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Two PhDs ‘History of Migrant Women’s Labour in Postwar Europe’ (Maastricht University) – deadline 30 November 2025
The Department of History of Maastricht University is looking for two PhD candidates to undertake archival and oral history research on women’s migration and work. The PhDs will be part of a new European Research Council-funded project entitled FeMMiWork: Women Migrants from the Northern Mediterranean and Work in Postwar Northwestern Europe.
Using a transnational lens that takes migrants’ countries both of origin and residence into account, FeMMiWork investigates the experiences of women who migrated from Italy, Yugoslavia, and Turkey to France and Germany in the 1950s-1970s and who engaged in paid work. Drawing on archival sources and oral history, the project aims to understand what role paid work played in migrant women’s life trajectories, and in shaping relations with their communities of origin and destination. The project also aims to make the histories of these women visible by creating a ‘counter-archive’ using documents, oral histories, and creative writing.
Two PhDs are sought, one to document the trajectories of women from Italy, and one to do so for women from Turkey. Each PhD will be researching women who moved to Germany and to France. The PhDs will be part of a collaborative and interdisciplinary team examining commonalities and differences across countries of origin (Italy, Turkey, and Yugoslavia) and destination countries (France and Germany).
Applications should be submitted ultimately 30 November 2025.
