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In the upcoming seminar, Ms. Saskia Kok (University of Amsterdam) will present “Social Media and Migration: the Connected Migrant “. The seminar will be held from 12:00-13:00 in room 0.16/0.17 of the UNU-MERIT building at Boschstraat 24. A sandwich lunch will be provided. 

UNU-MERIT and its School of Governance are implementing an impact evaluation ofConnecting Diaspora for Development (CD4D), a programme operated by the International Organization for Migration Netherlands. As a continuation of IOM’s Temporary Return of Qualified Nationals (TRQN) project, the programme links diaspora members with Dutch residency to institutions in their countries of origin.

Wagner, L. B. (2017). Viscous automobilities: diasporic practices and vehicular assemblages of visiting ‘home’. 

Announcement for a new position opening within the academic sector at the ICRC Law & Policy Forum. 

The German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) seeks to appoint a Research Fellow to work on the research project “Every Immigrant is an Emigrant: Paths of Migration Policy across Countries.” Applications are invited for a part-time position (65%), with a 3-year contract, starting 1 May 2017. Screening of applications will begin on 23 February 2017. 

Part-time Forced Migration Review Co-Editor (Ref: 126741) 
Oxford Department of International Development, Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford 
Grade 8: £39,324 – £46,924 p.a. (pro rata) 

Call for papers: International conference 

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

Citizenship: The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion 

ECPR General Conference, University of Oslo, 6-9 September 2017 

Section Number S13, Endorsed by the ECPR Standing Group on Citizenship 

Section Chair Katja Mäkinen University of Jyväskylä 

Section Co-Chair Trond Solhaug Norwegian University of Science & Technology, Trondheim 

Asylos ( www.asylos.eu ) is looking for a Director (full-time), starting as soon as possible and based in Brussels. He/she will work closely with Asylos’s UK coordinator in London and will be supported by two interns, based in Asylos’s Brussels office. It’s an exciting opportunity for a self-starter, who is curious about leading a small and highly innovative NGO into the next phase of its development, interested in working with volunteers, and eager to deal hands-on with all aspects of running an NGO. 

Call for Papers for panels as part of section: Migration and the European Welfare State: Mapping the (Violent) Encounters between Welfare and Mobility) at EISA Conference 2017 (Barcelona, 13-16 September) 

European Institute 

Assistant Professor in Migration Studies 

Salary is competitive with Departments at our peer institutions worldwide and not less than £53,004 pa inclusive 

Contact point at Maastricht University for the NIEM project is: 
Dersim Yabasun dersim.yabasun@maastrichtuniversity.nl