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• 30 sep 2017

  Toronto

  Call for papers - Sociology

  International Family Migration and Normative Languages

  International Sociological Association, Congress 2018. Panel Research Committee 25, Language and Society

  Family reunification, mixed marriages and other forms of international family migration are highly politicized topics depicted as threats for national identity. In some countries, the conditions to access the family rights have been reformed complicating the processes of applications for visa, residence permit and nationality. In other countries, migrant and binational families encounter administrative and religious constraints to formalise their unions, to pass on nationality and rights to the children or simply to be socially accepted. This session explores the language employed to define family migration ‒ and the social-administrative processes that go with ‒ by politicians, media, bureaucrats, civil society actors and by family members too. The session welcomes papers from a broad empirical perspectives that explore the changing (or the persistence) of normative languages related to family migration over time.

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• 20 jui 2017

  Nanterre

  Study days - Sociology

  Migration Studies

  Cette journée d'étude interdisciplinaire se focalise sur la question des politiques publiques de l'immigration, dans leurs aspects concrets comme dans leurs aspects juridiques, sur lesquels nous souhaiterions insister. L’institution étatique est bien évidemment au cœur de nos réflexions, mais dans un sens large  (Union européenne compris donc), permettant des questionnements à l’échelle nationale, multinationale et communautaire.

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• 15 sep 2017

  Marseille

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Family Migrations and Uses of Law

  Actors, Norms and Regulation within International Families' Movement

  In the last decades, international migrations have significantly influenced family structures. Individuals migrate to rejoin their spouse or family; some have to juggle between the law of their country of origin and of their country of residence to divorce; others give birth to a child in a country where they have no right to reside. Minors are adopted or legally taken, others are conceived abroad (surrogacy mothers, medically-assisted procreaction), some are forced or invited to leave their country. This symposium aims at filling existing gaps in this highly topical field of research, regularly approached either by a disciplinary entry, or by employing the regulating action of law. On the contrary, this symposium investigates several other perspectives assumed by the law and the plurality of actors concerned by it.

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• 04 mai 2017

  05 mai 2017

  Brussels

  Conference, symposium - Europe

  In Search of Cultural Conformity

  The New Integration and Migration Policies in Europe

  MAM is a network of scholars from the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) who have been working together for almost ten years on Migrations, Asylum and Multiculturalism (MAM). This research tested the hypothesis that the citizenship regime mutated since the 2000s. While between the 1980s and 2000 integration policies followed the logic of establishing migrants’ rights through the granting of formal status, since the 2000s a new regime of probationary citizenship seems to focus on the principles of merit and of cultural conformity. The results of this research, which includes comparative analyses of the policies, analyses of the their origins and implementation, and analyses of the attitudes of different groups towards the policies, will be put in comparison with the researches of different international experts.

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• 21 avr 2017

  Paris

  Study days - Sociology

  Families that fit in. Parenthood, migration and the role of institutions

  Par l’éloignement géographique qu’elles impliquent entre les membres d’un groupe de parenté, les migrations provoquent de fait une redéfinition des liens et des rôles familiaux comme l’ont montré les travaux sur les « familles transnationales ». Mais l’évolution des liens de parenté dans les migrations est aussi le résultat d’un puissant travail d’imposition denormes par les institutions prenant en charge spécifiquement (à travers les politiques migratoires) ou non (école et petite enfance, logement, santé) les questions migratoires.

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