2011 Census: Producing the Numbers
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1 June 2009, Royal Statistics Society
This meeting will offer the first integrated presentation of the proposed end-to-end methodology for the production of 2011 census population estimates.  Aspects of 2011 census proposals, particularly the use of post-out and post-back of questionnaires, a parallel internet data collection channel, coverage survey and increased use of external data sources for census validation all present new opportunities and challenges compared with previous censuses.  The event will comprise four presentations by the Office for National Statistics, each presenting the proposed methodology for an important stage of the census processing and followed by an initial review by an expert discussants: Prof Phil Rees, Prof Ian Diamond; John Bradley and Prof Ludi Simpson.  Presentations will note major differences of methodology within the UK and there will be opportunity for open discussion on each topic.

The second of these is not yet on the RSS website but both are bookable by emailing conference@rss.org.uk for a booking form.

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 well  as Post-Doc-Researchers (for presentations as well as for posters) are  welcome to be submitted to stefan.benedik-karner@uni-graz.at

 Deadline:  June, 10th, 2009

Certain theoretical approaches towards phenomena of migration tend to  result in specific focusses, which are fostering certain issues and  problems as well as hiding others. This research-workshop is based on  the assumption that the dominance of social sciences in Migration Studies still is supporting concepts of multiculturalism. Hence,

 seemingly static identities (ethnical, religious, gender, class or  others) and binary structured images (“push” vs. “pull”) persist.

 New approches dealing with concepts such as hybridity, transition,  diaspora oder community, Gender, Intersectionality, Postcolonial,  Subaltern Studies etc. challenge these perceptions: Migrations become  visible beyond teleological conceptions. Thus current approaches  emphasise decentral characteristics (e.g. in biographies), not only

when  speaking about migratory experience. Consequently transnationality, transculturalism and multilingualism are considered to be the norm –  fragmented lifes in transition and similar perceptions of space and  frontiers are no longer marginalised.

The aim of the planned research-workshop is to discuss current  approaches on migratory movements in historical as well as present  perspectives and to examine possibilities and limits of different  migration theories. The workshop is open to any research-projects  on

 migration/s (done in teams or by individuals), PhD-students as well as  Post-Docs are invited to outline their position within current  theoretical debates on migration in short presentations (app. 20  min) or  posters.

The following focusses are to be followed (among others):

 –            Cultural representation of migration/s  (imagination/narrative invention of “migrants” and their communties,  (gendered) discourses, visualisation, processes of negotiation and  functions of migration discourses)

 –            Social practices (plural self-ascriptions, labour and  migration, “global division of labour”, gendered scopes of action)

 –            Participation and Empowerment, bureaucratical  treatment of  migration/s

 stefan.benedik-karner@uni-graz.at , Deadline for proposals: June 10th,  2009