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DFG Research Training Group "Cross-border Labour Markets. Transnational Market Makers, Infrastructures, Institutions"  (RTG2951)

The RTG 2951 offers outstanding doctoral researchers the opportunity to take part in an innovative research and qualification programme at the forefront of interdisciplinary labour market research with a global outlook.

The Research Training Group (RTG) 2951 pursues a highly innovative Research Programme, as it sees cross-border labour markets as social structures and puts them centre stage.  Although cross-border labour mobility and migration have developed into key issues within globalization research, conventional labour market analysis has until now not addressed ‘cross-border labour markets’ as a phenomenon sui generis. Global structures and dynamics have so far been largely scrutinized as factors impacting national labour markets, and the terms ‘emigration’ and ‘immigration’ that dominate the relevant literature underscore this focus on national labour markets as units of analysis.

The Research Training Group (RTG) 2951 takes a different approach. It investigates what makes it possible for cross-border labour markets to emerge and be consolidated, i.e., how the coordination problems that are amplified in border crossing markets are ‘solved’. The emergence of cross-border labour markets can be observed in multiple sectors: in low-skilled labour (e.g. in domestic work or meat packing) as well as among highly-skilled workers and professionals (e.g. academics, consultants, medical doctors), or in sports, the arts, and the entertainment industry at large.

The RTG 2915 offers early career researchers a highly innovative Qualification Programme. It is committed to establishing a top-level, research-oriented qualification for early career researchers, preparing them for outstanding academic and non-academic careers. 


Förderung:
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

Laufzeit:
04/2024 – 03/2029

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Ursula Mense-Petermann (Bielefeld University)
Co-Speaker: Prof. Karen Shire, Ph.D. (University of Duisburg-Essen)

Further PI:
Prof. Dr. Marcel Erlinghagen (Institute of Sociology, UDE)
Prof. Minh Nguyen (PhD) (Bielefeld University)
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Otten (Institute for Business and Economics. UDE)
Prof. Dr. Sigrid Quack (Institute of Sociology, UDE)
Prof. Dr. Alexandra Scheele (Bielefeld University)
Prof. Dr. Helen Schwenken (Osnabrück University)
Prof. Dr. Anja Weiß (Institute of Sociology, UDE)
Prof. Dr. Tobias Werron (Bielefeld University)
Prof. Dr. Anna Zaharieva (Bielefeld University)

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