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Organization: Copenhagen Business School

Location: Copenhagen, Denmark

Field: Migration studies

Requirements:

The PhD student will be enrolled at the PhD School in Language, Law, Informatics, Operations Management, Accounting and Culture.
To be considered, the candidate should have a basic training at the Masters level (similar to the 3 + 2 Bologna process). An educational background in the social sciences is necessary. The applicant must have successfully completed the Masters degree before commencing PhD at CBS. The applicants must be fluent in English, and preferably also in Spanish.

Abstract:

Copenhagen Business School invites applications for one vacant PhD scholarship within the field of Latin American/Caribbean migration studies, with a focus on undocumented Latin American and/or Caribbean migration with a human rights perspective.

Description:

The three-year PhD programme at CBS allows you to conduct research under the supervision of CBS professors, supported by research training courses. The programme is highly international, and you are expected to participate in international research conferences and to spend time abroad as a visiting PhD student. It is also required that the applicant shows an interest in joining the Department’s/ the Center’s research environment, see  http://uk.cbs.dk/ikk
The Center for the Study of the Americas aims to foster studies of the Americas that are relevant to business, government agencies, organizations and the media. Research is based upon integrated multidisciplinary and transnational approaches to the American continents, and has an empirical as well as a theoretical character.

Teaching responsibilities of the Department comprise undergraduate and graduate teaching in International Business Communication (European and American Studies), English and Organisational Communication as well as Intercultural Market Communication. Researchers attached to the Center for the Study of the Americas mainly teach courses in the American Studies programme (the USA and Latin America).

We call for proposals for a research project the aim of which is to study relations between human rights and migration. An example of such a perspective could be the situation of (mainly undocumented) Central American, Mexican and/or Caribbean migrants with particular focus on border regions. The practice and discourse of ‘national security’ and ‘securitization’ could be part of the project’s scope. The role and actions of civil society can also be focus points.

Appointment and salary will be in accordance with the Ministry of Finance’s agreement with the Central Academic Organisation.

The application must include a 5 page project description. This research proposal should contain a presentation of an original research question, a description of the initial theoretical framework and methodology, a presentation of the suggested empirical material as well as a work-plan.
In addition to the research proposal, the application must include the completed application form, copies of a Master’s degree certificate or other certificates of a corresponding level, brief curriculum vitae (CV), a list of papers and publications, and one copy of a selected written work (e.g. Master’s thesis).

Furthermore applicants with foreign degrees are encouraged to obtain a recognition of their qualifications by The Danish Agency for International Education that provides assessments of non-Danish degrees, diplomas and certificates and gives information about international recognition of qualifications http://en.iu.dk/recognition . The recognition of foreign qualifications can take up to 2 months. It is possible to send the recognition after the deadline (max one month) if necessary. Applicants are encouraged to translate their master diplomas.

Deadline: 01-04-2011

Contacts:

Link: http://uk.cbs.dk/about_cbs_campus/jobs_at_cbs/vacant_positions

Email: jg.ikk@cbs.dk

Phone number: +45 3815 3234

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