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The Annual Summer Institute on Migration and Global Health is an event that has gained national and international recognition, since it is one of the few academic spaces dedicated to present and analyze in depth the interrelation between migration, the health of migrants, and global health from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The Summer Institute provides researchers, faculty, graduate students, and professionals working with migrant communities around the world, a unique opportunity to learn about different health issues that affect mobile populations. 

PhD vacancy LIMES project “All together or all alone? How demographic and digital trends affect socialisation and isolation at work” 

Vacancy PhD researcher (100%) –  Research on return migration and reintegration processes – Ghent University 

On 29 August, Neimed (Centre of expertise on Demographic Changes, joint initiative of Zuyd University of Applied Sciences, and the Open University) organises a lecture about the extent to which refugees feel welcome in smaller cities like Kerkrade and social integration in Heerlen.

The Centre for Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy of KU Leuven’s Institute of Philosophy welcomes applicants for 4 fully-funded four-year PhD-fellowships in Political Philosophy (starting not later than 1 December 2019). The research group within which the PhD-fellow will work is RIPPLE (Research in Political Philosophy Leuven). Website unit 

We invite applications for 2 postdoctoral positions in the context of the ERC Consolidator project Migration and Democratic Diffusion: the Impact of Migration on Democratic Practices and Processes in Countries of Origin (MIGRADEMO), led by Eva Østergaard-Nielsen in the Department of Political Science at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. 

Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Global Refugee Policy 

Faculty of Public Affairs 
Carleton University 
Ottawa, Canada 

The Global Citizenship Observatory (GlobalCit) has opened three new job opportunities for postdocs in the area of citizenship studies working on databases and providing general assistance. 

Description  

The Faculty of Public Affairs at Carleton University brings together diverse academic units that work to address regional and global challenges with the aim of fostering informed citizenship and building better societies. Our research and teaching engages with fields such as politics, media and communications, economics, international relations, and law, and seeks to forge solutions to some of society’s greatest challenges. For example, the Faculty is actively engaged in a range of research and teaching initiatives at Carleton University that relate to refugee and migration policy and practice.  

 BACKGROUND  

The European Commission has released a Call for Proposals entitled, EU Support to Economic and Political Studies in the Southern Neighbourhood.1 ‘The global objective of this call for proposals is to contribute to an increased awareness and evidence-based policy making of regional and national actors in relation to Neighbourhood Policy in the Southern Mediterranean region.’ In particular, proposals should aim to:  

The End-User Panel provides a means for MIGNEX to engage with a large and varied group of end users, who contribute their views in targeted and time-efficient ways. The panel includes the policy community, academic community, civil society and private sector. 
 

The Canada Excellence Research Chair, external link (CERC) in Migration and Integration at Ryerson University invites expressions of interest from highly-achieved domestic and international researchers and applications for Senior Research Associates.