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When: Jan 24, 2018, from 15.30 to 17.00 

Where: Spiegelzaal Soiron building – Grote Gracht 80-82, Maastricht University 

CALL FOR ABSTRACT 

Division Director to lead work on Welcoming and Integrated Societies within the International Migration Initiative, Open Society Foundations. 

State of the Art conference “The Trilemma of the 21st Century: Migration, Demography and Climate Change” at Ministry of Justice and Security in The Hague, 19 January. 

Position: Post-doctoral researcher in the Institute of Citizenship Studies (InCite) 

Project: “Is the Integration of Muslim Migrants More Difficult? Unpacking the Differences of the Social, Economic, Civic and Political Integration of Muslim and Non-Muslim Migrants in Switzerland in Comparative Perspective.” 

The National Center of Competence in Research nccr – on the move aims toenhance the understanding of contemporary phenomena related to migration and mobility in Switzerland and beyond. Connecting disciplines, the NCCR brings together research projects from the social sciences, economics and law. Managed from the University of Neuchâtel, the network comprises ten universities in Switzerland 

The 15th Annual Conference of IMISCOE (International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion in Europe), Barcelona, 2–4 July 2018 

The WZB Berlin Social Science Center, the European University Institute, and the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society Harvard University invite submissions to an international workshop on “Emerging Technologies and the Future of Citizenship” The workshop explores the challenges and opportunities that emerging technologies pose to existing theories and practices of citizenship, state sovereignty. and the nation-state system. 

Bernd Fitzenberger (Humboldt University Berlin and ZEW) and Gerard van den Berg (University of Bristol) are pleased to announce the conference ‘Demographics, Immigration, and the Labor Market’ taking place on 6-7 April, 2018 in Nuremberg, Germany. 

The diplomacy of migration: analysing external migration policies 

The BAM Project: 
The Sociology Department of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is seeking a post-doctoral researcher in the field of economics  to work on the international project BAM: Becoming A Minority. The BAM project (2018) is funded by an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) and is led by Prof. Dr. M.R.J. (Maurice) Crul. https://www.academictransfer.com/employer/VU/vacancy/44114/lang/en/ 

Job description 

The BAM project is a pioneering project that examines how people of native descent respond to becoming a minority in majority-minority city contexts.