Recent posts tagged with "migration"

Keynote Lecture: Rhacel Parreñas

26 May 2010, 14:00 - 17:00

Rhacel Parreñas, Professor of American Civilization and Sociology at Brown University, will be visiting the Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance to give a special keynote lecture.

Liberty & Security: Multimedia Teaching and Training Module

A multimedia module critically engaging with debates about balancing liberty and security in the European Union, including the changing nature of border controls and war, is now available at http://www.libertysecurity.org/module.

Posted by Jef Huysmans on 7 October 2009, 21:58

A Caring Europe? Care, Migration and Gender

12 November 2009 (All day) - 13 November 2009 (All day)

The workshop is funded by the European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop programme. It brings together researchers from Europe whose work addresses issues of care, migration and gender from varying disciplinary and thematic perspectives, in particular including early career researchers.

Reflecting on Managed Migration

The recent ‘Managed Migration’ conference (19 May 09) organized by inside government took place in the plush surroundings of a central London hotel. As I was looking for the hotel, I mused about how the choice of location, a hotel in transnational ownership hints at transnational mobility, though in this case of capital.

Posted by Umut Erel on 12 June 2009, 13:29

Globalising Care Economies and Migrant Workers

Dr Nicola Yeates, Director of CCIG's Mobilities Programme, has completed a major work with Globalising care economies and migrant workers: explorations in global care chains (2009 on Palgrave).

Posted by Scott Rodgers on 12 June 2009, 09:07

Migrant Women Transforming Citizenship

In Migrant Women Transforming Citizenship (2009 on Ashgate), CCIG Fellow Dr Umut Erel develops new insights into the notion of transnational citizenship by

Posted by Scott Rodgers on 11 June 2009, 11:45

The Exclusionary Politics of Asylum

Dr Vicki Squire's newly published book, The Exclusionary Politics of Asylum (2009 on Palgrave Macmillan), critically considers recent political debates around asylum seeking in the UK and Europe.

Posted by Scott Rodgers on 11 June 2009, 11:34

Conceptualizing Mobility as Democratic Practice

A new article has just been published by Claudia Aradau and Jef Huysmans on 'Mobilising (global) democracy: A political reading of mobility between universal rights and the mob.'

Posted by Jef Huysmans on 27 May 2009, 21:58

A Caring Europe? Care, Migration and Gender

The workshop is funded by the European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop programme. It brings together researchers from Europe whose work addresses issues of care, migration and gender from varying disciplinary and thematic perspectives, in particular including early career researchers.

CCIG Forum 8

3 November 2009, 10:30 - 16:30

This Forum will open with an introduction to CCIG’s newest Research Programme on Bodies, led by its Director Raia Prokovnik.