The Conference "Immigration and Social Integration: Migration trends over the past quarter century" will be held at the Ruppin Academic Center, Israel May 19-20, 2014. The deadline for abstract submission is November 30, 2013.
Call for papers
The 2014 Ruppin International Conference will focus on the current situation of migration in the world. Over the past quarter century, the volume of international migrants has more than doubled, and the number is likely to increase in the decades ahead. The downfall of the Berlin wall 25 years ago marks a significant change in migration trends in the world, which became since more global and open.
Economic migrants, asylum seekers and refugees are on the move and researchers from various disciplines try to assess migration and integration processes in the macro and micro levels. The presence of migrants poses significant social and economic challenges to the host countries. In the current conference we will address and discuss issues relevant to assessing the current situation of migration around the world.
The Institute for Immigration and Social Integration at Ruppin Academic Center in cooperation with the Association for Canadian Studies (ACS), invites proposals for papers on a broad range of themes related to the current situation of migration in the world:
● Immigration and policy issues
● Economic aspects of migration and integration
● Immigration and globalization
● Labor migrants
● Refugees and asylum seekers
● Public views and attitudes towards immigrants and immigration
● Immigrants and the mass media
● Social and educational aspects of immigration and integration
● Cultural aspects of immigration and integration (language, identity)
● Immigration and health
● Immigration and the third sector
● Immigrant communities
● The impact of migration on sending and receiving countries
Abstracts should be no more than 250 words long, for a paper of 20 minutes duration, and include the paper title, author name, institutional association, and abstract. Abstracts should be sent to the organizers to the following e-mail address: [email protected] by November 30, 2013. The abstracts will be evaluated by an international academic committee chaired by Prof. Moshe Semyonov.
