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Summary of INFOCON conference in Nijmegen
A summary of the INFOCON conference held in April 2010 in Nijmegen can be consulted at this address:
www.infocon-project.org/output/nijmegen-conference
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INFOCON conference in Nijmegen
The International Civil Society Forum on Conflicts (INFOCON) is a European Commission funded research project, aiming to offer a better understanding of how Civil Society Organizations representing Transnational Communities can help in preventing and resolving conflicts. The two-day conference will bring together the INFOCON researchers, policy experts and representatives of the Civil Society.
The conference will be held on the 22nd and 23rd of April, 2010 in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
For more information visit:
http://www.infocon-project.org/output
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CALL FOR PAPERS
All interested researchers are invited to submit articles for the IMMIGRATION issue of Sosyoekonomi in 2010. Migration of human beings both domestically and internationally is caused by many social, political, and economical factors and brings about many social, political, and economical outcomes. Turkey as a developing country has experienced sizeable movements of its own people in the country. It is also a country that has provided relief for Europe’s labor shortages since 1960. Recently, however, it has encountered its own issue of transit and illegal immigration. Sosyoekonomi welcomes all researchers interested in immigration related topics to submit both theoretical and empirical papers to this special issue.
Guest Editor: Fatih Savasan.
Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:
- The effects of immigration on labor market,
- Immigration and crime,
- Fiscal effects of immigration (natives’ tax burden, effects on social security system and on public expenditures such as education, health and security),
- Immigration and income distribution,
- Domestic and international conflicts and immigration,
- Differences and similarities between labor mobility and capital mobility and international trade,
- Illegal immigration, transit immigration, and asylum seekers and other types of immigration,
- Brain-Drain, Brain-Gain (The effects of brain-drain on developing and developed countries),
- Workers’ remittances, immigration and poverty,
- Diaspora, network effects,
- Migration issues in European Union,
- Economic integration of immigrants
- Social integration of immigrants,
- Immigration and urbanization,
- Immigration related national and international regulations.
Important Dates
Deadline for submission: 30.06.2010 Format: Please visit Notes for Contributors.
-- Prof. Ahmet Burcin YERELI Editor
http://yunus.hacettepe.edu.tr/~aby/
http://www.sosyoekonomi.hacettepe.edu.tr/
http://www.pegem.hacettepe.edu.tr/
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Migration and divided societies - Special Issue of Ethnopolitics
Guest editors: Chris Gilligan, University of the West of Scotland; Susan Ball-Petsimeris, Université de Paris 8
We would like to invite articles on the theme of ‘migration and divided societies’ for publication in a forthcoming Special Issue of the journal Ethnopolitics. The Special Issue aims to critically examine the relationship between migration and social divisions which are conceptualised as ‘ethnic’ in popular discourse, academic writing or government policy.
Papers are welcome that raise questions related to concepts and practices of migration and segregation along 'ethnic' lines.
Submissions are welcome from researchers and practitioners at any stage in their career (from postgraduates to emeritus professors). Our main criteria for inclusion will be; relevance to the overall theme, quality of scholarship and originality.
All articles should be between 6000 and 8000 words in length and should use the Harvard style of referencing. All submitted articles will be peer reviewed by at least two different peer reviewers. (For a more detailed style guide to the journals 'house-style' see: http://www.ethnopolitics.org/ethnopolitics/styleguide.html ).
Articles should be submitted via email to Chris Gilligan (University of the West of Scotland, UK) at: chris.gilligan@uws.ac.uk to arrive by Tues 27th October 2009.
For a fuller outline of the rationale for the Special Issue and a guide to the kinds of questions we would like to address and the kinds of topics that we would consider for publication, see below.
Thanks in advance for your consideration,
Chris Gilligan, University of the West of Scotland, UK Susan Ball-Petsimeris, Université de Paris 8, France
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DIASPEACE seminar at ADPC in Amsterdam
The one day seminar in Amsterdam is a follow up meeting to the DIASPEACE research project that the ADPC has been carrying out in collaboration with other consortium members. It is mainly aimed to bringing together the researchers involved in the project from the institutions in five European countries namely; BICC from Germany, CeSPI from Italy, and ADPC from the Netherlands, and the diaspora organisations from the three Horn of Africa countries (Ethiopia, Somali and Eritrea), with whom we had worked during the project.
The expected participants will include representatives of each diaspora organisation involved during the study, DIASPEACE consortium member institutions and some invited stakeholders in the Netherlands (NGOs, agencies and institutions) that are engaged with diaspora on peace building and community development in the countries of origin.
For more information, visit http://www.diaspora-centre.org/
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INFOCON Project started
Dear partners, dear friends, the Internationalist Review is proud to announce the official beginning of the INFOCON project on April 1 2008. We worked hard to build this project together with our partners from civil society and academia. Day after day since early 2007, we successfully mounted this project along the novel idea that academic research and community activism should work together to create knowledge on transnational communities.
Now, time has come to concretize our shared hopes!
The INFOCON team
