"Doctoral Researcher in Anthropology of Migration (MITIME PhD position #1)"

About the job

The thesis topic you will work on is preliminarily entitled “Conviviality in Broken Times: Temporal Insecurities and The Formation of Social Bonds in Post-Migration Cities”. Grounded in ethnographic research in Finland and Germany, this doctoral project examines conviviality in post-industrial cities where migrants and non-migrants live together. It investigates temporal dislocations caused by, e.g., restrictive migration regimes, economic restructuring, and neoliberal policies, looking at how temporal insecurity and inequality influence people's ability to form material, social, and digital connectivities. In doing so, it looks into the links between temporal insecurities and people's ability to build and maintain long-term connections. Your research project will make use of an intersectional approach to flesh out how affordances of connectivity are influenced by various categories, such as migration status, racialized position, gender, class, age, and ability. Methodologically, the project relies on ethnography.