I. Valentina Mazzucato was granted an ERC Consolidator Grant for her project ‘Mobility trajectories of young lives: Life chances of transnational youths in Global South and North’
For millions of young people around the world, migration is an integral part of their lives. Yet we know very little about their mobility during their youth because we focus on just two types of moves: their first move to a new country of residence, or their parents’ migration. This project will explore the mobility patterns of youth with migrant backgrounds and how mobility affects their life chances.
More information about the project here.
II. Maarten Vink was granted an ERC Consolidator Grant for his project ‘Migrant Life Course and Legal Status Transition’
When does citizenship provide a boost to migrant integration? A fast-track to citizenship can maximize the potential for settlement success of migrants, though too short a pathway can disincentivise integration. This project investigates why, how and for whom legal status transition matters, and especially how variation in policies between countries impacts on this relation. The goal is to investigate the relevance of citizenship within the individual life course of an immigrant.
More information about the project here.
III. Lauren Wagner received funding and organised ‘Maastricht International Workshop on Economic Encounters’
In an effort to build new collaboration across disparate research on the sociolinguisitic achievement of economic transactions, the Maastricht International Workshop in Economic Encounters took place on October 27-28, 2016. This workshop brought invited contributors from 12 universities and eight countries, all passionate about investigating the interactional accomplishment of various economic exchanges in and as part of everyday life. Applying sociolinguistic and ethnomethodological perspectives to a diverse range of economic exchanges – from sales-point transactions to mortgage broker pitches to marketplace haggling – highlights how these purportedly ‘economic’ activities are also invested with social functions. All members of the workshop contributed perspectives on the complex ways that social order is achieved through encounters framed by economic exchange.
Organised by Lauren Wagner (Maastricht University) and Eric Laurier (University of Edinburgh), the event was funded by the Universiteitsfonds Limburg, the Maastricht Institute for Transnational and Euregional Cross Border Cooperation and Mobility, and the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Intersubjectivity and Interaction. Workshop sessions presenting raw data, discussing research topic ideas, and evaluating analyses of economic interactions were held in the Soiron building of Maastricht University’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
The workshop was driven by a collaborative ethos to become acquainted with each other’s work as a springboard for the constitution of a research network fostering future collaborations. Participants found many convergences among seemingly diverse research interests. After a ‘field’ session exploring the Maastricht Markt, we gathered for a final discussion and shared aspirations for advancing EM/CA research on economic encounters.
Participants: Bogdana Huma (Loughborough University); Rein Sikveland (Loughborough University); Airi Lampinen (Mobile Life Centre, Stockholm University); Barry Brown (Mobile Life Centre, Stockholm University); Brian Lystgaard Due (Copenhagen University); Jarkko Niemi (University of Helsinki); Adam Brandt (Newcastle University); Alan Firth (Newcastle University); Emma Richardson (University of Manchester); Lorenza Mondada (University of Basel); Marloes Herijgers (Utrecht University); Eric Laurier (University of Edinburgh); Erin Taylor (Instituto de Ciências Sociais); Heidi Ostbo Haugen (University of Oslo); Lauren Wagner (Maastricht University) and Daan Hovens (Maastricht University).
