Settling Into Motion The Bucerius Ph.D. Scholarship Programme in Migration Studies
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. The 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 undergoing transformation. Thus the meaning of integration is increasingly hard to pinpoint. Everyone needs to be prepared to embrace change, regardless of his or her origin and nationality. 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 will "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? The Bucerius Ph.D. Scholarship Programme “Settling Into Motion” seeks to address these questions. The focus topic changes on a yearly basis. The topic for 2010 is Migration, Diversity and the Fututre of Modern Societies.
Each year, between 6 and 8 scholarships are offered comprising a monthly stipend of 1,200 Euros for up to a maximum of 36 months. Please find further information on the program's website www.settling-into-motion.org.
Members of the Advisory Board of the programme: Prof. Dr. Joaquín Arango (Universidad Complutense, Spanien) Prof. Thomas Faist (Bielefeld University, Germany) Prof. Ayse Kadioglu (Sabanci University, Turkey) Christiane Kuptsch (International Labour Organization, Switzerland) Prof. Peggy Levitt (Wellesley College, USA) Prof. John Mollenkopf (City University of New York, USA) Dr. Jens Schneider (Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, The Netherlands) Dr. Patrick Simon (Institut National d’Etudes Démographiques, France) Prof. Steven Vertovec (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Ethnic and Religious Diversity, Germany, and Oxford University, UK) Dr. habil. Michael Werz (Georgetown University, USA) Ansprechpartnerin
