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 in each participant’s share of that market. In nowadays’ competition in the global migration studies [...]

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 racial studies not only in the United Kingdom, but also worldwide. John was a real [...]

Newsletter of ISA (International sociological association) - Research Committee on sociology of migration, Autumn 2011.  As in other parts of the world, the public debates on immigration and integration of new migrants in European are often fierce, emotional and irrational. In the current financial, economic and social crisis, the old strategy of scapegoating the immigrants functions quite well. Anti-immigrant parties [...]

Newsletter of ISA (International sociological association) - Research Committee on sociology of migration, Spring 2011.    We live in a world of images and sounds. We are all confronted directly in our daily life with lots of images and sounds produced and mediated and distributed by various channels such as the internet, radio, television, cinema, newspapers, exhibitions, DVD, etc. There [...]

Newsletter of ISA (International sociological association) - Research Committee on sociology of migration, Autumn 2010.    Immediately after his election at the World Congress in Gothenburg in July, I approached the new ISA President, Michael Burawoy, to congratulate him. I introduced myself as the President of RC 31 “Sociology of Migration” since we had never met before. I remember clearly [...]