Political Science

IMES Seed-Grant Announcement

3 July 2014

This year IMES will again award one or two seed grants of up to 2,500 EURO each. The aim of the IMES seed grant is to support research initiatives of the members of IMES, and to stimulate original research in the area of human mobility.

We especially appreciate initiatives that bring together academic research and work on human mobility in different disciplines and fields (for example, art, documentary making, history, education, etc.).

Eligibility

The initiative should: 

  • involve at least 1 member of the IMES community ( all the members of IMES mailing list)
  • thematically clearly relate and contribute to the development of IMES areas of interest (see below)
  • be relatively short (between 3 and 9 months)
  • present its results/outcomes to the IMES community during one of the IMES seminars or as a part of an IMES-Podium. 

How to apply?

To be considered, please send a project description of approximately 1,000 words to: imes@uva.nl

The description should clearly explain the goal(s) of the project, its timeline, including the expected completion date, and how its results/outcome will be presented to the IMES community (and possibly beyond). A  project budget should also be included.

Deadline 

Deadline for submitting seed grant proposals: September 1, 2014.

IMES areas of interest

IMES seeks to contribute to a budding debate around human mobility as a paradigmatic perspective in the social sciences, by fostering a dialogue across academic disciplines and promoting intellectual reflexivity.  

Research topics which IMES seeks to promote:

  • Ways in which seemingly unrelated spheres of public life are coupled within the politics of migration and integration (for example, secularism and sexuality, gender and rights, urban planning and religious diversity).
  • Political and civic participation in times of hyper-mobility.
  • Border crossings and other mobility-related conflicts: their articulation and resolution at local, national and international scales.
  • The criminalization of mobility, and the tensions created between illegal type of mobilities and their social acceptance by segments of the national population.
  • The effects of the global market in generating and accommodating new flows of people and goods.
  • The swing to the far Right in the politics of national migration and integration.
  • Interrogating the relevance and utility of key analytical categories that frame the debate on mobility and migration (class, gender, ethnicity/race, nation, receiving/host society, first/second/third generation of migrants) in historical and comparative perspective. 

Special notice

Please, note that the grant does not provide for the needs of publishing, conference organizing or education. It does not support fieldwork or any other research stage of an existing project.