Announcements

Maastricht Centre for Citizenship, Migration and Development (MACIMIDE) 

A picture is worth a thousand words. The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation’s (SDC) Global Programme Migration and Development (GPMD) is launching a global photo competition to highlight the positive aspects of migration and its potential for development. Photographs have the unique ability to evoke emotions and to tell a story from a new angle. 

IMISCOE has opened nominations for its 2017 Maria Ioannis Baganha Dissertation Award. The Network has awarded this prize annually since 2010 (overview of winners) to stimulate and recognise excellent PhD research in the field of migration, integration and social cohesion in Europe.

Call for applications from the Human Rights Centre of the United Nations mandated University for Peace: 

‘The Human Rights Centre of the United Nations mandated University for Peace is pleased to announce the call for applications for our Diploma in Human Rights and Forced Displacement, and our Diploma in Sustainable Development in Human Rights. 

Globalization, Transnationalism & Development Colloquium 

When: Jan 25, 2017, from 15.30 to 17.30 
Where: GG76, Room 0.07  

The topic of this lecture is: 

Theorizing Islamic Feminism 
By Lana Sirri 
Maastricht University 

How can we improve the refugee integration policies?  The biggest research project in the EU dedicated to answering this question launches its ‘Forintegration.eu’ website 

Registration Open for Academic Institutes Working on Migration 

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.

IMISCOE Springer Research Series Invites Submissions of Book Proposals. 

Maarten Vink co-editor of Oxford Handbook of Citizenship 

MACIMIDE co-director prof. Maarten Vink is one of the co-editors of the Oxford Handbook of Citizenship, together with Ayelet Shachar, Rainer Bauboeck, and Irene Bloemraad. The book has recently been published by Oxford University Press.