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This Friday, 19 May, we are very fortunate to welcome Dr. Turhan Canli to the migration seminar series. The migration seminar series, which is offered jointly by MGSoG/UNU-MERIT in collaboration with MACIMIDE, features researchers and practitioners whose work addresses human mobility. 

Call for Papers 

‘From the mixed embeddedness approach to what? Migrant entrepreneurship at a glance‘ 

Special Thematic Section of the journal ‘Sociologica. Italian Journal of Sociology’ 

E. Barberis & G. Solano 

31 May 2017, 16:00 – 18:00 

Register now! 

Seminar Friday 30 June 2017 

Families and Migration Law 

Extended deadline 

Call for papers: International conference 

Transnational families and divorce: 
revisiting marital break-up in times of global (im)mobilities 

Joint Globalization, Transnationalism & Development (GTD) & Arts, Media and Culture (AMC) Colloquium 

When: May 24, 2017, from 15.30 to 17.30 

UNU-GCM is currently recruiting a Research Assistant to join their team later this June. The Research Assistant will work closely with the Senior Research Officer on identifying new research niches, as well as designing and implementing a resource mobilisation strategy. UNU-GCM welcomes applications from graduates with proven research and proposal writing skills. Applications are open until 29 May. 

Next Wednesday, 7 June, we are very fortunate to welcome Dr. Theresa Beltramo as the next migration seminar speaker. The migration seminar series, which is offered jointly by MGSoG/UNU-MERIT in collaboration with MACIMIDE, features researchers and practitioners whose work addresses human mobility. 

Utrecht University in the Netherlands has 3 PhD positions on ‘Cities of Refuge’. What is the relevance of international human rights as law, discourse and praxis, to how local authorities welcome and integrate refugees?

https://jobs.liser.lu/jobs/detail/call-for-applications-for-8-phd-candidates-in-economics-and-social-sciences-m-f-53 

Professor Valentina Mazzucato has been nominated by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific research (NWO) to join AcademiaNet – the Expert Database for Outstanding Women in Academia. In becoming part of the database, Valentina joins colleagues such as Karin Bijsterveld, Jenny Slatman and, more recenty, Anna Harris. 

ITEM’s scientific coordinator, dr. Alexander Hoogenboom, has been awarded ‘first place’ in the European Law Faculties Association 2016 doctoral thesis competition on European law for his thesis Balancing Student Mobility Rights and National Higher Education Autonomy in the European Union.