Umeå, Sweden, 14 – 17 June 2011
We would like to welcome you all to the Sixth International Conference on Population Geographies, to be held at the University Campus in Umeå, Sweden next June.
Call for papers and more information, including link to our website, will be send out during the fall of 2010.
*Deadline for abstract submission February 2011 *

Preliminary programme in brief:

*Tuesday 14/6 *Registration, reception and pre-excursion for early arrivals
*Wednesday 15/6 *Registration, keynotes and parallel sessions Evening activity
*Thursday 16/6 * Keynotes and parallel sessions Conference dinner

*Friday 17/6 *Parallel sessions and closing session,
*Friday – Sunday 17-19/6* Post-conference excursion to Kiruna

We hope to see you here in Umeå next June. Please help circulate this call amongst your colleagues and on your mailing lists!

Very welcome!!

Gunnar Malmberg

http://www.geo.umu.se/om-institutionen/personal/malmberg-gunnar/

Population Geography Research Group (PopGRG) (Joanna Stillwell Prize)

This prize is named in memory of the daughter of Professor John Stillwell of the University of Leeds. Joanna, who was a geography graduate from the University of Sheffield, died in 2004.  The Population Geography Research Group has set up three prizes (£100 for first prize; £50 for second prize; £25 for third prize) to be awarded for the best undergraduate dissertations of 2009 in the broad field of Population Geography.  Please note that for practical purposes we can only accept one dissertation from any institution and to be eligible that institution has to be in the UK.  Please send a copy of the dissertations to Dr Sam Scott, School for Policy Studies, 8 Priory Road, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TZ (Sam.Scott@bristol.ac.uk).  Deadline 31 July 2010

http://www.rgs.org/DissertationAwards

Contemporary Labour Migration: National and International Perspectives

Hosted by NUI Galway under the auspices of the Population Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG and Population Commission of the International Geographical Union

Papers are invited for an Anglo-Irish population conference on Labour Migration. Whilst there is a focus on Ireland and the UK, papers that address the broad conference themes in other geographical contexts will be most welcome.

Major changes have taken place in the scale and character of labour migration in the UK and Ireland since the early 1990s, involving both national and international workers. Established patterns of movement have continued within and between rural and urban regions; both countries also experienced dramatic increases in overseas labour immigration from the early 1990s on, to fill vacancies in highly skilled and lower skilled employment. Both countries, with Sweden, opened their borders immediately in 2004 to members of the new accession states of the European Union to meet labour deficits. In response to reduced rates of economic growth since 2008, demand for labour has fallen and new challenges have emerged for labour, employers and governments. New migration patterns are apparent, associated with migrant return to countries of origin and relocation within and between regions. Ireland and the UK provide similarities but also contrasts in terms of labour migration, in particular the diversity of the former’s immigrant flows. Both countries are currently facing crises in their labour markets which are finding expression in changing migration patterns, a phenomenon that is not exclusive to them. This experience provides a context for exploring and developing existing and new theoretical perspectives relating to internal and international migration.

Papers are invited on the following themes in particular:

(i) the socio-economic and political contexts of recent labour migration, including the role of employers, national governments and international agencies in the migration process;
(ii) the composition of migration flows at an international scale and impacts in source and reception areas;
(iii) the internal and transnational labour migration experience within urban and rural settings;
(iv) the transnational labour migrant experience in the broader host society.

Abstracts (max. 300 words) are invited by Tuesday 6th April 2010: http://www.conference.ie/Conferences/index.asp?Conference=90.

Guest Speaker: Professor Adrian J. Bailey, University of Leeds and Hong Kong Baptist University will deliver a plenary address on Recession, Labour Migration, and Europe’s Transnational Turn, at 18:30 on 12th May, in the D’Arcy Thompson Theatre.

Graduate Bursaries: A limited number of graduate bursaries are available on a competitive basis to cover the cost of the registration fee, (sponsored by the Dean of Arts, Social Sciences & Celtic Studies): http://www.conference.ie/Conferences/index.asp?Conference=90.

Registration commences at 10:30 on Wednesday 12th May followed by buffet lunch at 12:00.  The Conference opens at 13:00 on the 12th May and closes at 17:00 on Thursday 13th of May.
Conference web site:
http://www.conference.ie/Conferences/index.asp?Conference=90

Organisers
Darren Smith, Chair, RGS-IBG Population Geography Research Group  d.smith@brighton.ac.uk
Mary Cawley: mary.cawley@nuigalway.ie
Marie Mahon: marie.mahon@nuigalway.ie
Valerie Ledwith: valerie.ledwith@nuigalway.ie
School of Geography and Archaeology, National University of Ireland, Galway

The agenda for the meeting can be downloaded from this site.

The (unconfirmed) minutes for the meeting are now available

The agenda for the meeting can be downloaded from this site.

The AGM will coincide with the Royal Geographical Society with Institute for British Geographers Annual International Conference, which this year takes place in Manchester.

The Population Geography Research Group (PopGRG) of the RGS-IBG has set up three prizes (£100 for 1st; £50 for 2nd; £25 for 3rd) to be awarded for the best undergraduate dissertations of 2009 in the broad field of Population Geography. 

Would you or your colleagues like to nominate a dissertation from your institution?  If so, please send a copy of the dissertations to me by the end of July this year (2009).  Please note that for practical purposes we can only accept one dissertation from any institution and to be eligible that institution has to be in the UK.

The prize is named in memory of the daughter of Professor John Stillwell of the University of Leeds. Joanna who was a geography graduate from the University of Sheffield died in 2004.

Any further enquiries can be directed to Sam Scott (sam.scott@liv.ac.uk ) PopGRG Awards Officer

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 migration, for example internal and transnational migration, are being reconfigured in the developed and developing worlds, and how these shifts are being theorised by academics from different (sub)disciplines of academia. Key here is how and why these shifting expressions of migration flows may have major implications for new theorisations of migration. Papers are therefore sought which critically engage with one or more of the above issues.

Conference organising committee: Darren Smith, Russell King, Rebecca Elmhirst and Ron Skeldon,

Please send expressions of interest, or a 150 word abstract to either Darren Smith (D.Smith@Brighton.ac.uk) or Russell King (R.King@Sussex.ac.uk), by 30th March 2009.

Some of the papers from the conference will form the basis of an edited book publication. There is an expectation that presenters will therefore provide full papers at the conference.

 Confirmed keynote speakers are: Professor Rachel Silvey (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA), Professor Adrian Favell (Aarhus University, Denmark) and Dr Keith Halfacree (University of Wales Swansea, UK).

Details of registration and accommodation will be circulated.

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) to Nissa.Finney@manchester.ac.uk by Friday 23rd January 2009.

Session organisers: Nissa Finney (University of Manchester), Gemma Catney (University of Manchester), John Stillwell (University of Leeds)

Session description
In Britain and other European countries, recent years have seen a shift in ethnic integration policy from multiculturalism to community cohesion. With this shift has come a renewed emphasis on place and residential mixing. This session explores two themes of these debates. The first theme is patterns of settlement of immigrants and their subsequent migrations that are changing sub-national ethnic geographies. What factors and processes influence these patterns of settlement and migrations? Do they differ between ethnic/migrant groups? What are their implications for ethnic integration, residentially and otherwise? The second theme of the session is the meaning of ethnic residential mixing. Is residential mixing associated with greater integration in other spheres? What are the causal connections between the residential composition of areas and structural and social integration in these locales and beyond?

The session is sponsored by the ESRC’s Understanding Population Trends and Processes (UPTAP) programme. It aims to showcase research being undertaken within the Ethnicity stream of this programme and to present a forum for dialogue between UPTAP researchers, other researchers in the UK and overseas, and policy makers. Speakers are welcome from outside the UPTAP programme, and UPTAP will cover conference costs for all speakers.

Particular topics of the session may include:
Settlement and secondary migration of recent immigrants (e.g. EU Accession immigrants, dispersed asylum seekers/refugees)
Internal migration patterns of ethnic groups: reinforcing or reducing residential segregation?
Housing and migration experiences of immigrant/ethnic groups
Differences in migration experiences for immigrant/ethnic groups for different life stage, social classes, family contexts
Motivations for migration and characteristics of migrants
Mapping and monitoring migration of minority groups
The significance of ethnic residential mixing for health, employment, experience of crime, relationships, social mobility.

http://www.rgs.org/WhatsOn/ConferencesAndSeminars
http://www.uptap.net/index.html

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