Call for paper - 30 octobre 2009

JOURNEYS AND JUSTICE: Forced migration, seeking asylum, and human rights
A conference at the University of Leeds, UK
Friday 29th January 2010

This conference will examine the journeys of forced migrants. It will explore these journeys through the lenses of justice and human rights. A key part of the conference will be to debate better solutions to the problems of injustice and human rights denial that so often taint the journeys of forced migrants. Its focus is mainly on the UK, but contributions from elsewhere are welcome.
The conference will:
* Examine the forces causing people to involuntarily leave their homes
* Explore the often traumatic and chaotic routes forced migrants take in their journeys
* Investigate forced migrants' arrival experiences
* Consider how forced migrants are treated and supported in the UK
* Evaluate how well forced migrants are integrated
* Delve into what, why and how forced migrants return to their home country
* Focus on practical solutions and their policy implications
Keynote speakers:
Eleonore Kofman (Professor of Gender, Migration and Citizenship, Middlesex University)
Hsiao-Hung Pai (author of 'Chinese Whispers: The True Story Behind Britain's Hidden Army of Labour').
The conference will culminate in a 6pm 'Question Time' panel (free to attend) chaired by broadcaster
Jenni Murray, with well-known figures such as Jeremy Seabrook (author of 'The Refuge and the Fortress'),
Eleonore Kofman (Professor of Gender, Migration and Citizenship, Middlesex University) and
Mike Kaye (Still Human Still Here coalition & Amnesty).
We invite papers and other types of contributions (e.g. poetry, photography, film, art) which reflect on the below key issues. Please send your ideas (abstracts of no more than 250 words) to Louise Waite (email below) by October 30th 2009.
* Causes of forced migration (whether through persecution or other forms of coercion) such as economic crisis, environmental pressure, discrimination (due to e.g. gender, race, sexuality), war and global politics
* Experiences of seeking asylum
* Policies and procedures such as border control, the asylum system, denial, destitution, detention and deportation
* Issues of justice such as human rights and the rights of the child
* Longer term issues such as settlement, integration and citizenship
* Responses in civil society such as political mobilisation, activism and racialised antagonism
We hope that the conference will be of interest to the following: people with personal experience of forced migration; people who have settled, achieved citizenship and feel integrated or excluded; people working in this sector; volunteers; political activists; academics working in this field.
For conference registration (£40 full cost, £20 reduced cost, + limited bursaries): please see registration form at http://www.geog. leeds.ac. uk/research/ conferences/ journeys- and-justice. html.
Closing date for registration is December 1st 2009.
The organising committee
Clive Briscoe, Amnesty International clive.briscoeai@ btinternet. com
Professor Max Farrar, Leeds Met University m.farrar@leedsmet. ac.uk
Peter Richardson, Leeds Asylum Seekers Support Network peter@lassn. org.uk
Dr Louise Waite, University of Leeds l.waite@leeds. ac.uk

Au-delà des migrations de travail : Les réseaux de migrations et les espoirs d’ascension sociale

14e table ronde organisée par le groupe franco-allemand d’histoire sociale comparée

colloque 27/05/2010 - 28/05/2010
Délai : 15/09/2009

Depuis longtemps, l’importance des réseaux a été soulignée dans les recherches sur les migrations et a été établie empiriquement sur de nombreux terrains. Les liens de parenté et les origines géographiques communes constituent en général les bases principales des relations sociales, auxquelles un rôle important revient souvent dans les mouvements migratoires : des informations, mais aussi des appuis matériels peuvent être mobilisés à travers des réseaux étendus et offrir une aide déterminante. La recherche historique s’est cependant souvent contentée de décrire les réseaux et a ainsi négligé explicitement ou implicitement la question de leurs apports. Cette table ronde envisage au contraire de se demander plus ouvertement dans quelle mesure et dans quelles situations concrètes les réseaux de relations peuvent être une ressource ou une contrainte. Un intérêt particulier doit être ainsi porté à des questions qui dépassent la seule migration classique de travail. La plus grande part des migrants, des femmes aussi bien que des hommes, depuis le XIXe siècle a certes d’abord cherché des emplois salariés dans l’agriculture, l’industrie, les mines et dans les services. Mais le rêve de beaucoup d’entre eux était d’établir les bases d’une ascension sociale pour la génération suivante, notamment en accédant. à un statut de travailleur indépendant. Quelles chances avaient-ils d’y parvenir ? Quelles opportunités offre une installation à son compte comme commerçant, restaurateur ou artisan spécialisé ? Qu’en est-il pour les femmes ?

Quel rôle ont pu jouer les réseaux dans cette entreprise ? Les migrants ont-ils dans leurs activités d’abord servi leur propre communauté ? Dans quelle mesure et sous quelles conditions sont-ils parvenus, avec des produits de consommation ou des services spécifiques ou non, à réussir dans la société d’accueil ? Quelle importance a eu ici la famille et quelles ont été les conséquences pour les relations entre les sexes ? Plus largement, quelles ont été pour les migrants les possibilités d’ascension sociale dans la société d’accueil ? Dans quelle mesure ont-elles évolué pour la deuxième ou troisième génération ? Quel rôle y ont joué les réseaux internes à la communauté de migration ? Ont-ils été une ressource, ou les migrants devaient-ils au contraire plutôt s’affranchir de leurs contraintes ?

À partir de ces interrogations, des propositions sur les thèmes suivants sont particulièrement bienvenues :

• apports et contraintes des réseaux familiaux ;
• conditions de réussite d’une économie ethnique ;
• les entrepreneurs migrants et leur rôle dans l’économie du pays d’accueil ;
• possibilités et limites de l’ascension sociale de migrants ;
• ascension sociale et réseaux familiaux.

Le cadre chronologique retenu est celui du XIXe et du XXe siècle, jusqu’aux temps les plus présents. Il n’existe aucune restriction relative aux territoires abordés, qui ne doivent pas se limiter à l’espace franco-allemand. L’appel s’adresse aux historiens comme à l’ensemble des chercheurs en sciences sociales et en anthropologie travaillant dans une perspective historique.

Avec le concours de la Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’homme, du Centre national de la recherche scientifique et de la Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, le groupe franco-allemand d’histoire sociale (XIXe et XXe siècles) a organisé depuis 1987 des rencontres scientifiques de jeunes historiens français et allemands Comme les précédentes, cette table ronde a pour objectif de confronter des recherches en cours présentées par de jeunes chercheurs (doctorants et post-doctorants). Des chercheurs confirmés rapportent sur les textes proposés. Deux langues de travail (le français et l’allemand) sont utilisées, avec traductions-résumés consécutives dans l’autre langue si nécessaire. Les propositions de communication doivent être soumises avant le 15 septembre 2009 et ne pas dépasser une page. La sélection définitive des intervenants sera effectuée conjointement par les organisateurs allemands et français. Le système de présentation sous la forme de rapports nécessite que les textes soient envoyés impérativement avant le 15 avril 2010. Les propositions puis les textes soumis peuvent être en allemand ou en français par mail à : herve.joly ish-lyon.cnrs.fr

Organisation :

Hervé Joly, CNRS, LARHRA, université Lumière Lyon 2
Jörg Requate, Universität Bielefeld
(avec Sylvie Schweitzer, LARHRA, université Lyon 2)

Groupe franco-allemand d’histoire sociale comparée :

Hinnerk Bruhns, CNRS, CRH, EHESS
Alain Chatriot, CNRS, CRH-AHMOC, EHESS, Paris
Christoph Conrad, université de Genève
Marie-Bénédicte Daviet-Vincent, université d’Angers
Andreas Eckert, Humboldt Universität, Berlin
Patrick Fridenson, CRH, EHESS, Paris
Dieter Gosewinkel, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung
Heinz-Gerhard Haupt, European University Institute, Florence
Hervé Joly, CNRS, LARHRA, université Lumière Lyon 2
Hartmut Kaelble, Humboldt Universität, Berlin
Sandrine Kott, université de Genève
Jörg Requate, Universität Bielefeld

Dates :

Jeudi 27 et vendredi 28 mai 2010

Lieu :

France, à définir (Paris ou Lyon)

A Caring Europe? Care, Migration and Gender

ESF SCH/SCSS Exploratory Workshop:
A Caring Europe? Care, Migration and Gender
Milton Keynes, UK,12-13 November 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS

In this workshop we aim to take stock of the current state of knowledge and to advance the emergence of an interdisciplinary approach in this dynamic area by bringing together established and junior researchers working on different aspects of care. A European perspective will synergise theoretical and empirical knowledge on care, as it is differentially constituted and conceptualized in different national contexts of welfare policies, migration experiences, and class, racialised and gender relations. This ESF Exploratory workshop is planned as a first step towards exploring possibilities for future collaborations and an open and dynamic discussion focusing on the following 5 themes is envisaged: 1. Carers as paid and unpaid workers, 2 Carers as care-receivers, 3 Carers as ethical subjects, 4 Carers as citizens, 5 Carers as subjects in and of policy.
Confirmed speakers include: Helma Lutz, Eleonore Kofman, Fiona Williams, Ulla Bjornberg, Angeles Escriva,
We would like to invite selected researchers working on this theme to participate in the workshop. In particular, we are looking for papers that address some of the following questions:
• How can care as a scarce good be justly distributed?
• What economic, legal, social and cultural conditions need to be in place to enable (migrant and non-migrant) care givers to attend to their own care requirements?
• How can social policy enable care workers to receive care in turn?
• How can an ethics of care approach inform workplace practices to improve retention and staff development?
• What are the affective qualities around care-giving and care-receiving that carers experience and how do they translate into shaping migrant and non-migrants’ subjectivities?
• How do migrants’ caring practices constitute their intersecting identities of gender, ethnicity and class and vice versa?
• Can an ethics of care provide a revalidation of migrants’ subjectivities, particularly where they are affected by de-skilling and ethnicised and gendered hierarchies?
• How do (migrant and non-migrant) women and men integrate caring practices and an ethics of care into their personal and public self presentations?
• How can we think through caring on different levels of skills, in the sites of home and workplace and in differentially gendered ways?

We are able to fund travel and accommodation for a small number of participants from continental Europe. We especially encourage young and early career researchers to apply. Participants are expected to attend the whole workshop.
Important dates: Deadline for submission of abstracts: 27 March 2009
Acceptance of papers announced 6 April 2009
Written papers to be submitted for circulation to participants 2 October 2009
To apply, please send an abstract of up to 300 words, your institutional affiliation and address and indicate whether you are an early career researcher to u.erel@open.ac.uk

Umut Erel, Parvati Raghuram, Nicola Yeates

Appel à contributions pour le 31 janvier 2009

Migrations et travail

Appel à contributions, revue "Les Mondes du Travail"

L’essor des recherches sur le fait migratoire passe actuellement par la démultiplication d’angles d’approche (villes, territoires, éducation, études postcoloniales, processus identitaires, interculturalité...). Nous voudrions revenir dans ce numéro n°7 sur la place du travail dans les mondes sociaux des migrants. Dit autrement, nous voudrions susciter le croisement de la question du travail avec celle des migrations. Les articles que nous cherchons à rassembler pour ce dossier pourraient notamment aborder les aspects suivants : • Migrations anciennes et nouvelles (Maghreb, Pays de l’Est, Asie...) : modes de départ à l’émigration et modes d’inscription dans le pays d’immigration ; • Globalisation, division internationale du travail et flux migratoires ; • Discriminations liées au travail et à l’emploi ; • Travail, genre et migration ; • Les migrants dans le mouvement syndical et l’action collective ; • Migrations et travail dans les études postcoloniales ;

La revue accueille des contributions émanant de diverses disciplines en sciences sociales, la sociologie et l’anthropologie, le droit, les sciences économiques et politiques tout comme l’histoire. Les articles sont à soumettre au comité de rédaction au plus tard le 31 janvier 2009. La taille maximale d’un article est de 40 000 signes (espaces et notes compris). Parution du n°7 prévue pour avril 2009.

"Le visible et l'invisible dans le champ des études sur les migrations"

e tiendront les 14, 15 et 16 avril 2009 à Poitiers (MIGRINTER) des journées d'étude pluridisciplinaires destinées aux doctorants et post-doctorants sur le thème : "Le visible et l'invisible dans le champ des études sur les migrations".

Ces journées sont co-organisées par MIGRINTER (O. Bronnikova, A-L Counilh, S. Belouin) et l'Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense (S. Mekdjian).

Un appel à communication est joint à ce message, ainsi qu'une fiche de proposition de communication à renvoyer le 20 janvier 2009 au plus tard à l'adresse : journees.visibles@gmail.com pour être reçue par le comité scientifique composé de W. Berthomière (MIGRINTER), O. Bronnikova (MIGRINTER), A-L Counilh (MIGRINTER) L. Endelstein (MIGRINTER), Ph. Gervais-Lambony (Univ. Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense), M. Hovanessian (CNRS, URMIS), A-F. Hoyaux (Univ. Michel-de-Montaigne Bordeaux 3), S. Mekdjian (Univ. Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense), Y. Scioldo-Zürcher (MIGRINTER), Ph. Venier (MIGRINTER).

Exil et gestion de trajectoire - Appel à communications

Les recherches en sciences sociales ont montré que les exilés ne sont pas tous parvenus directement dans le pays d’accueil définitif. Classés dans la catégorie des exilés « non volontaires », nombreux sont ceux qui ont dû fuir, dans une conjoncture de crise, la violence imposée par l’Etat aux acteurs sociaux et politiques et qui n'ont pas pu réaliser leur déplacement en une seule étape du point de départ à la destination finale. Comment peut-on parvenir à restituer leurs itinéraires et leurs trajectoires ? Le parcours entre le pays d'origine et celui d'arrivée se présente-t-il sous une forme relativement simple, quasi linéaire, ou bien est-il complexe, avec des allers-retours, des hésitations, voire des conflits ? De quelle façon, et avec quelles techniques, étudiera-t-on les processus mentaux -ce qu'Erving Goffman nomme «la carrière morale»- pour des personnes contraintes de faire un choix extrême ?
Répondre à ces questions fera l’objet du prochain numéro (n°29) de la Revue EurOrient consacré à la thématique suivante : Exil et gestion de trajectoire dans une zone géographique plus ou moins conflictuelle : Moyen-Orient, Monde arabe, Asie centrale et Caucase.
Nous montrerons d'abord comment s'est progressivement effectuée une véritable marginalisation de certains individus dans l'espace de la société d'origine, marginalisation résultant de la convergence de différentes pressions sociales et qui précipite le départ forcé. On s’intéressera ensuite aux conditions dans lesquelles se déroule le déplacement clandestin, notamment aux ressources physiques et matérielles que le futur exilé doit mobiliser. Seront étudiées enfin les multiples bifurcations de ces itinéraires où la mobilité est liée à des contraintes de survie, à des situations imprévisibles, aux interactions avec les "passeurs" et aux aléas des clandestinités obligées pour lesquelles le rapport à la législation joue un rôle majeur.


Date limite pour la réception des articles : 15 décembre 2008.
Vous pouvez d'ores et déjà envoyer un synopsis, d’une page environ, de votre article.
Le comité scientifique vous orientera la marche à suivre.
Adresse : Nader Vahabi : nvahabi@gmail.com
: Ata ayati : ataayati@yahoo.fr

Comité scientifique :
Ata Ayati, Revue EurOrient
Daniel Bertaux (CEMS)
Catherine Delcroix « Cultures et Sociétés en Europe » Université Strasbourg II
Martine Hovanessian C.R. CNRS
Farhad Khosrokhavar (CADIS)
Smain Laacher (CEMS)
Michele Lecrerc-Olive (CEMS)
Marco Martiniello (CEDEM)
Nader Vahabi (CEDIR)
Catherine Wihtol de Wenden (CERI)

Coordinateurs : Nader Vahabi et Ata Ayati

15 octobre 2008

International Conference
Effects of Migration on Population Structures in Europe
Vienna/Austria, 1-2 December 2008
Organiser: Vienna Institute of Demography / IIASA

Call for Papers

http://www.oeaw.ac.at/vid/empse/index.html

Unprecedented streams of migration to European countries have forced
European governments to reconsider their immigration policies. On the
one hand, there is the perception that labour migration is needed to
help fill the projected gap in the labour force that will result from
the low fertility levels in most European countries. On the other hand,
a large volume of immigration from outside Europe may change the
cultural, social and even political face of Europe. What is going to
happen with migration in the future? Given the further divide of the
world into rich and poor, do we expect more people to look for a better
life and seek their fortune in Europe? What could be political measures
aimed at optimising migration flows and what should be their guiding
criteria? This question is very much related to the effect migration has
on the labour force and on social security systems. What should be the
criteria for judging the impact of migration on the future ethnic and
religious composition of the population? Migrants often do not come
alone: they bring their families and have children in the countries of
destination. What is the effect of migration on fertility in the
receiving countries? How does it affect the health and education status
in Europe? These are some of the questions this conference will address.
We expect contributions on the following topics:

1. Forecasting migration
2. Effects of migration on population size and age structure
3. Effects of migration on labour and pension system
4. Effects of migration on religion and ethnic composition
5. Migration and fertility

Organising Committee

The Organising Committee consists of Wolfgang Lutz and Sergei Scherbov,
both from the Vienna Institute of Demography of the Austrian Academy of
Sciences and IIASA.

Please e-mail all submissions to conference.vid@oeaw.ac.at
Submissions should include an abstract and, wherever possible, the full
paper and be sent to the VID by 1 September 2008. Acceptance decisions
will be communicated before 15 October 2008.

APPEL À COMMUNICATIONS POUR UN CONGRÈS AU PAYS BASQUE ESPAGNOL

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS (Texto en español, más abajo)

1ST INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON CHINESE STUDIES 26/29 NOVEMBER 2008
MAIN THEME: IMMIGRATION AND CULTURAL EXCHANGES


Dear Colleagues and interested Researchers,

The Organizing Committee of 1ST INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF CHINESE STUDIES is honoured to announce the First Call for Papers in the 1ST INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF CHINESE STUDIES (Main Theme: Immigration and Cultural Exchanges). The Conference will take place in Bilbao (Basque Country, Spain), from 26th to 29th November, 2008. We would also ask that this Call for Papers be made available to as many interested people as possible.

For registration and workshop information for this event, please check the following link:

http://www.estudioschinos.com/congress.htm

Important Dates

Registration

Early registration: 30th September
Registration Deadline: 22nd November or during the congress

Abstracts

First call for abstracts: Deadline 20th September
Second call for abstracts: Deadline 26th October

(later papers will be considered and selected)


Confirmation of admission:

First call: 30th September
Second call: 3rd November

Deadline for send definitive papers (for pusblishing, reviewed by peers): 30 March 2009


Faithfully,


Dr. Fang Xiao
Organizing Committee Chair
congress@estudioschinos.com
PRIMERA CONVOCATORIA DE PARTICIPACIÓN

1ST INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON CHINESE STUDIES 26/29 NOVIEMBRE 2008
MAIN THEME: IMMIGRATION AND CULTURAL EXCHANGES



Estimados Colegas e Investigadores,

El Comité Organizador del 1ST INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON CHINESE STUDIES, tiene el placer de informarle acerca de la Primera Convocatoria para participar en el 1ST INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON CHINESE STUDIES (Immigration and Cultures). El Congreso se celebrará en Bilbao (Bizkaia) entre los días 26 y 29 de noviembre (2008). Le rogamos, asimismo, haga extensiva esta propuesta a cuantas personas puedan estar interesadas en la misma.

Si desea obtener más información, la encontrará en la página web del Congreso: www.estudioschinos.com/congress.htm, así como los impresos de Inscripción e información acerca de los diferentes Grupos de Trabajo.


Fechas Importantes


Inscripción

Inscripción Temprana: 30 de septiembre
Inscripción Regular: 22 de noviembre o durante el Congreso

Abstracts

Primer envío de Abstracts: Fecha límite el 20 de septiembre

Segundo envío de Abstracts: Hasta el 26 de octubre
(abstracts posteriores serán tomados en consideración)

Confirmación de admisiones: 30 septiembre y 3 de noviembre

Plazo para entrega de originales definitivos, con posibilidades de publicación: 30 marzo 2009

Un cordial saludo,

Dr. Fang Xiao
Presidenta del Comité Organizador
congress@estudioschinos.com



ATTENTION :
Attention: Au-delà de l'immigration chinoise, toute sorte d'études sur
migrations et commnautés immigrés de toute origine seront acceptées.

NORWEGIAN JOURNAL OF MIGRATION RESEARCH

NORWEGIAN JOURNAL OF MIGRATION RESEARCH

Norsk tidsskrift for migrasjonsforskning (NTM) is an interdisciplinary peer reviewed journal. NTM publishes articles and book reviews from all the social sciences and the humanities.

The journal aims to publish research findings from a broad range of migration related issues, which may include international migration and demographic patterns, forced migration, relationships between the minority and majority populations, ethnicity and identity, national and international migration/integration policies and migration law. The journal tends to focus on research connected to Norway or the
Scandinavian countries.

Articles may be both theoretically or empirically oriented. Submissions must be in English or in one of the Scandinavian languages.

Deadline for submission no. 1:2009 is 1. January

Editors: Nora Alhberg and Hakan G. Sicakkan

For more information please contact:

Thor Indseth
Editorial assistant
thor.indseth@nakmi.no

Norsk tidsskrift for migrasjonsforskning
NAKMI, Bygg 2
Ullevål Universitetssykehus
0407 Oslo
Telefon: +47 41 65 10 96

Call for papers

Call for Papers Migration, Minorities, and Learning , Understanding Cultural and Social Differences in Education (Edited Vol.)


Migration, Minorities, and Learning ¡V Understanding Cultural and Social Differences in Education (Edited Vol.)
In educational research on migration and minorities, the debate over the relevance of culture and its potential influence on learning processes has a long standing tradition. In educational theorizing the so-called thesis of 'conflict of cultures' is under review because when critically approached it is shown to support essentializing processes of ethnization and culturalization. More recently, a call has been made to turn our attention towards the nature of structures of social in-equality. Within this line of research culturehas been predominantly understood from a constructivist perspective. Transculturality and recognition have been posited as highly relevant concepts which in turn are in need of critical approaches. All in all, when taking into account current debates among constructivists/ anti-essentialists and advocates for Leitkultur (leading culture) in all that relates to recognition and social cohesion in modern societies, 'culture' has become a predominant factor for the explanation and understanding of social differences, e.g. dilemmas and conflicts.
Migrants and minorities are affected by these theoretical directions as they are always at risk of becoming imprisoned in essentialized cultural definitions and/or of having their cultural preferences denied because they are perceived and qualified as standing in opposition to social solidarity. Migrants and minorities respond to these challenges in multiple ways; they are active agents in the pedagogical, political, social, and scientific processes that position and attribute them to this or that cultural sphere. On the one hand, they reject ascribed cultural attributes while striving towards integration in a variety of social spheres, e.g. school and workplace, in order to realize their social mobility. On the other hand, they articulate a demand for cultural self-determination. This discursive duality is met with suspicion by the west (especially towards Islam).
For educational processes to be developed in migration/minority societies, questions related to the meaning of cultural heterogeneity and the social/cultural limits of learning and communication (e.g. migration education or critical multiculturalism) are highly important.
It is precisely here, where the chances for new beginnings and new trials become of an utmost importance for educational theorizing which urgently needs to find answers to current questions related to individual freedom, community/cultural affiliations, and societal democratic cohesion. Answers to these questions need to account for both 'political' and 'learning' perspectives at all macro, mezzo, and micro contexts.
The planned edited volume seeks empirical and theoretical contributions from a variety of methodological perspectives on the following issues as they relate to migration and minority educational processes and practices:
„X Processes of (social) learning under conditions of cultural heterogeneity or homogeneity.
„X The outer and inner limits of social/cultural learning.
„X Emancipatory educational practices within heterogeneous and homogenous cultural settings.
„X How/when/why do learners and educators in conflict-ridden societies, negotiate their objective situation and their subjective everyday practices?
„X How/when/why do new historical perspectives and the past residues of dominant forces influence the path of learners and educators between resistance and conformity?
„X How/when/why within social resistance movements and outside them, do individuals work against themselves, contributing to the making of new structures of domination? Why do they build their own walls to learning or capitulate in the face of such barriers?
The planned book seeks to collect contributions from a variety of disciplinary and international contexts. We would like to invite you to send an abstract (800 - 1000 words) with your suggestion for a chapter in our planned edited volume together with a short CV (max. 200 words).
Deadline for proposals October, 30th 2008 Selection of proposals by the editors December, 15th 2008 Deadline for delivering the chapter July, 30th 2009
For further information please contact one of the editors directly.
Please send your proposal via email to both of the editors.
Zvi Bekerman, Hebrew University Jerusalem (Israel),
mszviman@mscc. huji.ac.il
Thomas Geisen, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern
Switzerland, Olten (Switzerland) , thomas.geisen@ fhnw.ch


Zvi Bekerman, Hebrew University Jerusalem (Israel),
mszviman@mscc. huji.ac.il

Thomas Geisen, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern
Switzerland, Olten (Switzerland) , thomas.geisen@ fhnw.ch

Email: mszviman@mscc. huji.ac.il

Appel à contributions

CALL FOR PAPERS ON "EUROPE - A CONTINENT OF IMMIGRATION? LEGAL
CHALLENGES IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF EUROPEAN MIGRATION POLICY"

Toutes les informations sont ici :

http://pagesperso-orange.fr/ceric/colloques/rijc.htm

et là

Call for papers

Coming home? Conflict and return migration in twentieth-century Europe

An International conference hosted by the Department of Modern Languages, University of Southampton, and supported by the AHRC
1-3 April 2009

Call for papers

The question of return has long been thought to be central to an exilic discourse and yet relatively little is known about how return migration is actually experienced and subsequently remembered by exiles and also by migrants more widely. In order to mark the 70th anniversary of the ‘official’ end of the Spanish Civil War and the start of the Second World War, events which led to the mass displacement of refugees, this conference seeks contributions for papers on the broad theme of conflict and return migration in twentieth-century Europe. We welcome individual papers or panels in English that focus on any exile, refuge or migrant return episode that has Europe as its point of arrival or departure. We are particularly interested in addressing the experiences, memories and conceptual issues of return in relation to the following questions:

• What were the motivations for returning? How did institutions, political and social networks influence return? How was return organised?
• What strategies did migrants adopt to deal with the impossibility of return?
• How were migrants received, perceived and represented by the authorities and communities upon their return?
• To what extent were attitudes and post-return daily practices (e.g. rituals, cultural practices, language etc.) influenced by the experience of migration? In what ways, if at all, did migrants re-construct questions of home and homeland upon their return?
• How does return relate to the wider migratory process? To what extent does return signify the end of exile, diaspora, and the closure of the migration cycle?
• How has return been remembered at an individual and group level? Does this vary between different categories of migrants?
• How has return been represented in literature, art and film? What are the epistemological and ontological implications of these representations? Does an adequate representation or performance of return exist?

Keynote speakers

• Alicia Alted Vigil, Professor of History, UNED, Madrid
• Geneviève Dreyfus-Armand, Historian and Director of the BDIC, Paris
• Franziska Meyer, Associate Professor of German Studies, University of Nottingham

Organisers

Organised with The Exilio Network: Research into Refugees and other Migrations, which is supported by the AHRC, and Outcast Europe.

Submitting a proposal

A selection of papers will be considered for publication after the conference. Please send abstracts (250 words) before 1 September 2008 to:

Dr Alicia Pozo Gutiérrez
Email: apg@soton.ac.uk

Dr Scott Soo
Email: ssoo@soton.ac.uk

http://www.soton.ac.uk/ml/research/cominghome.html