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Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance
The Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG) is a University designated Centre of Research Excellence
News archive for June 2009
CCIG on YouTube
CCIG has recently established its own YouTube channel, with the channel's videos cross-posted in the CCIG website’s Media section. With special thanks to the Open University’s Berrill Webcasts site, we are now able to make available through these sites archived video content from selected CCIG-related events.
Rural Identities: Ethnicity and Community in the Contemporary English Countryside
Dr Sarah Neal has published a new book, Rural Identities: Ethnicity and Community in the Contemporary English Countryside (2009 on Ashgate). Rural Identities investigates and engages with the ways in which ideas of the English countryside and rural nature, are enrolled into and fashion the narratives of Englishness.
PhD Studentship in European Citizenship
Applications are invited for a Chartered PhD Research Studentship. It is based in the Department of Politics and International of Studies in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Open University, and hosted by the Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG).
European Journal of Women's Studies
The European Journal of Women's Studies that Gail Lewis co-edits with Kathy Davis (University of Utrecht) is now ranked 7th in the international listing of peer-reviewed journals in women's and gender studies.
Dr Catherine Neveu visiting the OU
On Tuesday and Wednesday of next week (23 and 24 June), Dr Catherine Neveu, a French colleague of Professor John Clarke, will be visiting the OU.
Globalising Care Economies and Migrant Workers
Dr Nicola Yeates, Director of CCIG's Mobilities Programme, has completed a major work with Globalising care economies and migrant workers: explorations in global care chains (2009 on Palgrave).
Migrant Women Transforming Citizenship
In Migrant Women Transforming Citizenship (2009 on Ashgate), CCIG Fellow Dr Umut Erel develops new insights into the notion of transnational citizenship by
The Exclusionary Politics of Asylum
Dr Vicki Squire's newly published book, The Exclusionary Politics of Asylum (2009 on Palgrave Macmillan), critically considers recent political debates around asylum seeking in the UK and Europe.