MACIMIDE Newsletter 17/05/2016

18/05/2016: Conference “The Road 2 Citizenship” 

Road 2 Citizenship Conference With the support of the Maastricht Centre for Citizenship, Migration and Development (MACIMIDE) The Road2Citizenship Initiative summarises the efforts of a group of Maastricht University students to encourage initiatives and establish platforms for students to focus their academic activities on migration…. 

23/05/2016: Migration seminar “What is the relationship between immigrant political participation in receiving societies and transnational political engagement with countries of origin?” by Ali Chaudhary 

What is the relationship between immigrant political participation in receiving societies and transnational political engagement with countries of origin?  Dr. Ali R. Chaudhary (University of Oxford, Wolfson College)  MGSoG/UNU-MERIT Migration Seminar in collaboration with Maastricht Centre for Citizenship, Migration and Development (MACIMIDE) Abstract: Sociological scholarship on…. 

30-31/05/2016: MACIMIDE PhD Workshop on Urban Ethnography 

PhD Workshop on Urban Ethnography Maastricht Centre for Citizenship, Migration and Development (MACIMIDE), Research theme Transnational Families  Organisers: Joan van Geel and  Ester Serra Mingot During the two-day workshop, 12 PhD researchers from across The Netherlands will discuss ethical and methodological challenges encountered…. 

CfP: IMITE & MACIMIDE Symposium and PhD course “New Perspectives on Transnational Living”. Deadline: 01/06/2016 

Call for papers: New Perspectives on Transnational Living Senior Researchers Symposium and PhD course We invite abstract submissions for a Senior Researchers Symposium and applications for a PhD course to be held in Maastricht, the Netherlands, 19-21 October 2016. The…. 

Movies & Exhibition FaMiLife-project 

After five years of research, the ERC StG project FaMiLife, Families of migrant origin: a life course perspective, is coming to an end later this year. Throughout the years, findings from the project have been presented at numerous occasions and in a wide range of…. 

CfP: ISA Workshop “Unpacking the Sending State: Regimes, Institutions, and non-state Actors in Diaspora & Emigration Politics”. Deadline: 15/06/2016 

Unpacking the Sending State:  Regimes, Institutions, and non-State Actors in Diaspora & Emigration Politics  Academic Workshop organized under the Auspices of the International Studies Association and the ERC Starting Grant “Diasporas and Contested Sovereignty” at the University of Warwick, 12-13 September,…. 

International Conference “No asylum and then…?”, KU Leuven 

The international conference “No asylum and then…?” deals with the position of rejected asylum seekers: persons who did not get asylum by a final decision in an EU Member State and are thus considered persons without the right to stay within the…. 

CfA: UNU-GCM Visiting Researchers. Deadline 31/05/2016 

The UNU Institute on Globalization, Culture and Mobility (UNU-GCM) is accepting applications for four visiting postdoctoral researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences with expertise in the area of Migration and Crises. Each position is for a period of three months and gives qualified researchers an…. 

CfA: Summer School on Methods and Approaches in Normative Political Theory/Philosophy 

Summer School on Methods and Approaches in Normative Political Theory/Philosophy. Please note that the deadline to apply for financial support is May 31 (details below). Applications are invited for the Summer School on Methods and Approaches in Normative Political Theory/Philosophy,…. 

Job opening: Research Associate (ARC Imminence Project), Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law 

Job opening: Research Associate (ARC Imminence Project), Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law UNSW Law is seeking to appoint a Research Associate to work on an Australian Research Council Discovery Project on ‘The Concept of ‘Imminence’ in…. 

REMINDER: 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…. 

Postdoctoral Research and Writing Fellowships, The Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen. Extended deadline: 17/05/2016 

The Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen is offering: Postdoctoral Research and Writing Fellowships The new Department of Ethics, Law and Politics, under the direction of Prof. Dr. Ayelet Shachar, is seeking to appoint…. 

Vacancy: tutors, PPLE college, University of Amsterdam. Deadline: 01/06/2016 

Level of Education: academic, PHD Salary indication: € 2.501,- max € 3.947,- on fulltime basis   In September 2014, the University of Amsterdam opened PPLE College, and interdisciplinary, research-based, English language BSc programme incorporating Politics, Psychology, Law, and Economics. PPLE College is…. 

European Web Site on Integration’s newsletter, 11/05/2016 

11 May 2016 / Issue 81 WELCOME! This is the 81st issue of the European Web Site on Integration’s newsletter. Every month, the Editorial team of the European Web Site on Integration sends you a selection of content recently published….