IMISCOE NEWSLETTER VOl. 6, NO. 3- November 2009
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| NETWORK NEWS |
IMISCOE NoE is offically funded by the European Commission until 1 April 2010. IMISCOE will continue as self-financed IMISCOE Research Network (RN). IMISCOE RN was established on 1 April 2009.
| NEW IMISCOE RN MEMBER |
CEREN-
Centre for Research on Ethnic Relations and Nationalism, University of Helsinki, Finland. CEREN is the latest member of IMISCOE RN. CEREN, was established in 1998 at the Swedish School of Social Science (SSKH) at the University of Helsinki. The aims of CEREN are to conduct and support research and teaching in the field, mainly in social and human sciences; to gather and document Finnish research and results in this area; arrange relevant seminars and postgraduate teaching and develop national and international networks for research and teaching. They furthermore work together with official bodies and immigrant and minority groups in the struggle against racism and xenophobia.
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| IMISCOE RN MEMBER INTRODUCED |
IEM-The University Institute for Migrations Studies joined IMISCOE RN in June 2009. IEM is an interdisciplinary research institute at the Pontifical Comillas University of Madrid. It was founded in 1994 with the objective of undertaking in-depth and comprehensive studies on migration in present-day Spain. Its principal areas of activity are: migration research, teaching on migration at all levels of university education, giving advice and support to public and private entities involved in activities related to migration issues and providing practical formation for assistance of ethnic groups and immigrants. It has become an important migration research unit in Spain. Over the last 15 years IEM has been involved in a number of large-scale migration projects (like
the European Migration Network,
the Odysseus Network,
TIES RTN and
the European Observatory on Free Movement of Workers). IEM unites researchers with sociological, economic, demography, political science, law, social anthropology and cross-cultural psychology backgrounds. The IEM envisages "IMISCOE RN as one of the most important knowledge networks on international migration" and "underlines the importance of organising training of future researchers and practitioners and disseminating the results of research to a wide audience. All these crucial objectives must be continued in a workable research infrastructure as the new IMISCOE RN."
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| IMISCOE BOOKS |
Equal Opportunities and Ethnic Inequality in European Labour Markets: Discrimination, Gender and Policies of Diversity, (2009) Karen Kraal, Judith Roosblad and John Wrench 
(Eds), Amsterdam: IMISCOE-AUP Series The need to analyse labour market mechanisms in post-industrial Western societies is urgent. Despite laws and policy measures being developed at the European, national and local levels, job-seeking immigrants and ethnic minorities still suffer unequal access and ethnic discrimination. This volume endeavours to understand why. Four chapters dealing with discrimination, gender, equity policies and diversity management present a lively discussion of the current scientific debate. Besides providing empirical evidence, the authors recommend methods for conducting further research in the field and evaluate the actual effects of discrimination-combating policies. One conclusion is that systematic analysis of the labour market and its subsequent equity policies must be supported by hard data, such as statistics. With its state-of-the-art scope and unique thematic exploration, this volume transfers knowledge from social science studies to a more operational realm.
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Illegal Residence and Public Safety in the Netherlands. 
(2009) Arjan Leerkes, Amsterdam: IMISCOE-AUP Dissertation Series Making illegal residence unattractive is a way for Western governments to limit migration from non-Western countries. Focusing on Dutch neighbourhoods with substantial levels of unauthorised migrants, Illegal Residence and Public Safety in the Netherlands examines how restrictive immigration policy influences immigrant crime and perceived neighborhood security. Salient questions arise. To what extent, and under which conditions, do illegal residence and illegal migration impact public safety? Does having illegal residence status influence how people observe or break the law and other social rules? Answers to these issues begin surfacing in this rich combination of quantitative information, comprising police figures and surveys on victimisation, and qualitative sources, including interviews at the Dutch Aliens Custody and urban field research.
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Breaking Down Anonymity: Digital Surveillance of Irregular Migrants in Germany and the 
Netherlands, (2009) Dennis Broeders, Amsterdam: IMISCOE-AUP Dissertation Series Through surveillance, EU member states aim to exclude irregular migrants from societal institutions, thereby discouraging their stay or deporting those who are apprehended. Identification has therefore become key. Breaking Down Anonymity shows how digital surveillance is becoming a prime instrument of identification and exclusion policies towards irregular migrants. The study charts policy developments in Germany and the Netherlands. It analyses both countries’ labour market controls as well as their detention and expulsion practices. Also examined is the development of several new EU migration databases. Spanning the Continent, these information systems create a new European Union frontier – one that is digital, biometric and ever-strengthening.
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Citizenship Policies in the New Europe, Expanded and Updated Edition, (20
09) Rainer Bauböck, Bernhard Perchinig, Wiebke Sievers, Eds., Amsterdam: IMISCOE-AUP Research Series. The two most recent EU enlargements in May 2004 and in January 2007 have greatly increased the diversity of historic experiences and contemporary conceptions of statehood, nation-building and citizenship within the Union. Citizenship Policies in the New Europe describes the citizenship laws in each of the twelve new countries as well as in the accession states Croatia and Turkey and analyses their historical background. Citizenship Policies in the New Europe complements two volumes on Acquisition and Loss of Nationality in the fifteen old Member States published in the same series in 2006.
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The country chapters are also available for download
| POLICY BRIEFS |
Policy Brief 17 (in FRENCH): L’imaginaire du complot, (2009) Jérôme Jamin, Amsterdam: IMISCOE This policy brief explores the importance of conspiracyrhetoric within populist and far right speeches in Europe and the United States. It shows how populist and far right parties have developed a rhetoric that is based on the rescue of democracy despite their obvious rejection of the values and principles which set up democracy. Jerome Jamin helps to explain why right-wing scapegoating and conspiracy theories have become so popular in countries around the world and how these manage to recruit people into political action that undermines social cohesion. The policy brief is based on the IMISCOE Publication by the same author: L’imaginaire du complot. Discours d’extrême droite en France et aux Etats-Unis (2009, IMISCOE-AUP Series, Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press).
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Policy brief 16: Family migration in Europe: policies vs. reality, (2009) Albert Kraler and Eleonore Kofman, Amsterdam: IMISCOE Family-related migration has become one of the main legal means for people to gain admission. Yet, current political and public debates increasingly see the ‘migrant family’ as an obstacle to integration. As a result, family-related modes of migration are more and more becoming subject to restrictions. This brief maintains that the assumptions underlying state policies as well as public debates on family-related migration do not do justice to the reality of family migration. The brief makes several suggestions to improve family migration related policies.
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| WORKING PAPERS |
Study on ‘The State of the Art of Research in the EU on the Uptake and Use of ICT by Immigrants and Ethnic Minorities (IEM)’, IMISCOE Working Paper No. 27, (2009) Maren Borker, Pietro Cingolani and
Viviana Premazzi. This working paper provides a snapshot of current research on the interactions between ICT and migration in Europe. Despite the fact that internet, mobile telephony and social computing have become widely acknowledged as crucial information portals, as well as social and professional networking devices and platforms, there is still a critical lack of research and data on interactions between ICT and migration processes. In this working paper literature published between 2004 and 2008 has been explored, and 156 publications investigating the issues of ICT and migration have been reviewed. In addition, a survey among more than 500 individual researchers was conducted in order to trace current research projects, as well as to identify European experts on ICT and migration.
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| RESEARCH UPDATE |
IMISCOE is a platform that brings together over 500 researchers who are engaged in and continually initiate new rinternational research projects. Here we report on milestones of such projects and on new projects.
LAUNCH OF AN OBSERVATORY ON CITIZENSHIP IN EUROPE 
EUDO, the European Union Democracy Observatory at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, launches today a new website on citizenship in Europe. EUDO CITIZENSHIP provides comprehensive analyses and data on citizenship laws and policies in all EU member states and six neighbouring countries. The EUDO CITIZENSHIP observatory features new expert reports on the history and current regulation of citizenship in each country, searchable databases on nationality laws and international legal norms, a comprehensive bibliography, a forum for debates, a selection of news from the media and other useful tools and information for policy makers, NGOs and academics with an interest in citizenship policies. The project is funded by the European Commission’s European Fund for the Integration of Third Country Nationals. Preparatory research was carried out within the IMISCOE network of excellence.
EURISLAM LAUNCHES WEBSITE
EURISLAM is an FP7 funded international comparative research project (coordinated by IMES) that analyses how the incorporation of Islam in European Member States is influenced by national traditions of identity, citizenship and church-state relations. EURISLAM will study how these traditions have affected interactions between Muslim immigrants and their off-spring and the receiving society. Fieldwork will be conducted in Belgium, France. Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the UK.
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NEW EDITIONS OF THE RAXEN-BULLETIN
Within the framework of the RAXEN project IMISCOE partner efms has compiled new editions of the RAXEN Bulletin. The newsletter provides information on current events, studies and statistics in the areas of discrimination and xenophobia in Germany: Bulletin 1/2009 and Bulletin2/2009
NEW RESEARCH PROJECT FUNDED IN NORFACE PROGRAMME
Theorizing the Evolution of European Migration Systems (THEMIS). Under what conditions do initial moves by pioneer migrants to Europe result in rapidly expanding network migration and the formation of migration systems, and under which conditions does this not happen? The THEMIS project will address this question theoretically, and through an empirical study of six migrant groups. Fieldwork will be conducted in eight cities in the the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and United Kingdom. THEMIS is funded by the NORFACE research programme on Migration in Europe.
The THEMIS project is co-ordinated by the International Migration Institute at the University of Oxford, with project partners including
the International Peace Research Institute in Norway (PRIO), the Erasmus University in Rotterdam and the University of Lisbon.
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| EVENTS |
- 23-24 March 2010, Annual Board Meetings, Brussels
- 13-14 September 2010, Seventh IMISCOE Annual Conference, Liege, Belgium
| ORGANISED BY IMISCOE PARTNERS |
- 15 October-3 December 2009 ( Thursdays 14.00 to 15.30 ): COMPAS Seminar Series Michaelmas 2009: Gender, Migration and Citizenship, Pauling Centre, 58a Banbury Road, Oxford. The analysis of gender and migration has moved beyond the charting of women's specific migration patterns and experiences. Feminist theory has contributed to recognition of borders of sites of social (re)-production, of immigration staus, of good and bad women, of nationhood, of work, of families and other, deeply gendered categories. This seminar series will explore this contribution through a multidisciplinary examniation of the theory, practice and experience of immigration controls and citizenship from a feminist perspective. More...
- 8 december 2009, (15:00-17:00) Mapping the Financial Crisis: Cities of Capital, Law and Epistemology, Urban Studies Lecture by Elvin Wyly. In early 2007, troubling signs emerged in the obscure, "subprime" sector of American housing finance that specializes in marginalized people and places, and eventually exploded into the worst global financial crisis since the Great Depression. In this presentation, Elvin Wyly offers a critical cartography of the crisis, a mapping of the innovations of capital and law that built profits on discrimination and exploitation, and he reflects on the implications for progressive epistemologies and critical spatial analysis. More...
- 18-19 March 2010, International conference on Ethnic minority media, between legitimation and counter-hegemonic resistances', at the Maison des Sciences de lHomme et de la Societe (MSHS) in Poitiers (France). Ethnic minority media remains a subject rarely studied in the academic field. On the one hand these media are generally not visible, with an often limited lifetime, an uncertain economic viability and
situated on the periphery of the journalism field. On the other hand, these groups are frequently minorised, and / or poorly represented in mainstream media (amongst journalists as well as in media content) and more widely in political and union bodies. However, this subject seems rather interesting because it is at a crossroad of several disciplines and allows to combine and discuss the contributions of several research fields. More... - 8-10 September 2010, European Migration and Asylum Policies: Coherence or Contradiction? – An Interdisciplinary Evaluation of the EU Summits of Tampere (1999), The Hague (2004) and Stockholm (2009), Scribani International Conference 2010, Comillas Pontifical University – Madrid, Spain. Being aware of the significance of the new challenges raised by the European asylum and immigration policy, the Scribani Network proposes to launch this international conference and gather contributions from sociology, anthropology, economy, law, political science, etc. More...
| RELATED EVENTS |
- November 9 - December 11, 2009, Migration and Labour. REMESO Graduate School for PhD and Master students (On-campus week, November 23–27). This course looks at the debates over pathways to 'decent work' in a neo-liberal era. It examines alternative scenarios that would allow the establishment of rights-based frameworks of social justice for labour migrants. Flyer Website Syllabus
- 14 December 2009, Young, Urban, Migrant - From Challenge to Chance, EUKN 2009 Conference, Malmö - Zweden. At the EUKN 2009 Conference, speakers and participants will identify what works and does not work in local integration policies, look for answers on how to improve the social participation of immigrant youth and develop insight in the state of the field in Europe’s cities. More...
- 18 January –19 February 2010 REMESO Graduate School in Migration, Ethnicity and Society invites Swedish and international PhD candidates and Master students to apply to the course: International Migration, Ethnicity and Gender: Intersectional Perspectives on Labour, Power and Citizenship. More...
- 8-9 April 2010, (Un) Routed Identities: Borders, Boundaries, and Betweens, Annual Student Conference of the Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS), York University, Toronto, Canada. More...
- 21 -23 June 2010, 6th Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference: Gender, Work and Organization , Keele University, Staffordshire, UK. The Gender, Work and Organization conference provides an international forum for debate and analysis of a variety of issues in relation to management, work and organisation, and to gender studies. The 2007 conference at Keele University welcomed over 300 international scholars from 37 nations. More...
- 4-8 October , 2010, 15th International Metropolis Conference, Justice and Migration:Paradoxes of Belonging, The Hague, Netherlands. More...
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