Call for papers: The Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration Network of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) invites abstract proposals for papers and panels at this year's annual meeting in Philadelphia at Temple University. The meeting theme is Governance Across Borders: Coordination, Regulation, and Contestation in the Global Economy. The network seeks to develop a forum for theory and research on the study of these processes.The meeting will take place from June 24-26, 2010. The deadline for proposal abstracts is February 28, 2010. More...
Fellowships for Trans-Atlantic Summer Institute in European Studies, July 19 - July 30, 2010 Gender and Immigrant Life in Europe and North America. The DAAD Center for German & European Studies at the University of Minnesota invites applications to the 10th Trans-Atlantic Summer Institute in European Studies (TASI). The Institute will bring together 12 German or other European, and 12 North American advanced graduate students for an intensive two-week seminar on the campus of the University of Minnesota. The 2010 topic is Gender and Immigrant Life in Europe and North America. All selected students will receive fellowships. Deadline: March 15, 2010. More...
Call for Papers, Migration in China and Asia: Experience and Policy, 20-21 May, 2010, seminar of the International Metropolis Project in China. There have been relatively few efforts to draw together the complicated threads of migration that exist in China and elsewhere in Asia. Asia’s experience with migration is vital to the future of the region. Migration in Asia also provides a vital theoretical corrective to a mass of migration research that tends to present generalized global overviews or is over-weighted towards North America and Western Europe. Deadline: 31 March 2010. More...
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workshop on Disciplining Global Movements. Migration Management and its Discontents, to be held at IMIS (Osnabrück, Germany) in November 2010. ‘Migration management’ has become a catch word to refer to a wide range of new initiatives pertaining to migration and mobility, but very little is known on what ‘migration management’ is actually about. This workshop will critically analyse issues raised by so-called ‘migration management’ initiatives. Deadline: 31 May 2010. More...
VACANCY Social Science Research Center (WZB), Berlin. WZB seeks to hire one fulltime SENIOR RESEARCHER in the research unit Migration, Integration, Transnationalizationpreferably beginning on 1 May 2010. The duration of employment will be three years (with the possibility of contract extension of further one to three years). The research unit focuses on cross-nationally comparative studies on migration and integration problems, mainly in European immigration societies. Deadline: February 28, 2010. More...
Call for Papers, MIGRATIONS - Knowledge production/Policy-making, 24 - 26 June 2010, Telc, Czech Republic. The project aims to boost critical thinking about migrations in contemporary world, and to examine and re-consider politics and practices rooted in the nation-state based legal norms and the perspective of the homesteader. Deadline: 15 February 2010. More...
Vacancy INED, INSTITUT NATIONAL D'ÉTUDES DÉMOGRAPHIQUES (INED), located in Paris, France, is recruiting researchers for two full-time and permanent research positions. INED's main mission is to study the national and international demographic situation and to analyse population trends. INED adopts a multidisciplinary approach, and its areas of expertise cover not only the study of purely demographic phenomena such as nuptiality, fertility, mortality and migration, but also demography applied to society, economics, public health, human geography, history and more. INED has vacancies for two researchers. Deadline: 15 February 2010. More...
Call for Papers,Living Together: Civic, Political and Cultural Engagement Among Migrants, Minorities and National Populations: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, CRONEM 6th ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2010 (Joint international conference with the Runnymede Trust), 29 – 30 June 2010, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK. This conference aims to take stock of the different forms of civic, political and cultural engagement which currently exist, and investigate the factors and processes which are driving them. A special feature of the conference this year will be an event organised by the Runnymede Trust, which will consider where Britain stands 10 years after the Parekh Report on the future of multi-ethnic Britain and 25 years after the Swann Report. Deadline: 15 February 2010. More...
Grants for PhD Scholarships The ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius is one of the major private foundations in Germany sponsoring academic research. Scholarship programs of the ZEIT-Stiftung focus on migration and urban studies. For 2010 proposals studying "Migration, Diversity and the Future of Modern Societies" are especially welcome. Within this international program, the ZEIT-Stiftung grants six to eight Ph.D. scholarships per year. Applicants must be Ph.D. students of – in a broad sense – social sciences. The scholarships involve a monthly stipend of 1.200 Euros as well as yearly conferences and workshops. Deadline: 25 February 2010. More...
Call for Papers, Global Justice and Migration: Normative Perspectives and Empirical Trends. A workshop jointly organized by the European University Institute, IMISCOE (International Migration and Social Cohesion in Europe) and the Global Justice Network. EUI, Fiesole (Florence), April 23-24, 2010. Deadline: 28 February 2010. More...
Call for Papers, Mobile Constitutions of Society, MOVE International Seminar, 7th and 8th June 2010, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. The 2010 MOVE international seminar is intended for scholars with a strong scientific interest in diverse forms of mobilities and their implications for the study of contemporary society.The aims of these two intensive days are: 1) to build bridges between the ways in which scholars from different social science disciplines are conceptualising, analysing and operationalising the various types of mobilities that populate their research themes, and 2) to contribute to crafting an interdisciplinary analytical framework for the study of mobilities based on sound ontological, epistemological and methodological premises. Deadline: March 1, 2010. More...
Call for Papers, Is There a Nordic Version of Multiculturalism?, University of Turku, September 30-October 1, 2010. The conference will include keynote addresses by the scholars who can frame the topic of multiculturalism broadly. They are Peter Kivisto (Univ. of Turku and Augsburg College), Ewa Morawska (Univ. of Essex), Leena Huss (Univ. of Uppsala), Fakhra Salimi (MiRA, Oslo), Pasi Saukkonen (Cupore, Helsinki) and Garbi Schmidt (National Centre for Social Research, Copenhagen), who will contribute to the discussion by focusing attention on international perspectives or the unique cases of the four Nordic nations. Deadline: 1 March 2010. More..
Call for Articles, ICT and Migration, Based on the outstanding experiences of the International Workshop ‘ICT and Migration: Mobility and Cohesion in the Digital Age’, organized by the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD), and partially funded by IMISCOE, in Vienna in September 2009, the organisers now invite articles from advanced students, researchers and practitioners exploring the multifaceted relationship between ICT, development and social-economic inclusion for immigrants in Europe. Deadline: 31 March 2010. More...
Call for Workshop Proposals, 2010 International Metropolis Conference The Hague The International Metropolis Project is an international network of researchers, policy officials and NGOs sharing a common vision of enhancing migration and diversity policy by applying empirical social science research. Now the world's largest such network, it is perhaps best known for its major annual conferences, the next of which takes place in The Hague, 4 - 8 October 2010. Each conference attracts between 800 and 1000 delegates for high-level plenary sessions, a comprehensive study tour programme and more than 60 concurrent workshops. The conferences are an opportunity for delegates – both expert and novice – to discuss critical issues, identify research and policy gaps, compare international experiences and build the Metropolis network. The 2010 International Metropolis Conference will be of interest to policy makers, administrators and representatives from non-governmental organisations (NGOs) as well as academic researchers. Deadline: 1 April 2010. More...
