Launch of IMISCOE TEXTBOOKS series: Selected Studies in International Migration and Immigrant Incorporation. IMISCOE and Amsterdam University Press are proud to announce the forthcoming publication of Selected Studies in International Migration and Immigrant Incorporation, edited by Marco Martiniello and Jan Rath. This first volume in a planned series of four comprises 25 essential articles published over the past decades that have become a reference point for the best migration research offering a unique European perspective. For privileged access to this first-rate resource to be published in March 2010, please view the PDF file containing the table of contents, introduction, first chapter and list of contributors to this title. Orders for Selected Studies in International Migration and Immigrant Incorporation can be placed as follows: via email to Amsterdam University Press (orders@aup.nl) from March 2010; via all major online providers from April 2010; via European bookshops outside the Benelux from around May 2010; via bookshops in the US and Canada, Australia and Asia from around May 2010.
IN MEMORIAM PROF. DR. MARIA BAGANHA
With great sadness we announce that on Sunday morning June 28, 2009 Maria Baganha passed away. Maria Baganha has been a leading figure in the field of migration studies: within the University of Coimbra where she established and headed a special unit in the field; in Portugal as a whole, where she played a crucial role in initiating coordinated action of researchers and policymakers in the field; and in Europe, particularly through her central role within IMISCOE. Within IMISCOE Maria Baganha has had a crucial place and she has carried its development right from the beginning. IMISCOE owes a lot to Maria Baganha. Firstly, because of her outstanding scientific and organisational contributions, but we will also miss her irreplaceable character and ways of doing things: energetic, cheerfully, with a good feeling for agreeable forms of irony including self-relativation, combined with sharp analysis of what quality is.
A TRIBUTE TO MARIA BAGANHA
THE ‘NEW’ IMISCOE We are pleased to report that IMISCOE will carry on well after its European Commission funding comes to an end on 31 March 2010. IMISCOE will function as an independent network that is funded by institutional membership. The IMISCOE board of directors has resoundingly expressed its appreciation for the valuable collective of migration and integration researchers that IMISCOE has become and unanimously decided that the network should persevere. In autumn 2008, all 23 IMISCOE member 
institutes committed themselves to a ‘new IMISCOE’ by signing letters of intent. Named the IMISCOE Research Network, this future incarnation of IMISCOE was officially established at a constitutive meeting of directors on 9 April 2009 in Brussels. The IMISCOE Research Network will therefore co-exist with the IMISCOE Network of Excellence until 31 March 2010, after which the independent network will begin operations in full swing. The IMISCOE Research Network will keep migration, integration and social cohesion as its main focus. It also intends to expand institutional membership in the coming year by at least seven new partners.
