2014 UAA Annual Conference San Antonio, Texas March 19-22, 2014 Call for Participation Borders and Boundaries in an Age of Global Urbanization (With a special track on Urban Issues in Central & South America and the Caribbean) Abstract/Proposal Deadline: October 1, 2013 Urban areas have grown at an unprecedented rate in the last
The Institute for European Studies of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel invites applications for a Full-time Senior Researcher in European Migration and Asylum Law. Administratively, the senior researcher will be hired as a 80 % postdoctoral researcher (BAP) and a 20% research professor (ZAP). Research will be focused on European migration law, including asylum, citizenship, anti- discrimination
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Issue 2 of the new journal MigrationStudies is now available online. It includes a tribute to Ary Zolberg by Nancy Foner as well as articles by Peter O’Brien, Nicholas De Genova, Julia O’Connell, among others… http://migration.oxfordjournals.org/content/current
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Conference Date: Friday, January 31, 2014 Location: Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, UC San Diego Theme: This conference uses a comparative lens to study immigrant integration/ assimilation/ incorporation. Possible points of comparison are across place (at various scales from the continental to the national to the local); immigrant group; historical period; or type of integration
Professor Nina Khrushcheva contributed a recent opinion piece to The Moscow Times titled, “When Alienated Immigrants Turn to Terrorism.” Khrushcheva’s article addresses, among other things, the international context of the bombing in Boston. It also deals with the reality of home grown terrorism in the United States and critiques the tendency to explain the bombing
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The open access journal Social Inclusion (http://www.librelloph.com/socialinclusion) will launch a special issue under the title: “Migrant Youth, Intercultural Relations and the Challenges of Social Inclusion” This special issue will be edited by Professor Fethi Mansouri and Dr. Anna Halafoff. Professor Fethi Mansouri is the Director of the Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University,
‘Illegality, youth and belonging’ conference to be held at the University of Harvard on 25-26 October http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Documents/college-social-sciences/social-policy/iris/2013/call-for-papers-illegality-youth-and-belonging.pdf The event is jointly organised by the Harvard University Graduate School of Education and the Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRiS) at the University of Birmingham, in collaboration with the Oxford Institute of Social Policy and the Centre
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Comprehensive Immigration Reform: An Update May 14, 2013 New York, NY Last month, the bipartisan “Gang of Eight” senators introduced the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013, outlining a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S., establishing new border security and enforcement measures, and reforming
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Among scholars of sub-Saharan Africa, Zolberg will be remembered primarily for two ground breaking books on West Africa politics, One Party Government in the Ivory Coast (1964) and Creating Political Order (1966). It’s not just that these works remain engaging and thought-provoking almost half a century after their publication—no small feat as several schools of African
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