Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance

The Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG) is a University designated Centre of Research Excellence

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News archive for April 2012

A special issue on Transnational Care in Europe

By Amandine Scherrer - 30 April 2012, 11:38

A special issue of the journal Social Politics Spring 2012, 19 (1), co-edited by Umut Erel (CCIG), Fiona Williams and Deborah Brennan: Transnational Care in Europe-Changing Formations of Citizenship, Family, and Generation

A new publication on the the language of ‘family’

By Amandine Scherrer - 17 April 2012, 14:58

The powerful relational language of ‘family’: togetherness, belonging and personhood, by Jane Ribbens McCarthy (FaRComm Programme), in The Sociological Review, Vol.60, Feb.2012, 68-90.

CCIG welcomes Leticia Carvalho

By Amandine Scherrer - 16 April 2012, 16:20

CCIG would like to welcome Leticia Carvalho (PUC – Rio). Leticia is visiting us until 1 September 2012.

Leticia is a PhD candidate at the Institute of International Relations (PUC-Rio) and works as a research assistant in a project called HASOW (Humanitarian Action in Situations other than War), that investigates the work of humanitarian agencies in violent urban settings, such as the favelas (slums) in Rio de Janeiro.