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Recruitment of five Research Fellows for the new GCRF Centre for Sustainable, Healthy and Learning Cities and Neighbourhoods (SHLC) at University of Glasgow. For further information and to apply online, please visit: http://bit.ly/SHLCjobs. Closing Date: 3 January 2018. 

17-28 June 2018, Berkeley, California 

The 2018 Summer Institute on Research Methods in Migration will provide 8 days of training in the use and analysis of migration data and will be hosted at the University of California, Berkeley. 

The new IOM World Migration Report 2018 has been launched: https://www.iom.int/wmr/world-migration-report-2018 

The Global State of Democracy 2017, published by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) cites data from the MACIMIDE Expatriate Dual Citizenship Dataset, co-authored by Maarten Vink, Gerard-Rene de Groot and Chun Luk. The dataset is publicly available and updated annually. 

The Migration and Citizenship Section welcomes nominations and self-nominations for awards for (1) Best Book; (2) Best Article; (3) Best Dissertation; (4) Best Book Chapter; and, (5) Best Paper presented at APSA the preceding year (2017). 

When: Dec 6, 2017, from 15.30 to 17.30 
Where: Attic – Grote Gracht 80-82, Maastricht University 

The topic of this lecture is: 
Facing the obligation to belong: transnational engagement and construction of identities among Ecuadorian migrants’ children in Spain and Italy 

By Simone Castellani 
University Institute of Lisbon (CIES-IUL) 

The migration seminar series is offered jointly by UNU-MERIT/MGSoG in collaboration with MACIMIDE, and features researchers and practitioners whose work addresses human mobility. 

State of the Art conference “The Trilemma of the 21st Century: Migration, Demography and Climate Change” at the Ministry of Justice and Security in The Hague, 19 January 2018. 

More information and registration: https://59ddcc75ec20131756.momice.events 

The WZB Berlin Social Science Centre is offering a position of a Postdoctoral research fellow. 

The Refugee Law Initiative (RLI) is currently recruiting for a Field/Legal Researcher and a Research Project Support Officer to support our work on RECAP (Research capacity building and knowledge generation to support preparedness and response to humanitarian crises and epidemics project). You can view the press release here: https://rli.sas.ac.uk/about-us/news/employment-opportunities-rli-two-roles-recap 

The expertise centre Institute for Transnational and Euregional cross border cooperation and mobility (ITEM) operates at the convergence of research, counselling, knowledge exchange, and training activities in the domain of cross-border mobility and cooperation.

Elsayed, A. & de Grip, A. (2017). Terrorism and integration of Muslim immigrants.