DOHA: Georgetown University in Qatar’s (GU-Q) Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) has called for proposals to support its ‘Mobility, Displacement and Forced Migration in the Middle East’ research initiative. CIRS is offering a grant of up to $25,000 to support fieldwork, research and analysis. It is particularly seeking projects that would involve original, empirically-grounded research with fieldwork in one or more of the countries in the Middle East and North Africa.
Recipients of the year-long grant are expected to become active participants in the greater research project, which may involve travel to CIRS for meetings, public talks or authoring a chapter for publication.
“The Middle East has been a historic centre of displacement for several reasons and with the current crisis it has become the simultaneous producer and host of the world’s largest population of displaced people,” said Zahra Babar, Associate Director of Research, CIRS.
“CIRS has produced original, empirically-grounded research on migration with two grant cycles over the past eight years. Through this new grant cycle, we will support fieldwork to help us understand the forms, causes, dimensions, patterns and effects of voluntary and forced migration and contribute original research to the field of migration studies,” said Babar.
Proposals submitted for grant should focus on researching the movements of people who can be identified as migrants, migrant workers, guest workers, temporary migrants, low and highly skilled economic migrants, trafficked persons, forced migrants/forced workers, smuggled persons, refugees and asylum seekers. Researchers are invited to submit proposals before September 15 and successful ones will be notified by November. The project is expected to begin in Spring 2017, given the delay for completing relevant contracts, which can take up to six months. Details are available on the CIRS website.
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