The Institute for Social Change
School of Social Sciences
LOCALMULTIDEM Symposium
'Multicultural democracy and immigrants'
Monday 24th November 2008
3.00 - 6.30pm
University Place 4.206
Multicultural Democracy and Immigrants Social Capital in Europe: Participation, Organisational Networks, and Public Policies at the Local Level.
The Institute for Social Change, alongside the LOCALMULTIDEM project consortium (6th Framework Programme of the EC) and the School of Social Sciences, are hosting a symposium related to the project 'Multicultural democracy and immigrants' social capital in Europe.
The project is coordinated by Dr Laura Morales, a research fellow at the Institute for Social Change.
The project includes partners from six European countries, and studies migrants’ social capital and political integration in six European cities: Budapest, London, Lyon, Madrid, Milan and Zurich. Additionally, this project is coordinated with other two European teams that have done an equivalent study in Sweden and Norway. More information on the project is available at http://www.um.es/localmultidem
The symposium is open to all interested members of the public, the members of the LOCALMULTIDEM project will present a summary of the main results of the project.
Members of the project;
- Prof. Eva Anduiza, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
- Prof. Bo Bengtsson, University of Uppsala, Sweden
- Dr. Manlio Cinalli, CEVIPOF-CNRS, Paris, France
- Dr. Ranji Devadason, University of Bristol
- Dr. Marco Giugni, University of Geneva, Switzerland
- Dr. Andras Kovats, MTAKI, Budapest, Hungary
- Dr. Laura Morales, ISC, University of Manchester
- Dr. Katia Pilati, University of Trento, Italy.
- Prof. Paul Statham, University of Bristol
The main purpose is to disseminate broadly the core findings of the project, this will consist of the results of a survey to 1,200 individuals, around 300 of autochthonous background, and the remaining 900 of migrant background of three different ethnic/national groups – as well as the results of a study of migrants’ associations, in each of the cities.
Agenda for the LocalMultiDem Symposium
There is no cost involved in attending the Symposium, however we would like to be able to gauge the number of people of who will be attending, as well as keeping you up to date with details for the event, therefore if you would like to attend the event please complete the booking form below to register your interest.
For queries please telephone 0161 275 4269, or email socialchange@manchester.ac.uk
