REMESO - Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society

FAS Center of Excellence

REMESO pursues interdisciplinary research, education and knowledge dissemination on transnational migration, ethnic diversity and citizenship.

REMESO develops:

• research on migration, ethnic relations and multilevel governance.
• a platform for international visiting researchers
• a graduate school in Migration, Ethnicity, and Society
• a PhD program in Ethnic and Migration Studies
• academic networks and cooperation
• stakeholder collaboration and policy evaluation 
• migration- and ethnicity perspectives for education programmes at LiU
• quantitative and qualitative databases related to on-going research

NEWS

Vacancy. Doctoral Student in Ethnic and Migration Studies – "Ethnicity and citizenship in the context of coloniality and modernity"

REMESO announces a vacancy as a Doctoral Student in Ethnic and Migration Studies – "Ethnicity and citizenship in the context of coloniality and modernity"

A Global Civil Society?

Heidi Moksnes and Mia Helin at Uppsala University are the editors of a new book on the global civil society based on a conference from last Spring - Global Civil Society - Shifting Powers in a Shifting World. Behind the conference and the volume is Uppsala Centre for Sustainable Development, Uppsala University. Carl-Ulrik Schierup, Branka Likic-Brboric and Khalid Khayati from REMESO have contributed to the book.

Course on Migration and Intersectionality for PhD- and MA Candidates

REMESO Graduate School offers the course 'International Migration, Ethnicity and Gender: Intersectional Perspectives on Labour, Power and Citizenship'
this Spring, between 2 April – 4 May, with an intensive on-campus week in mid April. Deadline for applications are 2 March, 2012.

High praise for LiU ethnicity research

Innovative and successful. REMESO has been afforded significant praise by the Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research (FAS).

15 million from the Swedish Research Council to REMESO and ISV

The Swedish Research Council (VR) has granted three projects at REMESO and ISV total of 15.16 million SEK. The rewarded projects are research about sexual risk, on langiage policies and its implementation in schools and on "Eurafrica" a forgotten colonial vision and project which was was a precursor to the European union. Also, Professor Charles Woolfson and a team of researchers have received 3,7 million from FAS for a study on migration from the Baltic countries.

Dissertation on PhD thesis on interracial marriages in Sweden

On October 7 Sayaka Osanami Törngren got her PhD degree on her thesis "Love aint't got no color? - Attitudes toward interracial marriages in Sweden." Charles Westin, professor atCEIFO, Stockholm university, was opponent.

International workshop on the paradoxes of liberalism

On October 4, 2011, REMESO organised a workshop with the title 'Paradoxes of Liberalism and the Conundrum of Solidarity'. Invited international scholars met up with REMESO researchers to share both theoretical perspectives and empirical snapshots from different regions.

NEWSLETTER

REMESO publishes the REMESO NEWSLETTER, in Swedish and English. We only send it out twice per semester with news about the Institute, seminars, new publications, etc. Also, sometimes, but not often, we use the list to inform about specialworkshops or REMESO Graduate School Courses.

To get the REMESO Newsletter in English go to this site and sign in: https://lists.liu.se/mailman/listinfo/remeso-nbrev-eng

Some formulations on the sign-up-site give the impression that all members can post letters to list members, but you cannot. The list is strictly for sending out, sparsely, information from REMESO to members on the list. All other trafik is rejected.