Additional funding Swiss Partner
IMISCOE has one partner from a country that is not a EU-member state: the Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies (SFM) at the University of Neuchâtel. The Swiss government, however, has committed itself to finance participation of Swiss partners in research consortia of the EU. To this end the contribution of the Swiss partner should be specified in the Work Programme.
Apart from participation of Swiss FSM-researchers in the cluster meetings a special task was formulated for the Swiss partner in the first phase of IMISCOE, related to the Feasibility Studies to develop new strategic research lines for the IMISCOE-research programme. Apart from the FS in the domain of International Migration (called EUROLINKS) and the one in the domain of Immigrant Integration (called INTPOL), a third task to make a feasibility study in the domain of Social Cohesion was formulated as a special task for FMS. This third research line, called SOCO, tries to analyse the political and social consequences of migration in European societies. The central question will be: How does migration affect political mobilization in its potential threefold manifestation: anti-immigrant mobilization, anti-racist mobilization (or the solidarity movements), and political mobilization of immigrants themselves. How do these different mobilizations interact?
The study will firstly `map’ the three forms of mobilization in Europe and their interaction by scrutinizing their organizational and structural development since the early 1980s, and will provisionally evaluate the validity of the different explanatory theories. Secondly, the study will create a comparative framework to study the three mobilizations in depth and empirically, cross-nationally and allowing for the assessment of the role of official migration and integration policies.
On the basis of these plans the Swiss government has committed itself to finance SFM’s activities in IMISCOE up to a maximum of 221674 € over the period of 5 years (corresponding to the mean of the overall funding for the IMISCOE-project).
