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  • Global Photo Competition: The Other Side of Migration

    A picture is worth a thousand words. The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation’s (SDC) Global Programme Migration and Development (GPMD) is launching a global photo competition to highlight the positive aspects of migration and its potential for development. Photographs have the unique ability to evoke emotions to tell a story from a new angle. 

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    New Course on Migration at University College Maastricht (UCM)

    As of the 2015/2016 Academic Year, University College Maastricht (UCM) is offering a new bachelor level course on migration led by UNU-MERIT and its School of Governance.

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    Rubicon Grant for Katie Kuschminder

    Postdoctoral researcher Dr. Katie Kuschminder has won a “Rubicon” grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).

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    13/04/2016: GTD Colloquium “The Humanitarian Narrative in Context: From Mission and Empire to Cold War and Decolonization” by J. Paulmann

    The Humanitarian Narrative in Context:  From Mission and Empire to Cold War and Decolonization 

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    MACIMIDE saddened by death of Jaap Dronkers

    We are greatly saddened by the news that our great colleague professor Jaap Dronkers has died on March 30, 2016.

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    Welcome to Maria Vivas Romero, new MACIMIDE Junior Visiting Fellow

    Maria Vivas Romero is a new MACIMIDE Junior Visiting Fellowship at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS). Maria is PhD student in Social and Political Sciences at the University of Liege (FRESH-FNRS).

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    CfP: MARICAP Conference ‘Marital Captivity: Divorce, Religion and Human Rights’. Deadline 01/05/2016

    The International MARICAP Conference ‘Marital Captivity: Divorce, Religion and Human Rights will be hosted and co-organised by the research school Ius Commune.  It will take place in Maastricht (the Netherlands) between 24 and 25 November 2016. 

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    PhD Course: New Perspectives on Transnational Living

    Between 19 and 21 October 2016, a PhD course on transnationalism will be organised by the Standing Committee on Interactions of Migrant Integration and Transnationalism in Europe (IMITE) of the International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion in Europe (IMISCOE) network.

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    CfP: Conference on Global Migration: Rethinking Skills, Knowledge and Culture, India International Centre Annexe. Deadline: 30/06/2016

    The Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism (GRFDT) is organising an international conference on”Global Migration: Rethinking Skills, Knowledge and Culture” during 26-27 November 2016 at India International Centre Annexe, New Delhi, India. 

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    CfA: Summer School on Forced Migration: Old Phenomenon, New Challenges, Migration Research Center at Koç University

    Migration Research Center at Koç University 

    International Summer School 

      

    Forced Migration: Old  Phenomenon, New Challenges 

      

    11-21.07.2016 

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    Workshop Ethnic Relations, Minorities and Belonging in Europe and China June 2-3, 2016, Leuven – Belgium.

    Organisers: KU Leuven Gülen Chair for Intercultural Studies (GCIS) and the Research Center for Studies of Chinese Southwest’ Borderland Ethnic Minorities, Yunnan University 

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