The ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change (MiSoC) together with the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex are bringing together a group of researchers working around several growing areas in migration studies to stimulate cross-disciplinary exchange in an all-day workshop at ISER on Thursday 5th October.
Short presentations will cover central questions investigating how immigrants experience social integration, how their children fare at school, how involuntary immigrants (refugees) are affected and what effect immigration has on social cohesion, followed by informal open floor discussions.
Programme
9:00 – 9:45 Welcome and Coffee
9:45 – 10:00 Opening Words – Shamit Saggar (ISER)
10:00-11:15 How do immigrants become citizens? [political participation and naturalization of foreign born and their children]
Neema Begum (Bristol); Silvia Galandini (Manchester), David Bartram (Leicester), Hector Solaz (Essex Government)
11:15 – 11:30 Break
11:30- 12:45 Is there an “Immigrant Achievement Paradox”? [immigrants and their children in work and school]
Hector Cebolla-Boado (UNED) and Yasemin Soysal (Essex Sociology), Sarah Carol (Cologne); Malcolm Brynin and Wouter Zwysen (ISER)
12:45 – 14:00 Lunch / PhD Poster Presentation
14:00 – 15:15 How can we understand the refugee experience? [rights, welfare, and outcomes of involuntary immigrants]
Maja Korac (UEL), Anna Getmansky (Essex Government), Renos Papadopoulos (Essex CPS)
15:15 – 15:45 Coffee Break
15:45 – 17:00 What are the challenges and opportunities of immigration for social cohesion?
David Voas (Institute of Education), James Laurence (Manchester), Merlin Schaeffer (Cologne), Alita Nandi (ISER) and Renee Luthra (Essex Sociology)
Concluding comments – Renee Luthra (ISER)
17:00-18:00 Wine and Nibbles
18:00 Conclusion
An extended programme with presentation abstracts is available here.
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