Three PhD positions on Cross-Border Mobility at Maastricht University (Deadline: 15 September 2015)

Maastricht University has recently founded a new Institute for Transnational and Euregional Cross Border Cooperation and Mobility (ITEM). ITEM is an initiative developed by the interfaculty Maastricht Centre for Citizenship, Migration and Development (MACIMIDE) in cooperation with the province of Limburg and the municipality of Maastricht. The goal of ITEM is to contribute to the promotion of cross-border mobility in the Maas-Rhine Euregion.

ITEM invites applications for three PhD positions:
 1) PhD position on “Mobility in Context: Migration Trajectories in a Border Region Context”, Department of Political Science. Link: https://macimide.maastrichtuniversity.nl/phd-position-mobility-in-context-migration-trajectories-in-a-border-region-context/
 2) PhD position on “Formal and informal social protection across borders”, Department of Technology and Society Studies. Link: https://macimide.maastrichtuniversity.nl/phd-social-protection/
 3) PhD position on “Identity constructions among Polish and ‘local’ youth in Limburg through language practices”, Department of Literature and Arts. Link: https://macimide.maastrichtuniversity.nl/phd-candidate-on-identity-constructions-among-polish-and-local-youth-in-limburg-through-language-practices/

The deadline for applications is 15 September 2015.

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