[Bilimsel Haber] Educating for Migrant Integration - Integrating Migration into Education

[Nazan Haydari]

Educating for Migrant Integration - Integrating
Migration into
Education:
European and North American Comparisons

organized by
 

Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies,
University of
Toronto http://www.utoronto.ca

 

Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook
Research 

http://www.gei.de

 

Network Migration in Europe e. V. 

http://www.network-migration.org


Date: September 21-23, 2006
 

Location: University of Toronto, Toronto/Canada

Migration and integration have become key social
phenomena shaping and
reshaping the modern world. Different streams of
migration have
contributed considerably to changing (national)
populations and
perceptions about immigration, citizenship, and
minority incorporation.
One vital area in dealing with the challenges of
immigrant integration
is the educational sector. Schools, curricula,
educational policies,
teaching materials and public debates centred around
questions of
education have thus become important and often
controversial topics in
immigration societies.

The conference Educating for Migrant Integration -
Integrating 
Migration
into Education: European and North American
Comparisons will address 
the
interrelated questions of immigrant incorporation and
education in a
comparative framework, drawing on European and North
American
experiences.
The focus may be contemporary or historical (1945 to
the present). The
main areas of interest for the conference will be:

 

* The analysis of educational systems, policies and
practices in
immigration societies

* The attention educational systems give to
immigration and diversity

* Ways in which education enhances or limits the
integration of 
migrants


* The adaptation of curricula and textbooks to the
needs of immigrant
integration and representation

* Reforms and changes of educational systems and
practices to
accommodate to large-scale migration and immigrant
incorporation, and
the effects they have had

* The analysis of the successes/failures of immigrants
in educational
systems

 

The workshop is open to scholars in the Humanities and
the Social
Sciences in the widest sense (anthropology, education,
ethnology,
geography, history, law, political sciences,
sociology). Abstracts for
papers will be considered on a competitive basis. The
number of 
speakers
will be limited to 20 (plus external
participants/audience). Half of 
the
places will be reserved for younger scholars (advanced
Ph.D. candidates
and recent post-docs). The organizers will cover
expenses for
accommodation and food. Financial support to subsidize
travel expenses
can be applied for on an individual basis.

Submissions of abstracts (max. of 600 words) and a
short biographical
note (not more than two pages) including a list of
(selected)
publications are welcomed until May 15 2006. Papers
are supposed to be
circulated in advance and have to be received by
September 7, 2004.
Publication of the papers in an edited volume is
intended.

For further information see under
http://www.network-migration.org/workshop2006.  or
contact
rainer.ohliger at web.de. Send your application to the
given email address
by May 15, 2006. The selection committee will choose
and notify the
participants by beginning of June 2006.

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