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You are invited to the:  

Globalization, Transnationalism & Development Colloquium 

When: Oct 11, 2017, from 15.30 to 17.00 

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

he University of Luxembourg is looking for its Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education within the Research Unit IPSE for a Research Associate with PhD (M/F) – Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning 

To get a residence permit in the Netherlands, or elsewhere in Europe, asylum seekers need to tell a credible story about their identity, their country of origin and the reason they fled. Yet the way in which asylum officials ask questions does not always make for a good test of reality. This is the conclusion of Tanja van Veldhuizen’s PhD dissertation, which she will defend at Maastricht University on 22 September. One solution may be to ask more open questions. 

UNU-GCM is recruiting a Programme Leader to build on existing research and publications on migration and cities by developing and enhancing this area of expertise. Under the supervision of the Director, the Programme Leader will identify critical research issues in the areas covered by the progamme on migration and cities and formulate a research and funding strategy. 

Anyone who thinks that all asylum seekers who are granted a residence permit in the Netherlands stay here forever, is wrong. Of all the people from Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, former Yugoslavia and Somalia who were registered in the Netherlands in the Personal Records Database (BRP) in 1999, a third no longer lived in the Netherlands ten years later.

Maarten Vink co-editor of Oxford Handbook of Citizenship 

MACIMIDE co-director prof. Maarten Vink is one of the co-editors of the Oxford Handbook of Citizenship, together with Ayelet Shachar, Rainer Bauboeck, and Irene Bloemraad. The book has recently been published by Oxford University Press. 

Living Transcultural Spaces, the inaugural chapter of the international conference Diaspore Italiane – Italy in Movement, will be held in Melbourne, nominated the most liveable city in the world for six consecutive years, and arguably Australia’s cultural capital.

Between Camp and Campus: Mapping the Field of Higher Education in Refugee Protection 

Panel Description: 

On 3 July 2017 the concluding workshop of the UM-Macimide PREMIUM project was held. This project, which was financed by Macimide, was carried out within the framework of PREMIUM, which is Maastricht University’s interdisciplinary honours programme for master’s students.

The Central and Eastern European Migration Review Vol. 6, No. 1, 2017 has been published.

Bigili, Ö., Kuschminder, K., Siegel, M. (2017). Return migrants’ perceptions of living conditions in Ethiopia: A gendered analysis. Migration Studies (forthcoming). 

Maarten Vink appointed ROA Research Fellow 

 MACIMIDE co-director prof. Maarten Vink has been appointed as research fellow at the Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA), a research institute of the Maastricht University School of Business and Economics (SBE).