- Promotor
- Promotor
- Date
- Thursday 24 Oct 2024, 10:30 - 12:00
- Type
- PhD defence
- Space
- Senate Hall
- Building
- Erasmus Building
- Location
- Campus Woudestein
On Thursday 24 October 2024, M. Naik will defend the doctoral thesis titled: ‘Governing Youth Mobilities in ‘Migration Junctions’: A scalar view from India’s ‘smaller’ cities‘.
Brief summary:
Moving away from the focus on long-term rural–urban migration to metropolitan centres, this PhD unpacks the role of smaller cities in the complexified mobility pathways of youth who are at the heart of structural transformation in developing economies. Building on empirical research in India, the research demonstrates how economically dynamic smaller cities act as ‘migration junctions’ by shaping varied employment opportunities and generating spatially and temporally varied mobilities for domestic migrants; however, smaller cities’ weak governance and informalized economies also create uneven incorporation opportunities by class, caste and gender. The research suggests that a policy problem as complex as domestic migration governance requires mobilities-sensitive and collaborative approaches that empower cities to create inclusive migrant incorporation pathways within multi-scalar governance settings.
- More information
The public defence will begin exactly at 10.30 hrs. The doors will be closed once the public defence starts, latecomers may be able to watch on the screen outside. There is no possibility of entrance during the first part of the ceremony. Due to the solemn nature of the ceremony, children under the age of 6 are not allowed during the first part of the ceremony.