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Adrian Shin, PhD student at the University of Michigan, has been awarded a GROW Visiting Fellowship (Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide) from the Dutch Science Foundation NWO, in collaboration with the US National Science Foundation, to do fieldwork in Europe for his PhD project “Primary Resources, Secondary Labor: Resource Booms and Immigration Policy in the Netherlands and Scandinavia”. Shin will be supervised by Prof. Maarten Vink. 

IMISCOE Annual Conference, 25-27 June 2015, University of Geneva 

Workshop 

People-making in the era of declining fertility, high migration and bio-technological change 

Organisers: Costica Dumbrava (Maastricht University – MACIMIDE) and Rainer Bauböck (European University Institute) 

IMISCOE Annual Conference, 25-27 June 2015, University of Geneva 

Panel 

Governing Transnationalism: New Actors of Diaspora Engagement 

Chair: Marta Bivand Erdal (PRIO); Co-chair: Özge Bilgili (Maastricht University); Discussant: Melissa Siegel (Maastricht University) 

IMISCOE Annual Conference, 25-27 June 2015, University of Geneva 

Panel 

Governing Transnationalism: Focusing on Diasporas and Citizenship 

As part of the recently launched IMISCOE PhD Network, a special PhD training program (free of charge) is offered at the conference in Geneva this year (June 25th). 

Family-Member Migration and the Psychosocial Health Outcomes of Children in Moldova and Georgia 

PhD Defence by Michaella Vanore 

UNU-MERIT / Maastricht Graduate School of Governance 

Politicologenetmaal- The Annual Conference of the Dutch and Belgian Political Science Associations, 11-12 June 2015, Maastricht University 

Workshop 

The Contestation of Immigration, Ethnic Diversity and Citizenship 

Organisers: Christof Roos, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Costica Dumbrava (Maastricht University – MACIMIDE) 

In the new section VIDEOS of the MACIMIDE website you can find video recordings of MACIMIDE Lectures on Citizenship, Migration and Development. 

Sebastien Chauvin and Saskia Bonjour will convene a mini-symposium on ‘Class, Gender and Migration’ in the framework of Conference Class in the 21^st Century organized by the Amsterdam Research Center on Gender and Sexuality (ARC GS) on 22-23 October 2015 at the University of Amsterdam. The mini-symposium will consist of two panels: 

On April 10, 2015 Karlijn Haagsman will defend her PhD thesis “Parenting across borders – Effects of transnational parenting on the lives of Angolan and Nigerian migrant parents in the Netherlands.” 

UNU Newsletter on Migration – a quarterly news update from UNU-MERIT and MGSoG keeping you up-to-date on migration activities, events and publications at UNU-MERIT and its School of Governance. 

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