IMISCOE NEWSLETTER VOl. 5, NO. 4- DECEMBER 2008
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EXPERT GROUP EVALUATES NETWORKS OF EXCELLENCE
An expert group was installed by the European Commission to evaluate the instrument of Networks of Excellence and to provide recommendations on how to optimise their achievements. Although in the expert group’s view the NoE scheme was just partly successful regarding the development of integrated and sustainable virtual centres of excellence, they do regard the NoE ‘experiment’ as important. They conclude that the NoE scheme did show that certain valuable collective goods can only be produced in such organisational settings and would not result from other arrangements. The expert group therefore proposes 1) renewed funding opportunities for a limited number of NoEs that are successfully moving towards achieving the objectives of the NoE scheme and 2) considering existing funding schemes to support valuable activities developed by other NoEs.
Download final report by the expert group.
IMISCOE AFTER EU-FUNDING
IMISCOE Directors have made further plans for a future IMISCOE during their annual Board Meetings in Bilbao in September 2008. They expressed their appreciation of IMISCOE as network of migration and integration researchers and agreed that this network should stay alive. All partner institutes have consequently been invited to formulate an initial commitment to the future IMISCOE, which almost all of the partners have already done so. Special working groups will discuss the network's future focus, activities, aims and structure in January 2009. At the next Brussels meetings in April 2009 a Consortium Agreement for the future IMISCOE will be signed by all partners that will have committed themselves. From 1 April 2010 the 'new' network should be a fact under the name IMISCOE Research Network.
NEW WORKPACKAGES FOR THE PERIOD OCTOBER 2008-APRIL 2010
IMISCOE Clusters have developed their work packages for the coming period: 31 October 2008-1 April 2010. In these work packages the cluster leaders have formulated their focus and activities for the mentioned period. Specifically, they reflect on activities that are developed to wrap up the work done so far and prepare for a transition after April 2010.
Short descriptions of the work packages
FIFTH ANNUAL IMISCOE CONFERENCE BILBAO 2008
6-9 September 2008 the fifth Annual IMISCOE conference was organized by IMISCOE partner DEUSTO in Bilbao, Spain. An overwhelming amount of close to 300 IMISCOE members and invited external experts attended this 2-day international event. The conference was divided in a plenary programme focusing on Immigration in Spain and Latin American migration to Europe; worksessions for the thematic research groups and sessions that covered topics cut crossing these thematically organized research clusters like
Statistical data collection and Food and migration. More
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MIGRATION AND IRREGULAR WORK IN AUSTRIA
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A Case Study of the Structure and Dy
namics of Irregular Foreign Employment in Europe at the Beginning of the 21st Century,
Michael Jandl, Christina Hollomey, Sandra Gendera, Anna Stepien, Veronika Bilger This study of irregular migrant work in Austria holds many broader lessons for countries all over Europe. The book draws its fascinating insights from systematic in-depth interviews with migrants themselves. The authors demonstrate that we can not simply divide the world of foreign employment into 'legal' and `illegal' work anymore and that new manifestations of `irregular migrant work' have evolved.
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"This is a carefully considered report on something that is difficult to know much about. Addressing concerns now at the centre of the EU, it reflects on the political, administrative and statistical processes surrounding irregular labour migration in a country that up until recently had 1,400 kilometres of Schengen border."
--August Gächter, Senior Researcher, Centre for Social Innovation, Vienna, and Reader, University of Vienna--
ILLEGAL MIGRATION AND GENDER IN A GLOBAL AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE |
Marlou Schrover, Joanne van der Leun, Leo Lucassen, Chris Quispel Two issues come to the fore in current debates on migration: illegal migration and the role of gender in migration. This study combines the two subjects and views the migration scholarship through the lens of the gender perspective, investigating definitions of citizenship and the differences in mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion for men and women. The study produces a comprehensive account of illegal migration in Germany, the Netherlands, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, Mexico, Malaysia, the Horn of Africa and the Middle East over the nineteenth- and the twentieth centuries.
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"This innovative collection of case studies from around the world should inspire much discussion and new research on an important and neglected dimension of international migration."
--Donna R. Gabaccia, Professor of History and Director, Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota--
THE POSITION OF THE TURKISH AND MOROCCAN SECOND GENERATION IN AMSTERDAM AND ROTTERDAM |
The TIES Study in the Netherlands, Maurice Crul and Liesbeth Heering The second generation of Turkish and Moroccan origins in the Netherlands is coming of age. As the launch publication of The Integration of the European Second Generation (TIES) project, this book presents groundbreaking research carried out in 2006 and 2007 among Dutch-born children of immigrants living in Amsterdam and Rotterdam. The volume describes the unique challenges and opportunities that the second generation faces. More
“Stereotypical images and misconceptions dominate the press and popular understandings of immigrants, particularly those of Muslim origins. This volume combats those stereotypes with data and in-depth analysis to give insight into Europe’s two most significant second generation populations. Everyone concerned about the impact of immigration should read this book.”
-- Alex Stepick, Director of the Immigration and Ethnicity Institute
Florida International University, Miami--
GETTING BY IN EUROPE'S LABOUR MARKETS |
Senegambian Migrants' Strategies for Survival, Documentation and Mobility, Inge Van Nieuwenhuyze This book examines two major social changes experienced by European cities in the last two decades: post-industrial economic restructuring and new immigration flows. It focuses on three often neglected elements of the migratory experience: changes over time, the influence of national welfare and legislation frameworks, and support mechanisms outside the labour market. The material underpinning the arguments is the qualitative life-course analysis of 81 in-depth interviews with Senegambian migrants living in Antwerp and Barcelona.
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"This beautifully crafted comparative analysis skilfully combines structural factors and migrants' agency in its approach. The result is a rich depiction of the life trajectories of Senegambian migrants arriving to Europe in search of a future."
-- Francisco Javier Moreno Fuentes, Research Fellow, Spanish National Research Council, Madrid--
SRI LANKAN HOUSEMAIDS IN LEBANON |
A Case of 'Symbolic Violence' and 'Everyday Forms of Resistance', Nayla
Moukarbel Unraveled in this book are the real dynamics at stake in the Madame/housemaid relationship. While cases of extreme physical abuse by the Lebanese women who hire housemaids are an exception, what has become normalised are more insidious patterns of domination used to control each and every aspect of their employees’ lives. Sri Lankan housemaids try to deflect this -what Pierre Bourdieu has called -‘symbolic violence’. Yet, as this unprecedented study shows, the Madame/housemaid relationship and the rules that govern it remain under the managerial hold of the Madame. More
“...Nayla Moukarbel makes important new theoretical contributions on relations between domestic workers and their employers... She also provides new empirical data...from embassy interviews with employers of runaways, dinner party conversations between employers and experiences in detention centres. In short, this book is just what research should be....”
-- Bridget Anderson, Senior Researcher, Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, University of Oxford--
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EUROPEAN INTEGRATION: A MATTER OF ACKNOWLEDGING IDENTITIES
(2008), Policy brief 14, Charles Westin, Amsterdam: IMISCOE The European Union aims to integrate new and old member states and seeks to create an economically strong, democratic and administratively well-functioning union of independent states that peacefully co-exist. In order to realise this, policymakers must validate the complexities of identity issues in an increasingly multiethnic Europe. This policy brief addresses such questions of identity at the European, national and local policy levels. This brief is based on the forthcoming IMISCOE publication Identity Processes and Dynamics in Multiethnic Europe by Charles Westin et al. (eds).
TIES ACROSS BORDERS: THE GROWING SALIENCE OF TRANSNATIONALISM AND DIASPORA POLITICS
(2008), Policy Brief 13, Rainer Bauböck, Amsterdam: IMISCOE Most contemporary forms of migration create enduring ties across international borders. Migrants’ transnational connections and activities offer both opportunities and challenges for source and destination countries. Conflicting attitudes towards migrant transnationalism can produce serious obstacles for the migration management that policymakers on both sides claim to pursue. This policy brief gives insight into new realities of transnationalism and in policy trends in both sending and host countries that shape ties across borders.
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NEW RESEARCH PROJECTS
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SUPPORT AND OPPOSITION TO MIGRATION
A cross national comparison of the politicization of migration (SOM)
This project is selected within Framework Programme 7 of the European Commission. This project will analyse anti-immigrant movements and parties and their relations with immigrant and pro-immigrant movements in a comparative perspective.
The project will be coordinated by Gianni D’Amato of the University of Neuchâtel and Wouter van der Brug of the University of Amsterdam. In total 4 projects have now been selected in FP7 that have been initiated within the context of IMISCOE: MAFE (on migration flows between Africa and Europe), GEITONIES (on
social and ethnic groups at the neighbourhood level), EURISLAM (on
the socio-cultural integration of Muslim immigrant populations in Europe)
and SOM.
ACCESS TO CITIZENSHIP IN EUROPE (EUCITAC)
This project is a follow up to the NATAC project and the IMISCOE book on Citizenship Policies in the New Europe. This project will be funded by DG JLS and coordinated by Rainer Bauböck (EUI) and Jo Shaw (University of Edinburgh). EUCITAC will establish a specialized comparative European observatory on citizenship laws and policies in the 27 member states of the EU and neighbouring countries. It will be nested within the European Democracy Observatory (EUDO) as well as within the EUROPA institute site at Edinburgh University. It will identify major trends and problems in citizenship policies as a basis for informed policies and community action.
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11-13 December 2008, TIES ACADEMIC CONFERENCE
At the international TIES Academic Conference in Amsterdam the team of the TIES (The Integration of the Second Generation in Europe) project will present the main comparative findings across the eight countries included in this project. The following themes will be specifically discussed: Education, Labourmarket, Identity and Discrimination. Distinguished North American guests will act as discussants, and will give public key note lectures presenting findings of main research projects on the second generation in North America and Australia.
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17 December 2008, BOOK PRESENTATION ILLEGAL MIGRATION AND GENDER
A first copy of the IMISCOE publication Illegal Migration and Gender in a Global and Historical Perspective (Marlou Schrover, Joanne van der Leun, Leo Lucassen, Chris Quispel -Eds.-) will be officially offered to the Dutch State Secretary of Justice Nebahat Albayrak (in Leiden). The study combines two often discussed topics in the migration field; illegal migration and gender and migration. Invitation
27-31 January 2009, IMISCOE PHD WINTERSCHOOL.
INED (Institut National d'Etudes Démographiques, Paris) will organise the IMISCOE winter school 2009. The focus of this event is on communication skills, oral presentations and writing skills. The event is organised by Patrick Simon and Nadja Milewski from INED, with the participation of INED and IMISCOE researchers. The Winter School is open to IMISCOE PhD students only. Programme
6-9 April 2009, IMISCOE ANNUAL BOARD MEETINGS
At the annual board meetings IMISCOE Directors will discuss the progress and future of IMISCOE, specifically relating to (integrative) research activities, training and communication. A Consortium Agreement for the future IMISCOE Research Network after April 2010 shall also be signed by committed partners.
13-15 May 2009, IMISCOE Theory Conference Interethnic Relations: Multidisciplinary Approaches. IMISCOE has initiated five so called theory conferences as strategic tools to explore new lines of research and stimulate theory and methodology development. Four such conferences have already been organised on the topics of: Transit migration in Europe, Diaspora and transnationalism, The nexus between migration/integration research and policy (policy brief forthcoming) and Theories of migration and social change (policy brief forthcoming). The fifth and final theory conference aims to shed conceptual and theoretical light on a classic problem area of migration and integration research namely interethnic relations. The conference will approach this subject in a broad way, aiming to bring together scholars from different disciplines in the social and behavioural sciences and history. More
10-11 September 2009, SIXTH ANNUAL IMISCOE CONFERENCE
The sixth annual IMISCOE conference will be hosted by IMISCOE partner CEIFO at the University of Stockholm in Sweden. The conference will bring together IMISCOE members and external experts to discuss themes relevant to the network and the ongoing work of the research clusters. The sixth annual conference will probably focus on the topic of discrimination.
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