Are you looking for a challenging position in a dynamic setting? Research school
ARTES currently has a vacant PhD position as part of the project “Me, Myself, and I – Chinese Migrants’ Selves in Europe”, led by principal investigator Dr. Linde Luijnenburg and Dr. Franziska Plümmer. ARTES is one of the five Research Schools within the
Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR).
The Amsterdam School for Regional and Transnational and European Studies (ARTES) combines humanities and social science-based approaches to the study of Europe and other world regions, and the relations between them. Migration is, arguably more so than ever, a keyword for researching these intercultural relations.
What are you going to do? Various forms, motivations, and time frames of migratory movements between China and Europe have been analysed from multiple academic perspectives. Within this field, we recognise a new milieu of young Chinese citizens moving to Europe after the COVID epidemic, a process often referred to as the ‘run’. Some consider this new group of emigrants and their decisions to emigrate as political. This calls for taking a fresh perspective on how this new group of emigrants finds themselves in their new host countries.
You will write a PhD thesis on the topic ‘new’ Chinese migration in Europe. The PhD will be produced under the supervision of ARTES members Dr. Linde Luijnenburg, Dr. Franziska Plümmer, and Prof. Josephine Hoegaerts. Possible research angles are the roles of the migrant in political, social, and cultural lives; their self-perception and perception by others, how they are considered a political entity, how they dream, aspire, and work, how they seek representation, and how they relate to others (migrants, family, or the state). Your project will deal with questions of (the politics of) identity representation, and (self-)positioning of this new Chinese migrant cohort in Europe.
You would be free to choose a topic that fits your prior qualifications such as a focus on migrants’ media or cultural representation, diaspora organisation, art & activism, intimate relationships, or other angles. We invite applications in the shape of a convincing research proposal, presenting your academic merit, critical approach to research material, and inventiveness.
Tasks and responsibilities: - Collaborating in a larger interdisciplinary research project run by Dr. Linde Luijnenburg and Dr. Franziska Plümmer, situated at the European Studies department of the University of Amsterdam (UvA);
- Submission of a PhD thesis within the period of appointment, consisting of the following steps: 1) establishing state-of-the-art, 2) identifying a research gap and a fitting corpus to investigate, 3) undertaking field-research, 4) analysing and evaluate findings, 5) translating those into an academic, independently written text;
- (co-) Authoring academic publications;
- (co-) Organising academic workshops and/or events;
- Actively participating in the research environment within the Research School at UvA and beyond;
- Exploring creative forms of translating research findings (i.e. movies, activism, museum exhibitions, etc.);
- (Co-)teaching courses at the BA-level in the 2nd and 3rd year of the appointment (max. 0,2FTE per year);
- Awareness of a plurality of voices, nuanced discourses, silenced narrations, positionalities, i.e. the inclusion of gendered, sexualised, colonised, etc. perspectives.