This colloquium, related to the activities of the Work Group 18: “Ethnicity, migrations et citizentship” of the International Association of French Speaking Sociologists (AISLF), is expected to be the occasion of a review on new researches prospective on migratory movements and processes of ethnicisation in societies, related or not with the issue of migration.

Equality, based on gender, is a conditio sine qua non in achieving the European Union’s overall objectives in employment, social cohesion and economic growth.

Créées par les exilés politiques ou par les migrants dits "économiques", les associations ont joué un rôle déterminant dans la vie des Espagnols en France. Lieux de contacts avec la culture espagnole, elles sont aussi un espace d'échanges et de luttes pour les droits.

The Centre for studies and research about international migration and sustainable development (Centre d’études et de recherche sur la migration internationale et le développement durable - CERMID) is going to organize an international conference about the role of women in migration.

Governing Difference is a research project within University of Vienna's research priority area European Integration and Southeastern / Eastern Europe.

The conference is part of the research project "Religion, Politics and Gender Equality", conducted by the Heinrich Böll Foundation in collaboration with the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD).

Upgrading the skills of older workers, migrants and women in healthcare, service and social sectors in Europe Conference at Hotel Mövenpick, Prague 4-5 June 2009

This conference (Prague, 14-15 May 2009) aims at encouraging public and private research institutions to reflect on the role that an appropriately gendered management plays in the provision of genuine equal opportunities, and the benefit that this could have for science and technology.

The conference will be held at the European Economic and Social Committee. It opens with a Citizen’s Group as the first item on the agenda and closes with a summary of conclusions and recommendations. Speakers will include: Dr Dirk Gebhardt, Programme Officer, Migration and Integration, EUROCITIES Ms Ewa Sadowska, Chief Executive Officer, Barka UK Ms Siobhan O’Donoghue, Director, Migrant Rights Centre (MRCI) Mrs Bernadette Mc Aliskey, Director, South Tyrone Empowerment Programme (S.T.E.P.) Dr Catherine Péquart, Director General, Association Charonne Mr Freek Spinnewijn, Director of European Federation of National Organizations Working with the Homeless (FEANTSA)

In the past decades, Western Europe has witnessed an increase in women’s labour market participation. However, this has not basically led to a change in the conventional gendered division of labour in the family. We are facing a dramatic crisis of the reproductive sector. Pertinent questions are: Who takes care of the young and the old, disabled people and people who need care on a daily basis? Who shops, cooks and cleans? Who cares? The "market" is a provocative answer. It is largely irregular migrant women that are overtaking domestic and care work in Western, but also increasingly in Eastern European households. They are the main breadwinners, sending a large proportion of their income back home. This gave rise to a "global care chain" (Arlie Hochschild). This term captures the hierarchical outsourcing of care involving several tiers of women: Migrant domestics or female relatives in the global South at the bottom, international migrant domestic and care workers in the middle of the "chain", and their female employers in the North at the upper end.

“We urge that gender equality policy commitments and actions on development, trade, finance, debt, aid and systemic issues will be strongly addressed in the follow-up process and the planned UN Conference at the highest level,”, states The Women’s Working Group on Financing for Development

In focus of the conference will be the curricula and start-up support systems for Women Scientists in the Netherlands. International experts from Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom and USA will discussed about the issue