Building Inclusive Societies” in Brussels on 23 June 2015. The conference builds upon the collaborative experience of two transnational projects, “Diversity….

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Portugal: International conference (and call for papers) – Migrations in the midst of instability: practices, discourses and representations

17/06/2015 09:00, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa; Address Avenida de Berna, 26-C / 1069-061 Lisboa Debates about the current emigration phenomenon in Portugal are motivated by the necessity to understand the profile and the motivations….

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Luxemburg: 15th International migration conference on “Migration and Gender”

18/06/2015 13:00, Centre de Documentation sur les Migrations Humaines CDMH, Dudelange/Luxemburg Gare-Usines L-3481 Dudelange Gender is, along with race and class, a line of difference in society leading to structures of inequality. It is also of central importance in the context….

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Call for Papers: “The Ethics of Immigration in a Non-Ideal World”, Moral Philosophy & Politics 2016/2

Moral Philosophy & Politics invites contributions to a special issue that focuses on how the ethics of immigration should address non-ideal conditions, including background injustice, non-compliance by individual states and persons, as well as constraints on the political feasibility of ideally….

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