IMISCOE Newletter Volume 3, No. 3, December 2006
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.
In this issue :
- Network News
- IMISCOE publications highlighted
- New IMISCOE titles
- IMISCOE policy workshops
- New research initiated in the network
- Calls and events
- News from IMISCOE partners (projects, events and publications)
Network News
- New: the IMISCOE/HERMES Training Messenger! The Training Messenger is a tool for early-stage researchers in Migration, Ethnicity and Social Cohesion and gathers and provides essential information on
training activities;
forthcoming events, conferences and seminars in the EU and more.
More... - IMISCOE research clusters plan their future activities every 1st of October in so called work packages. In these they report on the research focus they intend to take, the workshops they want to organize, the research proposals they want to prepare, the training they would like to give and the publications they are planning for the coming year. We will report on any concrete output via the IMISCOE website and Newsletter.
More… - The European Latsis Prize has been awarded to Professor Rainer Bauboeck, IMISCOE member and leader of research cluster B3 (Migration and Citizenship), for his contribution and in-depth research on migration issues. More…
- Sussex has won two major grants on ‘Diaspora, Migration and Identity' as part of its ‘Diasporas, Migration and Identities’ programme. One of the two projects funded is on “Cultural Geographies of Counter-Diasporic Migration: The Second Generation Returns 'Home'", coordinated by IMISCOE member and cluster leader Professor Russell King (Geography), working with Prof. Ivor Goodson (Brighton University) and Dr Anastasia Christou. The project is a comparative study of Greek Americans, Greek Germans and British-born Greek Cypriots who are returning to Greece and Cyprus. Dr Anastasia Christou has already published on this subject in the IMISCOE-AUP series: Narratives of Place, Culture and Identity. Second-Generation Greek-Americans Return 'Home'.
More… - The Willy Brandt Memorial Professorship at the University of Malmö has been appointed to IMISCOE member David Ingleby (coordinator of the Migration Health Group) (starting January 2007). This Guest Professorship with IMER in memory of Willy Brandt was founded in 1998 as a gift from the City of Malmö. The purpose of the professorship is to strengthen research at Malmö University in the field of IMER - International Migration and Ethnic Relations.
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IMISCOE Publications highlighted
- The Dynamics of International Migration and Settlement in Europe. A State
of the Art, Rinus Penninx, Maria Berger and Karen Kraal (eds), IMISCOE-AUP Joint Sudies.
This volume is the first comprehensive result of the IMISCOE Network and takes stock of research in the fields of international migration, integration and social cohesion. Migration and integration research was traditionally strongly embedded in national contexts, both in terms of its framing of the questions and its funding. As a consequence it reflected strong national concerns and perspectives. Topics and priorities were accordingly those that related primarily to destination countries. Most of that research was furthermore mono-disciplinary. IMISCOE wants to try and overcome the fragmented nature of research and contribute to a sound and solid base for public discourse and policy making in this area.
The volume is based on the state of the art reports that have been written by the 9 research clusters. Two clusters have worked on the process of international migration itself, four clusters of researchers have worked on different dimensions of the process of settlement and integration and three more clusters of researchers have worked on various cross-cutting themes like interethnic relations, identity, gender, generations and multilevel governance. The nine chapters in this volume are based on these overviews. Each chapter is concluded with directions and priorities of future research within the specific theme to be developed within the IMISCOE-network. The final concluding chapter builds on these overviews, trying to draw lines for future research together across the sub-domains surveyed in the separate chapters. It discusses how the topics of migration and integration have been brought to the agenda of public and political discourse and policy making. It outlines how researchers need to develop new perspectives and comprehensive analytical approaches to enable us to understand better the dynamics of migration and settlement in Europe in the present and future era.
New IMISCOE titles
- Dynamic Entrepreneurship. First and second-generation immigrant entrepreneurs in Dutch cities, Katja Rušinovic (2006). IMISCOE Dissertations. Amsterdam: AUP. Studies on second-generation immigrant entrepreneurs remain limited in both the Dutch and international literature. This study presents one of the first explicit comparisons between first and second-generation self-employed immigrants and provides a vivid, longitudinal view of first and second-generation immigrant entrepreneurs, their incorporation into Dutch society, their businesses and business development(s). It differs from more traditional works on immigrant entrepreneurship, such as Ethnic Economies (Light and Gold 2000) and Through the eye of the Needle (Waldinger 1986), as the focus is on immigrant entrepreneurs active in other than the typical immigrant sectors such as the retail or garment industry.
- The Multilevel Governance of Migration. Italian Immigrants and Immigration Policy-Making – Structures, Actors and Practices, Giovanna Zincone, Cluster C9, IMISCOE Working Paper. This paper reports some of the outcomes of the activity of research cluster 9 `The multilevel governance of migration’ and of the research `Policy Making – Between Periphery and Centre, Between Member States and the EU, Between Formal and Informal Actors’.
IMISCOE policy workshops
- Citizenship policies and Nationality Legislation – a need for common standards: At the Third Annual IMISCOE Conference (Vienna, September 4-6, 2006) a successful policy event was organized by the NATAC team addressing the question: Citizenship policies and Nationality Legislation – a need for common standards? This question was discussed with several representatives from different policy levels of both `old’ EU countries and new member states. They had an open discussion on issues around nationality/citizenship laws and how these link to migration and integration processes. You can download a report from this panel by clicking here. The NATAC policy brief: The acquisition and loss of nationality in 15 EU states. Results of the comparative project NATAC has been revised based on the discussions during this event.
New research initiated in the network
- Health and social care for migrants and ethnic minorities in Europe: the Migration and Health Group, part of IMISCOE Cluster B5 (Social Integration and Mobility - Education, Housing and Health), has been successful in finding funding for their project: Health and social care for migrants and ethnic minorities in Europe. Funding was found within the COST Programme and DG SANCO (Directorate-General for Health and Consumer Protection). This project will set out to consolidate and analyse existing research on the topic of migrants and health, which is currently still fragmented and encompasses a wide range of disciplines and countries. The network will organise workshops, conferences and publications, and will make recommendations for future research strategies and health policies. This group hereby reacts to the urgent need by researchers, policy makers and practitioners in the field for an accessible ‘state of the art’ of research on migrant health and health service provisions for migrants within Europe.
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Calls and events
- Immigrant access to education: a comparative perspective, call for papers by Research Cluster B5 (Social Integration and Mobility: Education, Housing and Health). The call is open for non-IMISCOE members. Deadline abstracts: January 15, 2007. The workshop takes place 19th-20th April, 2007, Lisbon, Portugal.
More... - The local dimension of migration policy-making in Europe, call for papers by Research Cluster C9 (The Multilevel Governance of Immigrant and Immigration Policies). The call is open for non-IMISCOE members. Proposals have to be sent by the 15th December 2006. Despite a growing interest in the local dimension of migratory policies, the state of the art of studies is still deficient in many respects. This conference intends to deal with various critical points relating to and thereby further developing the study of the local dimension of migration policy-making.The workshop will take place: 10th May, 2007, Turin, Italy.
More… - TIES RTN - 14 position openings for doctoral students and post-docs in the field of integration of the second generation in Europe, 12 early stage research (ESR/ doctoral students) and 2 experienced research (ER/ post-doc) positions are now open to application within the twelve partner institutes of the TIES research network. ESRs and ERs will play a critical role in the analysis of the data collected by the TIES survey, with both a quantitative and qualitative perspective. Each ESR and ER will develop his/her own comparative research project, within the framework of the themes proposed by each of the network partners. In addition, ESRs will be trained in quantitative and qualitative analyses both by their host institute and through network activities. Deadline for application is 15 December 2006 (only the call for Belgium has already closed). Each application is to be sent to a specific partner within the network.
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News from IMISCOE Partners
- PROJECTS:
- Re-launch of the www.anti-trafficking.net. IMISCOE partner ICMPD has re-launched their anti-trafficking website. This website provides information on anti-trafficking projects implemented by ICMPD and other regional and national initiatives in addition to projects and programmes implemented by other organisations/actors. The website features information on upcoming documents, reports, studies, training materials, etc., as well as a contact directory. The website further displays interesting funding offers and job opportunities in the field of anti-trafficking. You can easily submit your activity and/or publication (including photos, links, etc.) to this website.
- The Role of Migrant Health and Social Care Workers in Ageing Societies: Planning for the Future, new COMPAS project. The aim of this project is to examine the future need for migrant health professionals and less-skilled care workers in the context of ageing societies and workforces, and the implications this will have for immigration and integration policies. This is a two year international project starting in October 2006 and funded by Atlantic Philanthropies and the Nuffield Foundation.
More... - Radicalism studies, at the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES). Recently the IMES has been involved in various studies and publications on radicalism of Muslim youth in the Netherlands and specifically Amsterdam: Processen van radicalisering, waarom sommige Amsterdamse moslims radicaal worden (Processes of radicalisation; why some Amsterdam Muslims become radical), by Marieke Slootman en Jean Tillie and Strijders van eigen bodem Radicale en Democratische moslims in Nederland (homegrown warriors), by Frank J. Buijs, Froukje Demant en Atef Hamdy. In these studies the authors analyse different causes and paths for radicalisation and portray the influence of social factors such as deprivation and exclusion on the radicalisation process. IMISCOE members and IMES researchers Frank Buijs and Meindert Fennema have furthermore taken the initiative of founding the Centre for Radicalism and Extremist Studies to collect knowledge on radicalism and extremism and strengthen cooperation between scientists.
- EVENTS:
- 21 March 2007 State of the Art of Migration Research in Poland, by Anna Kicinger and Agnieszka Weinar, CMR Seminar, Centre of Migration Research, Warsaw, Poland.
More… - `Time of global migration’. In quest for a research paradigm, joint scientific seminars of the Centre of Migration Research (CMR) and the Central European Forum for Migration Research (CEFMR), Warsaw, Poland. These seminars should become a forum for academic discussions and exchange of ideas concerning migration issues. The seminars will be organized several times a year. Some of them will present the achievements of invited specialists, being the most prominent researchers in the migration field, both from Poland, as well as from abroad. The list of presentations scheduled for the academic year 2006/2007 is available here.
- PUBLICATIONS AND DOWNLOADS:
- Comparative Study on Policies towards Foreign Graduates - Study on Admission and Retention Policies towards Foreign Students in Industrialised Countries, ICMPD, Vienna 2006.
Over the last decades, states and universities have made great efforts in furthering international student mobility, and a rapid internationalisation of higher education has taken place. This has important implications for both education and migration systems around the world at a time when more and more industrialised countries are looking for ways to facilitate immigration of the highly skilled to help boost their economy. The objective of this report is to provide a comparative analysis of admission and retention policies towards foreign students in selected industrialised countries. The report contains individual country chapters, a comparative chapter and an executive summary.
Download the copy here - Integration of immigrants: Contribution of local and regional authorities. Online-publication of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, Friedrich Heckmann and Wolfgang Bosswick.
This conceptual paper is intended to create the framework for implementing the CLIP project, involving cooperation between local and regional actors in the area of integration policies at the local level. The paper first analyses the meaning of the term ‘integration’ and locates it in the context of other concepts prominent in the discourse on immigrant integration.
Download paper here. - The Costs and Benefits of European Immigration, Rainer Münz, Thomas Straubhaar, Florin Vadean, Nadia Vadean, Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWI).
In the early 21st century Europe is confronted with an ageing population, stagnating or even declining native populations, high unemployment and in the most key countries also with slow economic growth. At the same time Europe remains one of the prime destinations of international migration. This paper aims to develop a better understanding of how the EU and its Member States could use the availability and skills of today’s and future immigrant populations in order to cope with economic and demographic challenges.
Download the report here. - Gender Equality in the Labour Market: Attitudes to Women’s Work, Sylke Viola Schnepf, HWWI Research Paper.
The analysis of economic factors usually applied for examining gender inequality in the labour market suggests that former post communist countries in Central and Eastern Europe have reached similarly high standards of gender equality compared to Western European countries. This paper aims at comparing attitudes to women’s work between transition and OECD countries highlighting the explanatory power of societal norms. The data reveal that a strikingly higher share of people in the East as compared to the West agree with traditional values on women’s work.
Download the paper here. - The Analytics of Seasonal Migration, O. Stark and C. Simon Fan, CMR Working Paper.
This paper presents a framework that yields different possible patterns of migration as optimal solutions to a simple utility maximization problem. It is shown that seasonal migration arises as an optimal endogenous response to a comparison of costs (of living and of separation) and returns (to work) over a set of three alternative options, even if a year-long migration is feasible.
Download the paper here. - Forecasting International migration: selected theories, models and methods, Jakub Bijak, CEMFR Working Paper.
The paper attempts to outline selected theoretical fundamentals of international migration forecasting. The discussion offers a brief overview of selected migration theories, as well as a short evaluation of their applicability in forecasting international population flows. Subsequently, a survey of particular models and methods used in migration predictions is presented. The presented models and methods are finally compared and evaluated from the point of view of their usefulness for the purpose of migration studies.
Download the paper here. - Population and labour force projections for 27 European countries, 2002-2052: impact of international migration on population ageing, Bijak J., D. Kupiszewska, M. Kupiszewski, K. Saczuk, A. Kicinger, European Journal of Population: 22 (2006).
More... - Immigrant Integration and Education. The Role of State and Civil Society in Germany and the U.S., Friedrich Heckmann, Richard Wolf (eds.): EFMS, Bamberg 2006.
More... - How to describe the diversity of origins in France?, Simon, P. and M. Clement, Population et Société, special issue.
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