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Institute for Migration & Ethnic Studies (IMES)

IMES is a multidisciplinary and interfaculty research centre that focuses on international migration and the integration of immigrants and their descendants in host societies in a comparative perspective. IMES is part of the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR).

IMISCOE Annual Conference 2012

The Centre for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES) will be the host of the ninth annual IMISCOE Conference. Under the title 'Mobility as the new paradigmatic perspective in the social sciences?', the conference plenary sessions aim to foster a dialogue across academic disciplines on the implications of this development for social scientific investigations in terms of research design and data analysis.

Running from our shadows: the performative impact of policy diagnoses in Dutch debates on immigrant integration

During this IMES Podium Rogier van Reekum and Jan Willem Duyvendak examine the performative politics of claiming policy failure in the integration of immigrants in the Netherlands, often articulated as the failure of ‘the multiculturalist model’.

Thursday 29 March 2012, 15:30 - 17:00

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Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)

AISSR unites thematically focused research programmes, which have an anchor in one or more of the represented disciplines (Sociology, Geography and Planning, Development Studies, Political Science, and Anthropology).