Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society

[REMESO Newsletter]

The REMESO newsletter will be circulated periodically every semester, with information on the Institute's activities and courses at the Graduate School. 

REMESO is an Institute within Linköping University, Sweden, located to Campus Norrköping. REMESO is a "Centre of Excellence" financed by FAS - The Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research -, Linköping University, Norrköping Municipality as well as other Research Councils and agencies. 




STEFAN JONSSON GIVES A PHD- AND MASTER COURSE - "EMPIRE AND ETHNICITIES" (2012-02-25)
During the fall 2012 and spring 2013 Stefan Jonsson, REMESO, gives a course for PhD- and Masterstudents - "Empires and Ethnicities: Critical Problems in Social Theory and History"
http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.326598?l=en

VACANCY. DOCTORAL STUDENT IN ETHNIC AND MIGRATION STUDIES ? "ETHNICITY AND CITIZENSHIP IN THE CONTEXT OF COLONIALITY AND MODERNITY" (2012-02-06)
REMESO announces a vacancy as a Doctoral Student in Ethnic and Migration Studies ? "Ethnicity and citizenship in the context of coloniality and modernity"
http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.321180?l=en

CHARLES WOOLFSON MEMBER FACULTY OF PHD SCHOOL AT UNIVERSITY OF BERGAMO (2012-03-01)
Charles Woolfson has been appointed a member of the teaching faculty of the International Ph.D. School Human Capital Formation and Labour Relations, University of Bergamo, Italy.
http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.327710?l=en

A GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY? (2012-02-06)
Heidi Moksnes and Mia Helin at Uppsala University are the editors of a new book on the global civil society based on a conference from last Spring - Global Civil Society - Shifting Powers in a Shifting World. Behind the conference and the volume is Uppsala Centre for Sustainable Development, Uppsala University.  Carl-Ulrik Schierup, Branka Likic-Brboric and Khalid Khayati from REMESO have contributed to the book.  
http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.321175?l=en

GRADUATE SCHOOL COURSES 2012 (2012-02-29)
REMESO Graduate School offers the course 'International Migration, Ethnicity and Gender: Intersectional Perspectives on Labour, Power and Citizenship' this Spring, Deadline for applications are March 6, 2012. In the Fall two courses will be given, 'Theories of Ethnicity and Nationalism ? Historical and Contemporary Debates' and 'Migration and Labour in a Global Economy'.
http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.319285?l=en

LABOUR RIGHTS AS HUMAN RIGHTS? CONFERENCE IN NORRKÖPING, SWEDEN, MAY 30-JUNE 1, 2012 (2012-02-29)
Conference in Norrköping, Sweden, between May 30th to June 1st, 2012, organised by REMESO in collaboration with the INMD (International Network for Migration and Development), under the auspices of UNESCO-MOST.

http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.327448?l=en

HIGH PRAISE FOR LIU ETHNICITY RESEARCH  (2012-01-04)
Innovative and successful. REMESO has been afforded significant praise by the Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research (FAS).

http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.314146?l=en

15 MILLION FROM THE SWEDISH RESEARCH COUNCIL TO REMESO AND ISV (2011-11-09)
The Swedish Research Council (VR) has granted three projects at REMESO and ISV total of 15.16 million SEK. The rewarded projects are research about sexual risk, on langiage policies and its implementation in schools and  on "Eurafrica" a forgotten colonial vision and project which was was a precursor to the European union. Also, Professor Charles Woolfson and a team of researchers have received 3,7 million from FAS for a study on migration from the Baltic countries.
http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.300890?l=en

DISSERTATION ON PHD THESIS ON INTERRACIAL MARRIAGES IN SWEDEN (2011-10-10)
On October 7 Sayaka Osanami Törngren got her PhD degree on her thesis "Love aint't got no color? - Attitudes toward interracial marriages in Sweden." Charles Westin, professor atCEIFO, Stockholm university, was opponent.
http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.294613?l=en

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON THE PARADOXES OF LIBERALISM (2011-12-25)
On October 4, 2011, REMESO organised a workshop with the title 'Paradoxes of Liberalism and the Conundrum of Solidarity'. Invited international scholars met up with REMESO researchers to share both theoretical perspectives and empirical snapshots from different regions. 

http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.275168?l=en

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