The Graduate Institute is recruiting a Ph.D. student or Research Assistant for the European Research Council (ERC) project 'Returning to a Better Place: The (Re)assessment of the ‘Good Life’ in Times of Crisis.’

The project focuses on how ideals of the ‘good life’ are articulated, (re)assessed, and related to specific places and contexts as a result of experiences of crisis and migration. The case studies to operationalise these lines of inquiry address the phenomenon of return migration, and analyse the imaginaries and experience of return of Ecuadorian and Cuban men and women who migrated to Spain, are dissatisfied with their life there, and envisage/carry out the project of going back to their countries of origin. The project contributes to three main scholarly areas of enquiry: 1) the study of morality, ethics and what counts as ‘good life’, 2) the study of the field of economic practice, its definition, value regimes, and ‘crises’, and 3) the study of migratory aspirations, projects, and trajectories. A multi-sited endeavour, the research is designed in three interrelated subprojects carried out in Spain (PhD Candidate), Ecuador (Postdoctoral Researcher), and Cuba (Principal Investigator).

The contract will begin 1 September 2018 and last for a period of four years.

All applications must be received by 15 December 2017.

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