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. 




WORKSHOP ON CIVIL SOCIETY ACTIVISM FOR SUSTAINABLE CITIES (2015-11-16)
On December 12 a workshop with activists, researchers and community organisations will be held at the Multicultural Centre in Fittja, Stockholm: "Civil Society Activism for Sustainable Cities - Urban community work in Stockholm, Johannesburg, New York and Paris".
http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.659602?l=en&utm_medium=nyhetsbrev&utm_source=remeso-e&utm_campaign=okt-2014

EUROPEAN FUTURES: BETWEEN RACISM AND DEMOCRACY (2015-11-04)
November 17 and 18 two seminars will be taking place at REMESO. 'Postracial Silences' Alana Lentin, Western Sydney University, and 'Dilemmas of Democracy: Polish Politics after the 2015 Elections' Leszek Koczanowicz, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Wroclaw


http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.658073?l=en&utm_medium=nyhetsbrev&utm_source=remeso-e&utm_campaign=okt-2014

NEW MASTER PROGRAMME IN ETHNIC AND MIGRATION STUDIES (2015-06-25)
A New Master Programme in Ethnic and Migration Studies (120 cr) will start in tha Autumn of 2016. The programme is run by REMESO.  
http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.641307?l=en&utm_medium=nyhetsbrev&utm_source=remeso-e&utm_campaign=okt-2014

THE CONTRADICTIONS OF AUSTERITY: THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC COSTS OF THE NEOLIBERAL BALTIC MODEL (ROUTLEDGE 2014) E RE-ISSUED IN PAPERBACK (2015-11-16)
Charles Woolfson?s jointly edited volume with Jeffrey Sommers, The Contradictions of Austerity: The Socio-Economic Costs of the Neoliberal Baltic Model (Routledge 2014) is to be re-issued in paperback format in mid-December following successful hardback sales with an introduction by James Galbraith.
http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.659641?l=en&utm_medium=nyhetsbrev&utm_source=remeso-e&utm_campaign=okt-2014

STEFAN JONSSON'S BOOK CROWDS AND DEMOCRACY IN GERMAN TRANSLATION (2015-11-16)
Professor Stefan Jonsson's book Crowds and Democracy in German translation at the prestigious Wallstein Verlag:
http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.659653?l=en&utm_medium=nyhetsbrev&utm_source=remeso-e&utm_campaign=okt-2014

IN THE SUBURBS, BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU (2015-10-15)
Video surveillance, police presence and walls that stop people from socialising in the streets. In France this is reality for the residents of suburbs that are upgraded. Research shows that the people who have been tasked to improve these suburbs see them through their own filter of suspicion.
http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.654892?l=en&utm_medium=nyhetsbrev&utm_source=remeso-e&utm_campaign=okt-2014

THE EROS EFFECT, A COLLABORATION BETWEEN REMESO AND TENSTA ART HALL (2015-11-04)
On Saturday the 17th of October a seminar at Tensta Art hall took place which marks the start of a multi-year inquiry into the relationship between art and solidarity movements.
http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.653126?l=en&utm_medium=nyhetsbrev&utm_source=remeso-e&utm_campaign=okt-2014

SEMINARS AUTUMN 2015 (2015-10-05)
See programme for our Autumn seminars
http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.653153?l=en&utm_medium=nyhetsbrev&utm_source=remeso-e&utm_campaign=okt-2014

DISCUSSIONS ON MIGRATION AND STATE MAKING IN TIMES OF CRISIS (2015-10-01)
REMESO researchers, Aleksandra Ålund, Carl-Ulrik Schierup and Anders Neergaard gave a presentation entitled ?Reimagineering the Nation: Reflections on political and social changes in contemporary Sweden? at the international conference "Transnational Migrations and Contemporary States in Times of Economic Crisis" held in Moscow, 24-25 September 2015. 
http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.652806?l=en&utm_medium=nyhetsbrev&utm_source=remeso-e&utm_campaign=okt-2014

HOSPITALITY - BETWEEN PARTICIPATION AND SECURITIZATION  (2015-08-13)
On September 4, Christophe Foultier will defend his Ph.D Thesis "Regimes of Hospitality - Urban Citizenship between Participation and Securitization ? the Case of the Multiethnic French Banlieue"

http://www.isv.liu.se/remeso/nyheter-arkiv/1.644340?l=en&utm_medium=nyhetsbrev&utm_source=remeso-e&utm_campaign=okt-2014

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