Announcements

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

Are you interested in pursuing a PhD Programme in the area of EU Migration and Asylum Law and Policy? The Odysseus Academic Network PhD Catalogue for PhDs in the area of EU Migration and Asylum Law and Policy can be a source of inspiration. 

On Friday 23 November at 16:30 hrs, Prof. Dr. Arjen Leerkes, chair in ‘Migration, Securitization and Social Cohesion’, at the Faculty of Science and Engineering, will give his inaugural lecture on the following topic: ‘Understanding international (im)mobility in times of gated globalism: toward an institutional migration theory’. 

25 YEARS MAASTRICHT TREATY. ‘CELEBRATING THE SUCCESSES AND FACING THE CHALLENGES’ 

Draft programme 

Location: Gouvernement aan de Maas, Limburglaan 10, 6229 GA Randwyck-Maastricht (Faculty of Law) 

Marie De Somer received the ‘Ernst B. Haas Best Dissertation Award – Honorable Mention’ for her dissertation on the EU Court of Justice and its role in the area of EU immigration law.

On 04-05 December 2018, the Iraqi Government organised the second drafting workshop for a ‘Policy on Engagement with Iraqis Abroad’ in Baghdad. The purpose of the second drafting workshop was to support the Iraqi government in drafting a ‘Policy on Engagement with Iraqis Abroad’ (diaspora engagement policy) which after that would be finalised. 

A team of researchers at UNU-MERIT and its School of Governance has been mandated by Transparency International (TI) to conduct a study on female politicians’ engagement in the fight against corruption. The overarching aim of this project is to generate evidence to promote female politicians’ leadership in transparency and anti-corruption policies.

Dr. Katie Kuschminder will be a team member in the “Memorials to people who have died and to those missing during migration: a global project” led by Ann Singleton (University of Bristol) and funded by the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) Research Development Fund.

A team of researchers from UNU-MERIT and its School of Governance were recently commissioned by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH to quantitatively and qualitatively analyse the Pakistani diaspora in Germany.

On 14 and 15 February 2019, Dr. Katie Kuschminder andProf. Melissa Siegel will be participating in the internal kick-off meeting of the H2020 project ‘Advancing Alternative Migration Governance’ (ADMIGOV) in Amsterdam.