The Bucerius PhD Scholarships in Migration Studies

The world is in motion: people and ideas, products, technologies and 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. Nation states are less capable to regulate policy areas independently. 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. Integration thus becomes a moving target. 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? With its Bucerius Ph.D. Scholarship Program "Settling Into Motion", the ZEIT-Stiftung seeks to address these questions, each year focusing on a different topic.

REQUIREMENTS

• Applicants must be Ph.D. students of - in a broad sense - social sciences.
• Deadline is 23 February 2012 for a stipend starting in August 2012.
• Please apply online with Ph.D. proposal and two references.

SCHOLARSHIP

• Monthly stipend of 1.200 Euros, additional funds for special research needs available on an individual basis.
• 6-8 scholarships per year.
• Scholarships are granted for 1 up to 3 years.
• Yearly conferences and field trips.
• Students communicate on a web-based platform and organize workshops supported by a program assistant.

APPLICATION

For 2012, research applications on "Migration in and to the Global South" are especially welcome.

Both the United Nations Population Division and the World Bank estimate that globally the South-South migration accounts for about 50% of all migration from the South. If irregular migration was included, these estimates would be even higher. The population movements between developing countries and emerging economies usually take place within regions, often between countries with contiguous borders. The differences in income between sending and receiving countries are much smaller than those in case of South-North migration. In addition, the South-South movements are very dynamic - their directions and patterns frequently change and some countries are at the same time both sending and receiving migrants. However, despite its scale and complexity, the South-South migration still remains poorly understood and understudied, largely because of the incomplete and unreliable data.

Ph.D. students dealing with migration processes in and to the Global South are invited to apply for a scholarship. We encourage the following topics, but will also consider other approaches:

• Changing migration patterns in and to the Global South
• Challenges of incoming migration in developing countries
• Reception of immigration in destination countries: policies and discourses
• Migration and citizenship legislation
• Remittances, their costs and effects
• Migration and social development
• Internal migration, urbanization and the social change