Vacancy: PhD Position: Migrants, Law and the State (Radboud University)
The Centre for Migration Law is seeking a talented and highly motivated PhD candidate for the project Migrants, Law and the State: Transnational formations of legal consciousness between Poland, Ukraine and the Netherlands. You will become part of an internationally renowned interdisciplinary research centre where legal scholars and social scientists work on migration-related research.
Migrants are often seen as having less trust in the state than native citizens. This PhD project aims to provide new insights into migrants’ experiences with law and state institutions across borders, seeking to explain migrants’ trust or lack of trust in the state and their legal consciousness: how they experience, navigate and give meaning to law and state institutions. What are the experiences of migrants from different backgrounds, with different migration statuses, and in different social positions with state institutions? What role do migration procedures play in shaping migrants’ legal consciousness?
As a PhD candidate you will contribute to answering these research questions. The project will focus on migrants from Ukraine living in the Netherlands and Poland. You will conduct fieldwork in two countries (Netherlands and Poland), using a combination of interviews and ethnographic methods to gain in-depth knowledge of migrants’ experiences with law and state institutions in different areas of their lives. To contextualise the fieldwork data, you will also conduct legal research on the national and EU legal frameworks.
For more information and to send your application, go to: https://www.ru.nl/en/working-at/job-opportunities/phd-position-migrants-law-and-the-state.