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Costica Dumbrava, the Executive Coordinator of the Maastricht Centre for Citizenship, Migration and Development (MACIMIDE), was invited to participate in the Lisbon Forum on “How to combat radicalisation and terrorism: prevention tool and shared knowledge in the Mediterranean and European space” (3-5 December 2015). 

Claudia Engelmann co-authored an article for the online version of the German newspaper Die Zeit. Entitled ‘Wir mischen uns in die Flüchtlingskrise ein’ (‘We do intervene in the refugee crisis’), her piece is a reply to the often heard criticism that researchers neither work on nor publicly comment on current refugee issues. 

Bilgili, Ö. (2015). Economic Integration to Send Money Back Home? Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies 13 (4):379-400. 50 free eprint versions available here. 

ITEM Newsletter- December 2015 

The Institute for Transnational and Euregional Cross Border Cooperation and Mobility

The Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS) seeks to recruit an outstanding scholar to a Chair in Migration Studies.

The first conference of the UNU Migration Network: “International Migration and Current Challenges: Transforming the Debate on Human Mobility” will take place on 28 January 2016 in Barcelona.  

Inaugural Arts & Science Postdoctoral Fellowships – University of Toronto 

Call for Nominations 

The Summer School offers an intensive, interdisciplinary and participative approach to the study of forced migration. It aims to enable people working with refugees and other forced migrants to reflect critically on the forces and institutions that dominate the world of the displaced. 

Applications are invited for up to 20 funded PhD studentships in Politics and International Studies (PAIS) at the University of Warwick. We seek high calibre doctoral candidates with a proven track record of academic excellence – demonstrable via outcomes of assessed work, the quality of the research proposal, and professional and/or academic experience. 

Applications are invited for up to 20 funded PhD studentships in Politics and International Studies (PAIS) at the University of Warwick. We seek high calibre doctoral candidates with a proven track record of academic excellence – demonstrable via outcomes of assessed work, the quality of the research proposal, and professional and/or academic experience. 

The Centre for Refugee Studies at York University is offering its annual Summer Course on Refugees and Forced Migration from May 9-13, 2016. 

Call for papers, APSA Philadelphia 

Free Movement and “Internal” Border Politics