You will be working within the project ‘Digital Crossings in Europe: Gender, Diaspora and Belonging’ (CONNECTINGEUROPE).
This project is funded by the European Research Council (ERC), by way of a Consolidator Grant awarded to the principal investigator Prof. dr. Sandra Ponzanesi (Professor of Gender and Postcolonial Studies, Utrecht University, the Netherlands).
The project aims to investigate the relation between migration and digital technologies, in particular the way in which the ‘connected migrant’ contributes to new forms of European integration and cosmopolitan citizenship. The project explores digital diasporas in relation to issues of gender, ethnicity and affective belonging, focusing on how new technologies enhance new forms of connectivity between the homeland and destination countries, bus also across diasporas. The project pioneers a new interdisciplinary method that combines media studies, postcolonial theories, digital humanities and gender studies, drawing from the humanities and social science. It proposes a comparative approach, based on qualitative digital methods, that focuses on Somali, Romanian and Turkish women migrants who have settled in some of Europe’s main cities (London – PhD1, Amsterdam – PhD2 and Rome – PhD3) and the way in which they keep digitally and emotionally connected to their homeland cities (Mogadishu, Bucharest, Istanbul – Postdoc). The project will chart how different forms of migration (labour, postcolonial and post socialist) impact on the new European order at the local and transnational levels.
Within the project, three PhD positions and a postdoc position (advertised separately) will be available for the following projects:
1. PhD1 – Digital Diasporas: London
2. PhD2 – Digital Diasporas: Amsterdam
3. PhD3 – Digital Diasporas: Rome
4. Postdoc: The Politics of Home
More information on the PhD positions can be found here.
More information on the postdoc position can be found here.
Deadline: October 25, 2015.
For questions you can contact Prof. dr. Sandra Ponzanesi (s.ponzanesi@uu.nl). For a short description of the project you can also look at this website: www.digitaleurope.nl
