Postdoc in Migration Ethics

12 Mar 2024
Job Information

Organisation/Company

Lund University

Department

Centre for Theology and Religious Studies

Research Field

Religious sciences » Theology
Religious sciences » Comparative religion
Ethics in social sciences » Other

Researcher Profile

Recognised Researcher (R2)

Country

Sweden

Application Deadline

18 Apr 2024 - 11:59 (Europe/Stockholm)

Type of Contract

Temporary

Job Status

Full-time

Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?

HE / ERC

Reference Number

101116763

Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?

No

Offer Description

The postdoctoral position is connected to the project “Faith-Based Refugee Relief in Europe: Connecting the Empirical and the Ethical (FABRIC)”, funded by a European Research Council Starting Grant. FABRIC aims to understand and utilize the moral insights and the moral ideas that faith-based refugee relief organizations develop in practice for the cross-disciplinary debate about the ethics of forced migration in Europe. Faith-based organizations (FBOs) have been at the forefront of the challenge of forced migration, preventing the collapse of infrastructures of care, combatting racist discourse and religious discrimination. Yet there is very little knowledge about the refugee relief of these FBOs so their significance for the ethics of migration has been neither analyzed nor assessed.

FABRIC addresses this lack by conducting a comprehensive and comparative empirical exploration of FBOs, covering activities by FBOs from all three Abrahamic faiths in mono- and multi-religious settings across Europe. Countering the lack of interaction between empirical and evaluative approaches so characteristic of the study of forced migration, this exploration enquires into the conditions, constraints, and consequences of practicing justice. It offers a concrete account of faith-based refugee relief in order to formulate a concept of mobility justice that considers cross-connections between social, racial, and climate justice on regional, national, and global scales.

Candidates are expected to apply to the postdoctoral position with a research proposal that contributes to the overall project. Proposals can approach faith-based refugee relief from a variety of angles. Proposals that draw on public and political theology to connect empirical and ethical perspectives on multi-faith-based refugee relief in Europe are particularly welcome.

The postdoctoral position is placed at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies (CTR) within the subject of Global Christianity.

Requirements

Research Field

Religious sciences » Theology

Education Level

PhD or equivalent

Research Field

Religious sciences » Comparative religion

Education Level

PhD or equivalent

Research Field

Ethics in social sciences

Education Level

PhD or equivalent

Languages

ENGLISH

Additional Information
Work Location(s)

Number of offers available

1

Company/Institute

Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University

Country

Sweden

City

Lund

Geofield

Where to apply

Website

https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:704053/?fbclid=IwAR2RZ90GolMZbONtiO1HcKa…

Contact

City

Lund

Website

https://www.ctr.lu.se/en/

Street

Helgonavägen 3

Postal Code

22362

E-Mail

[email protected]
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