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IMISCOE EVENTS

13-14 September 2010, IMISCOE 7th Annual Conference. New Migration in Industrial Cities and Regions of Europe. The IMISCOE Research Network is happy to announce the Seventh Annual IMISCOE Conference and its first as an independent network. The event is open to everyone, whether member of IMISCOE or not. The conference will take place in Liege, Belgium on 13-14 September 2010 and is hosted by IMISCOE partner CEDEM - Centre d'Etudes de l'Ethnicité et des Migrations at the University of Liège. The conference programme features keynote speeches, workshops and social events. The latest version of the programme is available on the special conference website: www.imiscoe2010.org

EVENTS ORGANISED BY IMISCOE PARTNERS

5-6 July 2010, QMSS2 Seminar on ‘Measuring Integration and Discrimination’ , This seminar is organized jointly by Patrick Simon of the French National Institute for Demographic Studies in Paris and Han Entzinger of Erasmus University Rotterdam as part of the European Science Foundation’s programme to support research networks in quantitative social sciences (QMSS2). Like earlier seminars in this series, this seminar is small-scale and attendance is upon invitation only. A maximum of twelve papers will be accepted, preferably written by young scholars. More...
8-10 September 2010, European Migration and Asylum Policies: Coherence or Contradiction? – An Interdisciplinary Evaluation of the EU Summits of Tampere (1999), The Hague (2004) and Stockholm (2009), Scribani International Conference 2010, Comillas Pontifical University – Madrid, Spain. Being aware of the significance of the new challenges raised by the European asylum and immigration policy, the Scribani Network proposes to launch this international conference and gather contributions from sociology, anthropology, economy, law, political science, etc. More...
20 September - 1 October 2010, Turin International Summer School, Migration - Challenges and Opportunities for Europe. In cooperation with IMISCOE Partner FIERI. The project was launched thanks to the presence in Turin of important organisations of the UN System and of the European Union devoted to training, research and technical assistance. The Turin International Summer School aims to provide participants with specific knowledge on emerging global challenges from a United Nation and European Union perspective. More...
13 November 2010, Disciplining Global Movements. Migration Management and its Discontents, international workshop 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. More...
EFMS expert workshops Transatlantic Discourse on Integration (supported by the German Marshall Fund of the United States).The aim of these workshops is to promote the exchange between American and German/European experts both from research and from politics and practice. More...

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