HERMES NEWS!

      

        

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         Meanwhile, We would like to invite you to …

 1)       … write short comments on specific topics that are relevant to migration or ethnic issues in your country/ culture of interest or residence or EU/ worldwide. (For example, when a new legislation on immigration is introduced in any of the country we have experience of or at EU transnational level, somebody could write a comment on this?  On current issues, somebody could also write a political comment on the G8 summit or other globalisation issues. For authenticity, a focus should be retained on the specific nature of                               this network, i.e. research in the area of migration & ethnic studies)

 

2)       … write a country profile in regard to migration. This could be an interesting as well as a helpful tool for researchers, which later could lead into a database.

 

3)       …present research findings to expect feedbacks from other researchers in the area. This can be done in the form of a paper (long version) or abstract (short version) or informal (short version, e.g. bullet points, questions for discussion).

4)       …report on HERMES activities, i.e. specific conferences or meetings that members have attended. (For example. those attending the ESA conference in Glasgow, could report to highlights to other members?)

 

5)       … introduce yourself in a welcoming section for new members and for old members to update us about your doings to give us hope it’s not all in vain! :)

 Looking forward to hear your news!

 Katharina (katharina.storch@dcu.ie) and Carla (detonac@tcd.ie)

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HERMES NEWS:

NEW!! Thomas Lacroix (CRER, University of Warwick/ PhD University of Poitiers) explains his research about migrants’ remittances, which have reached in the last years their highest level ever and attracted the attention of official authorities and economists of the World Bank but gained very little academic interest. Why? Read more

E-mail: T.Lacroix@warwick.ac.uk

 NEW!! Alberto Martin Perez (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France & Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) looks at the state of migration studies in Spain. The scholarship on Spain’s emigration has not been taken into consideration when Spain started to research its immigrants in the 1990s. The analysis of the case of the ‘race’ riots in Alcorcón, a suburb near Madrid, in 2007, shows how limiting this ‘theoretical’ blindness is. Read more
E-mail: amartinperez@gmail.com

 NEW!! Ewa Grzedzinska (Demografia ed Economia dalle Grandi Aree Geografiche, University of Bari) questions how the much praised social capital of migrants and their social networks can be also source of constraints. She brings the case of Polish migrant women in Bari, in the south of Italy, as a case which shows how migrants’ capital and networks push women to do mainly domestic work. Read more
E-mail: ewa.grzedzinska@gmail.com

François Gemenne (University of Liège/CEDEM) looks at John Steinbeck’s novel, The Grapes of Wrath and considers how many complex reasons there are behind migration projects, even in environmentally-induced migrations. Migration journeys are journeys to find a better life... Read more
E-mail: f.a.gemenne@lse.ac.uk

Deianira Ganga (Independent Researcher) presents her last academic research project, focussed on the increased participation of students from minority ethnic groups in British Higher Education. She looks in particular to what kind of support Higher Education Institutions need to provide to meet students’ expectation on academic and professional success… Read more
E-mail: deianirahermes@hotmail.co.uk

Maren Borkert (University of Bamberg) reports on a recent policy proposal in Germany for an obligatory language tests and German language courses for all children in the age between 4 and 5 years. Will these language tests and courses mark ‘school losers’ even before starting education? Read more
E-mail: mborkert@web.de

Annalisa Frisina (University of Padova) looks at the Invention of Citizenship among Young Muslims in Italy. An active minority of youths born and/or raised in Italy from infancy, entered the public sphere, participating in various enterprises on inter-religious and intercultural dialogue on a local and national level. This was done to counter-act the raising islamophobia of post 9/11 Italy. But what is the meaning of citizenship in their speeches and in their practices? Read more
E-mail: annalisa.frisina@unipd.it   

Espen Gran (University of Oslo) questions how refugees' remittances impact on unstable and often conflict-torn societies. Espen describes part of his Phd work in which he shows how remittances of Iraqi Kurds in Norway played and important role in sustaining many households in Iraqi Kurdistan during periods of severe crisis caused by embargos and civil wars througout the 1990s. Read more
E-mail: espen.gran@sosiologi.uio.no

Katharina Storch (Dublin City University) looks at how the 1990s Irish economic boom, known as the ‘Celtic Tiger, brought not only prosperity to one of Europe’s formerly poorest countries, but also the attraction for many people from countries struggling to maintain an adequate life style- similar to the experiences the Irish themselves made in the past. Katharina looks at how the most recent development in Ireland hostory of immigration came with EU accession on 1^st May 2004, when large numbers of Polish migrant workers have emigrated to Ireland. Read more
E-mail: katharina.storch@dcu.ie

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