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Transnational Migration, Citizenship and the Circulation of Rights and Responsibilities (TRANSMIC) Project funded by the European Commission under the Marie Curie Actions framework
 



It is with great pleasure that we inform that the CEDU is involved in the project "Transnational Migration, Citizenship and the Circulation of Rights and Responsibilities" (TRANSMIC), a project funded under the European Commission's Marie Curie actions and which will run from 1 September 2014 to 31 August 2018. The aim of the project is to contribute to the understanding of transnational migration, in particular by looking at the conditions for and effects of transnational migration, possibilities for the mobility of migrants' rights to be enhanced, and the links between migration, citizenship, and migration and development. 

The TRANSMIC project is coordinated by Maastricht University (The Netherlands), and also includes as partner institutions, besides the University of Minho, the Universities of Liège (Belgium), Oxford (UK), Aix-Marseille (France), Tampere (Finland) and Warsaw (Poland), as well as the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels.

The Law School of the University of Minho and CEDU will contribute to the project through the hosting and supervision of a PhD student who will work on a research project on the topic "Transnational Migration, Postcolonial Ties and Mobility Partnerships between the EU and Third Countries". The PhD project will be supervised by Professor Patrícia Jerónimo (a collaborating member of CEDU) and co-supervised by Professor Maarten Vink, of Maastricht University. The Law School will also host, in April 2015, a one-week training session, which will gather Professors and PhD students from all the partner Universities.

 

TRANSMIC Training Session Held at Minho University Law School

The second TRANSMIC training session, to be held at the Law School of the University of Minho (20-24 April 2015), in Braga, Portugal, adds to the theoretical framework provided in the first training session by bringing to the fore socio-cultural, legal, political and economic perspectives on transnational migration. From a socio-cultural perspective, it is worth noting how the speedy flow of goods, money, services and ideas through transnational migrant networks impacts on social, political, economic and cultural phenomena in migrant sending countries as well as in the neighbourhoods and cities that migrants live in, while reviewing the different conceptualizations of transnationalism and its critique. From a legal perspective, it is important to understand the Private International Law aspects of transnational migration, in particular migration within and into the European Union, by considering issues such as the selection of the applicable law via conflict rules, the recognition of foreign judgments and documents, the application of foreign law and the public policy exception, etc. From a political perspective, it is worth discussing the concept of ?political transnationalism? as a concept that allows exploring, on the one hand, immigrants? cross-border formal and informal political practices and, on the other hand, sending countries policies towards citizens abroad. From an economic perspective, the fact that a significant part of migrant flows worldwide are (explicitly or implicitly) economically motivated requires an economic assessment of transnational migration as a process linking countries of origin and destination. This implies employing economic methods and addressing such questions as what may be the drivers of non-settlement forms of migration, whether wage differences are a necessary and sufficient condition for migration to occur, why migrants remit, etc.

Building on the previous TRANSMIC session, the training session will also cover methodological issues ? the ethics concerns involved in transnational migration research, the pitfalls of studying foreign legal systems, and the use of quantitative data analysis ?, and will allow students to improve their presentation skills, by learning how to make the most of a single speech and by applying these skills when pitching their individual research projects. 

For more Information: Maastricht University Web Site

Programme: Programme and syllabus UMinho training session.pdf

 
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