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Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 8:53 AM Subject: Job: Post Doctoral Position University of Bath ------------- The Department of European Studies and Modern Languages at the University of Bath is seeking: Research Officer/Post Doctoral Fellow for a project entitled Support and Opposition to Migration: a Cross National Comparison of the Politicisation of Migration in Europe Start date: 1 January 2010 or soon thereafter for 18 months (possibility of extension pending further funding). Project Supervisor: Professor Roger Eatwell (r.eatwell@bath.ac.uk). This is a European Union 7th Framework Programme funded post based in the Department of European Studies and Modern Languages. The overall project brings together researchers in the Universities of: Amsterdam; Bath; the Free University Brussels; Trinity College Dublin; Manchester; Neuchâtel; and Vienna. Each is especially responsible for studying developments in their home country, except for Manchester which covers Spain. Thus this position in Bath will focus on developments in Britain, though an important aspect of the project is to develop comparative insights/theory. Overall, it is also intended that the project will develop research and ideas for dissemination to public policy makers in the UK, the European Union and more widely. Since the 1960s, millions of immigrant workers, asylum seekers and their families have migrated from under-developed to industrialised and post-industrial societies. However, there have been major variations in responses such as whether the presence of immigrant becomes politically contested, including notably different support levels for anti-immigrant extreme right parties. This project will seek to probe such issues broadly, focusing on the interactions of four kinds of actors: the state, political parties, social movements and the media. The post-doctoral fellow appointed in Bath will help produce a variety of work packages relating to issues such as the demographics of British immigration, legal and policy issues relating to immigration, and media coverage of immigration and related issues. There will be a particular focus on analysing Political and Discursive Opportunity Structures (POS and DOS), though overall the study will test a variety of demand and supply side hypotheses. As well as coming into contact with the broader team of researchers (including other post-docs) on this project, the person appointed will be working within the Department of European Studies and Modern Languages at Bath, which has notable expertise in fields such as extreme right parties and immigration, and more generally as part of the Conflict and Security Research Group. The Conflict and Security Research Group (http://www.bath.ac.uk/esml/research/security/), headed by Professor Richard G. Whitman, takes a broad definition of the notion of security and which is approached from different disciplinary perspectives. Further details are available at http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AAF747/research-officer/> Professor Richard G. Whitman Professor of Politics Department of European Studies and Modern Languages 1 West North 2.34 University of Bath Bath BA2 7AY UK Tel. +44 (0)1225 386490 Mobile +44 (0)7951 541890 Fax. +44(0)1225 386987 Email. r.g.whitman@bath.ac.uk http://people.bath.ac.uk/rgw22/ The University Association for Contemporary European Studies can be found at http://www.uaces.org/
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