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EuroMedMig Marie-Curie PhD Network has opened its call for 12 PhD students in 10 Mediterranean Universities and the deadline to apply is 28 February 2025. 

Cornell is hiring for a program manager to help continue build out the Migration & Human Rights Program. Please do share the posting widely: https://cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CornellPositions/job/Ithaca-Main-Campus/Project-Coordinator–Migration—Human-Rights-Program—Cornell-Law-School_WDR-00050863-2 – and feel free to reach out to any of the co-directors to flag stellar candidates. 

In her latest video, Melissa Siegel explores the concept of non-refoulement and how it protects migrants, as well as four challenges and problems with the concept in practice. You can watch the video on her YouTube channel. 

You are cordially invited to join the next UNU-MERIT Migration Seminar Series: Trust in international organizations reduces support for closed-door immigration in weak-governance regions, highlighting non-state actors’ influence.

We are glad to share with you the Call for Papers for the upcoming conference, “Crises Redux: Europe in a Global Context”, hosted by the Centre of Excellence in Law, Identity and the European Narratives (EuroStorie) at the University of Helsinki. 

This article critically examines the extraterritorial asylum processing model established by the Italy–Albania deal, arguing that it departs from traditional EU externalization strategies and presents new legal challenges

In the next MPC-EUI seminar, Eleonora Milazzo will examine how researchers try to distil the messages from their research and how and how they evaluate knowledge exchange in the framework of Horizon-funded projects on migration. 

In the past decade, the number of displaced people worldwide has more than doubled, exceeding 122 million. The majority of refugees and internally displaced people now live in urban areas, not camps.

The different school forms within Germany’s tracked education system have traditionally led to different diplomas and thus future education and work prospects.

Doctoral Researcher and Postdoctoral Researcher 

Swedish School of Social Science at the University of Helsinki invites applications for the positions of Doctoral Researcher and Postdoctoral Researcher for a fixed term period of up to 3 years 9 months (Doctoral Researcher) and up to 2 years (Postdoctoral Researcher).

The Queer Displacements Conference, held biannually since 2019, is the first and only event in the Asia-Pacific region that focuses on the intersectional challenges and solutions for LGBTIQA+ forcibly displaced people.

As part of academia’s ‘outward turn,’ everyday places are increasingly seen extensions of the pedagogical environment.