Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna - Comparative research of the role of criminal and criminalized actors in transnational migration governance

Position: Post-doctoral research contract Institute: Sc. Sup. S. Anna Pisa
Posted on: 27/03/2026 Deadline: 27/04/2026

Scientific-Disciplinary Group

14/GSPS-02 - Political Science

Description

UNDERGOV (ERC Consolidator Grant,Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna) examines howcriminal groups and criminalised actorscontribute to the production of transnationalmigration governance. The project combinesthree axes (policies, discourses, practices)within a multi-sited design (Italy, Mexico,Indonesia), integrating multi-scalarethnography, discourse and visual analysis,digital ethnography, and Social NetworkAnalysis. The contractor (Senior Researcher)will support the PI and postdocs in developingconceptual frameworks and conductingliterature reviews, assist the PI in researchactivities (data collection and analysis, draftingscholarly outputs), ensure cross-casemethodological coherence, analyse the sharedqualitative dataset, and contribute to NVivocoding/analysis

Job posting website

https://www.santannapisa.it/it/assegni-di-ricerca-e-selezioni-incarichi-esterni/selezione-la-stipula-di-un-contratto-di-ricerca-11

Number of positions

1

Funding body

Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna di Pisa

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