INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION: 
> NEW PATTERNS, NEW THEORIES
> 
> A Multidisciplinary Conference
> Nottingham Trent University
> Nottingham, UK
> 11-13 September 2000
> 
> ******notice to potential participants******
> 
> We invite you to submit abstracts 
> We have been informed that our original circular contained an incorrect
> website address for conference registration.  We are therefore extending
> the submission deadline for abstracts to Monday, 8 May. (Registration
> deadline for non-presenters is 31 July 2000)
> 
> Abstracts should be a maximum of 150 words.  We strongly encourage you to
> submit your abstract via e-mail (both in e-mail text and as an
> attachment). 
> 
> A sample of abstract topics submitted thus far:
> 
> *	Globalisation and Asian migrant labour: implications for citizenship
> and human rights
> *	Organizational barriers, human capital, and social capital in
> migration
> *	Re-defining asylum seekers as economic migrants: impacts on social
> services and community relationships in Canada
> *	After ethnicity: the limitations of the 'ethnicity paradigm' in
> understanding minority communities in Britain
> *	Special lecture by Louise Ackers, University of Leeds (title TBA)
> 
> You may access conference information and an on-line registration form on
> our website:
> http://human.ntu.ac.uk/im/
> 
> You may also view information on conference themes, fees, accommodation,
> etc., in the text below.  Please direct any inquiries to:
> 
> Dr Caroline Nagel 
> Dept of International Studies
> Nottingham Trent University
> [log in to unmask]
> +44 (0)115 848 3451
> 
> 
> Conference Information
> 
> Conference Rationale
>  Migration has become one of the key concerns of the past few decades with
> some calling this the 'age of migration'.  Patterns of international
> migration have been changing. Though more global in extent, flows  are
> highly restricted by state policies, especially for the unskilled. For
> some of the skilled, there are, on the contrary, greater  openings.
> Migratory flows have become more transient and transnational, but these
> developments are not entirely new. In many states, new flows are leading
> us to rethink the categories we use.  For example in the UK the highly
> diversified  migrations of recent years call into question the traditional
> ethnic minority categories.  At the same time, migration theories have
> sought to incorporate new social and cultural theorisations, such as
> transnationalism, hybridity and diaspora. We have to take into account as
> well changing social relations and structures, such as gender relations
> and household formations.  This is not to say, however, that we should
> disregard the macro economic and how this interacts with cultural, social
> and political aspects of international migration.  The problem has been to
> make  links  between changing patterns and new theoretical developments.
> This conference also aims to bring together theoreticians and
> practitioners working on migration issues in the 21st century. 
>  
>  In organising this conference on international migration, we have three
> specific objectives:
>  
> *	to provide a forum for exchanges between specialists from a number
> of disciplines undertaking research on migration;
> *	to advance and evaluate work on migration issues and link this with
> general developments in economic and socio-cultural theorisations;
> *	to encourage constructive dialogue between academics and
> practitioners in the field;
> 
> Conference Themes
> We invite papers on any of the themes listed below but  papers are also
> welcome on cross-cutting  themes.  Thematic options include:
> *	Migrant categories and experiences
> 	*	Refugees, enforced migration and exile
> 	*	Careers and skilled migration
> 	*	Student migration
> 	*	Family reunification and marriage migration
> 	*	Undocumented
> *	Theorising migration
> 	*	Migration and socio-cultural theorisations; 
> 	*	Beyond the ethnic minority and race relations paradigms
> 	*	Migration and security
> 	*	Migration, exclusion, participation and citizenship
> 	*	Gender and international migration 
> 	*	Comparative research
> 
> 
>  Registration Fees
>  The conference registration fee is # 175 for residents and #30 day rate
> (#20 non-waged) for non-residents. The residential fee covers the
> conference fee, accommodation and meals (breakfast, buffet lunch and
> dinners, one of which will be held in a restaurant in the city centre)
> plus tea/coffee. The daily rate for non-residents covers the conference
> fee, lunch and refreshments. A limited number of special postgraduate
> conference rates will be available. Those wishing to apply for  reduced
> fees  should contact the Conference organisers as soon as possible. A
> registration form is available on the web site, operative from 15 March
> 2000, or from the conference organiser, and should be returned by 31 July
> 2000.
> 
> Accommodation
> This will be provided in a University hall of residence on the Clifton
> Campus of Nottingham Trent University (4 miles from the City Centre),
> where the Conference sessions will be held. All rooms are en suite and
> there are facilities for making tea and coffee.  
>  
> 
> Please visit our conference website for registration forms and further
> details on paper sessions and titles: http://human.ntu.ac.uk/im
> 
> 
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