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Next Thursday 4 October, the PhD candidate Jennifer Waidler will defend her doctoral thesis, under the title: “Social Assistance and Remittances and Their Role in the Fight Against Poverty”. 

Hosted in collaboration with the Centre for Refugee Studies 
York University, Toronto 
May 14th to May 16, 2019 

Preceded by CARFMS/CALACs collaborative mini-conference: 
Bridging the Gaps: Understanding Current Mobilities in the Caribbean and Latin America and their Policy Implications 
York University, Toronto 
May 13, 2019 

The SFM is now looking for a 2-year postdoc to work on a project on the political participation of naturalized citizens. The project wants to analyse the political preferences of naturalized citizens, the drivers to become active participants in left and right wing parties and how they make sense of their background with regard to the party’s discourses. This will be measured on the basis of content analysis and biographical interviews. 

Deadline: 31 October 2018 

Open Position at the World Trade Institute, University of Bern: 

Project ‘Migration Governance through Trade Mobilities’ 
nccr – on the move 

Open Position at the University of Geneva: 

Project ‘Explaining and Interpreting Migration Flows and Stocks’ 
nccr – on the move 

The Mixed Migration Centre (MMC) is recruiting a coordinator for the MMC North Africa hub, based in the DRC office in Tunis. The application deadline is on 8 October. 

Open Position at the Research Department of the School of Education, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW): 

Deadline: Applications close 5pm, Wednesday 31 October 2018. 

Project Supervisor: Professor Fethi Mansouri 

On Friday 23 November at 16:30 hrs, Prof. Dr. Arjen Leerkes, chair in ‘Migration, Securitization and Social Cohesion’, at the Faculty of Science and Engineering, will give his inaugural lecture on the following topic: ‘Understanding international (im)mobility in times of gated globalism: toward an institutional migration theory’. 

Are you interested in pursuing a PhD Programme in the area of EU Migration and Asylum Law and Policy? The Odysseus Academic Network PhD Catalogue for PhDs in the area of EU Migration and Asylum Law and Policy can be a source of inspiration. 

Topic: Comparing Sending States’ Social Protection Infrastructure for Nationals Abroad: An Analysis of Diaspora Institutions and Consular Services 

Participant:  Jean-Michel Lafleur 

When: Wednesday, Dec 5, 2018, from 15:30-17:00 

Where: Attic, GG 80-82 (Soiron building) 

Miranda Poeze will defend her PhD dissertation ‘Migration, family separation and caregiving across borders. A multi-sited ethnography of transnational child-raising arrangements between Ghana and The Netherlands’ in the Aula, MBB 4-6, on Thursday 6 December, 12.00. You are all invited to attend.