Job Vacancies

Established in 2014, the National Center of Competence in Research nccr – on the move (nccr-onthemove.ch) aims to enhance the understanding of contemporary migration patterns.

Research Fellow in the Politics of International Migration 

 Faculty Position in Migration Studies  

Call for Papers – IMISCOE 13th Annual Conference in Prague – 30th June – 2nd July 2016 
Deadline: 1st February, 2016 

The Centre for Gender and Diversity of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS), Maastricht University, is scouting for an ambitious young researcher who is interested in entering into the Dutch national competition Promoveren in de Geesteswetenschappen (PhD’s in the Humanities, a program of the Dutch Science Foundation, NWO). The candidate will be coached by professors Lies Wesseling, Angélique Janssens and Leonie Cornips of FASoS in developing a competitive PhD proposal for the research project Liberation Children of Color. In addition, we will also enlist the services of an external expert on the topic, Mieke Kirkels, author of Van Alabama naar Margraten: Herinneringen van grafdelver Jefferson Wiggens (From Alabama to Margraten: Memories of Gravedigger Jefferson Wiggens) (www.vanalabamanaarmargraten.nl). 

New job opportunity: Programme Director of the Migration Policy Centre (Chair in Migration Studies, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies) 

The Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS) seeks to recruit an outstanding scholar to a Chair in Migration Studies.

With support from the Mercator Foundation (www.stiftung-mercator.de), we are about to begin a three-year project to provide policy advice and conduct related academic research on the European immigration and asylum system. Together with our research partners (Migration Policy Centre at the European University Institute – www.migrationpolicycentre.eu; Centre for European Policy Studies – www.ceps.eu), we will work with policy-makers, civil society, and other stakeholders to jointly produce knowledge to support the design and implementation of innovative policies. We will adopt an economic perspective and consider all stages of the migration process, including the welfare of migrants themselves, those left behind in migrants’ countries of origin, migrants’ integration in their countries of destination, and international cooperation in the provision of asylum and employment opportunities. Our flagship output will be a comprehensive annual Assessment Report, with additional, smaller publication formats targeted to specific audiences. Publications in high-quality, peer-reviewed academic journals will be crucial in documenting that our policy advice is based on sound economic research. 

CENTRE ADMINISTRATOR – REFUGEE STUDIES CENTRE 

Oxford Department of International Development 
Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford 

The Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen is offering Postdoctoral Research and Writing Fellowships.