IRM - INSTITUT FÜR REGIONAL- UND
MIGRATIONSFORSCHUNG
MIGRATION RESEARCH
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Call for Papers(requirements for applicants: proposal (1 page maximum) and short biography until January 20th, 2003),
In many cases, migration is still considered to be an exceptional case: a singular occurrence that deviates from the supposed norm of settling down. However, new research on migration shows that the movement of people is a substantial part of social development and the human biography itself. Migrations are equalization processes, taking place both within societies and between different societies and continents. The global spreading of European power, starting at the end of the 15th century, holds a key position for modern migration processes. Along with colonization, voluntary and forced migration gained in dynamics on a worldwide scale up to this day. Certainly, large and widespread migrations have already taken place, e.g. the migrations of the people, but during the modern era ways and varieties of migrations have been enlarged considerably. This is mainly due to technological and economical advances, inter alia in the fields of transport and communication. Beyond regional and intercontinental migrations, especially the transcontinental migrations have thus been increased.
As equalization processes, migrations are always closely connected to the social, political, economical and demographical changes in societies. In modern societies, it is particularly the guidance and control of work-migration that become more and more the center of attention - and this not only since the 20th century, which several authors have characterized as ‘the century of migration’. Actually, for modern capitalistic industrial societies - and here especially for the major centers - an inexhaustible disposition over manpower is an important guarantor for economic prosperity and welfare.
The theme of the conference – “Labour-Migration. Migrant-Workers on the World Market for Manpower” – should allow for a debate on various aspects of work-migrations in different regions of the world. It also envisages a closer look at the following issues from an interdisciplinary perspective:
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