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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).

Contemporary Constructions of Race/Whiteness in a comparative perspective

In this IMES symposium we would like to interrogate the extent to which ways of racial thinking, racial categorization, and racial stratification manifest themselves and remain operative. To what extent is the usage of ‘ethnicity’ and ‘origins’ analytically satisfying and constructive for drawing up related policies? How does the downplaying (or ignoring) of ‘race’ impact our social scientific accounts?

Call for Participation- “Migration in the margins of Europe” (NIA – IMES WINTER COURSE)

The Netherlands Institute at Athens and the Institute for Migration & Ethnic Studies (University of Amsterdam) organize this intensive winter course in collaboration with Greek universities, 9-19 January 2012

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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).