IMISCOE Newsletter Volume 4, No. 1, April 2007
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 :
- New IMISCOE partner
- Experts database on migration and integration online
- Latest IMISCOE titles
- News from IMISCOE partners (projects and publications)
- Events
- Subscribe/unsubscribe
New IMISCOE partner
The Centre for Economic and Social Studies in Tirana, Albania joins the network as partner
We are pleased to announce that The Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS), in Tirana, Albania has joined our network. This cooperation should contribute to building existing research capacity in Albania and expanding it further, aiming for a high level of research excellence. Four key goals have been formulated: participation in IMISCOE; development of an intensive training course on internal and international migration, development and return, designed for the Albanian context; organisation of a conference on migration from Albania and Western Balkans and the preparation of a comprehensive State-of-the-Art Report (SOAR) on Albanian migration.
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Experts database on migration and integration online
The Experts Database on Migration and Integration (DEMI).
IMISCOE has built this database to help in identifying expertise in the broad area of migration related research. The database contains information on researchers in the field of migration, integration and social cohesion, covering not only Europe (including Turkey) but also the US, Canada and Australia.
The database allows searching on institute, name of researcher and fields of expertise.
In this database also non-IMISCOE members are included. We would like to build an experts database as comprehensive as possible. Please inform IMISCOE when your name is missing or you feel a name is missing in this experts database. You may do so by using the following link: Online submission form. New submissions will be checked by an independent board. The content of what will be inserted will always be checked with the person concerned and after approval added to the database.
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IMISCOE publications
IMISCOE Policy Brief: Inside Perspectives on the Process of Human smuggling, Ilse van Liempt
This policy brief is of interest to policymakers who deal with irregular migration and asylum, particularly as the fields pertain to human smuggling. Presented here are the conclusions of a doctoral research project on human smuggling called Navigating Borders: Inside Perspectives on the Process of Human Smuggling into the Netherlands (Van Liempt 2007). This study analyses human smuggling processes into the Netherlands from Iraq, the Horn of Africa and the former Soviet Union. The central question it raises is: what impact does smuggling have on how migration process evolve and, consequently, what choices do migrants make within this process? Navigating Borders presents an alternative perspective from which to take into account social perceptions of human smuggling, to pay more attention to diversity within smuggling processes and to accommodate the complex stories that may lie hidden in the smuggling process.
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Innovative Concepts for Alternative Migration Policies. Ten Innovative Approaches to the Challenges of Migration in the 21st Century, Michael Jandl (Ed), IMISCOE-AUP Series 
This book is directed at researchers and policymakers at all levels and is intended to stimulate fresh thinking for the development of unconventional and innovative ideas for migration policymaking. The papers in this edited volume are the results of a joint ICMPD/IMISCOE workshop on Innovative Concepts for Alternative Migration Policies, with the participation of migration researchers, policymakers and representatives of international organisations. Based on the strengths of the combined ideas presented in these ten short papers by their authors, eight basic principles for the design of innovative migration policy approaches are developed and presented.
"These ten papers stimulate new policy thinking and rethinking. They succeed in pushing forward the analysis of managing new migration." Philip Martin, University of California, Davis
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Citizenship policies in the New Europe, Rainer Bauböck, Bernhard Perchinig and Wiebke Sievers (eds.) (forthcoming), IMISCOE-AUP Series 
In May 2004, ten new Member States joined the European Union. This enlargement has greatly increased the diversity of historic experiences and contemporary conceptions of statehood, nation-building and citizenship within the Union. How did newly formed states determine who would become their citizens? How do countries relate to their large emigrant communities, to ethnic kin minorities in neighbouring countries and to minorities in their own territory? And to which extent have their citizenship policies been affected by new immigration and integration into the European Union? This book describes the citizenship laws in each of the ten new countries as well as in Turkey and analyses their historical background. Citizenship Policies in the New Europe complements two volumes on Acquisition and Loss of Nationality prior published in the same series to present comparative analyses of citizenship regulations in the fifteen old Member States.
''A worthy completion of the most impressive research ever done on European citizenship laws.'' Christian Joppke, American University of Paris.
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Secularism or Democracy? Associational Governance of Religious Diversity, Veit Bader (forthcoming), IMISCOE-AUP Series
This book offers an original and comprehensive conceptual, theoretical and practical approach to the problems of governing religious diversity. Its multi-disciplinary perspective combines moral and political philosophy, constitutional law, history, the sociology and anthropology of religions and comparative institutionalism. The result is the introduction of associative democracy as a plausible third way to overcome the inherent deficiencies of American denominationalism and European neo-corporatist cooperation between state and churches.
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IMISCOE Working Paper No. 15, Policymaking related to immigration and integration. The Dutch Case: a literature study, by María Bruquetas-Callejo, Blanca Garcés-Mascareñas, Rinus Penninx and Peter Scholten
The making of immigration and integration policies in the Netherlands has undergone notable changes over the past decades. The central questions of this paper are: how and why Dutch immigration and integration policies have developed into what they are today. And to what extent the development path of these policies accounts for either a degree of Dutch exceptionalism or a more general development applicable to other European countries as well. In this paper the authors focus not so much on the content of immigration and integration policies per se, but on the processes that have led to these policies. They focus on what actors were involved in policymaking processes at particular times, how the policymaking was institutionally organised and how the policymaking process may have been affected by developments in wider institutional and political contexts.
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News from IMISCOE partners
Projects
EACH-FOR: Environmental CHange and FORced migration, including ERCOMER.
This is a FP6 funded project that will run in 2007 and 2008. The two-year long project’s general objectives are to support European policies, research and the civil society with detailed and aggregated ’forced migration’ data and forecasts, and cooperate with other migration and environment degradation related projects and institutions. EACH-FORincludes nine project partners from seven EU-countries. Particularly innovative is the integration of researchers from natural sciences and humanities at universities and other research institutions as well as enterprises in the consultancy sector.
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Educational Tools, Resources and Informal Learning Frameworks that Help to Reduce Prejudice, coordinated by EFMS
Since December 2006, the EFMS is in charge to conduct a mapping study of Educational Tools, Resources and Informal Learning Frameworks that Help to Reduce Prejudice on behalf of the Hanadiv Charitable Foundation. The objective of this study is to provide an overview on existing educational activities aiming at combating racism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism and related stereotypes with an explicit emphasis on seven EU countries.
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Integration of polish migrant workers in Norway, seen with the eyes of polish researchers, by CMR
This project is one of the first qualitative studies which will explore problems relating to the integration of Polish workers in Norway after the accession of Poland to the EU. The project aims to identify how Polish workers integrate in Norwegian society, in the labour market, institutions and welfare state.
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Mediterranean and Eastern European Countries as new immigration destinations in the European Union (IDEA), coordinated by CMR
In this 30-months project, funded in the Sixth Framework Programme, a consortium of scientific institutions from 9 EU states will analyse the causes, characteristics and impact of migratory flows in the new European immigration destinations -Southern and Eastern Europe, and with reference to the `established' European immigration countries.
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Migrants providing paid care for the elderly in private households, including COMPAS
This is a collaborative research project with the London-based charity Kalayaan, an organization that supports migrants working in private households. Kalayaan and COMPAS have developed a qualitative study investigating the role of migrants in the provision of elder care, their characteristics, their living and working conditions, and the impact of race and racism on the employment of migrant carers.
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Promoting Comparative Quantitative Research in the Field of Migration and Integration in Europe (PROMINSTAT), coordinated by ICMPD.
In March 2007 a consortium led by ICMPD and involving altogether 18 research institutions (of which 7 are members or associated members of IMISCOE) will start work on this 30-months research project on statistical data sources on migration and integration in Europe.
One of the main aims in the PROMINSTAT project is to build a comprehensive online database containing dataset descriptions of datasets relevant to the study of migration. In addition, the project will provide analyses of the national data collection system in each of the 27 countries.
The project is funded under the 6th Framework Programme.
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The Role of Migrant Health and Social Care Workers in Ageing Societies: Planning for the Future, by COMPAS.
Tthis project is now underway, with research design in progress, a briefing published on the COMPAS website, and project pages to be developed shortly. The project is a collaboration among researchers from COMPAS, the Oxford Institute of Ageing, and the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University.
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The european forum for migration studies has again been appointed as National Focal Point Germany of the RAXEN-network by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights. RAXEN 8 started on April, 1st, 2007.
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Publications
- A Preference for Migration by Oded Stark, January 2007, CMR Working Paper
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Ethnic Minorities’ Cultural and Artistic Practices as Forms of Political Expression: A review of the literature and a theoretical discussion on music, Marco Martiniello and Jean Michel Lafleur, State of the Art report IMISCOE reseach cluster B6.
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Het Mooist van Mokum, Jan Rath (2006), Rede uitgesproken ter gelegenheid van de aanvaarding van het ambt van Hoogleraar in de Sociologie, in het bijzonder de studie der stad en haar etnische en culturele verscheidenheid, aan de Faculteit der Maatschappij- en Gedragswetenschappen van de Universiteit van Amsterdam op vrijdag de 13de oktober 2006.
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Local integration policies for migrants in Europe, Maren Borkert, Wolfgang Bosswick, Friedrich Heckmann and Doris Lüken-Klaßen. Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg.
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Maßnahmen zur politischen Bildung für Migranten und Migrantinnen, Richard Wolf and Stefanie Reiter. Expertise für die Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb). Bamberg 2007.
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Muslims in the EU: cities report. The Netherlands (2007).Froukje Demant, Marcel Maussen and Jan Rath: Open Society Institute, EU Monitoring and Advocacy Program.
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National Data Collection Report 2005, Mario Peucker and Nicole Bosch, RAXEN 6 Report on Discrimination and Racism in Germany on behalf of the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC), Bamberg 2006.
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Polish Immigrants in Italy. Migration trends, the labour market and the social security system before and after May 1st 2004, by Kamila Kowalska-Angelelli, March 2007, CMR Working Paper.
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Processen van radicalisering, waarom sommige Amsterdamse moslims radicaal worden, (Processes of Radicalisation. Why some Amsterdam Muslims become radicals), Slootman, M. and J. Tillie (2006), Amsterdam: IMES.
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Sybille: Migration und Integration in Deutschland: Chronologie der Ereignisse und Debatten, Friedrich Heckmann and Drexler: In Bommes, Michael and Schiffauer, Werner (eds.): Migrationsreport 2006. Fakten - Analysen - Perspektiven, Campus Verlag, Frankfurt/New York 2006, 203-274
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The Brain Drain, `Educated Unemployment, Human Capital Formation, and Economic Betterment by Oded Stark, C. Simon Fan, March 2007, CMR Working Paper
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The Force of Regulation in the Land of the Free. The Persistence of Chinatown, Washington D.C. as a Symbolic Ethnic Enclave’, by Pang, C.L. and J. Rath (2007) in M. Lounsbury and M. Ruef (Eds) The Sociology of Entrepreneurship (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 25). New York: Elsevier.
- The governance of Islam in Western Europe, Marcel Maussen, State of the Art report IMISCOE reseach cluster B6.
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The hate crime concept in Germany and how to improve the knowledge on the extent of hate crimes, Mario Peucker, Paper prepared for the OSCE meeting `Tolerance Implementation Meeting: Addressing the hate crime data deficit' (Vienna, 8-10 November 2006). Bamberg 2006.
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The Transformation of Ethnic Neighborhoods into Places of Leisure and Consumption, Jan Rath (2007), Working Paper 144. San Diego, CA: University of California at San Diego, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies (CCIS).
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Tourism, Ethnic Diversity and the City. Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility Series, Jan Rath (Ed.) (2007) London and New York: Routledge.
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Events
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May 2-4, 2007, IMISCOE Cluster A1 conference, European Migration: Flows and Control, 2-4 May 2007, Home of Geography, Rome.
The proposed conference aims to bring together researchers, academics and policy-makers interested on the following issues: post enlargement (2004/2007) migration to the EU; the role of migrants and networks for the continuation of flows; irregular migration and the future and effectiveness of control. -
May 10, 2007, International conference: The local dimension of migration policy-making in Europe, organized by IMISCOE research cluster C9 (The Multilevel Governance of Immigrant and Immigration Policies), Turin, Italy.
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May 25-27, 2007, Sub-Saharan migrants in Europe, After a successful first edition on Sub-Saharan Migrants in Europe, in 2006, this year’s meeting aims to problematise the notion of Lusophonia. How and through what means is it being (re-)invented? Who are the protagonists of this ‘imagined community’ symbolic production? And, because it is essentially about people, groups and institutions, how is the construction of this global community translated in people’s circulation within the Lusophone space?.
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June 14-16, 2007, B3-C8 Joint Conference, Gender, Generations and the Family in International Migration, European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, San Domenico di Fiesole.
- June 18-20, 2007 IMISCOE PhD Conference, Amsterdam
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July 5-6, 2007, COMPAS Annual Conference 2007: Between ‘Parallel Lives’ and ‘Community Cohesion’: Toward new models of immigration, integration and multiculturalism –at St. Anne’s College in Oxford. The aim of this year’s conference is to take a fresh look at current conceptual models, policy frameworks and evidence of immigrant integration and ethnic relations.
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October, 10-11, 2007, International Conference, Migrinter, The migration of unaccompanied minors in Europe: the contexts of origin, the migration routes and the reception systems, Poitiers, France.
More… - September 6-9, 2007, Fourth IMISCOE Annual Conference, Sussex, UK
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September 19-21, 2007, seminar Integrating New Migrants in the New Europe: A Challenge for Community Psychology, Seville, Spain.
This seminar is open to researchers from all disciplines and will cover a wide range of topics. Proposals for presentations, workshops, posters etc. are welcome (deadline: May 15th).
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`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.
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COMPAS Seminar Series Hilary Term 2007: Migration on the Fringes of Europe: Trends, Patterns, Transformation. The seminars are open to everyone and will be held on Thursdays at 14.00 to 15.30, in the seminar room in the Institute of Human Sciences, Pauling Centre, 58a Banbury Road.
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EFMS expert workshops Transatlantic Discourse on Integration (supported by the German Marshall Fund of the United States).The aim of these workshops is to promote the exchange between American and German/European experts both from research and from politics and practice.
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