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How mississippi’s black/brown strategy beat the south’s anti-immigrant wave
Author: David Bacon Date: April 2012 Source: The Nation, web edition http://www.thenation.com/article/167465/how-mississippis-blackbrown-strategy-beat-souths-anti-immigrant-wave In early April, an anti-immigrant bill like those that swept through legislatures in Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina was stopped cold in Mississippi. That wasn’t supposed to happen. Tea Party Republicans were confident they’d roll over any opposition. They’d brought Kris Kobach, the [...]
Common ground on the kill floor – organizing smithfield
Author: David Bacon Date: April 2012 Source: Labornote website http://labornotes.org/blogs/2012/04/common-ground-kill-floor-organizing-smithfield Keith Ludlum and Terry Slaughter are two slaughterhouse workers who helped organize the union at the Smithfield Foods plant in Tar Heel, North Carolina. Here they tell the story of the way African American, white and Mexican immigrant workers were able to find common ground [...]
The worth of unpaid work
Author: Kathryn Lukey-Coutsocostas Date: March 2012 Source: Athens News, Column ‘On the borderline’ EMPLOYMENT changes of so-called trailing spouses are often hampered by high unemployment rates, work permit difficulties, other expats on the market and personal selectivity.According to a 2011 report on Global Relocation Trends by Brookfield Global Relocation Services, 60 percent of the trailing [...]
Love-Hate Relationship
Author: Kathryn Lukey-Coutsocostas Date: September 2011 Source: Athens News, Column ‘On the borderline’ YOU KNOW that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul,” said Parisian salon owner Julie de Lespinasse, in the 1700s. We can feel the same love-hate about where we live, [...]
Corporeal Complexities
Author: Kathryn Lukey-Coutsocostas Date: March 2012 Source: Athens News, Column ‘On the borderline’ LEARNING a new language is hard, but mastering physical innuendo may be harder.In the YouTube video “Body Language Mistakes People Make”, author Carol Kinsey Goman pinpoints five major interpretation errors people make. One mistake is not to take the complete context of the [...]
Migrants to the Region
International Public fund Russian Peace Foundation In today’s world, labour migration has become an important factor of global development, providing flexibility for the international labour market, enabling backward nations to join the global production culture and encouraging interaction and mutual enrichment of cultures. In Russia the migration policy serves as a major source of labour [...]
Summer Institute on Migration
Summer Institute on Migration (SIM) will run from May 7 to 12, 2012 at Miriam College, Philippines. SIM provides a critical overview of migration processes, dynamics and challenges of migration in the context of a globalized world. The course utilizes interactive and case study in understanding the complex dimensions of migration. Topics include gender analysis [...]
Migrants Steel Workers March Against Unjust Firings
Author: David Bacon Date: February 18, 2012 Source: Truthout Two hundred immigrant workers, their wives, husbands, children, and hundreds of supporters marched through downtown Berkeley February 17, protesting their firing from Pacific Steel Castings. The company is one of the city’s biggest employers, and the largest steel foundry west of the Mississippi River. Starting at City [...]
How Not To Get Sick in the Imperial Valley
Author: David Bacon Date: February 20, 2012 Source: New America Media Until his knee gave out, Ramon Villa Jr. dreamed he’d be a soccer star. Across Seeley’s pitted playing field of dirt and grass, he and his friends would chase the ball through the desert sunset every day after school. Seeley’s de facto town center is [...]
Seattle Port Strike Challenges “Independent Contractor” Lie
Author: David Bacon Date: February 21, 2012 Source: In These Times, Website edition http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/12775/seattle_port_strike_challenges_independent_contractor_lie Truck drivers in the Puget Sound shut down ports for two weeks-and begin to shift the balance of power. Abdulkader Ali asks a driver to join the strike. SEATTLE-Employers say they’re “independent contractors.” Drivers call that a legal trick to deny [...]
“The missing Peace: The Need for a Long term strategy in Bosnia and Herzegovina”
Authors: Nansen Dialogue Centre Sarajevo and Saferworld Date: Summer 2010 OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS, the steady deterioration in the political situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) combined with a worsening economic climate has prompted increased attention towards the country from international media, political analysts and international decision-makers. As the international community looks to disengage [...]
“Multicultural Component in Elementary Education in the Republic of Macedonia”
Authors: Vera Stojanovska, Biljana Krsteska-Papic Publisher: Nansen Dialogue Network Date: Winter 2010 The principles of multiculturalism, democracy, non-discrimination and respect for individual differences among people of the social, cultural, religious or linguistic nature are one of the leading principles upon which is built and placed the conception for nine-year elementary education in the Republic of Macedonia. [...]
“Common Cultural Heritage of a Multiethnic Society: Curricula for Schools”
Author: Nansen Dialogue Network Date: Winter 2011 In multiethnic and multicultural societies, education is one of the main issues under scrutiny and discussion. The approach to education in such contexts is a crucial issue as education can work two ways: It can help children and youth, teachers and parents from different ethnic groups and cultures [...]
“Dialogue: More than a Tool, Less than a Magic Fix”
Authors: Steinar Bryn, Angel L. Vidal-Alonso Publisher: Nansen Dialogue Network Date: Summer 2011 What is dialogue? Is it “The Solution” to conflicts? Is it “The Key” to peacebuilding? Or is it, as many in the international community claim, a useless and weak tool that is leading nowhere? For the Nansen Dialogue Network, dialogue is much [...]
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I Eat, Ergo I Am
Author: Kathryn Lukey-Coutsocostas Date: November 2011 Source: Athens News, Column ‘On the borderline’ LIKE gyros in a pita, our sense of self is wrapped up in our world of food, gloriously slathered with memories. Whenever I visit Canada, my culinary checklist not only suits my taste buds, but also my recollections: I revisit who I [...]
Marching Away From The Cold War
Author: David Bacon Date: January 2012 Source: Monthly Review Press One sign carried in almost every May Day march of the last few years in the United States says it all: “We are Workers, not Criminals!” Often it was held in the calloused hands of men and women who looked as though they’d just come [...]
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Domestic Workers And Their Children March For Rights
Author: David Bacon Date: January 2012 Source: Working In These Times SACRAMENTO, CA – Early Tuesday morning busses of domestic workers and their children began arriving at the huge grassy mall in front of California’s state capitol building. Dozens of Mexican, Filipina and African American moms, kids in tow, poured out onto the steps leading [...]
Can The Triquis Go Home?
Author: David Bacon Date: January 2012 Source: New America Media OAXACA, MEXICO — Just before Christmas, the women and children who’d spent 17 months living on the sidewalk outside the governor’s palace in Oaxaca announced they were going home. In the spring of 2010, these refugees abandoned their homes in San Juan Copala, the ceremonial [...]
The 2011 conference ‘Learning to Live in a Multicultural World: Diaspora and Peacemaking in Europe’ Report
Author: Initiatives of Change International and CAUX-Initiatives of Change, Conference Report Date: 2011 Over the last few years, Europe has become more culturally and religiously diverse. While migration to and from Europe is not a new phenomenon, it has taken on a different form and shape in recent years. It has led to multicultural societies [...]
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Increasing Reliance On Guest Worker Programs
Author: David Bacon Date: January 2012 Source: Americas Program website Over the last 25 years, guest worker programs have increasingly become a vehicle for channeling the migration that has stemmed from free market reforms. Increasing numbers of guest workers are recruited each year for labor in the U.S. from Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean [...]
How US Policies Fueled Mexico’s Great Migration
Author: David Bacon Date: January 2012 Source: Americas Program website Roberto Ortega tried to make a living slaughtering pigs in Veracruz, Mexico. “In my town, Las Choapas, after I killed a pig, I would cut it up to sell the meat,” he recalls. But in the late 1990s, after the North American Free Trade Agreement [...]
Migration: A Product of Free Market Reforms
Author: David Bacon Date: January 2012 Source: Americas Program website A political alliance is developing between countries with a labor export policy and the corporations who use that labor in the global north. Many countries sending migrants to the developed world depend on remittances to finance social services and keep the lid on social discontent [...]
The Modern Immigrant Rights Movement
Author: David Bacon Date: January 2012 Source: Americas Program website Development of the Immigrant Rights Movement to 1986 Before the cold war, the defense of the rights of immigrants in the U.S., especially those from Mexico, Central America and Asia was mounted mostly by immigrant working class communities, and the alliances they built with the [...]
Scanlon Foundation, Australia
Practitioner from private sector Name of Practitioner: Scanlon Foundation Website: http://www.scanlonfoundation.org.au/aboutus.html Practitioner’s aims, programs of activities and fields of expertise: The Scanlon Foundation was established in 2001 with the purpose of enhancing social cohesion within Australia. Since its inception in 2001 we have supported over 300 recipient organisations around Australia. Our [...]
“World Migration Report 2011,Communicating Effectively about Migration”
Author: International Organization for Migration Date: Winter 2011 Migrants’ voices must be heard in today’s all too often biased, polarized and negative debate on migration, says IOM’s World Migration Report 2011: Communicating Effectively about Migration. The report states that although we live in an era of the greatest human mobility in recorded history, with greater [...]
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Is Your Child a TCK?
Author: Kathryn Lukey-Coutsocostas Date: January 2012 Source: Athens News, Column ‘On the borderline’ TRADITIONALLY, Third Culture Kids (TCKs) have been defined as those who’ve spent a significant part of their developmental years outside their parents’ homeland culture. The first culture is that of their parents. The second is the host culture’s. And the third springs [...]
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The Perpetual Guest
Author: Kathryn Lukey-Coutsocostas Date: November 2011 Source: Athens News, Column ‘On the borderline’ SHOULD we newcomers to a country feel at home or, instead, make ourselves at home? There’s a slight, but important, distinction between the two. In the former we remain guests, but in the latter we claim ownership. How useful was this information? [...]
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Bursting With Emotion
Author: Kathryn Lukey-Coutsocostas Date: November 2011 Source: Athens News, Column ‘On the borderline’ WHENEVER I’m upset in a Greek-speaking situation, I can hear my tongue becoming thicker and thicker, with my pronunciation, grammar and line of thought blurring. Professor Emeritus Francois Grosjean confirms that stress can interfere with second-language skills. In his contribution to the [...]
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Misfits Fit Fine
Author: Kathryn Lukey-Coutsocostas Date: December 2011 Source: Athens News, Column ‘On the borderline’ GROWING up in a small Canadian town on the prairie, a breeding ground for peer pressure and conformity, I fitted in – but didn’t. It’s the same for me in Greece. I’ve often seen this air of comfortable “outsider” and relaxed manoeuvrability [...]
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Culture Gap
Author: Kathryn Lukey-Coutsocostas Date: December 2011 Source: Athens News, Column ‘On the borderline’ CHRISTMAS EVE slips by unnoticed in most Greek homes, but it’s the one night in our house that’s Canadian. This makes me wonder how many Canadian customs and cultural references elude me – and what the personal ramifications are. How useful was [...]
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World Diasporas and Minorities Organization WDMO/ World Diaspora Organization WDO, Serbia
Practitioner from civil society organization Name of Practitioner: World Diasporas and Minorities Organization WDMO/ World Diaspora Organization WDO Website: www.worlddiasporasandminorities.org Contact Information: Pajsijeva 5/64 Belgrade, Serbia Phone: 381112688168 Email: zoranjovicic@hotmail.com Practitioner’s aims, programs of activities and fields of expertise: Diasporas, ( next generations of migrants ), expatriates and ethnic minorities very often [...]
Red Cross in Akranes, Iceland
Practitioner from civil society organization Name of Practitioner: Red Cross in Akranes, Iceland Website: redcross.is/akranes Contact Information: Skólabraut 25 a 300 Akranes Akranes, Iceland Phone: + 354 431 2270 Email: steindal@redcross.is Practitioner’s aims, programs of activities and fields of expertise: The Red Cross in Akranes, Iceland is a part of the Icelandic [...]
A Place in the World
Right outside Atlanta, Georgia is a small charter school that brings together refugee children from war-torn countries all over the world and teaches them alongside local American children. A Place In The World follows three families with ties to the school, a first year teacher, and the new principal of the school over the course [...]
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Tear Down the Walls, Iceland
Tear down the walls! is a project that was designed by the Red Cross in Akranes, Iceland with the purpose of developing strategies and tools to implement policies on immigration, with a special focus on mutual integration, relevant in the municipality of Akranes, Iceland.
“Diaspora Engagements in Development Cooperation”
Author: Cindy Horst Date: Summer 2008 In recent years, interest in the transnational engagements of migrants and diaspora organizations has seen a rapid increase. A wide variety of international actors are now engaged in exploring the links between migration and development. How useful was this information? Users ratings 3.00 out of 5
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“Diaspora Organizations from the Horn of Africa in Norway: Contributions to Peacebuilding?”
Authors: Cindy Horst, Mohamed Husein Gaas Date: Winter 2009 In this policy brief, ‘peacebuilding’ refers to activities aimed at the sustainable transformation of structural conflict factors and patterns. It presupposes a long-term commitment, on the part of both local and external actors, to a process that simultaneously addresses the material and the attitudinal level of [...]
“Participation of Diasporas in Peacebuilding and Development”
Author: Prio Date: Winter 2010 This handbook follows a range of other reports and publications on diaspora involvement in development and peacebuilding (COWI, 2009; De Haas, 2006; GTZ, 2009; Sinatti, 2010; Sinatti et al., 2010). It has been written mainly for European practitioners and policymakers, and was developed as a result of our observation that [...]
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Openvizor, United Kingdom
Practitioner from civil society organization Name of Practitioner: Openvizor Website: http://www.openvizor.com/ Contact Information: Abbas Nokhasteh Openvizor 36 Melton Court Onslow Crescent London SW7 3JQ United Kingdom London, Phone: 00447733115872 Email: abbas@openvizor.com Practitioner’s aims, programs of activities and fields of expertise: Openvizor is an international non-profit arts and cultural organization and platform, [...]
The Application Period for the 2012 E Pluribus Unum Prizes Is Open Until 5 p.m. March 15, 2012
The E Pluribus Unum Prizes are a national awards program that provides prizes annually to exceptional initiatives that promote immigrant integration. In 2012, the program will award three $50,000 prizes and one Corporate Leadership Award. The awards recognize outstanding immigrant integration initiatives of all types, whether led by nonprofit or community organizations, businesses, public agencies, [...]
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Key criteria of “Good Practice” for constructive Diaspora Engagement in Peacebuilding
Author: Gulia Sinatti, African Diaspora Policy Centre Date: Summer 2010 This discussion paper focuses on the engagement of diasporas in peacebuilding processes in their countries of origin. The main argument put forward in this paper is that, given certain conditions, diasporas carry a potential to fruitfully engage in the field of peacebuilding. How useful was [...]
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Diasporas as Partners in Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding
Author: Gulia Sinatti, Rojan Ezzati, Matteo Gugliemo, Cindy Horst, petra Mezzetti, Cindy Horst, Paivi Pirkkalainen, Valeria Saggiomo, Andrea Warnecke, African Diaspora Policy Centre Date: Summer 2010 This paper explores the topic of collaboration between diasporas and governmental and non-governmental actors in peacebuilding and post-conflict reconstruction initiatives. Its purpose is to identify key policy recommendations for [...]
Raise your voice!
Family life is a right for migrants too – how to ensure it? Is there a need to change the EU rules on family reunification of migrants? Today, the Commission launched a public debate on the right to family reunification of third-country nationals living in the EU. Depending on the outcome of the consultation, the [...]
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Read the compiled report from the IBIS forum
Integration: Building Inclusive Societies (IBIS) ‘Diversity, Citizenship and Social Inclusion’ http://www.deakin.edu.au/arts-ed/ccg/events/pdf/ibis-compiled-report.pdf How useful was this information? Users ratings 3.00 out of 5
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Setting a Social Reform Agenda: The Peacebuilding Dimension of the Rights Movement of the Ethiopian Muslims Diaspora
Author: Dereje Feyissa, Diaspeace Date: Winter 2010 This working paper examines the impact of the Ethiopian Muslims in the diaspora on socio-political processes in the homeland, with a special focus on their activities that have a bearing on peace-building. How useful was this information? Users ratings 3.00 out of 5
Contribution of the Ethiopian Diaspora to Peace-Building: A Case Study of the Tigrai Development Association
Author: Bahru Zewde, Gebre Yntiso and Kassahun Berhanu, Diaspeace Date: Winter 2010 Literature pertaining to the genesis of Ethiopian Diaspora groups and their role in socio-economic and peace-building activities is both recent and scanty. The most notable works on the subject include the works of John Sorenson (1996), Terrence Lyons (2004, 2006 and 2008), A. [...]
Diasporas and their Role in the Homeland Conflicts and Peacebuilding: The Case of Somali Diaspora
Author: Mahdi Abdi Abdile, Diaspeace Date: Fall 2010 Within and outside the academic circles, the role of Somali diaspora is described as potential contributors to the ongoing conflict in Somalia and as spoilers. There are several reasons for this assertion. Proponents of this argument see the enormous size of remittances sent by the Somali diaspora [...]
Engagement Dynamics Between Diasporas and Settlement Country Institutions : Somalis in Italy and Finland
Author: Petra Mezzetti, Valeria Saggiomo, Päivi Pirkkalainen, Matteo Guglielmo, Diaspeace Date: Fall 2010 This study presents a comparative work on engagement dynamics occurring between the Somali diaspora1 and authorities in two countries of settlement, namely Italy and Finland. How useful was this information? Users ratings 3.00 out of 5
Diasporic Engagement In the Educational Sector In Post-Conflict Somaliland: a Contribution to Peacebuilding?
Author: Markus Virgil Hoehne, Diaspeace Date: Summer 2010 This working paper provides a background to the rebuilding of the educational sector in Somaliland, which had been completely destroyed during the civil war, developed again from very modest beginnings in the early 1990s, and includes manifold offers up to tertiary education a decade later. How useful [...]
Somaliland’s Investment in Peace: Analysing the Diaspora’s Economic Engagement in Peace Building
Author: Mohamed Hassan Ibrahim, Diaspeace Date: Summer 2010 Since 1991 the people of Somaliland have successfully established a peaceful and relatively stable state and community. They have managed a process of reconciliation, demobilized the local militias, restored law and order, and held three rounds of peaceful elections. How useful was this information? Users ratings 3.00 [...]
Modes and Potential of Diaspora Engagement in Eritrea
Author: Clara Schmitz‐Pranghe, Diaspeace Date: Summer 2010 The involvement of Eritrean diaspora communities in conflict and post-conflict reconstruction in Eritrea dates back to the times of the struggle for independence. The transnational ties between the former liberation fronts and the Eritrean state have been very close ever since How useful was this information? Users ratings [...]
Diaspora and Peace: A Comparative Assessment of Somali and Ethiopian Communities in Europe
Author: Matteo Guglielmo, Petra Mezzetti, Antony Otieno Ong’ayo, Päivi Pirkkalainen, Clara Schmitz-Pranghe, Andrea Warnecke, Diaspeace Date: Summer 2010 The interest in diaspora or migrant groups as potentially influential stakeholders in peace and development processes has many well-founded reasons. In cities with huge African diaspora communities in North and South America, the Caribbean, Europe, and Asia, [...]
The Diaspora – Conflict – Peace – Nexus: A Literature Review
Author: Pirkkalainen, Päivi, Abdile, and Mahdi, Diaspeace Date: Spring 2009 This paper seeks to offer a comprehensive literature review on the role and contribution of diasporas to conflicts and peace building. First, the review will provide a general overview of diasporas and conflicts, and will then move on to discuss the various risks faced by [...]
Launch of the MEDIVA project
The MEDIVA project (Media for Diversity and Migrant Integration, Consolidating Knowledge & Assessing Media Practices across the EU) has just launched a database that presents more than 250 studies and documents published in eight EU languages (Bulgarian, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Polish) which assess the capacity of the European media (including, press, TV, radio, internet) [...]
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The Point System of Selection of Immigrants in Quebec
Author: Núria Franco i Guillén, Gritim Date: Fall 2011 The present paper is aimed at identifying what are the effects of the Point System of Selection of immigrants in Quebec. How useful was this information? Users ratings 3.00 out of 5
“Ethnic School Segregation: Effects and Policies”
Author: EUROMARGINS Date: Fall 2010 The clustering of migrant populations in urban environments produces an uneven distribution of pupils with immigrant backgrounds at local schools, and high concentrations of them at some, often public schools. The educational outcomes at such ‘minority schools’ tend to be worse than at ‘majority schools’, but is this due to [...]
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Is discrimination an issue? Young adults with immigration background in the labour market
Author: EUROMARGINS Date: Fall 2010 EUMARGINS third policy brief looks at discrimination as a factor of exclusion for young adults with immigration background in the labour markets of seven European countries: Estonia, Spain, France, Italy, Sweden, the United Kingdom and Norway. Several observations emerge from this analysis. First, access to the labour market is generally [...]
Citizenship Regimes
Author: EUROMARGINS Date: Fall 2010 EUMARGINS second policy brief focuses on the impact of citizenship legislation on inclusion and exclusion processes in seven different countries: Norway, Sweden, Estonia, UK, Italy, France and Spain. We discuss the great variation in citizenship policies from country to country and the core principles these different national naturalisation requirements derive [...]
El modelo latinoamericano en la integración de los inmigrantes árabes
Author: Said Bahajin Date: Fall 2011 El modelo latinoamericano en la integración de los inmigrantes árabes muestra que es posible la integración de éstos, sin que dejaran su identidad árabe; y que el tiempo y la participación de la población local son factores importantes en ese proceso imperfecto e inacabado. How useful was this information? [...]
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To support Recommendations on Migration and Development produced by a group Swiss Civil Society Organizations:http://bit.ly/rrXpYS How useful was this information? Users ratings 3.00 out of 5
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Call for Proposals: Inclusion in Antwerp and Marseille
The At Home in Europe Project of the Open Society Foundations invites you to collaborate with us on innovative projects which promote inclusion and participation of minorities and marginalized communities in Marseille and in Antwerp. Seeking City Partners In September 2011, the At Home in Europe project published reports looking at issues of social inclusion [...]
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Concurso Eres joven
¡Quedan dos semanas para participar en el concurso Eres joven, ¡triunfarás!! ¿Tenéis buenas ideas o realizáis actividades para fomentar la una mejor convivencia intercultural en las aulas, tanto de alumnos de origen inmigrante como autóctonos y ofrecer una imagen positiva de la diversidad cultural en vuestros centros? Si es así, ¡participad en el concurso y [...]
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Project Shine, USA
At the heart and soul of SHINE, is the belief that communities of all ages and cultures where all members engage in meaningful roles that contribute to the growth, knowledge and wisdom of each member are strong, healthy and sustainable communities.
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Diaspeace
Exiled populations – who increasingly refer to themselves as diaspora communities – hold a strong stake in the fate of their countries of origin. In an increasingly interconnected world, they engage in 'long-distance politics' towards their homelands, send financial remittances and support social development in their communities of origin. Transnational diaspora networks have thus become global forces shaping the relationship between countries, regions and continents.
Series of seminars: Transnationalism, Identities’ Dynamics and Cultural Diversification in Urban Post-migratory Situations (TRICUD)
Transnationalism, Identities’ Dynamics and Cultural Diversification in Urban Post-migratory Situations (TRICUD) Abstract : TRICUD is a multidisciplinary research programme launched in 2009 by three research centres based at the Institute of Human and Social Sciences of the University of Liège, namely CEDEM (Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies), CLEO (Centre for the Study of Public [...]
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Seminar on Human Mobility and Governance in a Global Context
The CIDOB, in collaboration with GRITIM-UPF, is organizing a seminar on Human Mobility and Governance in a Global Context in Barcelona. The seminar will take place Thursday 22 September, 9:00 hours, at CIDOB (Carrer Elisabets, 12). To register: http://www.cidob.org/es/actividades/migraciones/movilidad_humana_y_gobernanza_en_un_contexto_global2 How useful was this information? Users ratings 3.00 out of 5
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Empowering Migrant Workers With Language, Lebannon
A community of enthusiastic young people in Beirut, The Migrant Workers Task Force , are working to support foreign domestic workers in Lebanon whose living and working conditions are often desperately unfair.
IBIS Forum, Melbourne
The United Nations Alliance of Civilizations and the Centre for Citizenship and Globalization present Integration: Building Inclusive Societies Forum Diversity, Citizenship and Social Inclusion Deakin University, under the auspices of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC), will bring the UN Forum on Social Inclusion to Australia for the first time: Friday 7 October 2011 [...]
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BOUNDLESS, Binational couples and multicultural families
A new article on the web-project “Boundless” about a Japanese-Israeli couple living in Berlin: Middle East and Far East united in Berlin Masayo and Omer live in a big old apartment in the Berliner district of Neukölln. “Many artists form Spain and the USA moved here recently because the [...]
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Boundless Project, Germany
Binational couples and multicultural families:
The often negative media coverage about migrants diverges from reality. In Germany, for example, according to the Association of Binational Families and Relationships, every third child has one parent with migration background. When two people from different cultural backgrounds come together on the basis of love, this is the highest possible expression of integration.
“Galli Galli Sim Sim” Project, India
Galli Galli Sim Sim is a multi-platform initiative that combines the power of multimedia and educational outreach to help children prepare better for school and life. Galli Galli Sim Sim facilitates young Indian children's basic academic and life skills, while celebrating India's rich cultural diversity, in order to promote their overall cognitive, socio-emotional and physical development.
Galli Galli Sim Sim integrates a three sixty degree strategy to reach children between the ages of 0-8, especially those that are disenfranchised and under resourced. Broadcast on two of India's leading channels- Pogo and Cartoon Network, Galli Galli Sim Sim is further supplemented by a radio program aired on All India Radio and community radio stations, extensive community outreach, and new and emerging media such as cell phones and internet. In addition to this, we provide training and create awareness about early childhood care and education to parents, teachers and caregivers using a combination of print, audio visual and social media to ensure a continuum of learning.
The Galli Galli Sim Sim initiative is supported by Turner Broadcasting, the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation, the MetLife Foundation, Qualcomm, HSBC and the SCHWAB Charitable Trust.
Tea Time Project, Norway
Tea Time Project Norwegian centre against Racism Statistics have shown that Norwegians who know people with minority backgrounds also are less likely to have prejudices against them. However, today, a large part of the Norwegian population don’t know anyone with a minority background well enough to get to that stage. This is why the Norwegian [...]
The International Migrants Bill of Rights: Civil Society Activism in the Governance of Migration
UPCOMING EVENT
8 September 2011, Open Society Institute–New York
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UNAOC-BMW Group Award for Intercultural Innovation
The United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) and the BMW Group are launching the BMW Group Award for Intercultural Innovation in support of the Alliance of Civilizations, under the auspices of the United Nations (UNAOC-BMW Group Award for Intercultural Innovation). Through this first global call for proposals, the UNAOC and the BMW Group will select [...]
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TIES: Integration of the Second generation
TIES aims to study the topic of integration, be it economic, social, educational, or in terms of identity. The research focuses the long-term consequences of the large-scale labour migration experienced by all western and northern European countries since the 1960s. The main objective is to create the first systematic and rigorous common European dataset on these issues - relevant not only for a better general understanding, but also for the development of policies at all levels of government.
Improving the Health and Well-being of Migrants in Europe: Shaping a Comprehensive EU-Wide Strategy
As they sought to implement the goals of the Lisbon Process, EU Member States acknowledged the crucial importance of workforce quality and productivity in the drive to promote economic growth and employment in Europe. However, from the outset, the existence of migrant workers as a key driver of economic development has posed as many challenges [...]
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Information from the NGO Committee on Migration
The United Nations Department of Information (DPI) has issued a request to NGOs to propose themes for the annual DPI Conference to be held at UN Headquarters in New York in September 2012. The NGO Committee on Migration is proposing MIGRATION as the topic of the conference and has written a rationale for the proposal (see below) [...]
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Day of General Discussion on Undocumented Migrant Workers
Day of General Discussion (DGD) on Undocumented Migrant Workers on 19 September 2011, in Geneva, Switzerland. The DGD is a public meeting intended to foster a deeper understanding of the contents and implications of the Convention as they relate to specific articles or topics. Representatives of governments, UN bodies and specialized agencies, civil society organizations, national human rights institutions as well [...]
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CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS Migration and African Families in the Diaspora
Editors Pauline A. Uwakweh, Ph.D., Jerono P. Rotich, Ph.D., Comfort O. Okpala, Ed.D. The unique role of first and second generation African immigrants in the United States is a subject of interest and debate among researchers. Africans may be one of the highest outbound peoples on the globe. Incidentally, neither the impact of migration on [...]
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CALL FOR PAPERS :The Changing Face of the Mediterranean: Migrant Women’s Creativity and Constraints (second call) 2011-09-01
The Changing Face of the Mediterranean: Migrant Women’s Creativity and Constraints Edited Volume For the past two centuries, people have emigrated from the Mediterranean in search of a better life. Beginning with the great influx of Italians principally from the South of Italy at the middle of the 19th century, and continuing up until the [...]
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Coming up on Al-Jazeera
An Al-Jazeera series exploring the realities of life in Europe for African migrants: http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/surprisingeurope/2011/08/20118311315257772.html?utm_content=rssautomatic&utm_campaign=twitter&utm_source=SocialFlow&utm_term=june&utm_medium=tweet How useful was this information? Users ratings 3.00 out of 5
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The Hague Process on Refugees and Migration
The Hague Process on Refugees and Migration (THP) is an international not-for-profit organisation in the field of refugees and migration. THP facilitates coordinated collaboration globally in the field of migration, in all its forms, with a focus on protecting human rights through policy development and engendering effective policy-to-practice solutions.
The Interfaith Network of the City of Greater Dandenong, Australia
The Interfaith Network is a group of diverse cultural and religious faiths, working in partnership with the City of Greater Dandenong Council to promote peace and harmony within the municipality.
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REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FOR VIDEO PRODUCER/EDITOR/SCRIPTWRITER FOR A 20-MINUTE VIDEO
Deadline: Sunday August 14, 2011 The UN Alliance of Civilizations: The United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) was established in 2005, at the initiative of the Governments of Spain and Turkey, under the auspices of the United Nations. The UNAOC Secretariat, which is based in New York, works with a global network of partners that [...]
Migrant Skills Transfer in Aquaculture and Fisheries: The case of Greece and Egypt
The proposed project essentially consists of the mapping‐registration, appreciation and databasing of the human capital needs in the growing Egyptian Aquaculture, and their partial matching by means of the corresponding mapping, selection and data‐basing of the Egyptian migrant workforce capabilities available and directly affected in the Greek Aquaculture and Fisheries. To enhance the chances for a successful and sustainable matching of the identified needs (Egypt) with the identified migrant capacities (Greece) we propose the deployment of an innovative intrasector ‘up‐skilling’ program to be addressed to a selected part of the Egyptian migrant workforce in Greece.
Data‐base sharing and the intense networking facilitation among the above two respective and interested professional corpuses is expected to (a) lead to the ‘up‐skilling’ of the Egyptian migrant workforce in Greece, (b) result to the gradual ‘brain‐gain’ and (c) to the support of ‘knowledge exchange and transfer’ in favour of Egypt.
Carlo Ghioni, Best Screenplay Award, Rome International Film Festival
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Exceptional People:How Migration Shaped Our World and Will Define Our Future
“Throughout history, migrants have fueled the engine of human progress. Their movement has sparked innovation, spread ideas, relieved poverty, and laid the foundations for a global economy. In a world more interconnected than ever before, the number of people with the means and motivation to migrate will only increase. Exceptional People looks at the profound [...]
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Trafficking in Persons Report
The Trafficking in Persons Report reports on the efforts of governments to combat severe forms of trafficking in persons. It represents an updated, global look at the nature and scope of trafficking in persons and the broad range of government actions to confront and eliminate it.
Migration Integration Policy Index (MIPEX)
MIPEX is a fully interactive tool and reference guide to assess, compare and improve integration policy produced by the British Council and the Migration Policy Group. MIPEX measures integration policies in all European Union Member States plus Norway, Switzerland, Canada and the USA up to 31 May 2010. Using 148 policy indicators it creates a [...]
IMISCOE 8th Annual Conference: Warsaw, 9 September 2011
Call for papers The local Policymaking of Interculture between national integration policy, diversity, cohesion and development Organised in the context of the Imiscoe Standing Committee on The multilevel governance of migration and integration policy by Tiziana Caponio (FIERI) and Ricard Zapata (GRITIM-UPF) In the context of the Standing Committee on ‘The Multilevel Governance of Migration [...]
San Francisco and Oakland celebrate May Day