(Apologies for Cross-Posting)

The Leverhulme Programme on Migration and Citizenship at the University of 
Bristol and University College London (2003-08) consists of eight projects 
on contemporary labour mobility, post-immigration ethnicity and challenges 
to British national identity.

The Programme concludes with two conferences.

The first of the two conferences will take place on 15-16 May, 2008 at UCL 
and will focus on mobility in international labour markets (please see 
Programme and Registration details at the bottom.

The second conference will take place on 14-15 November, 2008 in Bristol 
and will focus on ethnicity, religion, integration and national identity. 
Keynote speakers include  Professor Zygmunt Bauman, Professor Craig Calhoun 
of New York University and President of the Social Science Research 
Council, Professor Reina Lewis, London College of Fashion (TBC) and 
Professor Lord Bhikhu Parekh,(Westminister). A call for papers will be 
issued by the end of the month.


Mobility in International Labour Markets Conference

15-16 May 2008

University College London, UK


The last decade has seen fundamental change in both the scale and nature of 
labour immigration to the UK at a time of increasing globalisation. Within 
this context, migration itself may be conceptualised as a business, 
characterised by the interaction of a range of institutions such as 
employers, universities, professional bodies and people smugglers as well 
as migrants. With economic globalisation have come new or enhanced forms of 
migration, with their own mobility systems and with important consequences 
for the migrants themselves, for those with a migrant origin and for host 
communities. The conference will present the latest research in a bid to 
identify more clearly the processes at work, together with their wider 
implications.

This conference will address issues based on the following themes:

*  International mobility in a global economy
*  Human smuggling and irregular work
*  Youth labour markets and ethnicity
*  International researcher mobility
*  Mobility amongst the highly skilled
*  International student mobility

Programme of Events


Thursday 15 May

12.30-1.30	Lunch
	
1.30-1.45	Opening address

1.45 - 3.30	Session 1: Irregular migration
				
Khalid Koser
Why take the risk?  Explaining migrant smuggling
				
Ali Ahmad
Illegal work in the informal 'ethnic' economy: the consequences of human 
smuggling for migrants themselves

Bridget Anderson
"Just in time" workers? Rethinking the relationship between global and 
labour mobilities

3.30-4.00	Tea		

4.00-5.30	Session 2 : International migration in a global economy
				
Joanna Bornat et al
Migrant clustering: the role of patronage networks in South Asian medical 
migrants' labour market participation in the UK

Adeyinka Bankole
Adjustment Mechanisms of the Highly Skilled African Migrants within the 
European Union Countries
						
S. Hussein et al
International Social Care Workers: initial outcomes, workforce experiences 
and future expectations.
	
Friday 16 May

9.00 - 10.30 Session 3 : Ethnicity, diasporas and the labour market
								
Claire Dwyer, Bindi Shah, Tariq Modood, Gurchathen Sanghera, Suruchi 
Thapar-Bjorkert
Educational and labour market experiences for young British Pakistanis

Nabil Khattab et al
Ethnicity, religion and Space: determinants of 	unemployment and economic 
inactivity among Muslims in Britain.

Dominic Pasura
The Zimbabwean diaspora in Britain: Living on the margins of the labour 
market
	
11.00 - 12.30  Session 4 : Migration among the highly skilled
				
Jane Millar and John Salt
Corporate portfolios of mobility
	
Allan M Williams and Vladimir Balaz
International Return Mobility, Learning & Knowledge Transfer: Slovak 
Doctors				
		
Jonathan Beaverstock and James Faulconbridge
Ecologies of International Business Travel: Examples from the Professional 
Service Economy

12.30 - 1.45 Lunch


1.45 - 3.00	Session 5 : International Student Mobility
			
John Salt and Jane Millar
International students and the labour market

Elisabeth Grindel
The mobility of partners of international students

3.00 - 3.15	Tea
			
3.15-4.30	Session 6 : International researcher mobility	

Claire Smetherham, Steve Fenton and Tariq Modood
Disciplining the so-called Globalization of Academic Employment in the UK: 
A Focus on Engineers & Scientists

Jose Almeida
Citizens of the world.  The mobility of Portuguese students in the UK

4.30-5.00	Plenary and close of conference


Please 
visit:<http://www.bristol.ac.uk/sociology/leverhulme/progpresentations.html> 
for Programme of Events and registration details and further information 
about the Leverhulme projects can be found at: 
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/sociology/leverhulme


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Tariq Modood, MBE, AcSS
Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy,
Director, University Research Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and
Citizenship and Founding Co-editor of Ethnicities (Sage)

For details of my new book, MULTICULTURALISM: A CIVIC IDEA, Polity, May
2007, see
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/sociology/ethnicitycitizenship/flyer

For details of the Centre's work see
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/sociology/ethnicitycitizenship
For fuller details about new Leverhulme Programme on Migration and
Citizenship at Bristol University and UCL see
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/sociology/leverhulme