News

Where and When: 9 April 2019 15-17u. Deb1 B0.122. Maastricht University, FHML. Campus Randwyck 

Dr. Fabiana Visentin, UNU-MERIT 

Despite the acknowledged importance of international mobility for science and innovation, there is limited evidence on the effect of incentives and programs supporting it.

Dr ir Koen Jonkers,  

This paper, co-authored by Cong Cao, Jeroen Baas, Caroline Wagner and myself, provides an analysis of the contribution of overseas Chinese and returned scholars on the output of the Chinese research system. China is the country with the most extensive set of programmes to promote the return of its overseas scientists. This study presents a novel approach to assessing the dimensions of the stocks of overseas and returned scientists. It also assesses the relative contribution these scientists make to China’s high impact publications and international co-publications. It thus provides quantitative evidence of the important contribution scientific mobility has made to the emergence of Chinese science. 
 

Victoria Finn, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile and Leiden University 

In this article, I examine the political incorporation process of immigrant (non-citizen) voting rights in three countries that offer universal non-citizen voting rights at the national level: Chile, Ecuador, and Uruguay. Each used a top-down approach to extend these suffrage rights, but in different decades—from the 1930s to 2000s—and under different regimes. Temporal to their authoritarianism experience, Uruguay, Chile, and Ecuador implemented non-citizen voting rights before, during, and after dictatorship, respectively. 

Theme: Bridging the gaps: connecting research,public debates and policy-making on migration. 

The Center for the History of Global Development at Shanghai University http://www.history-global-development.net/ invites applications for fellowships for visiting scholars working on projects related to the history of policies, concepts, practices or debates related to development on local, national, regional or global levels.

The candidate for the PhD position should develop a research proposal for one of the following two research lines of the Migration, Diversity and Justice research cluster of the Institute for European Studies 

The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) has appointed 19 new members, including MACIMIDE Board Member Valentina Mazzucato.

The University of Vienna, Research Group IN:EX – The politics of Inclusion and Exclusion, in collaboration with Eurac Research invites applications for a PhD Position on Political Parties and Immigration.

The Human Rights Law Centre (University of Nottingham) Summer School 2019 will run this summer from 24 to 28 June 2019 and will focus on the theme of ‘Development Aid and Migration’. 

The next migration seminar offered jointly by MGSoG/UNU-MERIT in collaboration with MACIMIDE, which will take place on tomorrow, Wednesday, April 3^rd.  

The Institute of Development Policy (IOB, University Antwerp, Belgium) is opening a PhD position to be supervised from September 2019. The position should lead to a PhD in Development Studies but joint or double PhDs degrees (e.g. in economics, political sciences, …) are possible.