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University of Leicester: Fully Funded 4-year PhD OpportunityGraduate Research Assistantship – Deportation, Detention and MigrationWe are looking for a highly promising student who will relish the opportunity of combining doctoral research with research assistance to Professor Clare Anderson and/ or Dr Leah Bassel. We welcome applications from students with an understanding of the history and/ or sociology of deportation, detention and migration, and/ or related areas. Individuals with backgrounds in the broad subject area are encouraged to apply, including those with an interest in –- 'free' and 'forced' migration, past and present (slavery, 'trafficking', migration/ exile as punishment);- the gender, race and class dimensions of migration, coercion and confinement, and detention and deportation;- tracing forms of resistance to coerced migration, detention and deportation in contemporary and/ or comparative, historical perspective;- the presence of the past in contemporary pro-migrant and migrant-led social movements, particularly the absence or presence of the colonial legacy in discourses and practices of mobilisation.Deadline 1 December 2015Available January 2016Full details - https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/history/postgraduate/fully-funded-graduate-research-assistantship