Pre-doctoral scholarship in Migration Studies.

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The German ZEIT-Stiftung

Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius is calling for applications for " Settling Into

Motion " - The Bucerius Ph.D. Scholarships in Migration Studies. The

scholarship program seeks to address the ongoing transformations in societies

where migration is just one factor among others generating change. For 2008

applications relating to migration and urban transformations are especially

welcome.

Within this international

program, the ZEIT-Stiftung grants six to eight pre-doctoral scholarships per

year. Applicants must be Ph.D. students of - in a broad sense - social

sciences. The scholarships involve a monthly stipend of 1.200 Euros as well as

yearly conferences and workshops. The deadline for applications is 31 March 2008.

Scholarships are granted

for up to 36 months. They can be used for research and writing periods but not

for course work.

The world is in motion:

people and ideas, products, technologies as well as diseases are travelling

between regions and continents. Cities and cultures as well as family and

labour market relations are changing in these processes of globalization.

Regulatory competencies of nation states are also in question. The movement of

people is only one factor among others generating change, but one whose

importance will rise over the next years.

Migrants are settling

into societies that are themselves transforming. Thus the meaning of integration

is increasingly hard to pinpoint. Everyone needs to be prepared to embrace

change. Some migrants will also keep multi-stranded relations with their

countries of origin, thereby building transnational spaces; others will after

little time move on to third countries. All of them settle into motion.

How can migrants and

their receiving and sending countries reap the benefits of this movement of

people? Which structural and procedural conditions have to be in place to take

advantage of diversity? And what are the challenges for the individual, the

migrant family, the regions and countries migrants come from as well as the

places of reception? The Bucerius Ph.D. Scholarship Program " Settling Into

Motion " seeks to address these questions, each year focusing on a

different topic.

For 2008, applications to

study " Migration and Urban Transformations " are especially welcome.

The majority of migrants live in urban areas. For a long time, cities were

regarded as " integration machines " because of their capacity to incorporate

people of different backgrounds in a functionally differentiated system. At the

same time, cities are themselves focal points of economic, social and cultural

transformations.

Applications for scholarships under this topic could study the following

questions of (but are not limited to):

* Super-diversity and the effects of rapid diversification on

neighbourhoods

* Housing careers of migrants

* Policing and anti-discrimination policies

* (Informal) economy and development of innovation

* Governance issues at local level (including provision of welfare

services)

* Urban sprawl

* Social and political participation at local leveland the role of

religious communities

* Local school choice and the school-neighborhood nexus

Innovative approaches both in methodology and in research questions are

highly encouraged.

The ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin

und Gerd Bucerius is one of the major private foundations in Germany

sponsoring academic research. Among other things, it founded and continues to

financially support the Bucerius Law

School, a Hamburg-based private law

school that combines innovation in teaching with renowned research.

Please find further information as well as the online application at www.settling-into-motion.de