MARCH

Development on the Move: The Place of Migration in Future Development Strategies

25.03.2010, Geneva, Switzerland

Laura Chappell, a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), talks about "Development on the Move: The Place of Migration in Future Development Strategies".

IOM Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland

http://www.iom.int/jahia/Jahia/events/eventEU/cache/offonce?entryId=27047

APRIL

CRS Annual Student Conference

York University, Canada

April 8, 2010 – April 9, 2010

The Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS) Student Caucus is pleased to announce that the Annual Student Conference will take place on April 8th and 9th at York University, Toronto, Canada. This event offers Graduate and Undergraduate Students across disciplines and those with a keen interest in migration and refugee issues the opportunity to present and discuss their research ideas with fellow students, academics, professional, frontline practitioners, researchers and all those interested in forced migration issues.

http://crsconferences.apps01.yorku.ca/index.php?conference=Conf2010&schedConf=Conf2010

Ostrava (Czech Republic) and Krakow (Poland), 16 - 21 April 2010

Bratislava (Slovakia) and Vienna (Austria), 14 - 18 May 2010

Berlin (Germany), 18 - 21 June 2010

Historically, European cities always faced the challenge of dealing with migration; the urban much more than the rural spaces thus became the realm in which the ability to integrate, accommodate and include diverse and changing populations had to be negotiated. Any talk of inclusion should, however take note underlying power structures, and question who defines the rules of integration. How are the chances of this model´s survival in a changing economic and demographic environment, characterized by the influx of new migrants, the rising power of developers and investors, and the spread of urban areas beyond its historic borders? The uncertainty about the future of the "European city" model is maybe most visible in case of the cities of Central and Eastern Europe, which experience a process of rapid changes that affects the cities´ social and built fabric and the political steering of its development.

Multicultural Centre Prague

http://www.migrationonline.cz/calendar/?x=2205791

22.04.2010, Geneva, Switzerland

Dovelyn Agunias, the Policy Analyst for Migration Policy Institute talks about "The Future of Diaspora Policy".

IOM Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland

http://www.iom.int/jahia/Jahia/events/eventEU/cache/bypass?t=1271496973588&range=month

Khalid Koser (Geneva Centre for Security Policy)

28 April 2010

Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies

http://www.soas.ac.uk/events/event57699.html

University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies Events

http://www.soas.ac.uk/about/events/

04 May 2010

Speaker, Martin Ruhs (Oxford)

London Migration Research Group

http://lmrg.org.uk/

05 – 23 July 2010

The summer school offers an intensive, interdisciplinary and participative approach to the study of forced migration. It aims to enable people working with refugees and other forced migrants to reflect critically on the forces and institutions that dominate the world of the displaced. Now in its 21st year, the three-week course combines the very best of Oxford University’s academic excellence with the ground-breaking interactive method of study developed by the UK’s Open University.

Oxford Department of International Development

http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/index.html?teaching_summer

18 May 2010

Speaker, Antje Ellerman (University of British Columbia, Canada)

London Migration Research Group

http://lmrg.org.uk/

Friday 21^st May 2010

StAntony ̕ s College, The Refugee Studies Centre and the Centre on Migration Policy and Society, University of Oxford

This workshop aims to provide an academic forum for the discussion of immigration detention in liberal, democratic countries. This practice raises important questions for researchers from different fields of study. These questions include:

What implication does immigration detention have for understanding state power and the future governance of communities? How is this practice located in the wider history of immigration control in liberal, democratic states? Why are immigration detention regimes continuing to expand? How is it contributing to the reformulation of citizenship?

http://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/fileadmin/files/pdfs/Call_for_Papers/Stephanie_Immigration_Detention_Call_for_Papers.pdf

World Bank /AFD

Marseille, France

Objectives

The workshop will share knowledge of current research on climate induced migration and displacement carried out in and on the region, creating networks of researchers on these themes, and defining the agenda for future research.

Workshop Themes

The workshop will focus on different dimensions of internal and international climate-induced migration. Papers on internal (within country) migration and migration trends from Sub-Saharan Africa to MENA are particularly welcome, as are papers and contributions based on multi-disciplinary approaches and methodologies (qualitative, quantitative, and spatial). Papers should be focused on the themes addressed by the workshop.

http://www.emwis.net/thematicdirs/news/climate-induced-migration-middle-east-north

Saturday 19th - Sunday 20th June, 2010

London School of Economics and Political Science

The Departments of Anthropology and Sociology|, in association with the LSE Migration Studies Unit, invite you to participate in a two-day graduate workshop exploring ethnographic approaches to the study of migration. Following the success of last year's event, the Ethnographies of Migration Workshop will provide a forum for PhD researchers to exchange ideas, present their work and receive critical feedback. Presentations may be based on recently completed, ongoing or planned research on any aspect of migration.

http://www2.lse.ac.uk/government/research/resgroups/MSU/upcomingevents.aspx

Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University

Based on our 2008 experience, we continue to seek for a lively discussion environment among scholars who have been active in migration research, not just on the European scale. The keynote speakers will bring fresh ideas that will be discussed by Ph.D. students and other scholars. We aspire to juxtapose multiple views and by doing this to reinforce critical thinking about migrations in the contemporary world. Conference framework papers will be made available before the conference. Conference participants are called to prepare their contributions taking into account these framework papers.

http://ivris.fss.muni.cz/migrations/konf2010/

21 – 25 June, Montreal

Faculté de droit de l'Université de Montréal

Cette école d'été, proposée par la Chaire Jean Monnet, vise à proposer un aperçu des aspects juridiques liés au thème de la libre circulation et des droits de la personne dans une perspective comparative.

Ainsi, seront abordés des thèmes tels que :
- La libre circulation et les droits de la personne en droit comparé;
- le droit européen et la libre circulation;
- la sécurité et la migration en droit canadien, international et européen;
- visas et asile en droit canadien, international et européen;
- la libre circulation et la lutte contre le terrorisme en Europe.

http://www.crdp.umontreal.ca/fr/evenements/index.html

Georgia, Bazaleti Lake, June 27-July 3

Network of Education Policy Centers

Policy Lab

Migration and Education Policy Lab for Education Policy Experts and Practitioners will be organized by the Network of Education Policy Centers in collaboration wit Research Institute of Education International in Brussels on the 20th and 21st of May 2010.

The event will consist of three learning sessions with presentations by lecturers/ experts followed by two moderated solution-generating sessions The learning sessions will consist of presentations by experts on education and migration policy with following commentary and critique / alternative perspective from another expert. The invited experts will represent academic and think-tank perspectives as well as the perspectives of international organizations.

www.edupolicy.net

MIGRATION AND DIVERSITY IN THE GREATER MEDITERRANEAN: SOCIAL AND
OTHER IMPLICATIONS
Kamilari Crete Greece
11 - 16 July 2010

To be considered for participation in the conference, please send Prof. N. I. Xirotiris (e-mail) a paper abstract of about 250 words, along with an abbreviated CV, no later than 15 May 2010. Paper submissions should be about 20 pages in length with approximately 45 minutes reading time.

Papers should be free of errors and of publication quality as we plan to publish the conferenceproceedings.

http://utopia.duth.gr/~xirot/Migration/Migration.html

July 19 - August 1, 2010
Center for the Research of Ethnicity and Culture

Summer School of Ethnicity and Migration Studies is a two-week educational
program covering topics connected with nationalism and ethnicity, de-ethnization
of the public sphere, migration and integration analysis, approaches and
policies. Topics connected to de-construction of national myths, analyses of
public policies concerning minorities and discussions over desired migration
policy models form the core of the Summer school activities. Through debates,
lectures and workshops, it presents a unique informal learning space for student
from the Central European countries and creates space for the participants to
get familiar with each others ideas and initiate international cooperation.
Lectures and workshops held by highly qualified experts from the region will be
complemented with topical study trips.

http://www.cvek.sk/main.php?p=projekty&lang=en

Innovating Qualitative Research: Challenges and Opportunities. New Directions in Religion, Technology, Migration and Beyond

University Bayreuth, September 20–22. European Sociological Association.

Research Network 20 Qualitative Methods

http://www.soz.uni-bayreuth.de/en/conferences/ESAmidterm2010/index.html

We invite all interested researchers to participate in a series of thematic
sessions which serve to identify innovations and challenges in qualitative
research within specific research areas, including religion, technology and
migration.

The overall goal of the conference is to gather European scholars and students
from different fields and perspectives to examine and promote qualitative
research in the social sciences.

“Geography – 2010 – Pécs”

Institute of Geography and the Doctoral School of Earth Sciences of the University of Pécs

4 – 6 November

The city of Pécs is honoured by the title ‘European Capital of Culture’ for the year of 2010 by the EU. Thereforethe organizers would like to enrich both the city and the professional community with a geographical event on a European level regarding its significance and extent.

The European Union as an entity owns especially numerous classical and novel political geographical problems. Some of them are related to interior issues (centre – periphery, core region, the relation of state and citizens etc.), while others refer to the relations and interactions between the EU and the other actors of world politics (borders, access to resources, conflict zones, international migration, neighbourhood policy etc.). The troubles and the problematic geographical regions have been already separately dealt with on several scientific and professional forums; nevertheless we put an emphasis on the European Union itself. We do not intend to examine the political geographical issues of the individual member states, but we focus on the political geographical matters of the European Union as an entity.

 http://balkancenter.ttk.pte.hu/index.php?id=241

The conference aims to bring together scholars from various research areas within the larger scope of sociology, who share an interest in the changes of the Romanian social context. The event is hosted by the Faculty of Sociology and Social Work of the “Babes-Bolyai Cluj-Napoca.

Please note the sessions on migration:

---Identities, Immigration, and the State: Policies and Politics of Citizenship in Eastern Europe (convener Irina Culic, "Babes-Bolyai University, Romania and University of Windsor, Canada)

---Migration, Ethnicity and Diffuse Citizenship (convener Remus Anghel, Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities)

---The last wave migrants in European Union and their social worlds (convener Dumitru Sandu, Bucharest University, Romania)

http://cluj2010.wordpress.com/sessions/