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 “Mobile Welfare in a Transnational Europe: An Analysis of Portability Regimes of Social Security Rights” (TRANSWEL) 

3 Post-doctoral researcher positions 

3 Doctoral researcher positions 

Project summary 

This 4-case, comparative, and interdisciplinary project addresses one of the most important and controversial issues in the European Union today: the social rights of EU citizens from the 'new' EU member states who move to live and/or work in an 'old' member state. 

This international project is funded by NORFACE (New Opportunities for Research Funding Agency Cooperation in Europe, www.norface.net) 

Empirically, the project traces the migration of regularly and irregularly employed migrants and their family members, and their social security rights between four pairs of countries: Hungary-Austria, Bulgaria-Germany, Poland-United Kingdom and Estonia-Sweden. It assesses what the social rights of mobile citizens are in policy and in practice; how mobile EU citizens experience, organise and manage their welfare transnationally; and what the consequences are, for the patterning of inequality among EU citizens. 

There are four teams of researchers, based in, respectively, the Universities of Frankfurt am Main (Anna Amelina, overall project lead); Bath (lead: Emma Carmel); Södertörn (lead: Ann Runfors); and Vienna (lead: Elisabeth Scheibelhofer). 

Positions

There is one post-doc and one doctoral researcher position for each of the UK-Poland, Germany-Bulgaria and Austria-Hungary research teams.

Please see the attachment for further details, including how to apply.