10th Annual Seminar Series on Migration

10è Cicle anual de Seminaris sobre Migracions

The 10th Annual Seminar Series on Migration will begin on Wednesday 18 January at 11am at the Board Room (Sala de juntes) of the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts. The event has been organised by the Migration Research Group (GRM) of the Department of Geography. The opening conference will be given by Professor Douglas Massey, sociologist at Princeton University, who will speak on the war on immigrants in the US ("La guerra anti-inmigrantes en los Estados Unidos de América").

17/01/2012

The inauguration of this year's series, entitled "One Decade of Scientific Debates on Migration", will be presided by Manel López Béjar, Vice Rector for Research at UAB; Antoni Durà, Director of the Department of Geography; Àngels Pascual, former coordinator of GRM and director of the Group for Migration and Society Studies, and Ricard Moré, coordinator at GRM.

Douglas Massey is professor in Sociology at Princeton University and since 2006 is President of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. He serves on the Editorial Board of the Annual Review of Sociology and the International Migration Review and his academic achievements have won him over twenty awards. His areas of study focus on urban sociology, stratification, Latin American studies, race and ethnicity, biosociology and immigration.

This year's series includes six conferences which will be offered throughout the following months by renowned international experts on migration. In addition to the first speech of the series, the programme will include:

- 16/02/2012. 11:30am. Dawid Wladyka (GRM, Department of Geography, UAB): Inter-Ethnic Relations of Polish Immigrants in Catalonia

- 09/03/2012. 11:30am. Pau Freixa (Department of General Linguistics, University of Barcelona): La immigració de l’Europa Oriental a Catalunya

- 18/04/2012. 11:30am. Josepha Milazzo (Université de Provence, France): Geografía migratoria de la población boliviana en localidades pequeñas y medianas de España

- 11/05/2012. noon. Rosa Aparicio (Ortega y Gasset Foundation, Madrid): La segunda generación de origen inmigrante en España

- 07/06/2012. 11:30 am. Marco Martiniello (Université de Liège, Belgium): Popular Arts, Ethnicity and Migration

All seminars will take place at the Board Room of the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts.

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