GRITIM-UPF Newsletter

The GRITIM-UPF Newsletter aims to disseminate selected information on Immigration that contributes to the European approach in the fields of Borders, Diversity, and methodological tools, as well as all GRITIM-UPF activities and news.
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Number 10 – Spring 2011

Borders and Diversity News

GRITIM-UPF News

Selected Books

European Multiculturalisms: Cultural, Religious and Ethnic challenges. Anna Triandafyllidou, Tariq Modood and Nasar Meer (eds.) Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2011 (more)Thinking Through Islamophobia: Global Perspectives. S. Sayyid and AbdoolKarim Vaki (eds.) New York: Columbia University Press. 2011 (more)

Beyond Dutch Borders: Transnational Politics among Colonial Migrants, Guest Workers and the Second Generation. Liza Mügge. Amsterdam: IMISCOE Research – Amsterdam University Press. 2011 (more)

Policies on irregular migrants – Volume IV: Spain and the United Kingdom. Rosa Aparicio, José Maria Ruiz de Huidobro De Carlos, Colin Manchip. Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing Division . 2011 (more)

Migrating Alone: Unaccompanied and Separated Children’s Migration to Europe. Jyothi Kanics, Daniel Senovilla Hernández and Kristina Touzenis (eds.) Paris: Unesco Publishing. 2011 (more)

Immigration and Nation Building: Australia and Israel compared. Andrew Markus and Moshe Semyonov (eds.) Cheltenham Glos: Edward Elgar Publishing. 2011 (more)
Social Capital, Political  Participation and Migration in Europe. Making Multicultural Democracy Work? Marco Giugni andLaura Morales (eds.) Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2011 (more)
Framing Immigrant Integration: Dutch Research-Policy Dialogues in Comparative Perspective. Peter Scholten. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press – IMISCOE Research. 2011 (more)

Selected Journal Articles

(last issues appeared)

Identity Politics and Cultural Asymmetries: Singaporean Transmigrants ‘Fashioning’ Cosmopolitanism. Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 37:5, 729 – 746.

Immigration and Entry into the Cultural Mainstream. Rachel Sharaby International Migration, 49, published online.

Exposure to International Migration and Its Effect on Childbearing in Turkey. Kari White and Cynthia J. Buckley. International Migration Review, 45: 123–147.

Transnational lifestyles as a new form of cosmopolitan social identification? Latin American women in German urban spaces. Sandra Gruner-Domic. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 34: 3, 471 – 489.

Well-being, Cultural Capital and Social Inclusion: Immigrants in the Republic of Ireland. Bryan Fanning, Trutz Haase and Neil O’Boyle. Journal of International Migration and Integration, 12:1, 1-24.

Stateless By Any Other Name: Refused Asylum-Seekers in the United Kingdom Brad K. Blitz and Miguel Otero-Iglesia. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 37: 4, 657 – 573.

Reports

Results of the 3rd Migrant Integration Policy Index now available: www.mipex.eu
Intolerance, Prejudice and Discrimination: A European Report. Project «Auseinandersetzung mit dem Rechtsextremismus«. Forum Berlin
Project Transatlantic Trends: Immigration. Key Findings. German Marshall Fund

Calls and Conferences

Conference: Migration: Economic change, Social challenge. University College London.

IV International Symposium: International Network on Migration and Development. Quito: FLACSO (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales)

Conference: External voting in the EU: New Prospects and Challenges for Research and Policy-making Rome: Academia Belgica

Conference: Los retos del derecho de asilo y las políticas de control de la inmigración irregular en la Unión Europea. Barcelona: Universitat Pompeu Fabra

PhD Conference: IMISCOE-MiReKoc PhD Conference. Istanbul: Koç University.

Seminar: L’impact de l’immigration sur le débat nationaliste: Politique de Frontières et diversité. Une comparaison Québec-Catalogne. Montréal: CRIEC-UQAM / GRITIM-UPF

Call for papers: Administrative actors and immigration professionals: articulating national, European and international dynamics. Paris: Sciences-Po

Call for papers: Student Diversity in Higher Education: Conflicting Realities. Amsterdam: EAN – Amsterdam University

Call for papers: Migrant Labour: Contested Integration, Prospects for Citizenship. Ljubljana: University of Ljubljana

Call for article manuscripts: Special issue of Nordic Journal of Ethnicity and Migration.

Call for workshops: IMISCOE Annual Conference. Warsaw: University of Warsaw – IMISCOE.

Other

Call for applications: Two years research fellowship (postdoc) at REMESO.
New online publication: Ceriscope – Frontières.

Publications

Validating the Riverside Acculturation Stress Inventory with Asian Americans. Matthew J. Miller, Jungeun Kim and Verónica Benet-Martínez, Psychological Assessment, March, 2011.
Education as a mirror of Spanish Society: Challenges and Policies towards Multiple Diversity, Ricard Zapata-Barrero. OMNES: The Journal of Multicultural Society,1:2, 65-100. 2011.
Analyzing the internal dynamics of diversity of two police forces in Europe: the Mossos d’Esquadra and the Politie Utrecht. Anne van Ewijk. IMISCOE Working Paper, 28, Februrary 2011.

Toleration and the fair terms of engagement with diversity. Mitja Sardoc. GRITIM-UPF Working Paper Series, 6, Winter 2011.

Seminars

In the framework of the Joint action GRITIM-UPF / CIDOB Masters Seminars. CIDOB Foundation

14th April – 18:00
Migration acculturation processes – intercultural psychology

Karen Phalet
University of Leuven

5th May – 18:00
On the Liberal Plateau – The civic integrationist turn in North Western Europe
Per Mouritsen

University of Aarhus

26th May – 18:00
Public Opinion and Migration
Juan Díaz Medrano
Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI)

In the framework ofthe Join action GRITIM-UPF / IEMed Master Seminars. IEMed

7th April – 18:00
Roads of irregularity: the legal and political construction of illegal immigration across the EU Member States
Franck Duvell
COMPAS – University of Oxford

28th April – 18:00
Irregular migration from Mediterranean countries to Europe. Complex diversity and its application in euromediterranean relations.
Peter Kraus
University of Helsinki

19th May – 18:00
The EU external relations in the Mediterranean
Sandra Lavenex
Universität Luzern

2nd June – 18:00
Immigration demography in the Mediterranean
Philippe Fargues

Euro-Mediterranean Consortium for Applied Research on International Migration  (CARIM)

7th June – 18:00
Liberalism, citizenship and immigration in the Mediterranean
Christian Joppke
American University of Paris

GRITIM-UPF Seminar Series

26th April -12.30
The tensions and paradoxes in immigration politics in Spain: Towards a new political economy of migrant labour
Luke Stobart
PhD Researcher
University of Hertsfordshire

24th May – 12.30
Research on the processes involved in the construction of language attitudes and ideologies of immigrant youth in Catalonia: The UPF research group GREILI

Mireia Trenchs

Associate Professor
Department of Humanities
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
21st June – 12.30
The linguistic integration of second generation in Catalonia
Amado Alarcón
Department of Bussiness Management
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Sònia Parella
Department of Sociology
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Check the GRITIM-UPF Seminars Calendar

Projects

New Project: Embracing Catalan Culture: Cultural Self-Identification(s) and Personal Social Networks Among First and Second-Generation Immigrants. AGAUR – ARAFI. Generalitat de Catalunya. Director: Veronica Benet-Martínez.

ALF Project: Cities Cultural Policies in the context of immigrant-related diversity: towards a Mediterranean approach. Anna Lindh Foundation. Brochure now available.

Project ACCEPT: Workpackage 1: Tolerance and Diversity Discourses in Spain. (more)

Other

GRITIM-UPF contribution to Intercultural Cities: Spain implements practical approach to managing diversity (more)

Apply now: Master in Immigration Management (more)

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