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. 




AUSTERE HISTORIES: SOCIAL EXCLUSION AND THE ERASURE OF COLONIAL MEMORIES IN EUROPEAN SOCIETIES (2013-06-13)
International Symposium at REMESO, Linköping University. 28 ? 29 November 2013, at Arbetets Museum, Norrköping

http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.482984?l=en

FUNDING TO REMESO (2013-06-13)
REMESO researchers, PhD students and staff have received funding for different projects recently.
http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.466799?l=en

REMESO RESEARCHERS COMMENT ON VIOLENCE IN POOR SEGREGATED AREAS IN SWEDEN (2013-06-07)
The TV- channel Al Jazeeras programme Stream have cover the riots in Sweden. Stefan Jonsson participated.  

Also  Carl-Ulrik Schierup and Aleksandra Ålund was interviewed in the webbased radio WBEZ Worldview.
http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.464544?l=en

AUSTERITY IN THE BALTIC STATES  (2013-05-26)
On Wednesday the 8th of May Arunas Juska, Charles Woolfson (REMESO) and Jeffrey Sommers arranged a seminar under the heading ?Contradictions of Austerity: Migration and The Socio-Economic Costs of the Neoliberal Baltic Model?.
http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.464185?l=en

SEMINAR ON EU ANTI DISCRIMINATION LAW, AND COMPLIANCE (2013-05-27)
Vanja Petricevic, visting scholar at REMESO, will give a talk on "Assessment of Discrepancies in the European Union Compliance Proceedings" on Tuesday May 28.
http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.463667?l=en

SOCIOLOGY PROFESSOR ARUNAS JUSKA TO REMESO (2013-05-10)
REMESO is pleased to welcome Associate Professor Arunas Juska as a FAS-sponsored guest professor at REMESO for one month during this spring.  Arunas works at the University of East Carolina, USA. He is originally from Lithuania, he moved to US in 1990.
http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.460178?l=en

MIGRATION AND AUSTERITY IN THE BALTIC REGION (2013-05-03)
Charles Woolfson gave a keynote speech: Migration, Austerity and New Challenges to Labour Markets in the Baltic/Nordic Region, at an expert seminar in Vilnius, organised by among others Global Utmaning. 
http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.460010?l=en

"WHY ARE WORKERS DYING TO MAKE OUR CLOTHES?" (2013-05-24)
Nandita Farhad is a graduate of the Masters course in IEI on Perspectives in Human Resource Management, Linköping University. She has published in the journal International Union Rights, with an upsetting timeliness in relation to the ongoing catastrophe. 
http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.459903?l=en

WORKSHOP ON INTERSECTIONALITY AS METHOD AND THEORY  (2013-03-20)
In February a workshop was organised by Tema Genus and REMESO as a continuation of the much-appreciated workshop on intersectionality in the autumn 2012. This time, nine researchers and PhD students elaborated on theoretical or methodological perspectives on intersectionality. 
http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.449406?l=en

For more information about REMESO visit our website:

WWW.ISV.LIU.SE/REMESO
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