IMISCOE NEWSLETTER VOl. 5, NO. 2- JUNE 2008
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THE FUTURE OF IMISCOE
Now in our fifth year of IMISCOE we can look back at four productive years in which we succeeded to unite over 500 European researchers from a variety of disciplines and started to build a European infrastructure for research in the domains of international migration and integration. But we also have to look forward, beyond our official funding period of the European Commission (until April 2009) and take steps to keep IMISCOE alive, a wish
unanimously expressed in our board meetings and in an internal survey among our members. A first important step is already taken, namely the permission from the European Commission to use our under-spending in the first two years for an extension of one year until April 2010. In this coming period we will decide on the key activities of a future IMISCOE as well as the financing structure. A Sixth Annual Conference has already been planned in September 2009 (Stockholm).
THE RESEARCH-POLICY NEXUS; A COMMUNITY WEBSITE
One of the aims of IMISCOE is to exchange knowledge with a broad public and specifically with policy makers. We can basically distinguish four types of activities we undertake to reach this goal: 1) gather relevant expertise and knowledge (IMISCOE website, Online Library and Expert Database); 2) produce new results (Publication programme); 3) translate the research results (IMISCOE policy briefs) and 4) interact to promote engagement (Cooperation with key partners in the field, Communication training, Policy-oriented workshops and Media sessions). An additional tool we are currently developing is a so called Community Website that specifically targets policymakers. This site will present short policy abstracts of pertinent documents, allow users to search according to specific fields of policy interest and offer subscription to an RSS feed. The expected delivery date is end 2008.
AWARD FOR RESEARCH CONTRIBUTING TO PUBLIC POLICY ON MIGRATION, REFUGEES AND DEVELOPMENT
IMISCOE member Prof. Richard Black, Co-director of the Sussex Centre for Migration Research, has been awarded by the Royal Geographical Society (with Institute for British Geographers) the prestigious Back Award for ‘research contributing to public policy on migration, refugees and development’. The award was made at the AGM
at the Society's headquarters in central London
on 2 June 2008.
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EURISLAM- COORDINATED BY IMISCOE PARTNER IMES
The Seventh Framework Programme of the European Commission has awarded 1.5 million euro to the EURISLAM project. This international comparative project will analyse the relation between socio-cultural integration of Muslim immigrant populations in Europe on the one hand and different traditions of national identity, citizenship and church state relations on the other. Comparative research will be conducted in Belgium, Germany, France, Great Britain, The Netherlands and Switzerland. EURISLAM will be coordinated by Prof. Jean Tillie of IMES. The other participants are: Ruud Koopmans, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB); Marco Giugni, Université de Genève; Paul Staham, University of Bristol;Dirk Jacobs, Université Libre de Bruxelles and Manlio Cinalli, Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, Paris. The expected starting date of the project is 1 January, 2009. The project will run for three years. A project website will be launched in due time.
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| IMISCOE-AUP TITLES HIGHLIGHTED |
INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION IN EUROPE
New Trends and New Methods of Analysis
Corrado Bonifazi, Marek Okolski, Jeanette Schoorl and Patrick simon (eds.)
Over the last twenty years, international migration issues have gained growing importance in the public debate of most European countries. Societies are more and more becoming aware of the arrival of new immigrants and the subsequent problems that may be ushered in by integration processes. This book addresses such issues of contemporary concern in fifteen chapters that explore international migration’s various dimensions through multiple disciplinary perspectives. In particular, this volume analyses new forms of migration, the evolution of regional patterns, the intergenerational process of integration and the use of special survey techniques in migration studies.
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THE FAMILY IN QUESTION
Immigrant and Ethnic Minorities in Multicultural Europe
Ralph Grillo (ed)
The family lives of immigrants and settled ethnic minority populations have become central to arguments about the rights and wrongs of ways of living in multicultural societies. They have given rise to an intense, often acrimonious, debate about cultural difference and its limits. In consequence, the cultural practices believed to be characteristic of such families are now the object of much media comment and frequent policy initiatives. At the same time, immigrants and ethnic minorities are themselves reflecting deeply on how to manage their family relationships in a world in which migration is transnational, societies are increasingly pluralised and relations ever more complex and less clear-cut. The Family in Question explores these debates in a series of case studies focusing on immigrant and minority ethnic families in Austria, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, the UK, and for comparative purposes Australia.
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MIGRANTS AND MARKETS
Perspectives from Economics and the Other Social Sciences
Holger Kolb and Henrik Egbert (eds)
The established academic discipline that is economics and migration research – as a growing sub-discipline that has inevitably transgressed its own academic bounds – have long treated each other with mutual indifference. While migration research has suffered from a normative overstretch, economics has often reduced its analytical scope to those areas that traditionally belong to the ‘genuine’ economic sphere. Migrants and Markets contains eleven case studies that aim to overcome this artificially imposed barrier between economics and migration research. This is accomplished by applying economic methods to migratory phenomena, using economic theories to explain migratory patterns and by approaching the structure and development of markets as integral to the shaping of stocks and flows of migrants.
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HOW SHOULD LIBERAL-DEMOCRATIC STATES ACCOMODATE RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY?
Established institutions and policies that deal with religious diversity in liberal-democratic states are under pressure more than ever before. This policy brief, based on the IMISCOE publication Secularism or Democracy? Associational Governance of Religious Diversity (Amsterdam University Press 2007) by Veit Bader, takes an original theoretical and practical approach to problems concerning the governance of religious diversity. It proposes a moderate and flexible version of democratic institutional pluralism called Associative Democracy (AD).
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THE FUTURE FOR MIGRATION RESEARCH IN EUROPE
This policy brief discusses the challenges for future migration research in Europe in relation to migration developments and policy making. The brief is based on the IMISCOE publication The Dynamics of International Migration and Settlement in Europe (2006), by Rinus Penninx, Maria Berger and Karen Kraal (eds.). The main argument is that the political discourse on migration and settlement could be fed more efficiently by developing new approaches and perspectives to better understand the dynamics of migration and settlement.
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DIVERSITY, EQUALITY AND DISCRIMINATION IN WORKING LIFE
This policy brief is based on an international IMISCOE expert meeting including trade unions and employers which took place on 15-16 November 2007. The brief explores the causes of labour market exclusion and company measures to promote diversity and sets out strategies to achieve equal opportunities on the labour market. The brief underlines the role of discrimination in limiting, if not altogether blocking, career opportunities and stresses the role of legislation and the commitment of trade unions, employers and researchers.
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| WORKING PAPERS |
IMMIGRATION AND INTEGRATION POLICYMAKING IN SPAIN
This paper outlines the principal characteristics of immigration in Spain and focuses on (the implementation of) immigration policies and integration policies. This working paper will be a chapter in a publication on immigration and integration policymaking in Europe, which is the product of the work of IMISCOE Cluster C9 The multilevel governance of migration (forthcoming in the IMISCOE-AUP Series).
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| IMISCOE CRASH COURSES |
PURPOSE
IMISCOE organises so called crash courses to catch up with the latest in the field of international migration and integration. These courses are offered to IMISCOE and non-IMISCOE institutions that are interested in such intensive training programmes. The programme specifically targets PhD students and other early-stage researchers, but also a broader circle of universities that have not yet joined the Network. The crash courses last three to seven days, can be offered on site so that travel and accommodation expenses need only be taken care of for teaching staff, and are therefore relatively inexpensive. The details of the programme are determined in a mutual agreement between the IMISCOE Training Committee and the host institute.
FIRST CRASH COURSE IN LEBANON
The first IMISCOE crash course was held in Lebanon on 24-29 April, 2008 in coorperation with the Lebanese Emigration Research Center (LERC) at Notre Dame University (NDU). The programme addressed the difficulties of research in the field of international migration and integration, with a particular focus on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Expert instruction over five days was given by four IMISCOE scholars. The course attracted 31 participants from Lebanon, the USA, the UK, Germany, and Egypt pooling the skills and experience of some of the most promising professors and young researchers working in the field or related fields.
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| EVENTS |
- 30 June-4 July 2008, IMISCOE PhD Conference, Lisbon, Portugal
This workshop for IMISCOE and non-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. - 1-3 July 2008, IMISCOE Theory Conference, Theories of Migration and Social Change Conference. St Anne’s College, Woodstock Road, Oxford. Programme
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16-18 July 2008, Workshop: Local Dynamics and Immigrant Economic Outcomes, the workshop is organized by the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance in cooperation with IMISCOE. More...
- 9-12 September 2008, Fifth IMISCOE Annual Conference, Bilbao, Spain
- 31 October-1 November 2008, Moroccan Memories: a European Comparative Perspective, the University of Sussex, UK. A two-day joint conference organised by The Migrant and Refugee Communities Forum, The Sussex Centre for Migration Research (University of Sussex) and IMISCOE.
- September 2009, Sixth IMISCOE Annual Conference, Stockholm, Sweden
