PhD fellowship on Migration and Global Inequality in Copenhagen
Proposals should explore the double process of 'flow' and 'closure' of
globalisation; the relationship between 'flows' in terms of migration,
instability, movement on the one hand, and attempts to 'fix' these flows in
terms of control and governing on the other. Furthermore, both empirical and
normative aspects of these processes should be explored - just as fieldwork
is encouraged.
Empirical aspects may include, e.g., the following questions:
a) what are the relationships between global inequality, movement and control?
b) What is the relationship between mobility and emancipation?
c) How do we relate power, inequality and movement?
d) Does migration reduce inequality or does it reproduce it?
Normative aspects may include, e.g., the following questions:
i) How, if at all, can state coercion of would-be immigrants (e.g.
forcibly denying them access to territory) be justified? One consideration
is that state coercion is sometimes described as legitimate only if the
people who are coerced have democratic influence on the state.
ii) While immigration to western liberal democracies is sometimes
described as a threat to equality and the welfare state, it may also
significantly contribute to global equality. So what does justice imply for
the issue of open vs. closed borders?
The PhD fellow will be jointly associated with Centre for the Study of
Equality and Multiculturalism (CESEM), University of Copenhagen, and the
Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS).
Read more here:
http://www.humanities.ku.dk/research/PhD/Announcements/migration/
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Nils Holtug
Director, Centre for the Study of Equality and Multiculturalism
Associate Professor, Ph.D.
Philosophy Section
Department of Media, Cognition and Communication
Njalsgade 80
DK-2300 Copenhagen S
Denmark
email: nhol@hum.ku.dk
phone: +45 35 32 88 81
fax: +45 35 32 88 50
web: http://cesem.ku.dk/
web: http://mef.ku.dk/
