The Netherlands
The institute works closely with other national and international academic institutes and organisations in the field of migration. The Network Office of the Network of Excellence IMISCOE and the European Secretariat of Metropolis International are both located at IMES.
IMES has a broad aim to promote systematic, knowledge-driven research on international migration and integration. For this purpose, IMES unites its staff members through developing their already-existing expertise into a coherent, interdisciplinary research programme. The central topics chosen for the programme may be of relevance for the university itself; locally within the city of Amsterdam; at a countrywide level for the Netherlands; or most broadly, for international organisations and institutions. The primary goal of the IMES research programme is to gain fundamental insights into the processes of international migration and societal integration of immigrants and their descendants, while moreover strengthening the theoretical basis of such research. IMES also engages in the monitoring and advisory activities based explicitly on systematic research.
University of Amsterdam: IMES – Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (Coördinator)
Founded in 1994 at the University of Amsterdam, the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES) is an interdisciplinary research institute that focuses on issues related to migration and integration from an international and comparative perspective. IMES helps to develop educational programmes and implements degrees at the levels of BA, MA and PhD. IMES also engages in the advisory and monitoring of various activities.The institute works closely with other national and international academic institutes and organisations in the field of migration. The Network Office of the Network of Excellence IMISCOE and the European Secretariat of Metropolis International are both located at IMES.
IMES has a broad aim to promote systematic, knowledge-driven research on international migration and integration. For this purpose, IMES unites its staff members through developing their already-existing expertise into a coherent, interdisciplinary research programme. The central topics chosen for the programme may be of relevance for the university itself; locally within the city of Amsterdam; at a countrywide level for the Netherlands; or most broadly, for international organisations and institutions. The primary goal of the IMES research programme is to gain fundamental insights into the processes of international migration and societal integration of immigrants and their descendants, while moreover strengthening the theoretical basis of such research. IMES also engages in the monitoring and advisory activities based explicitly on systematic research.
Website: www.imes.uva.nl
Germany
WZB - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung: Department Migration, Integration, Transnationalization
The WZB is one of Europe’s largest and most reputed research institutions in the social sciences. It has a strong tradition of participation in, and management of high-quality comparative research, and has in the last five years received more than eight million euros in research grants from diverse funding institutions, including the European Union. Its research aims to link fundamental empirical research to concrete social and policy problems using multi-disciplinary and cross-national comparative approaches, in particular focusing on EU countries and Eastern Europe. The Department Migration, Integration, Transnationalization“ (MIT) was newly established in 2007 with the aim of more strongly institutionalising the WZB’s research in the field of immigration and integration. Key questions in the Department’s research programme are how immigration reshapes national identities, notions of citizenship, and church-state relationships, as well as the relation between immigration and the welfare state. The Department incorporates the Programme on Intercultural Conflicts and Societal Integration (AKI) that was established in 2003. The aim of this Programme is to promote co-operation and communication between academics, policy-makers and the wider public in the thematic field of migration, integration and societal conflicts, and to synthesise research results from different disciplines, evaluate policy options and contribute to discussions about future directions of academic research.
Website: www.wzb.eu/zkd/mit/
United Kingdom
The University of Bristol: Ethnicity and Citizenship Centre
The University of Bristol, one of the UK’s premier universities, is internationally renowned for its academic excellence at the forefront of international research and higher education. The University Research Centre in Ethnicity and Citizenship, located in the 5-rated Sociology Department, is a founding Centre of the new Bristol Institute of Public Affairs (BIPA), an initiative specifically designed to raise the public profile of the Faculty's cutting-edge international research. The Ethnicity and Citizenship Centre has three Professors: the applicant Professor Paul Statham, who specialises in cross-national comparative research on ethnic relations; Professor Tariq Modood, one of the world’s leading experts on Multiculturalism and Islam; and Professor Steve Fenton researching on ethnicity and survey research. The Centre provides an ideal institutional setting for research projects. It has a skilled and interdisciplinary staff focussed on this field including an RCUK Senior Research Fellow, an ESRC post-doc, six full-time Research Fellows and has three part-time support staff. It also has significant experience in administering grants and conducting research, and currently holds three European grants on topics that will allow synergy with the proposed research: LOCALMULTIDEM – Multicultural Democracy and Immigrants’ Social Capital in Europe (Statham); EMILIE – A European Approach to Multicultural Citizenship (Modood); and the European Social Survey ESSi N4 – Comparative Survey and News Event Analysis (Statham). This expertise is further underlined by other relevant grants, including a Leverhulme research programme in excess of £1M combining eight distinct projects on human mobility (Modood) and further ESRC and ESF projects (Statham). In addition to the Centre’s core staff, it is the locus for interdisciplinary networks within the UK community, as well as international ones beyond, based on institutional links across Europe and the US. We consider that this track record in expertise and leadership underlines the suitability of the Centre to host the British part of the proposed project.
Belgium
Université Libre de Bruxelles: GERME – Institut de Sociologie
The Université Libre de Bruxelles is one of the leading francophone universities in the world, situated in Brussels, Belgium. The Groupe d'études sur l'Ethnicité, le Racisme, les Migrations et l'Exclusion (GERME) is part of Institut de Sociologie, an established sociological research institute with over a 100 members. GERME-ULB is furthermore one of the founding members of the transdisciplinary centre “Migrations, Asylum and Multiculturalism” (MAM). Core staff of GERME are associate professors Dirk Jacobs (the applicant) and Andrea Rea (director of the centre). GERME furthermore has 13 researchers and one part-time support staff. Within the framework of MAM, GERME is currently coordinating the interdisciplinary research project Action de Recherche Concerté “ L’étranger et l’autre à l’épreuve des transformations normatives et identitaires en Europe ” (funded by the French Community of Belgium, 1.2M€), in the framework of which it will be attracting an additional post-doc fellow soon.
Website: www.ulb.ac.be/socio/germe/
Switzerland
Université de Genève: RESOP – Laboratoire de recherches sociales et politiques appliquées
The Laboratoire de recherches sociales et politiques appliquées (RESOP) is a multidisciplinary research centre within the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences at the University of Geneva (Switzerland). The main objective of the RESOP is to strengthen the research in social science and the interdisciplinary formation. Researchers working at the RESOP come from different but related disciplines such as political science, sociology, political economy, social psychology, and philosophy. Its main domains of competence are: the analysis and evaluation of public policies; the analysis of reforms in the public sector; the study of processes of social exclusion, integration, and insertion; and the study of social movements and collective action. The RESOP has successfully carried a number of projects on behalf of both public and private institutions. Special attention is given to applied research, with the aim to contribute to offer policy-makers and practitioners a basis for the resolution of social and political problems. Among the current research foci are: public health, public education, immigration and asylum policies, unemployment and the labour market. Research considers both case studies and co-operative frameworks, as well as all levels of government (local, national, supranational). Past and current projects include research on public discourses, collective mobilisations, and social exclusion (part of a multidisciplinary program on social exclusion); public expenditures; public relations of government and administration; sexual interactions in face of HIV/Aids and intimacy dynamic; community health; migration, asylum, and integration policy; risk administration; evaluation of the coordination and service platform in the domain of drugs; and the integration of the excluded from the competitive labour market in Europe. In particular, the RESOP has been involved or is involved in a number of EU-funded projects (UNEMPOL, DEMOS, LOCALMULTIDEM).
Website: www.unige.ch/ses/resop/
France
Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques: CEVIPOF – Centre de Recherches Politiques de Sciences Po
The Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (Sciences Po) is a fully-fledged, self-governing research university specialised in the social-economic sciences and the humanities, which enrols some 6,000 students per year. It is home to a doctoral school offering 7 graduate programmes in political science, history, economics and sociology, a library with a million-volume collection, a publishing press which focuses on disseminating research results and nine research centres, five of which are closely linked to the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). Sciences Po facilitates laboratories' participation in the European Research Area. Today, around 15 of our research teams are involved in FP6. Finally, Sciences Po is a signatory of The European Charter for Researchers and The Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers and fully supports all the principles set out in this Recommendation In particular, the Centre for Political Research at Sciences Po (CEVIPOF), a joint research unit Sciences Po-CNRS (UMR 7048), is a leading European research centre in social science. CEVIPOF’s purpose is to study political behaviour, forces and institutions as well as new trends and issues shaping political life. Keeping alive, its traditional mission of studying elections, parties and political groups established by André Siegfried in the early 20th century and developed later by François Goguel, the CEVIPOF has opened up to new areas of study such as media, ideologies, racism, xenophobia and the politics of cultural identity, social activism, gender, governance and policy analysis, as well as political philosophy and the history of ideas. The Centre brings together more than 40 senior scholars active in research as well as teaching, with various backgrounds in social and human sciences. CEVIPOF has also stood out as the leading institution in France for the treatment and analysis of ESS data, producing a number of valuable works on individuals’ values, attitudes and political choices. Of particular interest for the proposed research, leading scholars of the Centre have applied the same methodological rigor for studying more closely the political integration of immigrants and “second-generation”.
Website: www.cevipof.msh-paris.fr/
