Indigenous, Immigrant, Migrant Labour & Globalization

Indigenous, Immigrant, Migrant Labour & Globalization Conference

British Columbia, Canada, June 6 – 8, 2008

A joint conference sponsored by the Pacific Northwest Labor History Association and the Labor and Working Class History Association Simon Fraser University at Harbour Centre Downtown Campus 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC. Immigrants and indigenous communities throughout North America made their own labour and political landscapes as they adjusted to changing economic, colonial and cultural contexts. This conference will connect these histories with contemporary globalization, and consider how the labour movement can respond to the new demands of workers in shifting political and geographical locations. For more information see the conference website: http://www.pnlha.org or contact Joey Hartman, pnlha@shaw.ca or Colleen O’Neill at colleen.oneill@usu.edu.

Sponsored by the SFU Centre for Labour Studies.

Colleen O’Neill

Email: colleen.oneill@usu.edu

Visit the website at http://www.pnlha.org

MA Migration Studies, Univ of Kent at Brussels

MA in Migration Studies, University of Kent at Brussels, a master’s program at the interdiscplinary postgraduate campus of the University of Kent at Brussels, investigates migration within an interdiscplinary context. It is a one-year course (two terms of coursework and a dissertation) with entry to the program either in September or in January.

The course’s core modules investigate the broad diversity of migrants and migration, both thematically (e.g. trafficking and smuggling, forced migrants including IDPs, asylum-seekers and refugees, family unification, labor migration, etc.) as well as theoretically (e.g. theories of migration, theories of integration, theories of citizenship and of belonging/participation).

Understanding different actors’ perspectives is emphasized throughout. In specialist modules, particular attention is paid to immigrant integration, citizenship and national identity as well as migration law and the particular challenges facing forced migrants. A key aspect of the program consists of integration with related fields; as part of their program, students may select modules such as International Human Rights Law, Theories of International Conflict, Politics of International Development or Development Economics.

They thereby craft (in consultation with the program convenor) a Migration Studies program tailored specifically to their interests. Other MA and LLM degrees, as well as a PhD in Migration Studies, Law, Conflict Analysis or International Relations can also be pursued at UKB. For more information or to apply, go to: http://www.kent.ac.uk/brussels or contact mailto:bsis@kent.ac.uk
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Amanda Klekowski von Koppenfels, Ph.D.
Lecturer
Migration Studies

University of Kent at Brussels
Tel: + 32 2 641 1721
Tel: + 32 2 641 1725 (direct line)
Fax: + 32 2 641 1720
Advanced International Studies in the Capital of Europe
http://www.kent.ac.uk/brussels

Ph.D. scholarship program

The ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius is calling for applications for “Settling Into Motion” – The Bucerius Ph.D. Scholarships in Migration Studies. The scholarship program seeks to address the ongoing transformations in societies where migration is just one factor among others generating change. For 2008 applications relating to migration and urban transformations are especially welcome.

Within this international program, the ZEIT-Stiftung grants six to eight pre-doctoral scholarships per year. Applicants must be Ph.D. students of – in a broad sense – social sciences. The scholarships involve a monthly stipend of 1.200 Euros as well as yearly conferences and workshops. The deadline for applications is 31 March 2008. Scholarships are granted for up to 36 months. They can be used for research and writing periods but not for course work.

The world is in motion: people and ideas, products, technologies as well as diseases are travelling between regions and continents. Cities and cultures as well as family and labour market relations are changing in these processes of globalization. Regulatory competencies of nation states are also in question. The movement of people is only one factor among others generating change, but one whose importance will rise over the next years.

Migrants are settling into societies that are themselves transforming. Thus the meaning of integration is increasingly hard to pinpoint. Everyone needs to be prepared to embrace change. Some migrants will also keep multi-stranded relations with their countries of origin, thereby building transnational spaces; others will after little time move on to third countries. All of them settle into motion.

How can migrants and their receiving and sending countries reap the benefits of this movement of people? Which structural and procedural conditions have to be in place to take advantage of diversity? And what are the challenges for the individual, the migrant family, the regions and countries migrants come from as well as the places of reception? The Bucerius Ph.D. Scholarship Program “Settling Into Motion” seeks to address these questions, each year focusing on a different topic.

For 2008, applications to study “Migration and Urban Transformations” are especially welcome. The majority of migrants live in urban areas. For a long time, cities were regarded as “integration machines” because of their capacity to incorporate people of different backgrounds in a functionally differentiated system. At the same time, cities are themselves focal points of economic, social and cultural transformations.

Applications for scholarships under this topic could study the following questions of (but are not limited to):

Super-diversity and the effects of rapid diversification on neighbourhoods

Housing careers of migrants

Policing and anti-discrimination policies

(Informal) economy and development of innovation

Governance issues at local level (including provision of welfare services)

Urban sprawl

Social and political participation at local level and the role of religious communities

Local school choice and the school-neighborhood nexus

Innovative approaches both in methodology and in research questions are highly encouraged.

The ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius is one of the major private foundations in Germany sponsoring academic research. Among other things, it founded and continues to financially support the Bucerius Law School, a Hamburg-based private law school that combines innovation in teaching with renowned research.

Please find further information as well as the online application at www.settling-into-motion.de

Gunilla Fincke, Project Director Science and Research

ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius – Feldbrunnenstrasse 56 20148 Hamburg Germany

Tel.: 0049-40-41336-771
Fax: 0049-40-41336-777
E-Mail: fincke@zeit-stiftung.de
http://www.zeit-stiftung.de

CFP: Pilipinas, a Journal of Philippine Studies

Pilipinas is an international, peer-reviewed Journal, published since 1980, with a global readership of primarily academics and tertiary institutions. We encourage the submission of papers on all topics and from all disciplines relevant to the Philippines, or comparing other countries with the Philippines.Papers may be of any length, and include (colour) pictures etc, as we also publish each Issue on CD and the Internet, as well as Hard copy. We are particularly interested in papers that address sexuality, and, for our 50th anniversary Issue, papers that address the history and/or development of Philippine studies.

Publication is on-going, so submitted and accepted papers appear in the next Issue in train. To submit a paper, please email in Word format a copy to the Managing
Editor, Dr. Paul Mathews: paulmathews2@yahoo.com.au, pmathews2@hotmail.com

Enquiries & proposals: as above.

Dr Paul Mathews
PSAA Secretary
Managing Editor, Pilipinas
PO Box 827 Jamison 2614. Canberra. Australia
Note: You may also email me at: pmathews2@hotmail.com

CFP: Pilipinas, a Journal of Philippine Studies

Pilipinas is an international, peer-reviewed Journal, published since 1980, with a global readership of primarily academics and tertiary institutions. We encourage the submission of papers on all topics and from all disciplines relevant to the Philippines, or comparing other countries with the Philippines.Papers may be of any length, and include (colour) pictures etc, as we also publish each Issue on CD and the Internet, as well as Hardcopy. We are particularly interested in papers that address sexuality, and, for our 50th anniversary Issue, papers that address the history and/or development of Philippine studies.Publication is on-going, so submitted and accepted papers appear in the next Issue in train. To submit a paper, please email in Word format a copy to the Managing
Editor, Dr. Paul Mathews: paulmathews2@yahoo.com.au, pmathews2@hotmail.com

Enquiries & proposals: as above.

Dr Paul Mathews
PSAA Secretary
Managing Editor, Pilipinas
PO Box 827 Jamison 2614. Canberra. Australia
Note: You may also email me at: pmathews2@hotmail.com

The Challenges of Agrarian Transition in Southeast Asia

Call for participants: Dissertation workshop THE CHALLENGES OF AGRARIAN TRANSITION IN SOUTHEAST ASIA, Los Banos, The Philippines

May 30-June 1, 2008

ChATSEA, directed by
Chaire de recherche du Canada en études asiatiques
Canada Chair of Asian Research
Université de MontréalThe Challenges of Agrarian Transition in Southeast Asia (ChATSEA) project and the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) invite applications from Masters and Doctoral students to participate in an interdisciplinary Dissertation Workshop.THE WORKSHOP
This workshop is intended for masters and doctoral students from any university whose dissertation projects engage with agrarian transitions in Southeast Asia. The purpose of the workshop is to encourage and assist post-graduate students who are just beginning work on these issues, as well as those who are further along in their projects. The format will involve intensive, collegial and open group discussion of the individual student projects, and with the theoretical and methodological issues
which they raise.The workshop will take place over three days in the SEARCA facilities, in Los Banos (Laguna, Philippines).

The on-site costs of the workshop, meals and accommodations, will all be covered by SEARCA and ChATSEA. There will also be small travel grants available for regional flights to Manila.

AGRARIAN TRANSITIONS
Over the last twenty years, the literature on agrarian and rural relations has been marked by an explosion of innovative theoretical approaches, many of which are inspired by the analytical challenges posed by globalization. New research on diverse themes such as space and geography, identity, commodity chains, gender, agro-food systems, class, power and the production of knowledge, regulation and certification (both private and public), political ecology and various kinds of network theory, have brought about dramatic shifts in the way that central terms such as rural, community, market, nature, state, and development are understood.
Southeast Asia has been a key region for innovative theoretical insight and practical engagement with agrarian studies.

At least six sets of processes at the core of the agrarian transition may be identified. These are:
1) agricultural intensification and territorial expansion;
2) increasing integration of production into market-based systems of exchange;
3) accelerating processes of urbanisation and industrialisation;
4) heightened mobility of populations both within and across national borders;
5) intensification of regulation, as new forms of private, state and supra-state power are developed and formalized to govern agricultural production and exchange relationships;
6) processes of environmental change that modify the relationship
between society and nature to reflect new human impacts and new
valuations of resources.

This framework serves as the conceptual basis for the broader ChATSEA project and will aid in the discussions of the research proposals and projects at the workshop.

FACILITATORS
The Dissertation workshop will be facilitated by faculty resource persons drawn from the ChATSEA project. These will include: Philip Hirsch (University of Sydney), Philip Kelly (York University), Michael Leaf (University of British Columbia), Tania Li (University of Toronto), Pham Van Cu (Hanoi University of Sciences), Jonathan Rigg (University of Durham), Peter Vandergeest (York University), Chusak Wittayapak (Chiang Mai University), Doracie Zoleta-Nantes (University of the Philippines).

ELIGIBILITY
Applicants should be enrolled full time in a masters or doctoral program. They must have drafted a dissertation research proposal, although it may not yet be approved by their committees. Applicants will need to prepare materials in advance of the meeting, namely reading and sending commentaries and questions on the proposals of other participants, to establish the basis for productive exchange.

HOW TO APPLY
Applications consist of three items:
1. A current curriculum vitae.
2. An 8 to 10 page double spaced dissertation proposal. Alternatively,
if the work is well underway, an 8 to 10 page double spaced
description of the specific issues being addressed, the intellectual
approach, and the materials being studied. For candidates in the
thesis write-up stage, a chapter can be submitted but should be
supplemented by a short description of the whole thesis project to
allow readers to grasp the context of your work.
3. Any requests for travel funding with a budget proposal (up to CAD
$400 may be available for student travel costs).

Workshop participants will be selected on the content of the submitted projects, the potential for useful exchanges among them, and the benefits of including a range of disciplinary approaches and intellectual traditions. Acceptance notes will be sent to applicants by March 15, 2008.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: 28 February 2008
Application materials should be sent to the ChATSEA coordinators by email,
losbanosworkshop@yahoo.com

For further information:
* concerning the workshop and eligibility: please contact Keith Barney
(kbarney@yorku.ca)
* concerning the ChATSEA agrarian transitions project: please visit their
official website
* concerning SEARCA: please visit their official website

Keith D. Barney
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Geography
York University, Toronto, Canada
http://www.yorku.ca/geograph/GraduateProgrammes/Graduate%
20Students/PHD/barney.html

Commodities of Empire International Workshop 2008

Commodities in evolution: historical change in different ages of globalisation: 1800-2000

The 2nd Annual Workshop of the Commodities of Empire project – Council Room, the British Academy, London, 11 – 12 September 2008

First Call for Papers: Please submit an abstract of 300 words by 14 March 2008 to:

Dr Jonathan Curry-Machado, Coordinator, Commodities of Empire project: j.currymachado@londonmet.ac.uk

The workshop will explore the long-term evolution of commodities in the modern era, particularly from the perspectives of regions subjected to colonial rule in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. While commodity chains were a major factor in promoting interrelations between different parts of the world, this focus on the world outside Europe and North America is designed to question dominant periodisations of ‘globalisation’. Even when not identified purely with near contemporary processes, many accounts still tend to privilege late nineteenth century economic convergence between the nation states of the North Atlantic as the most significant benchmark of a ‘globalising’ world.

That modes and areas of production as well as patterns and places of consumption of commodities such as tea, coffee, tobacco, sugar and cochineal underwent radical transformation during this period is not in doubt. However, few accounts have focused on these changes over the longue duree, which would open up exciting possibilities of identifying, comparing and assessing the various mechanisms, both local and international, that historically produced the major shifts. This may also offer the promise of a more refined periodisation of ‘globalisation’, even though we need perhaps to bear in mind that commodities, like other interconnecting forces, were always uneven and limited in their ‘globalising’ capacities and that they generated resistance, conflicts and inequalities as well as convergence.

The workshop will critically explore the following propositions:

* How significant were changes in political regimes (e.g. from colonial to postcolonial) in the evolution of commodity chains between 1800 and 2000?

* How far did the movement of commodities help bring about changes in the technological and infrastructural environment?

* What was the ecological and social impact (e.g. in terms of the distribution of wealth) of export crops over the long term?

* What factors promoted changes in the perception of, and demand for, particular commodities?

* What promoted and how significant were changes in labour regimes?

* Can local experiences and changing histories of commodities help us towards a more refined periodisation of ‘globalisation’?

A British Academy Research Project, Commodities of Empire is a collaboration between the Caribbean Studies Centre at London Metropolitan University and the Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies at the Open University. Further details can be found on the project website, at: www.open.ac.uk/Arts/ferguson-centre/commodities-of-empire.

Dateline: Zamboanga

I’m right here in Zamboanga City, Mindanao, Philippines, the land of my birth. Its been quite some time since I visited my hometown. A lot has changed since I was a kid. I visited a couple of schools and will tell you my thoughts and observations in succeeding postings. One big development here is the change of Zamboanga being the “City of Flowers” into the “Latin City of Asia.” Hopefully this moniker will bring in more tourists and maybe call centers catering to the Spanish-speaking world.

The Journal of Tourism History

Dear Fellow Travelers,

This notice is to introduce a new periodical, The Journal of Tourism History. Relevant information is below.

Best wishes,

Bert Gordon, Co-Editor, H-Travel

Journal of Tourism History – Editor: John Walton, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. Review Editor: Robert J. Perrins, Acadia University, Canada

Print ISSN: 1755-182X – Online ISSN 1755-1838

The obvious and increasing importance of the global development of tourism has engendered extensive academic interest which has issued forth in a wide range of journals focusing on various aspects of or approaches to tourism studies. These have tended to examine historical trends only over short recent time periods or in abstract and schematic ways. The neglect of tourism is now beginning to be addressed, especially through the International Commission for the History of Travel and Tourism, which was founded at the University of Central Lancashire in 2001. As interest has burgeoned, the lack of a dedicated journal in this field has become increasingly apparent.

The Journal of Tourism History meets this need by providing an international outlet for the publication of articles and reviews covering every aspect of the history of tourism. It is interdisciplinary in ethos, looking outwards from a historical core to engage with the full range of cognate disciplines and theoretical approaches, and welcomes overviews and comparative as well as contextualised case-studies, covering all areas of the world and all approaches to historical study. It has an international editorial board and an advisory board providing access to global expertise in the field. The Journal of Tourism History is edited by Professor John K. Walton, one of the pioneers of the field. It will be launched in the spring of 2009.

Call for Papers: Papers should be submitted through our online submission and peer review system which can be found at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cvp-th.

Presentation of manuscripts: General guidelines as to the presentation of manuscripts for publication in any of the Channel View Publications journals can be found at: http://www.channelviewpublications.com/multi/guidelines/guidelines_journals.asp.

Detailed procedures for Special Issues are available from the publishers upon application.

Economic Flexibility and Social Stability in the Age of Globalization

*Deadline extended to March 15, 2008*

The Race, Ethnicity and Immigration Network invites proposals for papers or panels at next year’s annual meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) in Costa Rica. This year’s meeting theme is Economic Flexibility and Social Stability in the Age of Globalization. The current president, Michael Piore, seeks to highlight Latin America’s importance in the global economy, while expanding SASE’s reach to less dominant regions of the world.

The meeting will take place from July 21-23, 2008. The paper proposal deadline is March 15, 2008. The network invites proposals for papers, panels, and authors meet critics sessions that address the processes, patterns, and changes related to socio-economic aspects of race, ethnicity, and immigration in all parts of the world, and from different historical eras. It seeks to develop a forum for theory and research on the study of these processes, and welcomes research from diverse disciplinary, theoretical, and methodological perspectives.

Proposals will be accepted in English and Spanish. A few sessions in the network may also be conducted in Spanish. Please visit the SASE website for more information about the meeting and to submit a paper or session proposal online. Maritsa Poros and David Bartram will be happy to answer any questions that you may have about the network and meeting. Hope to see you in Costa Rica!

Website: www.sase.org
Maritsa V. Poros David Bartram
City College of New York, USA Univ. of Leicester, UK
+1.212.650.5849 +44.116.252.2724
mporos@ccny.cuny.edu d.bartram@le.ac.uk