Scientific Assistant Erlend Paasche of the EUMARGINS' Oslo team will present a paper at the TRANSMIG conference in Stockholm on November 4-5. The paper has been co-written together with scientific coordinator Katrine Fangen. Title of the paper is: 'Transnational Involvement: Reading a Statistical Study in Light of Qualitative Data'.
The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities organizes the Participatory Forum'Building Together a Society for All – A Circus against Exclusion' which will take place in Brussels on 19 and 20 October 2010. During the session on 'Social Inclusion of migrant youth: Breaking the inter-generational transmission of poverty and social exclusion' Scientific Coordinator Katrine Fangen will present results from the EUMARGINS research project. Participation in the forum is open for the public.
The University of Bergen, through its Department of Sociology and IMER/UiB, organized a joint conference and PhD course around the theme of 'First Generation Nationals' on September 27-30, 2010. The event was an attempt to elucidate several issues of major importance with respect to understanding the diversity of our societies. During the session 'The structural trajectories of second generation immigrants', EUMARGINS' Scientific Coordinator Katrine Fangen presented the paper 'Opportunities and barriers in education for young adult descendants in seven countries: Findings from a European qualitative cross-national study'. See the whole program.
The conference 'Researching Migration in Europe - Empirical research, theoretical and methodological challenges' took place in Vienna on September 19-22, 2010. During the conference, EUMARGINS' Scientific Coordinator Katrine Fangen chaired and gave introductory remarks to the discussion of session 5: 'Attitudes towards immigrants'.
The Directorate of Integration and Diversity (IMDi) organised on September 8th 2010 a seminar about the report from the Open Society Institute entitled 'At Home in Europe Project: Muslims in Europe—A Report on 11 EU Cities'. Main findings and reflections on methodology were presented by researchers from the Open Society Institute. The report is based upon in-depth interviews with Muslims living in 11 cities in Europe. EUMARGINS' Scientific Coordinator Katrine Fangen was present in the seminar as lead critic/commentator of the report. She also talked about and drew parallels to the findings of the EUMARGINS research project.
Coordinator Katrine Fangen presented the analytical frame of EUMARGINS at the First ISA Forum of Sociology, arranged by the International Sociological Association (ISA) in Barcelona, 5-8 September 2008. The title of her presentation was 'Social exclusion and inclusion of young adult immigrants in Europe'.
Coordinator Katrine Fangen presented EUMARGINS at the The Research Council of Norway's information seminar about the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). The title of Fangen's presentation was 'EUMARGINS: Application, Negotiation and Kick-off'.
Coordinator Katrine Fangen gave a presentation of the EUMARGINS research project at the so-called Tuesday-seminar at ARENA, the Centre for European Studies at the University of Oslo. About 20 of the researchers from ARENA were present at the meeting.
Coordinator Katrine Fangen presented EUMARGINS at the Research Council of Norway's IMER (International Migration and Ethnic Relations) seminar.
Coordinator Katrine Fangen presented EUMARGINS at the seminar for the youth researchers at NOVA (a research institute under the auspices of the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research). Title of presentation: 'Inclusion and exclusion of young adult immigrants in seven European countries - a new project funded by the EU's 7th framework program.
Coordinator Katrine Fangen presented EUMARGINS at joint meeting for projects financed by the EU's 7th framework program; after the UP2YOUTH project's policy Seminar "Youth - actor of social change. Findings of European Youth Research" in Brussels.
The Institute of Baltic Studies, EUMARGINS research partner in Estonia, held in September 2009 a symposium and strategic seminar together with PRAXIS Center for Policy Studies. PRAXIS is one of the leading policy research institutes in Estonia. During the event, EUMARGINS' objectives and research activities were introduced and discussed among the participants of the seminar.
The University of Oslo is cooperating with the Chinese Academy of Social Science (CASS). In November 2009 a Chinese delegation from CASS visited UiO, and the Institute of Sociology and Human Geography organized a CASS-UiO workshop entitled Youth, Identity, Migration and Social Problems. The workshop dealt amongst others with issues such as migration trends, inclusion in receiving countries and identity and subcultural approaches. Under the latter theme, project coordinator Katrine Fangen talked about Youth and the Ethnic Challenge, based upon findings from the EUMARGINS research project.
Judit Strõmpl, from the EUMARGINS research team in Estonia, held the presentation "How it is to be an 'other' in Estonia?" at a seminar about racism and ethnocentrism entitled 'The world is not just black and white'. In her presentation, Mrs. Strõmpl referred to some preliminary results from EUMARGINS' data collection in Estonia.
On Thursday 4th March 2010, Professor Les Back from London is giving a talk in Barcelona at the conference 'Living With Diversity - For a politics of hope in Europe'. The event is organized by the The Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB). Les Back will talk about 'Racism's Social weight', and with this present some research findings from EUMARGINS.
On 7-9 April 2010 the Annual Conference of the British Sociological Association took place at the Glasgow Caledonian University. Professor Les Back presented the paper 'Thicker Lines and Globally Distributed Lives' at the Sub plenary – 'Social Justice and Inclusion: Theorising and Researching Difference'. In his presentation, Les Back focuses on the scale of our sociological imaginations, and the way in which we scale social divisions. Read more about the BSA Annual Conference 2010 and about the sub-plenary events.
On 18th of May, project coordinator Katrine Fangen gave a lecture at IMDI's breakfast seminar. IMDI is the Norwegian Directorate of Integration and Diversity.
EUMARGINS' researcher Professor Les Back was keynote speaker at the Conference 'YOUTH 2010: Identities, Transitions and Cultures' which took place at the University of Surrey from Tuesday 6 July to 8 July 2010. In his talk, Les Back shared some findings from EUMARGINS.
On 11th of May, project coordinator Katrine Fangen will give a lecture at the seminar-series "New genders - Different Claims". The lecture is being held at the Centre for Inter-Disciplinary Gender research at the University of Oslo, Gaustadalléen 30 D, room 420. It starts at 1.15pm and ends at 3.30pm
On 24th of February 2010, Professor Les Back from the London-based EUMARGINS Research team participated in the 'Multicultural Dialogues Conference' at the London School of Economics. His talk 'The New Hierarchies of Belonging' was based upon EUMARGINS research data.
Coordinator Katrine Fangen presented EUMARGINS for the research advisors at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Oslo. Title of presentation: 'Challenges and possibilities in an EU-project'
Coordinator Katrine Fangen presented EUMARGINS at the post doctoral-programme in nursing science, University of Oslo. The presentation focused on the application period, negotiation and kick-off of the project.