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. 




REMESO WELCOMES APPLICATIONS FOR TWO POSITIONS AS DOCTORAL STUDENT IN ETHNIC AND MIGRATION STUDIES (2014-04-08)
Two positions are now vacant as doctorate student at REMESO. These are doctorates in Ethnic and Migration Studies ? focusing on labour market restructuring and welfare state transformation in globalised societies.
http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.558320?l=en

URBAN SOCIAL JUSTICE MOVEMENTS - WHAT CHANCE DO THEY HAVE? (2014-04-11)
Megafonen (The Megaphone) and Pantrarna (The Panthers) are examples of new social movements that are growing up among youth in the suburbs, most often among youth with immigrant backgrounds. They are working against the dismantling of the welfare state and for the regeneration of the suburbs. They are a new form of organisation, according to researchers at REMESO.
http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.559232?l=en

REMESO GRADUATE SCHOOL FALL COURSES (2014-04-13)
This fall the REMESO Graduate School will offer two courses, "Theories of Ethnicity and Nationalism: Historical and Contemporary Debates" and "Citizenship, Ethnic Division and Social Exclusion: National and Post-national Perspectives".
 
http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.557116?l=en

REMESO RESEARCHER'S ARTICLE SELECTED "OUTSTANDING PAPER OF 2013" (2014-04-02)
The article ?Labour Migration and Informalisation: East meets West? published in 'International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy' (2013, 33:11/12) has been selected as the Outstanding Paper of 2013. The article is written by Branka Likic-Brboric, Zoran Slavnic and Charles Woolfson, all at REMESO.
http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.557110?l=en

STEFAN JONSSON: BOOK LAUNCH AND LECTURE IN NEW YORK AND MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY (2014-02-22)
Next week Stefan Jonsson will discuss his new book, Crowds and Democracy: The Idea and Image of the Masses from Revolution to Fascism (Columbia UP)with Andreas Huyssen and Gayatri Spivak, Columbia University. The event takes place at Deutsches Haus in New York. Prior to that he gives a lecture at Michigan University. 
http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.547343?l=en

EURAFRICA, AND THE COLONIAL ROOTS OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION (2014-02-10)
Peo Hansen and Stefan Jonsson writes in the latest issue of the Mediterranean Quarterly (4:2013) about Eurafrica and the neglected link between colonialism, decolonization and the emergence of the European Union.
http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.543807?l=en

EU MIGRATION POLICY IN A POST-CITIZENSHIP EUROPE? (2014-02-09)
In the chapter 'Immigration Without Incorporation: EU Migration Policy in a Post-Citizenship Europe?' Peo Hansen writes about the EU migration policy in the volume The Reconceptualization of European Citizenship (Brill-Nijhoff 2014)
http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.543385?l=en

MIGRANTS? CHILDREN AS WELL INTEGRATED AS SWEDES? CHILDREN (2014-01-27)
Children of immigrants have less education and get lower level jobs than children of the majority population. That is the impression one gets when looking at broad-based statistics. But REMESO researcher Alireza Behtoui has shown that when you break them down, the statistics tell another story.
http://www.liu.se/forskning/forskningsnyheter/1.539459/

READING THE STOCKHOLM RIOTS - ARTICLE IN RACE & CLASS (2014-01-09)
Carl-Ulrik Schierup, Aleksandra Ålund and Lisa Kings have an article in the latest issue of Race & Class on the Stockholm riots and the youth movements challenging urban degradation and reclaiming citizenship and democracy. 
http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.535119?l=en

PROGRAMS AT REMESO IN SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANALYSIS ARE OF "HIGH QUALITY" IN EVALUATION (2013-12-15)
The educational programmes for bachelor and master degree meet standards for "High Quality" in latest evaluation by the Swedish Higher Education Authority
http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.531280?l=en

SUSANNE URBAN RECEIVES 6,37 MILLION SEK FOR RESEARCH PROJECT ON SWEDISH SCHOOL REFORMS (2013-11-12)
Susanne Urban receives 6,37 million SEK from the Swedish Research Council for a project on Swedish School reforms: "School choice reforms implementation and long term consequences for individuals´ social mobility.School choice reforms implementation and long term consequences for individuals´ social mobility."
http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.522394?l=en

3,9 MILLION FOR RESEARCH ON URBAN JUSTICE MOVEMENTS (2013-11-15)
Lisa Kings and Aleksandra Ålund has received a grant from FORMAS of 3,9 million SEK for research on "Urban justice movements: Youth activism in civil society dialogue"
http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.523585?l=en

GRANT AWARDED TO RESEARCH ON ETHNIC, NATIONAL AND RACIAL CATEGORIES IN GENETICS RESEARCH (2013-11-12)
Anna Bredström, REMESO, has been awarded a large research grant from the Swedish Research Council for the project "Swedish Genes? Ancestry and Ethnicity in Human Genetics Research". 
http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.522381?l=en

NEW REPORT FROM GLOBAL CHALLENGE WITH CONTRIBUTION FROM CHARLES WOOLFSON (2013-10-29)
In a new Global Challenge stakeholder report on Immigration in Times of Emigration Charles Woolfson has a chapter on the challenges facing the Baltic states.
http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.518450?l=en

REMESO ON FACEBOOK (2013-09-19)
REMESO is now on Facebook. Follow us there for news events and to comment on our activities, seminars and publications.
http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.508364?l=en

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