Newsletter No.16 – Autumn 2012.
GRITIM-UPF Newsletter
Number 16 – Autumn 2012
The GRITIM-UPF Newsletter aims to disseminate information on GRITIM-UPF Publications, Projects, News and Activities, which mainly deal with Immigration issues that contribute to the European approach in the fields of Borders, Diversity and methodological tools. For further information: www.upf.edu/gritim
GRITIM-UPF Deliverables
GRITIM-UPF News and Activities
Publications
Working Paper Series
Immigration and contested Nation-building: explaining the political salience of immigration in multi-national socities. (Abstract)
Is there really a backlash against Multiculturalism Policies? New evidence from the Multiculturalism Policy Index. (Abstract)
Projects
ACCEPT PLURALISM
- Burchianti Flora and Zapata-Barrero Ricard (coord.) (2012), Challenges to Tolerance in Political Life. A comparative overview of 15 European countries, 2012/29; 4. National Case Studies – Political Life; Synthesis and Highlights.
- 27-28 September – European Conference Report, Nicosia: Tolerance, Pluralism and Social Cohesion: Responding to the Challenges of the 21st Century in Europe
DIVERSIDAD
- Monitoring Interculturalism in Cities: From Concept to Policy Implementation and its Measurements – Research Project 2013-14, resulting in the publication of a book in the Social Studies Collection of the Obra Social “La Caixa”, edited by Ricard Zapata-Barrero and Alain-G. Gagnon (CREQM-UQAM, Montréal). (more)
RECI – Spanish Network of Intercultural Cities
ARAFI
- The project Do you feel Catalan as well? Cultural self-identification(s) and personal social networks among immigrants and second-generations has finished interviewing Ecuatorian, Moroccan, Pakistani and Romanian immigrants in Barcelona and is currently analysing the information gathered.
Call for Papers
Call for Papers for the Workshop due to be held in Barcelona on 20th September 2013 entitled Theorizing ‘The Local Turn’ in Immigrant Policies: A Multi-level Approach. Final date for applications: 1st February 2013. (more)
Seminar Series
The GRITIM-UPF Seminar Series features lectures and discussions with established and emergent scholars from various disciplinary approaches on the broad topic of migration.
22nd January 2012: The urban dimension of migration: from welfare regimes to ethnic segregation
Sonia Arbacci, GRITIM – Universitat Pompeu Fabra / Bartlett School of Planning – University College London (more)
News
Ricard Zapata-Barrero, Director of GRITIM-UPF, has taken up a year-long position as a Visiting Professor at the Chair de Recherche du Canada en Études Québécoises et Canadiennes (CRÉQC) at the Université du Québec à Montréal. (more)
Sarah Cooke O’Dowd is due to take up a position as Policy Analyst with the Migration Policy Group, principally working on the European Website on Integration. Gema Rubio Carbonero will be taking over her position as GRITIM-UPF Coordinator from mid-November.
Three former students of the Master in Immigration Management (Míriam Llenas Ruiz de Manzanares, Óscar López Catalán and Noura Aharchi ) have had parts of their theses published Discurso & Sociedad Vol. 6 (3), 2012.
Other
14 November: Interculturalisme à Montreal. Du concept à la Politique – CRÉQC and GRITIM-UPF, Montreal. (more)
15 November: Tertúlia “Corresponsals de les Migracions” – Espai Avinyó, Barcelona. (more)
22-23 November: 8th Simposium on Language, Education and Immigration – Universitat de Girona, Girona. (more)
27 November – 31 January: 4th edition of the training course on Asylum and International Protection – Fundació ACSAR, Barcelona. (more)
Call for Papers: 7th EuroSEAS Conference in Lisbon, Panel 1: Migration and Identity, 2-5 July 2013. Apply by 30th November. (more)
Call for Papers: Challenges of the International Mobility of the Highly Skilled in the XXI Century – Women in Movement, Internet Interdisciplinary Institute of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, 7-8 February 2013. Apply by 1st December. (more)
Call for Papers: Migration. Global Development. New Frontiers, NORFACE Research Programme & the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), University College London, 10-13 April 2013. Apply by 16th December. (more)
Call for Initiatives: The IMISCOE Research Network wishes to encourage researchers to develop topics linked to the theme of its Annual Conference 2013, Crisis management and Migration – Perceptions, Challenges and Consequences. (more)
Calls for Nominations: Nominations are open for the IMISCOE Maria Ioannis Baganha Dissertation Award 2013 to the best dissertation in the field of migration, integration and social cohesion in Europe. The 2013 competition is open to all PhD recipients whose dissertations were defended within the 24-month period before the deadline for submission of 1 February 2013. (more)
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