• General Aims
• Doctorate Structure
• Lines of Research
• Doctoral Thesis Directors
• Admission
• Contact
• Departament in charge of the management of the doctoral programme
• Collaborating departments

General Aims of the Doctorate

The main aim of the doctorate is to produce doctors for high quality and advanced research. To this end, the general aims of the course are the following:

• To incorporate the students into a research group.
• To broaden their skills so that they can specialize in different aspects of the lines of research set out in the programme.
• To strengthen students' initiative in developing research projects with a methodology and scientific principles appropriate to their field of research.
• To foster general individual and team working abilities, participation in research projects, bibliographical database management, etc.
• To produce a doctoral thesis.

Structure of Doctorate

The formation period of the doctorate programme is linked to the following Master's degree introduced on the University (in order to the RD 1393/2007):

• Master's Degree in Mediterranean Cultural Studies

Website of the Master's degree and Program Doctorate: http://dafits.urv.es/migracions/

Research Lines and Directors of Doctoral Thesis 

Research lines

Las líneas de investigación del Postgrado se derivan de los tres itinerarios de especialización que se prevén en el Plan de Estudios:

• Intervención Social.
  • Desarrollo e intervención comunitaria
  • Dispositivos (formales i informales) de atención al  inmigrante
  • Análisis y diagnóstico de políticas locales de inmigración
  • La intervención psicosocial en el contexto de la inmigración
  • Mediación en comunidades multiculturales
• Ciencias Jurídicas.
  • Derecho internacional de los Derechos  humanos
  • Ciudadanía y cosmopolitismo
  • Legislación de extranjería
  • Racismo y xenofobia
  • Intervención social en inmigración
  • Políticas públicas de inmigración
  • Ciudadanía europea
  • Nacionalidad y  extranjería
  • Mecanismos de resolución de conflictos
• Ciencias Sociales.
  • Flujos migratorios
  • Análisis estructural de la inmigración
  • Consecuencias sociodemográficas de la inmigración
  • Población y espacio social urbano.
  • Hábitat urbano e inmigración
  • Espacios rurales e inmigración
  • Desarrollo rural e iniciativas europeas.
  • Movimientos sociales de resistencia y procesos de conflicto.
  • Movimientos religiosos e identidades transnacionales
  • Memoria biográfica e inmigración.
  • Bases ideológicas de la identidad.
  • Reproducción social.
  • Identidad étnica.
  • Minorías étnicas y procesos de globalización.
  • Procesos de metropolitanización.
  • Migraciones Latinoamericanas.
  • Ciudadania e inmigración.
  • Alimentación y multiculturalismo
  • Género y relaciones conyugales en contextos transnacionales
  • Marginación social.
  • Parentesco,  reproducción social y redes migratorias.
  • Transformaciones de la familia i familias transnacionales.

URV Doctoral Thesis Directors

Admission

• Maximum number of students: 25
• Criteria for admission and selection:

The fulfilment of the established conditions, as a requirement of admission in the 19th article and 4th addicional order of the RD 1393/2007, is necessary to be able to entry at the Doctorate Program while its research mode.

Speceific criteria

1. To be in possession of the qualifications of master's degree. The qualifications will be born in mind, giving priority to the master's degree of the own Official Program of Postgraduate. To be admitted to the doctorate being in possession of a title of master differently (Spanish or foreigner) those who are gathered in the Official Program of Postgraduate in Social Intervention, depending on the profile of the project of thesis of the candidato/a, the corresponding commission will value the need to realize complementary formation dealing someone or some of the subjects of the master's degree of the Program.
2. Academic process. The academic process of the candidates will be valued to prioritize the access to the doctorate of those students with better qualifications.
3. English knowledge up to the First Certificate
4. Personal interview with the candidates. The interview appears as a mecanism to obtain information and o to establish criteria to select the future students on the basis of their motivation and capacity for the studies of doctorate. The previous experience will be valued specially for research.

Coordinator
Joan Josep Pujadas Muñoz Department of Anthropology, Philosopy and Social Work (Faculty of Arts)  977 559 579 joanjosep.pujadas(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

Department in charge of the management of the doctoral programme
Department of Anthropology, Philosophy and Social Work  977 559 748 sdantro(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

Collaborating departments

Department of Anthropology, Philosophy and Social Work

Department of Geography

Department of History and History of Art

Department of Private, Procedural and Financial Law

Department of Public Law

Further information

• Regulations for doctoral programmes
• On-line pre-registration
• Administrative procedure
• Suggestions and complaints
• Economic questions

Official Postgraduate Programme: Social Action

• Quality Assurance Mechanisms
• Bodies responsible for monitoring the Doctoral Programmes