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The European University Institute has a vacancy for a research assistant in the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), Migration Policy Centre (MPC). 

Job description 

The senior research will be part of the theme group Migration and Migrants at NIDI, a leading European center of research in the field of population studies.

The Brussels Interdisciplinary Research centre for Migration and Minorities is a recognised Centre of Expertise at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) is looking for a senior research coordinator (PhD or equivalent research experience) with strong social and coordination skills. The candidate should display the enthusiasm and ambition to help developing BIRMM into a leading centre for migration and minorities research. 

The IZA/DFID Program on Gender, Growth and Labour Markets in Low-Income Countries (G²LM|LIC) is having a Special Session at the 3rd IZA/World Bank/NJD/UNU-WIDER Jobs and Development Conference “Better Jobs for Development” on May 21-22, 2020 in Warsaw, Poland.  

The public policy research group at Erasmus University focuses on how governments design, implement, evaluate and change public policies in a wide variety of policy domains, including migration policy, social policy and civic participation. By synthesizing insights from these different policy domains, we try to understand how rational, institutional, political and normative contexts and conditions affect the policy making process on different layers of government and in different stages of the policy-making process. With our research, we try to contribute to legitimate and effective solutions for the complex problems of current societies. We do so by collaborating closely with NGO’s public sector organizations, local communities and professionals in the public domain.     

Vacancy Description 

School of Geography & Sustainable Development, 
Salary: £33,797 – £40,322 per annum,  
Start: January 2020 or as soon as possible, 
Fixed term for 3 years 

Harvard University (Massachusetts, United states) is currently accepting applications for the Mahindra Humanities Center Postdoctoral Fellowship program for the 2020 to 2021 school year.

Maarten Vink, MACIMIDE Co-Director, collaborated with National Geographic for the publication of a 1-page data visualization on the global variety in citizenship laws. The data are derived from the Global Citizenship Observatory (GLOBALCIT), a web platform that provides user-friendly open access to a major worldwide collection of data and analyses on citizenship laws and access to franchise for academic researchers and policy communities. Maarten is one of the Co-Directors of GLOBALCIT.

Fast facts: 

• Call for Papers for the Jean Monnet NOVA EU workshop: Migration and EU Borders 
• When: 30-31 March 2020 
• Where: Maastricht 

As a key member of the IMISCOE Migration Politics and Governance (MigPoG) Standing Committee (SC), the Migration Policy Centre will hold the First Mid-Term Conference on ‘Migration politics and governance: understanding the relationships’ on 26-27 March 2020 at the European University Institute in Florence.

Fajth, V., Veronika, Bilgili, Ö., Loschmann, C. et al. (2019). How do refugees affect social life in host communities? The case of Congolese refugees in Rwanda. 

de Hoon, M., Vink, M., Schmeets, H. (2019): “A ticket to mobility? Naturalisation and subsequent migration of refugees after obtaining asylum in the Netherlands“.