Centre profile

The Maastricht Centre for Citizenship, Migration and Development (MACIMIDE) is an interdisciplinary research platform established at Maastricht University by scholars from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, the Faculty of Humanities and Sciences, the Faculty of Law, and the School of Business and Economics. The Centre brings together more than 100 senior and junior researchers working on four inter-related research themes: Migration and Development; Transnational Families; Cross-border Mobility; and Citizenship and Immigrant Integration. MACIMIDE was awarded a seed funding grant of 1M Euro from the Executive Board of Maastricht University. This funding was used, from September 2013 onwards, to set up an administrative structure for MACIMIDE (including an Executive Board and an International Advisory Board), develop and launch a new website and to launch a number of new PhD and Postdoc projects. For the projects at FASoS, matching funding was provided by FASoS and by Statistics Netherlands (CBS).

FASoS and MACIMIDE
The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS) participates in the Centre together with the Faculty of Humanities and Sciences, the Faculty of Law, and the School of Business and Economics. On behalf of FASoS, Maarten Vink (Department of Political Science) is Co-Director of MACIMIDE, together with Gerard-René of the Faculty of Law. Vink is also the Leader of the Research Theme: Citizenship and Immigrant Integration. Also on behalf of FASoS, Valentina Mazzucato (Department of Technology & Society Studies) is a member of the Executive Board of MACIMIDE and the Leader of the Research Theme: Transnational Families. Costica Dumbrava (Department of Political Science) is Executive Coordinator of MACIMIDE, in a joint position at FASoS and the Faculty of Law. The network of MACIMIDE researchers currently includes 120 junior and senior scholars, including 24 researchers from FASoS from the Departments of Political Science, Technology & Society Studies, as well as Arts and Literature. MACIMIDE includes researchers from the FASoS Research Programmes of Politics and Culture in Europe (PCE), Globalisation, Transnationalism and Development (GTD) and Arts, Media and Culture (AMC).

You can access the website of the Centre here.