Overview workpackages research clusters (01-10-2006/30-09-2007)
- Cluster A1 (International Migration and its Regulation) will prepare various publications on irregular migration and human smuggling; on modes of regulation in 11 European countries and on measurement of international migration in Europe. The cluster will also further explore new research perspectives within their thematic area such as: post enlargement (2004/2007) migration within the EU; irregular migration; the role of migrants and networks in the continuation of migration flows and the effectiveness of control of migration flows.
- Cluster A2 (Migration and Development) will support the development of a ‘European Ethnosurvey’: a quantitative and qualitative study of migration dynamics from Africa to Europe and its impacts on countries of origin. Its second objective is to analyse the impact of EU enlargement in 2004 on migration trends and on sending countries to understand this experience and produce background knowledge on the potential impact of the next EU enlargement in 2007.
- Cluster B3 (Migration and citizenship) is becoming a more open platform that enables research that is often cross-cutting with other clusters. The following themes will be covered in various research projects: support and opposition to migration: why did migration become a contested issue in some countries and not in others?; side-effects of citizenship policies in the EU; the interplay between transnational politics and immigrant citizenship policies; migrant political participation in co-development, and civic stratification and gender, generation and family migration in the EU.
- Cluster B4: (Work, Entrepreneurship, Economic Integration) is subdivided in three sub-clusters concentrating on economic integration; on policy implications and on labour immigration. Corresponding conferences will be organised on research topics such as: decentralised immigration policy in Europe; quantitative and qualitative research on ethnic entrepreneurship, and “economic integration revisited”.
- Cluster B5 (Social integration and mobility, education, housing and health) aims to further scientific progress on the social integration of immigrants in the areas of housing, health and education. The cluster indicates four areas on which they shall focus their attention: 1) securing funding for the common research proposal on neighbourhood practices and socio-spatial segregation in European Metropolises; 2) the continuation of the European health survey (link maken in dit document); 3) dissemination of a selection of papers/reports presented in workshops; and 4) organization of workshops.
- Cluster B6 (Linguistic, cultural and religious diversity) has been organized into 5 thematic streams: 1) cities of diversity: the spatial nexus; 2) public religion and secular democracy; 3) language policy and practices; 4) ethnic minority and immigrants’ cultural production as forms of political expression; and 5) debating cultural differences. For the coming 12 months, the cluster will conduct a number of activities directly developing all 5 streams.
- Cluster C7 (Interethnic relations, identity, representation and discrimination) continues to work on its main themes, now seeking to theoretically reconstruct the linkages between interethnic relations, identity, representation and discrimination. The work is divided into several tasks which include producing a book on identity, submitting a research proposal on discrimination research and developing ideas for a new research proposal bringing together the four principal themes of the cluster.
- Cluster C8 (Gender, Age and Generations) organises its work under four specific themes of research collaboration and integration: (1) the second generation; (2) gender, migration and the labour market; (3) love, sexuality and migration; and, (4) intermarriage. With the exception of (4), each is at various stages of working towards publishable outputs.
- Cluster C9 The multilevel governance of immigrant and immigration policies intends to 1) finalize the mapping of decision-making structures and processes in the main EU immigration countries by preparing a joint publication on the making of migratory policies in Europe; 2) start a new research programme on the local dimension of migratory policy-making processes; 3) promote a research project on the European dimension of integration policies, while focusing on European Funds as a means for structuring and steering regional and local policies for immigrants.
