Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society

Fri Jan 28 14:35:05 CET 2011

The REMESO newsletter will be circulated periodically every semester, with information on the Institute's activities and courses at the Graduate School in Migration, Ethnicity and Society. REMESO is an Institute within Linköping University, located on Campus Norrköping, Norrköping Sweden that gathers around 40 researchers specialising in migration, ethnicity and labour market changes. 
REMESO is financed by FAS - The Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research - as a Center of Excellence. Financial support also comes from Linköping University, Norrköping Municipality and other Research Councils. 

STARTUP OF A NEWSLETTER FROM REMESO  (2011-01-28)
REMESO will in January send out the first issue of its Newsletter, with information about the Institute´s activities, publications, workshops and also developments in the wider research field.

http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.245987

SPRING SEMINARS AT REMESO (2011-01-24)
During the spring REMESO have a full seminarprogramme, with internal works seminars as well as invited guests.
http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.246812

LABOUR RIGHTS AS HUMAN RIGHTS? (2011-01-28)
On the 23rd of February, 2011, REMESO is arranging a workshop in advance of the 2012 UNESCO-MOST Conference
Labour Rights as Human Rights? Migration, Labour Market Restructuring, and the Role of Civil Society in Global Governance.
http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.245951

REMESO RESEARCHERS CO-ARRANGES RETHINKING THE MODERN (2011-01-28)
Rethinking the Modern: Colonialism, Empire, and Slavery is a conference held at Birmingham Midland Institute. Peo Hansen and Stefan Jonsson, REMESO, is participating in the arrangement of the conference within the network Rethinking the Global: Connected Histories and Connected Sociologies.
http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.245942

REMESO IN SOUTH AFRICA AND MEXICO (2011-01-28)
REMESO researchers have been travelling this autumn and participated in conferences, civil society meetings and worked with initiatives for new international research collaborations. 
http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.238893

CAREER CONTRACT TO REMESO RESEARCHER (2010-12-16)
Peo Hansen, political scientist at REMESO, has received a 3 year grant from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as career researcher together with three other promising researchers at Linköping University.

http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.238563

COURSES 2011 AT REMESO GRADUATE SCHOOL (2011-01-28)
In the Spring two new courses are offered at the REMESO graduate School of interest to any PhD and MA students interested in Ethnic Studies and Migration. First is Theories of Ethnicity and Nationalism ? Historical and Contemporary Debates and later in the semester Introduction to Research Methods in Ethnic and Migration Studies.

http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.223030

NEW PHD CANDIDATES TO REMESO (2011-01-28)
REMESO has at the beginning of this semester welcomed five new PhD candidates. They are now settling in and will soon start their first graduate courses.
http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.217836

A EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP? (2010-08-24)
In their new book, The Politics of European Citizenship - Deepening Contradictions in Social Rights & Migration Policy Peo Hansen, REMESO, and Sandy Hager, York University, Toronto, discuss European integration in relation to issues of migration and social rights from a political economy perspective. 
http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.209881

NEW PUBLICATIONS FROM REMESO (2011-01-21)
Several new publications have come from REMESO researchers during 2010.
http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.209894

REMESO YEARLY REPORT 2007-2009  (2011-01-20)
During 2010 REMESO published its first and extended Yearly Report covering the institutes activities during its first three years. 

http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.205577

REMESO PROFESSOR COMMENTS ON LITHUANIA IN NYT (2011-01-28)
The New York Times has recently reported on the austerity program adopted in Lithuania to avoid bankruptcy. Professor Charles Woolfson at REMESO who has studied labour conditions and welfare changes in the Baltic states was, together with other experts on the area, interviewed for the article. 
http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.204486

For more information about REMESO visit our website:

WWW.ISV.LIU.SE/REMESO
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