International
Conference
"Migrating World: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Migration and
Integration"
23 March,
2019 – University of Greenwich, London
organised
by
“History in
its broadest aspect is a record of man’s migrations from one environment to
another.” – Ellsworth Huntington
Migration
has been a constant feature of human history – “homo migrans” have existed ever
since “homo sapiens”. Recently the themes of migration and integration have
been especially topical in Europe and in other parts of the world due to
massive and ever-growing movement of population. These spreading in-flows of
immigrants have a strong impact on the social, economic and political climate
of host countries, which are often highly challenged by the growing number of
immigrants and, therefore, have to review their immigration and integration
policies to adjust to the contemporary processes of globalization.
Integration
is becoming more and more important at the time when international migration is
steadily growing and diversifying and when immigration is undergoing profound
changes. Integration and its diverse components have therefore become a central
aspect that must be analyzed, supported and facilitated in contemporary
societies because only successful integration builds communities that are
stronger economically and more inclusive socially and culturally.
It is
important to analyze all these processes of our migrating world applying various
interdisciplinary approaches in order to better understand the current trends
in international migration, to discuss and assess different aspects and changes
in the fields of migration, integration and cultural diversity. The
international interdisciplinary conference "Migrating World:
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Migration and Integration" aims to bring
together scholars from around the world to exchange and share their ideas and
research findings in all relevant aspects of migration and integration. It will
provide an effective interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners
and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends as
well as practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted in the fields of
migration, integration and cultural diversity.
Topics of
interest include, but are not limited to:
- Asylum policy and treatment of refugees
- Asylum seekers, refugees, migrants – understanding immigration systems
- Border services and management
- Comparative migration policies
- Migration and migration history
- The importance of the linguistic integration of immigrants
- Citizenship and immigration
- Social, cultural, economic integration of immigrants and refugees
- Illegal migration and security threats
- Family dynamics and inequalities in migration
- Migration and human rights
- Human trafficking and exploitative migration
- Identity of immigrants
- Labour market integration; refugee status; adaptation strategies of immigrants; retention of ethnic and older national identities
- Migration and multiculturalism
- Migration and social change: international and European perspectives
- Policing ethnicity: between the rhetoric of inclusion and the practices and policies of exclusion
- Political asylum and refugee status
- Policy discussions that enhance the understanding of immigration, settlement and integration and that contribute to policy development
- Promoting social imagination at the global level: a discussion about migration and intercultural integration
- Sociology of migration: differences, inequalities and sociological imagination
- (Successful) migrant integration: whose responsibility is it?
- Cultural diversity and diversity management
- The inequalities referring to the right to mobility in the context of globalization
- Migration in Media and Arts
- Migration in literature
We invite
proposals from various disciplines including political science, sociology,
economics, history, law, philosophy, anthropology, public administration,
demography, social geography, literature, linguistics, etc.
Paper
proposals up to 250 words and a brief biographical note should be sent by 15
January, 2019 to: integration@lcir.co.uk.
Please
download paper proposal form.
Registration
fee – 110 GBP
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