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. 




NEW GRANTS TO REMESO GRADUATE SCHOOL (2012-12-19)
The REMESO Graduate School in Migration, Ethnicity and Society hav been successful in securing funding for the coming 3-4 years through a grant from FAS . Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research
http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.427700?l=en

REMESO GRADUATE SCHOOL IN MIGRATION, ETHNICITY AND SOCIETY - SPRING COURSES (2012-12-13)
In the Spring 2013 The REMESO Graduate School will offer two courses: "Theories and Politics of International Migration" and "Citizenship, Ethnic Division and Social Exclusion: National and Post-national Perspectives"
http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.426469?l=en

PHD COURSE IN THE SPRING: FROM HANNAH ARENDT TO GAYATRI SPIVAK (2012-12-13)
Professor Stefan Jonsson, REMESO, gives a PhD course in the Spring 2013: Empires & Ethnicities: Critical Problems in Social Theory and History Section 2, from Hannah Arendt to Gayatri Spivak


http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.426452?l=en

ISTANBUL INSECURE PLACE FOR AFRICAN REFUGEES (2012-12-14)
Istanbul is a gateway into Europe for refugees and asylum seekers, a transit city for thousands of migrants, who live under insecure conditions. A new dissertation at Malmö University and Linköping University in Sweden shows that social networks benefit transit migration. Established migrants both help and exploit new arrivals.
http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.426902?l=en

PROFESSOR JUDY FUDGE, CANADA, ON GUEST REASEARCH VISIT IN 2014 (2012-12-19)
Charles Woolfson has been successful in obtaining a FAS ?Excellence grant for visiting scientists? on behalf of Professor Judy Fudge, Canada, to visit REMESO in January 2014 for a period of 6 months.
http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.427726?l=en

FUNDING FOR STUDY OF RETIREE MIGRATION TO SPAIN (2012-11-26)
Anna Gavanas, REMESO, has received funding from FAS and VR for the study of Swedish retirees migrating to Spain, and interacting with care- and service providing labour migrants there.
http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.421792?l=en

THE IMPERIAL AND COLONIAL ORIGINS OF THE EUROPEAN INTEGRATION (2012-11-19)
In Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS Vol 50, No 6) Peo Hansen and Stefan Jonsson, REMESO, discuss the imperial and colonial origins of the European Integration in a reply to Gary Marks who in a previous issue discussed EU and imperialism. 
http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.419901?l=en

CHARLES WOOLFSON KEYNOTE ON GLOBAL CHALLENGE-SEMINAR (2012-12-13)
On december 7, an expert seminar was arranged by  Global Challenge (Global Utmaning) in Stockholm. Prof. Charles Woolfson, REMESO, gave a keynote speach: "After the Crisis? Migration and New Challenges to Sustainability in the Baltic States"
The talk is now available on video.
http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.419731?l=en

WORKSHOP: MOBILIZATION, SOLIDARITY AND DIALOGUE (2012-12-13)
Following up on the conference 'Labour Rights as Human Rights' in May 2012, REMESO organized a workshop on November 20 to create an opportunity for dialog between activists and researchers, on the role of civil society for social inclusion and citizenship rights in multiethnic society.
http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.415585?l=en

PROCEEDINGS AVAILABLE FROM THE CONFERENCE 'LABOUR RIGHTS AS HUMAN RIGHTS?' (2012-12-15)
On May 30 a number of internationally well known researcher and activists came to Norrköping for the conference 'Labour Rights as Human Rights? - Labour Market Restructuring and the Role of Civil Society in Global Governance', organised by REMESO and INMD and UNESCO-MOST. 

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

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