Job Vacancies

Are you interested in the human rights of migrants, and would you like to work in a vibrant team of scholars forming one of the largest migration law research groups in Europe? These PhD positions will study the ambivalent role of the European Court of Human Rights as an actor and forum for the human rights turn in legal discourses on migration. The research will be part of the project entitled “Who is empowered by Strasbourg? Migrants and States before the European Court of Human Rights”. 

As a postdoc researcher you will work on the research project: Educational disadvantages of newcomers: explanatory mechanisms and promising interventions.  You will conduct (quantitative) research into the mechanisms underlying the educational disadvantages of newcomers, and carry out experimental research into promising interventions that can be used by policymakers to reduce these educational disadvantages. This project is funded by the Dutch Inspectorate of Education. 

IOM is seeking expressions of interest from suitably qualified and experienced individuals to undertake a consultancy involving the development of an internal research training package. Deadline: Monday 12 September 2022 (17:00 CEST). 

The Migration Research and Publications Division is seeking expressions of interest from suitably qualified and experienced individuals to undertake a consultancy to support the Division in laying the foundations for the development of a new IOM initiative, the Gender and Migration Research Policy Action Lab – GenMig. Deadline: Sunday 25 September 2022 midnight CEST. 

The Radboud University Network on Migrant Inclusion (RUNOMI) at the Nijmegen School of Management has 5 vacancies for Assistant Professors, and 2 Postdoc vacancies online with closing date October 9.

The University of Amsterdam is looking to hire a new tenure track assistant professor to work in the expanding interdisciplinary conflict programme.

Ben je geïnteresseerd in het doen van promotieonderzoek in het migratierecht en wil je werken in een levendig team van academici dat onderdeel uitmaakt van een van de grootste onderzoekgroepen in migratierecht in Europa?  Solliciteer dan bij de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU). 

DYNAMIG is a new international research and policy project that will analyse the decision-making of potential and actual migrants, and how migrants’ decisions and behaviour – and migration processes more broadly – are perceived and understood by policy actors. DYNAMIG will have a strong focus on migration from and within Africa. Led by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, the DYNAMIG consortium includes eight research institutions across Europe and Africa, including the EUI’s Migration Policy Centre (MPC). 

ITEM is looking for a researcher who is passionate about cross-border cooperation and mobility, with a focus on the legal aspects of the cross-border labour market and education. 

The School of Cultural and Social Sciences, Institute of Geography at Osnabrück University seeks to appoint an Assistant Professor in Social Geography and Reflexive Migration Studies (W1 with tenure track to W2) at the earliest possible date.