Call for papers:Diversity and Tolerance in Europe: Policies in Public Institutions and Private Organizations

Date: 22.Jun.2010. Place:CIDOB (Barcelona).  Organised by: GRITIM-UPF, Interdisciplinary Research Group in Immigration at Universidad Pompeu Fabra y CIDOB, Barcelona Centre for Internacional Affairs

Deadlines: Proposals must be sent before the 22^th of June, 2010.

The seminar will be held on 22^nd September , 2010

Diversity policies are at the top of the European Agenda, but diversity remains a broad, sometimes even vague, notion. The Stockholm Programme underlines that the EU motto of “United in Diversity” is not only about the richness resulting from cultural diversity between Member States but also about the cultural diversity and tolerance found within societies. It also calls to invest major political efforts in underlining diversity as a source of richness rather than as a problem to be ‘managed’.

The GRITIM/UPF-CIDOB seminar focuses on a broad range of diversity dynamics, often immigration-related, such as religion, language, gender, cultural, nationality, and so forth. It wants to treat specific issues by discussing policy answers to diversity. As such, the seminar aims to open a broad scientific, political and social debate on diversity management in public sectors and institutions, and in private organisations. In particular, it is interested in promoting a research framework to define, analyse and evaluate how tolerance is expressed in diversity policies (related to policies and management standards)

Topics of the Research Seminar:

– tolerance as a concept (definitions, discourses) and as a policy
– diversity as a concept (definitions, discourses) and as a policy
– public policies on diversity in specific sectors (education, security, health, public administration in general, and so forth)
– diversity management in private organizations (associations, firms, and so forth)
– conflicts arising from cultural diversity / racism / discrimination
– limits of diversity and tolerance in liberal democratic societies

Applications:

Proposals should be sent to Elena Sánchez, migraciones@cidob.org (with CC to Anne van Ewijk, gritim@upf.edu) specifying “SEMINAR GRITIM/UPF-CIDOB 2010” as a subject. Proposals should be in English

Coordinators:

Ricard Zapata-Barrero, Director of the GRITIM-UPF, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Elena Sánchez Montijano, Researcher, CIDOB

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