IMISCOE NEWSLETTER VOl. 5, NO. 1- FEBRUARY 2008
The IMISCOE Newsletter, produced by the IMISCOE Network Office, focuses on news, publications and other activities of the Network and its partners that are of interest to a wider audience.
Network News >>>
New publications >>>
New research projects >>>
Update running projects >>>
Events >>>
Calls >>>
NETWORK NEWS
The future of IMISCOE
“… scientific understanding and progress can only be made through comparative research and the exchange of methodologies and results...IMISCOE is living evidence of the fact that methodological nationalism is becoming an obsolete tradition. Migration is an international - if not a global - issue following the globalisation of our economies...',
So were the opening words of the January 2008 IMISCOE Board of Directors meeting concerning the future of the Network. The speech was made by the the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Amsterdam >>>
Creating an integrated European research area
Not only is the future of IMISCOE being discussed among its boards, but a European level debate has also been launched concerning prospects for the Networks of Excellence (NoE) overall. To this end, a group of 56 of such networks, representing over 13,000 European researchers developed an opinion paper that was presented to the European Commission during the Open Forum that took place on 20 November 2007 in Brussels. The purpose of this event was to highlight to the European Commission and to other stakeholders how NoEs can play a key role in the future of European Research Area and how, for this reason, NoEs merit a prolonged existence. Find the presentations and outcomes of the Open Forum >>>
IMISCOE participates in new initiative in online publishing in the social sciences
Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN) is an international consortium of university presses from Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Firenze, Goettingen, Lyon and Manchester that will create an online publication model for academic books in the humanities and social sciences. This model should improve the spread of scholarly research and is based on the publication model that has already been developed for IMISCOE by Amsterdam University Press (AUP). This model is characterised by three methods of dissemination: a digital academic repository, a print-on-demand service and traditional publishing. IMISCOE’s involvement in this initiative will provide the opportunity to open its publication programme to other European languages other than English. Thie IMISCOE Newsletter will keep you up to date on this intiative.
NEW PUBLICATIONS
Towards a Better Understanding of Human Smuggling, Friedrich Heckmann (2007), IMISCOE Policy Brief No 5. Amsterdam: IMISCOE
IMISCOE migration researchers have recently made new efforts to better understand the phenomenon of human smuggling. This policy brief will report on the unique results of a recent study that enabled IMISCOE researchers to gain more insight into trends in human smuggling and smuggling processes. It will present key factors that influence the dramatically increasing death toll among smuggled migrants and how human smuggling is combated.
Migration Policymaking in Germany: Between National Reluctance and Local Pragmatism, Maren Borkert and Wolfgang Bosswick, IMISCOE Working Paper No. 20.
' Germany’s long-lasting view of itself as a non-immigration country resulted in the absence of a comprehensive national migration policy up till the new millennium... In reality, throughout its history, Germany has been a typical immigration country...This paper reveals the multitude of policymaking arenas that exist at different levels of society and offers new insight into policymaking and outputs.’
- Prof. Giovanna Zincone, FIERI, Italy
This working paper illustrates 50 years of migration towards Germany, focusing particularly on processes of migration policymaking at different institutional levels of governance. The study contributes to the literature by addressing the significant gap between migration policymaking and empirical evidence.
FEATURED IMISCOE TITLE-SPECIAL PROMOTION
Secularism or Democracy? Associational Governance of Religious Diversity
Veit Bader
This volume offers an innovative response to today’s ever-pressing problems concerning the governance of religious diversity >>>
‘In this important book, Veit Bader offers an anti-perfectionist defence of religious diversity and its associational governance. His bold and courageous approach to these issues is based on a concept of minimal morality that is coupled with a commitment to maximum institutional pluralism. Secularism or Democracy puts at centre-stage the urgent need to revisit the relationship between religion and politics if we are to live together peacefully and respectfully in our diverse societies.’
- Ayelet Shachar, Leah Kaplan Visiting Professor of Law
Stanford Law School, Stanford, California
FORTHCOMING IN THE IMISCOE-AUP SERIES
(visit www.aup.nl/imiscoe to be kept up to date)
- Paradoxes of Social Capital: A Multi-Generational Study of Moroccans in London, Myriam Cherti
- Migrants and Markets: Perspectives from Economics and the Other Social Sciences, Holger Kolb, Henrik Egbert, Eds.
- Understanding South Asian Residential Preferences in Glasgow, Jennifer Leigh McGarrigle
- The Family in Question: Immigrant and Ethnic Minorities in Multicultural Europe, Ralph Grillo, Ed.
- International Migration in Europe: New Trends, New Methods of Analysis,
Corrado Bonifazi, Marek Okólski, Jeanette Schoorl, Patrick Simon, Eds. - The Trafficking of Women from Albania to France 1998-2001: How Women Use Trafficking to Overcome Social Exclusion and Other Harms, John Davies
- Modes of Migration Regulation and Control in Europe, Jeroen Doomernik, Michael Jandl, Eds.
- Statistics and Reality: Concepts and Measurements of Migration in Europe,
Heinz Fassmann, Ursula Reeger, Wiebke Sievers, Eds. - Practicing Citizenship and Heterogeneous Nationhood: Naturalizations in Swiss Municipalities, Marc Hebling
- Immigrant Associations, Integration and Identity: Angolan, Brazilian and Eastern European Communities in Portugal, João Sardinha
- Identity Processes and Dynamics in Multi-Ethnic Europe, Charles Westin, Ed.
- Migration and Irregular Work in Austria, Michael Jandl et al.
- Sri Lankan Housemaids in Lebanon: Symbolic Violence and Everyday Resistance, Nayla Moukarbel
NEW PROJECTS
IMISCOE unites researchers through conferences, workshops and numerous interdisciplinary projects made possible through external funding. Research output by IMISCOE members is in a constant state of cross-fertilisation. New research programmes are continually in the making...
Interethnic tolerance and neighbourhoods – GEITONIES The international project Generating Interethnic Tolerance and Neighbourhood Integration in European Urban Spaces examines the representations and daily interactions that affect social and ethnic groups at the neighbourhood level. Funded in the European Commission FP7, this project involves IMISCOE partners CEG (University of Lisbon as project coordinator), IMES (University of Amsterdam), ISR (Austrian Academy of Science Austria), University of Deusto (Spain) and CMR (University of Warsaw) >>>
Resolving conflicts in Europe – INFOCON This project is the unique result of extensive consultations and discussions between members of civil society and leading scholars in various disciplines. The overall objective of this project is to create a better understanding of how civil society organisations (CSOs) that represent transnational communities (TCs) can help in preventing and resolving conflicts in Europe and the world at large. IMISCOE partner CEDEM is involved in this FP7-funded project >>>
New dataset on migration between Africa and Europe – MAFE Migrations entre l’Afrique et l’Europe aims to produce a new dataset on migration between Africa and Europe by carrying out surveys in both sending and receiving countries. Researchers from Senegal, France, Italy and Spain, as well as the NGO Enda Tiers Monde and the Associations de Ressortissants Sénégalais (CSSSE) are brought together in this project. IMISCOE partners FIERI and INED are directly involved >>>
Integration laws in European countries – MIPEX Migration Integration Policy Index is a European project funded through the INTI programme of the European Commission. It aims to compare current integration laws in 28 European and non-European countries. MIPEX’s main partners are the British Council and the Migration Policy Group. In France, the project cooperates with IMISCOE partner INED. On 17 March 2008, a seminar will take place at the Cité Internationale Universitaire in Paris to present France’s MIPEX ranking in relation to other countries, and to shed some light on the context that created this result >>>
UPDATE RUNNING PROJECTS
Report on housing – CLIP The international project of Cities for Local Integration Policies permits some 30 European metropolises and middle-sized cities to share their expertise with IMISCOE researchers. Through CLIP, state and city officials relay their experiences based on concrete integration measures and projects in the areas of housing, diversity management, intercultural and inter-religious dialogue, employment, support for education and other central issues of local integration policies. CLIP’s first thematic module on housing has been finalised and the second module on intercultural and inter-religious dialogue is being implemented >>>
Wikis on migration and health – MIGHEALTHNET The main activity of this international project is the development of wikis concerning migration and health. These collaborative, user-edited websites are meant to function as nodes for both European and national networks to exchange knowledge and expertise among stakeholders. Nation-specific wikis have been already been created for sixteen European countries, each providing information in their own official language. The reports will be publicly accessible beginning this month. Make a contribution to a wiki >>>
Results Dutch survey second generation – TIES The Integration of the European Second Generation project is an international survey on the descendants of immigrants from Turkey, the former Yugoslavia and Morocco across fifteen European cities in eight countries. The main project objective is to create the first systematic and rigorous European dataset of more than 10,000 respondents. Read the first research report based on the TIES survey in the Netherlands >>>
Web movies second generation – TIEScast This is a unique web platform representing the first European-wide platform for second-generation immigrants to interact with one another as they exchange information on issues of integration. It represents a new mode of communication between research and its target groups >>>
EVENTS
12 March 2008, Editorial Committee, Amsterdam
3-4 April 2008, IMISCOE Board Meetings, Brussels
10-11 April, 2008, IMISCOE Theory Conference: Diaspora and Transnationalism: New Discourses, New Agents, New Institutions? This conference will be co-organised with the European University Institute in Florence. It will explore the broad range of phenomena that are variously described under the rubrics transnationalsim and disapora. The aim is to clarify their conceptual uses, explore their embeddedness in specific strands of social, political, cultural and historical theories, and discuss their methodological implications and possible operationalizations in various disciplines >>>
18-20 April 2008, IMISCOE Theory Conference: (Irregular) Transit Migration in the European space: Theory, Politics and Research Methodology, , Koc University, Istanbul (Sariyer). The conference will address micro- and macro-theoretical issues regarding conditions that determine transit migration. It will seek to provide an understanding of transit migration in the context of migration transition >>>
22-23 May 2008, IMISCOE Theory Conference: Research-policy dialogues on migration and integration in Europe, Enschede, The Netherlands. The University of Twente and the University of Amsterdam are organising a special IMISCOE conference on ‘Research-Policy Dialogues on Migration and Integration in Europe’. The aim of this conference is to bring together policymakers and researchers from various countries and across different disciplines (migration, integration and governance studies) to reflect on their mutual relations >>>
29-30 May 2008, Connecting Worlds: Emigration, Immigration and Development in Insular Spaces Conference, Azores. The objective of this international conference organised by IMISCOE partner CEG is to promote discussion and debate around international migration and the development of insular spaces >>>
30 June-4 July 2008, IMISCOE PhD Conference, Lisbon. This workshop for IMISCOE graduate students will have two main components. The first focuses on the development of research skills, while the second emphasises presentation and discussion of ongoing advanced research in several pertinent migration topics >>>
9-12 September 2008, Fifth Annual IMISCOE Conference, Bilbao, Spain.
CALLS
Doctoral students The University of Bamberg is currently recruiting PhD students for their graduate programme under the theme of ‘Markets and Social Systems in Europe’ >>>
