Leonie Cornips receives WUN grant

Leonie Cornips has received a grant from the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) Research Development Fund for the project Understanding Globalisation – Margins and Peripheries. The project is coordinated by Ana Deumert from Capetown University, who brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars from six different universities who have a long‐standing interest in ‘marginal’ or ‘peripheral’ contexts of globalisation.

Existing work on the socio-cultural effects of globalization has typically focused on the ‘huge contemporary metropolis with its explosive and conspicuous diversity … its hyper-mobility and constant flux’ (Wang et al. 2014; 26). Peri-urban and rural areas, as well as developments in the global South, have remained understudied. In order to address this imbalance in current research, the project brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars who have a long-standing interest in ‘marginal’ or ‘peripheral’ contexts of globalization.

The project will create a global research infrastructure in which an interdisciplinary dialogue on non-metropolitan globalization can be developed and sustained. The project team will focus its activities on three core areas:

(i) To contribute – by synthesizing empirical research from different locales – to a better understanding of the rapidly changing face of non-metropolitan international migration (with particular emphasis on the ‘new’ Chinese diaspora and South-to-South migrations);
(ii) To develop theories of globalization and migration which take non-metropolitan contexts as a starting point; and
(iii) To reflect on the interface of policy and research in addressing the challenges and opportunities of globally-inflected transformations for societies and individuals.

Maastricht University joined the WUN in 2013. With the WUN Research Development Fund (RDF) WUN aims to invest directly in collaborative research that catalyses innovation and builds the WUN partnership.

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