ESF-LiU Conference
Home, Migration and the City: New Narratives, New Methodologies
6-10 August 2010
Links of Interest |
Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting
April 14-18, 2010 – Washington, DC. Start making plans for the 2010 AAG Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, home of the Association of American Geographers and the heart of the U.S. Federal Government...
- The journal Theory and Society publishes theoretically-informed analyses of social processes, providing a forum for an international community of scholars. It opens its pages to authors working at the frontiers of social analysis, regardless of discipline...
- United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD): Research Project on 'Social Policy and Migration in Developing Countries'
This project examines migration as it relates to transformations in social welfare, social institutions and social relations in origin and destination developing countries. Over the past two decades, international migration has resurfaced as a prominent feature of contemporary social and economic life, but because most research has focused on migration from South to North, the consequences of South-South migration are not well understood. Learn more...
Some publications of interest
- Migration and Poverty: Linkages, Knowledge Gaps and Policy Implications, by Arjan de Haan and Shahin Yaqub
- The Implications of Migration for Gender and Care Regimes in the South, by Eleonore Kofman and Parvati Raghuram
- Migration and Social Development: Organizational and Political Dimensions, by Nicola Piper
- Remittances, Migration and Social Development: A Conceptual Review of the Literature, by Hein de Haas
- Social Policy and Migration, UNRISD conference news
This conference is organised by the European Science Foundation (ESF) in partnership with Linköping University.
ESF provides the scientific, administrative and technical secretariat for COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology).