REMESO - Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society

REMESO pursues interdisciplinary research, education and knowledge dissemination on transnational migration, ethnic diversity and citizenship.

REMESO develops:

research on migration, ethnic relations and multilevel governance.

a platform for international visiting researchers

a graduate school in Migration, Ethnicity, and Society

a PhD program in Migration and Ethnic studies

academic networks and cooperation

stakeholder collaboration and policy evaluation

migration- and ethnicity perspectives for education programmes at LiU

quantitative and qualitative databases related to on-going research

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Clandestine Crossing: The Stories

David Spener from the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Trinity University published an e-book titled “Clandestine Crossings: The Stories”.  The e-book is meant to be a companion to Spener’s book, Clandestine Crossings: Migrants and Coyotes on the Texas-Mexico Border (Cornell University Press, 2009).  The e-book explores nine different experiences from migrant’s crossing the border into America.

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Social Research published its spring 2010 issue on MIGRATION POLITICS. The array of papers in this special issue bridges issues of migration in Europe and the United States, integrating the pressing questions of state building, ethnic conflict, migration and integration, comparative politics and society, and transnational politics, and bringing to life the intersections between the academy and the world that too often fade from view.  Migration Politics also addresses the often overlooked, intricate links between scholarship on African decolonialization and the civil rights movement in the United States.  The issue, which honors Aristide Zolberg’s intellectual contribution to the field of migration and immigration studies, concludes with a roundtable discussion reflecting on Zolberg’s life and work.

MIGRATION POLITICS
Social Research: An International Quarterly
Volume 77 No.1 (Spring 2010), ISBN 978-1-933481-20-3
www.socres.org/vol77/issue771.html

Table of Contents:

Victoria Hattam and Riva Kastoryano: Guest Editors’ Introduction

Kenneth Prewitt: When Social Inequality Maps to Demographic Diversity, What Then for Liberal Democracy?

Rogers M. Smith: From the Shining City on a Hill to a Great Metropolis on a Plain? American Stories of Immigration and Peoplehood

Son-Thierry Ly and Patrick Weil: The Antiracist Origin of the Quota System

Riva Kastoryano: Codes of Otherness

Mary C. Waters and Philip Kasinitz: Discrimination, Race Relations, and the Second Generation

Victoria Hattam and Carlos Yescas: From Immigration and Race to Sex and Faith: Reimagining the Politics of Opposition

Richard Alba: Connecting the Dots between Boundary Change and Large-Scale Assimilation with Zolbergian Clues

Sophie Body-Gendrot: European Policies of Social Control Post-9/11

Martin A. Schain: Managing Difference: Immigrant Integration Policy in France, Britain, and the United States

Alexandra Délano: Immigrant Integration vs. Transnational Ties? The Role of the Sending State

John Torpey:.A (Post-)Secular Age? Religion and the Two Exceptionalisms

Thomas Faist: Cultural Diversity and Social Inequalities

Ricard Zapata-Barrero: Theorizing State Behavior in International Migrations: An Evaluative Ethical Framework

James D. Ingram and Triadafilos Triadafilopoulos: Rights, Norms, and Politics: The Case of German Citizenship Reform

Roundtable: Reflections on Aristide Zolberg’s Life and Work

Ann Snitow: The Joy of Memory

David Apter: Interdisciplinary from the Start

Courtney Jung: Professor Zolberg Goes to Africa

Ira Katznelson: Pluralism in Scholarship and Experience

Aristide Zolberg: Decoding Patterns