Archives by Tag 'migration'
In Search of Shelter: Mapping the Effects of Climate Change
A new report released today at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Bonn Meeting, says climate change may cause vast human migrations on an order not previously experienced. The report, In Search of Shelter: Mapping the Effects of Climate Change on Displacement and Migration, was written by CIESIN, the United Nations University, and CARE [...]
ESRC Research Seminar Series: Understanding the Migrant Experience
The Centre for Migration Policy Research (CMPR) at Swansea University has been awarded funding by the ESRC to host a series of one-day seminars which aim to increase understanding of the migrant experience.
The first seminar in the series was held in April and explored the links between micro-level understanding of ‘the migrant experience’ and macro-level [...]
Research workshop: Rethinking Migration
Rethinking Migration. New Glances on Migration/s
Research-Workshop, Sept, 29th and 30th 2009, Graz/Austria
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Research-group Migration at the Centre for Cultural Studies (University of Graz, Austria) invites you to submit an abstract (3000 char. incl. space) for the Research Workshop “Rethinking Migration. New glances on Migration/s” in September 2009.
Proposals from Research-groups, PhD-Students (especially teams) as [...]
International Conference on North-South migration
International Conference on North-South migration
The Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations (CRER) is holding a conference on African Transnational and Return Migration on June 29-30th 2009, at Radcliffe House, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL. The conference is concerned with the following themes:
Conceptual issues in transnationalism, remittances and homeland development;
Public policies affecting transnational organisations in [...]
Security, Insecurity and Migration in Europe
Security Insecurity and Migration in Europe
Organised by IMEPO (Hellenic Migration Policy Institute) and the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Leicester.
Venue: University of Leicester, 18-19 September 2009
The end of the Cold War division of Europe and the recent enlargement of the European Union (EU) have generated new, complex forms of population movement and [...]
CMPR Seminar: ‘Is there a ‘migrant experience?’
Centre for Migration Policy Research (CMPR) Seminar
‘Is there a ‘migrant experience?’
Swansea University on Tuesday 21st April from 9.30-5pm
The Centre for Migration Policy Research (CMPR) at Swansea University has recently been awarded an ESRC grant to host a series of one-day seminars which aim to increase understanding of the migrant experience (details attached). The idea for [...]
BSPS Prize 2009 – Best MSc Dissertation
BSPS Prize 2009
Entries are invited for the 2009 BSPS Prize.
This is awarded to the entry judged to be the best MSc. Dissertation on a demographic topic during the year 2008 (which would normally be at or around distinction level). Applicants should supply four copies of their dissertation, which do not need to be bound – [...]
PGRG Conference: Remaking migration theory
PGRG Conference: Remaking migration theory: intersections and cross-fertilisations
13th -14th May 2009, jointly hosted by the University of Brighton and University of Sussex
A two-day international conference of the Population Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG
Call for Papers and Registration Form
This conference aims to explore the many ways in which different, yet possibly interconnected, forms of contemporary [...]
Conference on Migration, Community and Ethnicity
Conference on Migration, Community and Ethnicity
University of Manchester, 2 April 2009
Bookings are now open for a one-day conference on Migration, Community and Ethnicity on Thursday 2 April 2009 at the University of Manchester. There is an excellent programme of topics and speakers:
Rob Ford, CCSR
British attitudes towards immigrants and ethnic minorities: education, generational change and the [...]
RGS Session: Migration, Mixing and Ethnic Integration
CALL FOR PAPERS
Migration, Mixing and Ethnic Integration
A session of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual Conference
Manchester, 26-28th August 2009
Sponsored by the Population Geography Research Group and the ESRC Understanding Population Trends and Processes (UPTAP) programme
To offer a paper to the session, submit your details (name, institution, email address) and an abstract (max. 250 words) [...]