Newsletter of ISA (International sociological association) - Research Committee on sociology of migration, Spring 2014.  Time has almost come for me to step down as the President of RC 31 after serving two terms. While I am writing these words, we are in the process [...]

Newsletter of ISA (International sociological association) - Research Committee on sociology of migration, Autumn 2013.  October 2013 will be remembered as an exceptionally bad month for migration: about 400 people died in the Mediterranean Sea not far from the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, trying to [...]

Newsletter of ISA (International sociological association) - Research Committee on sociology of migration, Spring 2013.  Nobody outside Belgium knows the small Flemish city of Beveren. Nobody knows or cares that it has a professional football (soccer, for the North Americans) team in the Belgian Premier [...]

Newsletter of ISA (International sociological association) - Research Committee on sociology of migration, Autumn 2012.  Academia in general has become a worldwide market. Migration studies in particular have also become a worldwide market. Markets always imply competition for leadership or at least for an increase [...]

Newsletter of ISA (International sociological association) - Research Committee on sociology of migration, Spring 2012.  John Rex passed away in December 2011. Most of us know his very influential work on race, ethnicity and multiculturalism. With Michael Banton, he was a pioneer in ethnic and [...]