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Conference on Theories of Migration and Social Change

The Conference was organised in response to an IMISCOE call for proposals for conferences on: ‘fundamental and strategic issues in theories, concepts and methodologies for the study of migration and integration’. It took the form of a fairly small ‘expert symposium’. The event opened with a keynote address by Professor Alejandro Portes of Princeton University on `Migration and Social Change’. We hoped to make innovative and significant contributions to theory and methodology: themes included `theories of global mobility’, `gender in the migratory process’, and `transnationalism and the migratory process’.

 

This conference was sponsored by the EU Network on International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion in Europe (IMISCOE). It was jointly organised by the ESRC Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) and the International Migration Institute (IMI) at Oxford University, in collaboration with several other IMISCOE partners: SociNova, Lisbon; Sussex Centre for Migration Research; MIGRINTER, University of Poitiers; International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO); and Centre d'Etudes de l'Ethnicité et des Migrations (CEDEM), University of Liege, Belgium.

 

 

Participants included Rinus Penninx (IMES, University of Amsterdam), Maruja Asis, (Scalabrini Migration Center, Manila), Russell King (University of Sussex), Takyiwaa Manuh (University of Ghana), Helma Lutz (University of Frankfurt), Raul Delgado Wise (University of Zacatecas), and Marco Martiniello (University of Liege).

 

A conference report will be available shortly.

Conference papers now published online: Theories of Migration and Social Change, July 2008:

When 30 June 2008 10:00 PM to
02 July 2008 10:00 PM
Where Oxford
Contact Name
Contact Phone 01865 278311
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