PhD Defence

Christophe Leclerc will defend his thesis called ‘Naturalisation and residential environment of immigrants in the Netherlands ‘ on Wednesday 20 April 2022 at 10.00 in the Aula at Minderbroedersberg 4-6. You are cordially invited to attend the defence in-person, or online via this link. 

On Wednesday 1 June at 10.00, Laura Ogden will defend her PhD thesis, “Transnational Youth Mobility Trajectories: An ethnography of young people with a migration background between Ghana and Germany.”

On Monday 30 May 2022 at 13:00, Sarah Anschütz will defend her PhD dissertation “Young lives on the move: The mobility trajectories and transnational affective engagements of Ghanaian-background youth living in Belgium” in the Aula of Maastricht University at Minderbroedersberg 4-6. You are cordially invited to attend the defence online or in person. 

On 2 June 2022 at 16:00, Gladys Akom Ankobrey will defend her PhD thesis entitled ‘You can’t limit yourself to one country’: Mobility trajectories and transnational engagements of young Dutch-Ghanaians, in the Aula of Maastricht University at Minderbroedersberg 4-6. 

Migrant decision-making is not simply a one-off decision to leave a country of origin in order to reach a specific destination country. Rather, migrants may revisit and revise their decision-making and plans in response to new information, experiences, opportunities and constraints.

Onallia Osei, PhD candidate at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, will defend her PhD thesis titled Stayer Youth Shaping Their Transnational Family Lives: Experiences and aspirations of migrants’ children living in Ghana on June 20, 2023 at 13 o’clock.

Essays on Attracting and Retaining Highly Educated Migrants 

Julia Reinold, UNU-MERIT 

Karlien Strijbosch will defend her Ph.D. dissertation ‘Challenging masculinities? Senegalese men returning from Europe to Senegal under conditions of deportability’ in the Aula of Maastricht University, MBB 4-6, on Tuesday 28 January 2025, 13.00. You are all invited to attend. 

On 03 June 2025, MACIMIDE Researcher and Assistant Coordinator Lalaine Siruno successfully defended her PhD project titled, Agents of human development? The strategies of (irregular) Filipino migrant domestic workers in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. 

It is our pleasure to announce that MACIMIDE researcher Cecilia Schenetti will defend her PhD thesis entitled “Creating and contesting the message – The lifecycle of EU migration information campaigns from Europe to Senegal” on Tuesday, 16 December, at 13:00 in the Aula of Maastricht University.