Migration Fellowships Grant

Funder: Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University

The Migration Fellowships at Harvard's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs invite doctoral students to engage in an eighteen-month program focused on fostering community solidarity with migrants. Participants will contribute to a vibrant intellectual community, attend seminars, and develop impactful deliverables, such as policy briefs or academic articles. Six fellows are selected annually, each receiving a $7,500 stipend to support their research and community initiatives.

The Research Cluster on Migration at the Harvard Weatherhead Center for International Affairs invites applications from Harvard doctoral students across all the schools for an eighteen-month fellowship.
What is the Migration Cluster?
The title of the three-year Migration Research Cluster is “Building Inclusion and Sustaining Solidarity”. The main focus of the cluster is the challenge of encouraging and sustaining over time the solidarity of local frontline communities toward distress migrants arriving within their midst. Research addressing aspects of this challenge—the factors that motivate local communities to show or withdraw solidarity, the central and local state policies that support or undermine that local solidarity, the collaborations that stimulate or discourage acts of inclusion across the spheres of public activity—spans a range of disciplinary approaches. We invite Harvard doctoral students working on this or related topics to apply.
What is the Migration Cluster Doctoral Fellowship?
The Fellowship, extending over eighteen months, involves willingness to participate in and contribute to a lively intellectual community. This includes bi-weekly participation in the Migration Cluster seminar and the opportunity to present and receive feedback on ongoing Fellows’ work. Fellows will also be expected to develop a ‘deliverable’ that will be part of the public goods the Cluster aims to build (e.g., a policy or practice brief, an academic article). Fellows will have the opportunity to support the planning of and also to attend larger convenings of the Cluster. Fellows will receive a $7,500 stipend (to be awarded the first year of the eighteen-month Fellowship). The program accepts six fellows per year.