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The conference is part of a project funded by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) as part of the program
Hochschuldialog mit Sdeuropa/ Dialogue with Institutions of Higher Education in Southern Europe, and the project title:
Migration und Krise: Das Beispiel Spanien / Migration and Crisis: The example of Spain.
Our conference, which will take place at the TU Chemnitz on the 19th and 20th May 2015 aims to
present and discuss empirical results concerning migration processes and practices, the management of
migratory moves by institutional frameworks and on public discourse about the recent migration in the
context of economic crisis. The results will be discussed on the basis of current approaches from
migration and integration theory, social theory and governance approaches to ensure an
interdisciplinary validation of results beyond the specific case study context.
We invite papers that deal with one or several of the following aspects:
Processes: Description of recent south-north migrations from a socio-demographic or regionalized
perspective; characterization of migrants concerning age, gender, ethnicity and legal status; selectivity
of migration, especially regional selectivity (e.g. effects of center-periphery-relations, reasons for
regional preference of specific destinations),
Practices and Strategies: Examination of the motives, decision-making processes and migration
strategies of migrants, in particular concerning the connectivity of career development and family
formation; long-term mobility strategies and the decision criteria for a specific target country,
Institutional framing of migration processes: political and regulatory frame, activities of public and
private employment agencies, chambers, language schools, companies and other actors,
Perceptions and discourses: Perception and public opinions of the recent south-north migration
processes from the perspective of politics and society in origin and destination countries; reflection of
migration process from the perspective of migrants; media discourses on migration in the context of
crisis and demographic change.
All aspects mentioned can be shown from several and multiple perspectives, thus integrating
perspectives of source and destination countries, of migrants and non-migrants, of intermediary actors
and the public opinion displayed in political and media discourses.
Even though we focus on empirical findings from the Mediterranean countries as source countries, we
also invite contributions that are based on research in other regions, if they are able to broaden our
comparative perspective.
Papers can have conceptual character or report from recent research. A selection of conference papers
will be published as a book in the course of the year 2015.
If your are interested in presenting a paper, please submit an abstract in English of no more than 300
words, including a short biographical note to Birgit Glorius: birgit.glorius@phil.tu-chemnitz.de before
January 31st.
Notification of acceptance will be communicated until February, 28th 2015. The final program will be
circulated in March 2015.
The conference is part of a project funded by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) as part of the program
Hochschuldialog mit Sdeuropa/ Dialogue with Institutions of Higher Education in Southern Europe, and the project title:
Migration und Krise: Das Beispiel Spanien / Migration and Crisis: The example of Spain.