April 2015

Newsletter #03

Program of the 12th IMISCOE's annual conference in Geneva now available online

The full program of our annual conference in Geneva (25-27 June) is now available on our website. The program includes detailed information on all parts of the program; plenaries of the IMISCOE conference and the 20^th anniversary SFM, the 111 panels and workshops as well as related conference events. 
To find your paper, panel or workshop, please consult the index at the last pages of the program booklet for further session information.

Portal for uploading conference papers is now online

As of today the portal is available to upload full conference papers. Please consult the conference program for the session number and/or the title of the session for which you are uploading your paper.  Use PDF-format only. Please note that in order to have a chance at being nominated for the Rinus Penninx Best Paper Award you have to upload your paper by 21^st May the latest.

PhD network 

REMINDER: PhD Training Workshop - Geneva June 25, 2015

​09:00 – 15:30, Room MR160 (registration)
 

As part of the recently launched IMISCOE PhD Network, a special PhD training program is offered at the conference in Geneva this year. 
 

09:30 - 12:00

The PhD workshop will open with a key note speech by Zana Vathi (Edge Hill University), winner of the Maria Ioannis Baganha PhD Thesis Award 2012. The opening speech will be followed by two intensive training sessions around the following topics:

Training Session Part (I):

• Migration, Citizenship and Political Participation, by Maarten Vink (Maastricht University) and Costica Dumbrava (Maastricht University) - Room MR160

• Transnationalism, by  Janine Dahinden (University of Neuchâtel) - Room MR170 

• Post-Migration Urban Settings, by Blanca Garcés Mascareñas (Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona) Room M1193

• Mixed Methodology and Multi-Sited Fieldwork Russel King (University of Sussex) Room M1140

Training Session Part (II) starts after lunch: 12:45
 

The full day program consists of masterclasses led by experts of the European IMISCOE Network on Migration and Integration, and offers you the opportunity to present and discuss your paper in a peer setting. Both sessions are highly interactive and will create the opportunity for extensive feedback and discussion.

15.00- 15.40   Plenary closing IMISCOE-PhD Network and Workshop

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The IMISCOE biography is online!

At the occasion of the tenth anniversary of IMISCOE, in April 2014, Aafke Brus (from Radboud University Nijmegen) wrote a study of the history, development and impact of IMISCOE. She studied the minutes of the Board of Directors meetings, interviewed key persons involved in the development of IMISCOE, and held a survey amongst directors of institutional members as well as amongst individual members. Her work entitled: 'Excellence, Diversity and Growth: A historical biography of the IMISCOE Research Network' sheds light not only on the history of the network, but also its structure, its research and publications.
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