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In the current difficult environment, will the EU be able to protect its citizens while also projecting its values into the world?

The “Odysseus” Academic Network for Legal Studies on Migration and Asylum in Europe extends the deadline for submissions to the two Odysseus Prizes until the 1st of November 2017.

Senior Specialist – Migration 

Job categories: Urban Development, Programme Management 

Vacancy code: VA/2017/B5115/13220 

Level: ICS-11 

Department/office: ECR, GVA, Cities Alliance 

Duty station: Brussels, Belgium 

Contract type: Fixed Term 

Contract level: P4 

Three new postdoctoral fellows will be recruited as members of the HOMInG ERC research team (deadline: November 2). These post-doctoral positions are full-time and fixed-term – one year, renewable up to three years overall. Application online 

Applications are now open for the 2018/19 entry to the Max Weber Post-doctoral Programme at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy. 

In the upcoming seminar, Dr. Nimeh (MGSoG/UNU-MERIT) will present “In the Absence of Social Justice – the Case of Migrating from Syria”.  The seminar will be held on 20 September 2017 from 13:00-14:00 in the UNU-MERIT building at Boschstraat 24 (room 0.16-0.17). A sandwich lunch will be provided. Go to event page. 

Globalisation, Transnationalism & Development Colloquium 

When: September 13, 2017, from 15.30 to 17.00 

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

The topic of this lecture is: Can the subaltern file claims? The World Bank Inspection Panel and subaltern articulation 

By Aram Ziai 

The Foundation of the Lalla Rookh Academic Chair (Stichting Diaspora Leerstoel in Lalla Rookh), in conjunction with VU University of Amsterdam, The International Institute of Social Studies of the Erasmus University Rotterdam in The Hague and the Municipality of The Hague, are organizing a Global Conference on Indian Diaspora Studies. 

Affiliated Researcher Professor Louis Volante Leads 5-Year SSHRC Insight Grant Funded Study with Colleagues at Queen’s University and UNU-MERIT 

At a recent press meeting in Berlin, MiLifeStatus researcher Swantje Falcke talked to journalists about Germany’s current citizenship policy. She also presented some first results of the ERC funded research project MiLifeStatus on the relation between naturalisation and integration. 

#EUIA18 – Call for Papers 
Deadline: 23 October 2017 

UC Santa Cruz: Assistant Professor of Sociology (Demography, Migration, and Inequality) 

(Job #JPF00463-18)