PhD Defence

Michelle S. M. Momo, 

The aim of this thesis is to increase knowledge on educational outcomes in low income and lower-middle-income countries by examining the intergenerational correlation of education in multiple dimensions, given the complexity inherent in the concept and the global persistence in the number of early school leavers. The proposition is that in order to combat the high rate of school dropout among the poor and to increase the intergenerational mobility of education, it is necessary to explore the role played by the reduction in the intergenerational mobility on inequalities that occur early in the lives of children. In other words, gaps that emerge early in life among families that need to be addressed and offset. These are gaps that exist due to inherited limited opportunities from parents and a lack of basic necessities for a comfortable standard of living. 

Marie Labussière will defend her PhD dissertation “Native born but not yet citizen. Citizenship and educational outcomes of the children of immigrants in the Netherlands” on Wednesday 3 November at 10.00 in the Aula at Minderbroedersberg 4-6. 

Yip Ching Yu will defend her PhD dissertation entitled “Immigrant Welfare Dynamics in the Netherlands” on Tuesday, 7 December 2021, at 10:00 hours. 

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