Recent posts tagged with "migration"

Audio of CCIG Forum 17 (18 November 2010) available - including 'Big Cuts, Big Society' Roundtable

Click here to access a recording of CCIG's 'Big Cuts, Big Society' Politics of the Present Roundtable event. It features a line-up of eight CCIG speakers and is followed by a broader discussion. Following the Roundtable event, two further talks were also programmed as part of this CCIG Forum.

Audio for CCIG Forum 17 (18 November 2010)

CCIG Forums are monthly events at which CCIG members and others come together to discuss, articulate, experiment with and develop CCIG-related research and thinking, face-to-face and in a participative environment. These Forums are now recorded and will be uploaded regularly to the CCIG website in order to involve CCIG members, other researchers and publics.

'Citizenship without Community' Conference online media now available

For those unable to attend the Citizenship without Community workshop held on May 10th 2010 all of the talks are now available to listen to in podcast format here.

'Citizenship without Community' Conference Media 10th May 2010

For those unable to attend the Citizenship without Community workshop held on May 10th 2010 all of the talks are now available to listen to in podcast format through the links below.

Keynotes

CANCELLED: Keynote Lecture: Rhacel Parreñas

Rhacel Parreñas, Professor of American Civilization and Sociology at Brown University, will be visiting the Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance to give a special keynote lecture.

Liberty & Security: Multimedia Teaching and Training Module

A multimedia module critically engaging with debates about balancing liberty and security in the European Union, including the changing nature of border controls and war, is now available at http://www.libertysecurity.org/module.

A Caring Europe? Care, Migration and Gender

The workshop is funded by the European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop programme. It brings together researchers from Europe whose work addresses issues of care, migration and gender from varying disciplinary and thematic perspectives, in particular including early career researchers.

Reflecting on Managed Migration

The recent ‘Managed Migration’ conference (19 May 09) organized by inside government took place in the plush surroundings of a central London hotel. As I was looking for the hotel, I mused about how the choice of location, a hotel in transnational ownership hints at transnational mobility, though in this case of capital.

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