Sociology Professor Arunas Juska to REMESO

REMESO is pleased to welcome Associate Professor Arunas Juska as a FAS-sponsored guest professor at REMESO for one month during this spring.  Arunas works at the University of East Carolina, USA. He is originally from Lithuania, he moved to US in 1990.

Remeso Professor Charles Woolfson has collaborated with Arunas Juska on a close and continuing basis since 2010 and describes him as “one of the most perceptive sociologists of post-communism”. Woolfson and Juska have attempted to link the study of post-communism, austerity and contemporary migration in novel directions and have produced a number of publications and conference papers over the past three  years.

Arunas previously visited Sweden this summer and now hopes to make a contribution to a REMESO emerging research agenda on East European transitions. He will present a paper to REMESO’s seminar series on May 8^th based on a co-authored chapter completed during his stay at REMESO for a forthcoming volume on the ‘Baltic Austerity Model’ (J. Sommers and C. Woolfson, (eds) (2014) The Contradictions of Austerity: The Socio-Economic Costs of the Neoliberal Baltic Model. Routledge Studies in Economics).

2013-05-06

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Migration and austerity in the Baltic region

Charles Woolfson gave a keynote speech: Migration, Austerity and New Challenges to Labour Markets in the Baltic/Nordic Region, at an expert seminar in Vilnius, organised by among others Global Utmaning.

"Whya are workers dying to make our clothes?"

Nandita Farhad is a graduate of the Masters course in IEI on Perspectives in Human Resource Management, Linköping University. She has published in the journal International Union Rights, with an upsetting timeliness in relation to the ongoing catastrophe.

Workshop on intersectionality as method and theory

In February a workshop was organised by Tema Genus and REMESO as a continuation of the much-appreciated workshop on intersectionality in the autumn 2012. This time, nine researchers and PhD students elaborated on theoretical or methodological perspectives on intersectionality.

REMESO co-organises conference on "Crisis, Development and Labour" in Mexico

An international conference was held at Zacatecas University, Mexico, 14-15 February, celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Critical Development Studies programme, University of Zacatecas. REMESO participated with several papers and in talks

Post doctoral researcher from Austria to REMESO

Ricarda Drüeke is a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Salzburg, Austria. She will be at REMESO during February. Her research interests are Gender Studies, online communication, and theories of the public sphere.

University Education as a Compensation Strategy

Susanne Urban, REMESO, has published an article in the leading Journal International Migration Review. She has studied compensation strategies among second-generation immigrants.

New Grants to REMESO Graduate School

The REMESO Graduate School in Migration, Ethnicity and Society hav been successful in securing funding for the coming 3-4 years through a grant from FAS . Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research

REMESO Graduate School in Migration, Ethnicity and Society - Spring Courses

In the Spring 2013 The REMESO Graduate School will offer two courses: "Theories and Politics of International Migration" and "Citizenship, Ethnic Division and Social Exclusion: National and Post-national Perspectives"

PhD course in the Spring: from Hannah Arendt to Gayatri Spivak

Professor Stefan Jonsson, REMESO, gives a PhD course in the Spring 2013: Empires & Ethnicities: Critical Problems in Social Theory and History Section 2, from Hannah Arendt to Gayatri Spivak

Istanbul insecure place for African refugees

Istanbul is a gateway into Europe for refugees and asylum seekers, a transit city for thousands of migrants, who live under insecure conditions. A new dissertation at Malmö University and Linköping University in Sweden shows that social networks benefit transit migration. Established migrants both help and exploit new arrivals.

Professor Judy Fudge, Canada, on guest research visit in 2014

Charles Woolfson has been successful in obtaining a FAS ‘Excellence grant for visiting scientists’ on behalf of Professor Judy Fudge, Canada, to visit REMESO in January 2014 for a period of 6 months.

Funding for Study of Retiree Migration to Spain

Anna Gavanas, REMESO, has received funding from FAS and VR for the study of Swedish retirees migrating to Spain, and interacting with care- and service providing labour migrants there.

The imperial and Colonial Origins of The European Integration

In Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS Vol 50, No 6) Peo Hansen and Stefan Jonsson, REMESO, discuss the imperial and colonial origins of the European Integration in a reply to Gary Marks who in a previous issue discussed EU and imperialism.

Charles Woolfson keynote on Global Challenge-seminar

On december 7, an expert seminar was arranged by Global Challenge (Global Utmaning) in Stockholm. Prof. Charles Woolfson, REMESO, gave a keynote speach: "After the Crisis? Migration and New Challenges to Sustainability in the Baltic States"
The talk is now available on video.