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PhD position: "Gender, Migration and Social Mobility among West African women in Europe"
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany
The Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology is offering one position for a PhD student (m/f/d) (starting 1 October 2022 or later). The position is offered within the framework of the Otto-Hahn research group “Gender, Migration and Social Mobility among West African women in Europe” (2022 – 2025) headed by Dr. Anaïs Ménard.
The three-year research programme examines gender dimensions of (upward) social mobility in transnational contexts of migration. It focuses on West African women who have migrated to the Global North and explores the individual and collective strategies and transnational resources they employ to increase their social and economic mobility, social status, influence, and recognition.
Application deadline: 28 June 2022
