IMISCOE CROSS-CLUSTER THEORY CONFERENCE Interethnic Relations: Multidisciplinary Approaches

Tid: 13 - 15 maj 2009
Plats: Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Arrangör: Center for Geographical Studies, University of Lisbon (CEG),   IMES, University
of Amsterdam,   Research Unit on Migration, Diversity and Social Cohesion, DEUSTO and FCSH, New University of Lisbon. 

" The conference aims to shed new conceptual and theoretical light on the perspective of interethnic relations in migration and integration research. The subject is approached in a broad way, bringing together scholars from different disciplines in the social and behavioural sciences and history, incorporating the gamut of interests pursued, and simultaneously providing focus by offering a format in which a variety of themes, perspectives and modalities of collaboration are articulated.


Theoretical and conceptual development on interethnic relations in the field of migration and integration is needed to better understand the complex inter­active processes that lie at the basis of the incorporation of immigrants in societies of settlement. To be able to fully grasp the complexities of immigrant integration, we have to broaden our focus. We have to include the receiving societies and the native institutions, groups and actors that immigrants and their offspring encounter in their new societies in new ways, employing a systematic relational perspective. There is a need to develop taxonomies of the various kinds of connections. Work needs to be done on morphological analysis and generative approaches to social analysis and explana­tion. This conference highlights the ‘inter’ of interethnic relations as it means a step away from the dominating majority–minority approach to ‘ethnic relations’."

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