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Dear colleagues,
Please note that abstracts for papers to be presented at this conference (see details below) can still be submitted until 3 August 2007 to Annette Kerr (E-mail: [log in to unmask]).
Accommodation at the conference venue has been nearly booked up now, and we recommend registration (including accommodation booking) as soon as possible. Thank you!
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AT SABHAL MÒR OSTAIG, SLEAT,
ISLE OF SKYE, UK
THURSDAY 11 OCT 2007 - FRIDAY 12 OCT 2007
THE CONFERENCE AIMS:
- To analyse through a cross-national approach the impact of rural localities of settlement on immigrants’ engagement with social, economic, political, cultural and familial processes.
- To examine the causes, nature and consequences of immigration to rural communities.
- To establish those factors in rural localities which attract international migrants, and which support them in integration processes, and those factors which present challenges to migrants.
- To develop a conceptual framework, which can capture rural immigration experiences.
- To develop policy and practice implications.
PLENARY SPEAKERS:
Prof Mike Danson, Professor of Scottish and Regional Economics at the University of the West of Scotland, UK.
Dr Irina Ivakhnyuk, Senior Researcher and Deputy-Director, Population Department, Moscow State Lomonosov University, Russia.
Prof Leif Jensen, Professor of Rural Sociology and Demography, The College of Agricultural Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, USA.
Dr Charalambos Kasimis, Professor of Rural Sociology, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece.
Piaras Mac Éinri, Director, Irish Centre for Migration Studies and Lecturer, Department of Geography, University College Cork, Ireland.
Prof Myriam Simard, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université du Québec, Canada.
Prof Claire Wallace, Professor of Sociology, School of Social Science, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
Dr Birgit Jentsch, Senior Researcher, Ionad Nàiseanta na h-Imrich (National Centre for Migration Studies), Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Isle of Skye, Scotland.
PAPERS FOR PARALLEL SESSIONS: Papers which address the conference aims (based on cross-national comparisons or a single country case study) are invited for presentation in parallel sessions. Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted to Annette Kerr by 3 August 2007. E-mail: [log in to unmask]
WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE? Social scientists, policy makers, voluntary organisations and practitioners with an interest in immigration and rural areas.
COST AND FURTHER INFORMATION: The full registration fee is £50, concessions £25 for bookings up to 31 August 2007. For further information, including conference programme, registration forms, and accommodation options, please visit www.ini.smo.uhi.ac.uk, or contact Annette Kerr (E-mail: [log in to unmask]; tel. ++44 (0)1471 888559)
The conference organisers acknowledge with gratitude the support provided by the Social Policy Association,The British Academy, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, the University of Aberdeen and the UHI Millennium Institute.
Birgit Jentsch
Senior Researcher
Ionad Nàiseanta Na h-Imrich
(National Centre for Migration Studies)
Sabhal Mòr Ostaig
Slèite
An t-Eilean Sgitheanach (Isle of Skye) IV44 8RQ
Alba (Scotland)
tel. +44 (0)1471 888552
fax +44(0)1471 888001
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
www.ini.smo.uhi.ac.uk
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