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Globalization, Transnationalism & Development Colloquium 

When: Wednesday Nov 21, 2018, from 15:30-17:00 

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

Topic: ‘Finding Ways through Eurospace: West African Movers Re-Viewing Europe from the Inside’ 

Participant: Joris Schapendonk 

Next Friday 22 November, the PhD candidate Biljana Meshkovska will defend her doctoral thesis, entitled: “Life after trafficking: (re) integration processes of women that have been trafficked for the purpose of sexual exploitation in Europe”

Paulina Bury will defend her PhD dissertation ‘Cooperation and competition in highly skilled migration policy in the European Union. Analysing the policy cycle of the Blue Card directive’ in the Aula Minderbroedersberg 4-6, on Thursday December 6 at 14.00.

The next migration seminar offered jointly by MGSoG/UNU-MERIT in collaboration with MACIMIDE will take place on Wednesday, November 21st. The seminar will be held from 12:30-13:30 in room 0.16/0.17 of the UNU-MERIT building at Boschstraat 24. A sandwich lunch will be provided. 

‘Democratizing Displacement’ 
Refugee Studies Centre 2019 Conference 

Theme 

Understanding International Migration in the 21st Century: Conceptual and Methodological Approaches – 16th Annual IMISCOE Conference, June 26-28, 2019, Malmö University, Sweden. 

Ester Serra Mingot will defend her PhD dissertation ‘Protecting across Borders. Sudanese Families across the Netherlands, the UK and Sudan’ in the Aula, Minderbroedersberg 4-6, on Monday 17 December at 12.00. You are cordially invited to attend. 

Call for Papers & Panels: The 7th Euroacademia International Conference The European Union and the Politicization of Europe 

The Refugee Studies Centre’s 2019 Conference will take place in New College, Holywell Street, Oxford, OX1 3BN., on 18-19 March 2019. The topic of the Conference will be “Democratizing Displacement”.  The deadline for the applications is 7 December 2018. 

‘Evidence-Based Policy Research Method Course’, organised by UNU-MERIT. 

Application deadline: 15 December.

Project Supervisor: Professor Fethi Mansouri 

Institute / School: Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation (ADI) / School of Humanities and Social Sciences   

Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Education 

Location: Melbourne Burwood Campus 

The Department of Sociology at the University of Hong Kong is recruiting a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Global China and/or Migration. The deadline for applications is October 1, 2018. 

http://jobs.hku.hk/jd.php?id=201801215