AEMI Conference
Annual Conference of the Association of European Migration Institutions
26 September 2007 to 29 September 2007
Details: FROM IMMIGRATION TO INTEGRATION
Documentation and Research
Institute of Migration, Linnankatu 61, Turku, Finland
http://www.aemi.dk/
Wednesday 26.9.
Arrival of the Conference delegates and accommodation to the hotels
Thursday 27.9.
9.15 Welcome to Turku, Professor, Director Olavi Koivukangas, Institute of Migration, Turku, Finland
Opening the AEMI Conference, Dr., Director Brian Lambkin, Centre for Migration Studies at the Ulster-American Folk Park, Omagh, Northern Ireland
9.30 Greetings of the Government of Finland, and The View of the Current Immigration Issues of Finland and Europe, Minister of Europe and Immigration Astrid Thors, Finland
10.30 Session 1. Documentation: Archives and Libraries
10.30 Last Chance to Rescue Our History: Identifying, Acquiring and Preparing Basque Migration and Exile Archives for Public Domain Use, Dr., Director Gloria Totoricagüena, Center for Basque Studies, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
11.00 Information Services of the Institute of Migration, Information service manager Jouni Korkiasaari, Institute of Migration, Turku, Finland
11.30 Discussion
12.00 Lunch
13.15 Session 2. Documentation: Emigrant Registers
13.15 Emigration in Port Bulletins from 1904 and 1963, Silvia Martini, International Study Centre on Italian Emigration, CISEI, Genoa, Italy
13.45 Emigrant Register and Its Services, Genealogist Elisabeth Uschanov, Institute of Migration, Turku, Finland
14.15 Discussion
14.45 Coffee
15.15 The General Assembly of AEMI
19.00 Reception of the City of Turku in Town Hall
Friday 28.9.
9.15 Session 3. Documentation: Emigrant museums
9.15 Museum Artifacts and Documents: Tapping Community Griots, Ph.D. Dolores Sandoval and Ph.D. Dorothy W. Williams, DaCosta-Angelique Institute, DAI, Montreal, Canada
9.45 Migration Museum in Paris, not confirmed
10.15 Migration Museum Network of UNESCO, not confirmed
10.45 The Finnish Emigrant Museum, Project Manager Tellervo Lahti, Finnish Emigrant Museum, Seinäjoki, Finland
11.15 Discussion
12.00 Lunch
13.15 Session 4. Research: From immigration to integration
13.15 Immigration in Europe: Good or Bad?, Professor, Director Olavi Koivukangas, Institute of Migration, Turku, Finland
13.45 Integration Policies for Immigrants in Portugal, Professor, Director Maria Beatriz Rocha-Trindade, Centre for Migrations and Intercultural Relations, University of Aberta, Portugal
14.15 The Immigration and Integration of Scottish Migrants to Ireland and the United States: the Case of the Mellon Family of Castletown, County Tyrone and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Dr., Director Brian Lambkin, Centre for Migration Studies at the Ulster-American Folk Park, Omagh, Northern Ireland
14.45 The Immigration and Integration of British Migrants to Ireland, 1607-2007, Dr. Patrick Fitzgerald, Centre for Migration Studies at the Ulster-American Folk Park, Omagh, Northern Ireland
15.15 Coffee
15.45 Session 5. Research: From immigration to integration cont.
15.45 How the New EU Member States (CEECs) Cope with Immigration: Lessons for Croatia, Sociologist-Ph.D. Candidate Snježana Gregurović, Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Zagreb, Croatia
16.15 The Study of Ethnic Entrepreneurship from a Perspective of Gender: An Analysis of the Motivations, Barriers and Impact on Immigrant Empowerment, Ph.D. Student María Villares Varela, Faculty of Sociology, University of Coruña, Spain
16.45 Emigration of Finns in the Twenty-First Century to Germany and to the United States and Finnish Emigrants as a Resource of Finland, Researcher Sirkku Wilkman, Institute of Migration, Turku, Finland
17.15 Closing session 5
19.30 Conference dinner, Restaurant Svarte Rudolf
Saturday 29.9.
9.00 Session 6. Research: From immigration to integration cont.
9.00 Integration of Immigrants into the Finnish Labour Markets, Docent, Research Director Elli Heikkilä and Researcher Maria Pikkarainen, Institute of Migration, Turku, Finland
9.30 Gendered Migration: The Case of Finnish Expatriate Women in California, Lecturer Tiina Haapakoski, University of Toronto, Canada
10.00 Socio-labour Insertion of Immigrant Women in Spain, Professor Raquel Martinez and Researcher Montserrat Golias, Faculty of Sociology, University of Coruña, Spain
10.30 From Immigration to Integration: the Case of Japan, Reseacher Krister Björklund, Institute of Migration, Turku, Finland
11.00 Discussion
12.00 Lunch
13.15 Visiting Turku Castle
15.00 Session 7. Research: From immigration to integration cont.
15.00 Youth and Migration Project 2008, Director Hans Storhaug, The Norwegian Emigration Center, Stavanger, Norway
15.30 MA Programme in International Migration Studies, Director Marina Luksic-Hacin, Slovenian Institute of Emigration Studies, Slovenia
16.00 Final Discussion and Closing of the Conference
Sunday 30.9.
Extra individual visits in Turku or to other parts of Finland, or to Estonia, Russia etc.
Departure of the Conference delegates
Further information
From Immigration to Integration– A case study in Documentation and Research of Migrant Women in Greece, Dr. Triantafillia Kourtoumi, General State Archives of Greece, University of Macedonia, Hellenic Open University, Greece (paper will be delivered; person is not coming to Finland)
Institute of Migration offers the coffees during the coffee breaks and the conference dinner. City of Turku offers the reception. Lunches will be paid individually.
Details: FROM IMMIGRATION TO INTEGRATION
Documentation and Research
Institute of Migration, Linnankatu 61, Turku, Finland
http://www.aemi.dk/
Wednesday 26.9.
Arrival of the Conference delegates and accommodation to the hotels
Thursday 27.9.
9.15 Welcome to Turku, Professor, Director Olavi Koivukangas, Institute of Migration, Turku, Finland
Opening the AEMI Conference, Dr., Director Brian Lambkin, Centre for Migration Studies at the Ulster-American Folk Park, Omagh, Northern Ireland
9.30 Greetings of the Government of Finland, and The View of the Current Immigration Issues of Finland and Europe, Minister of Europe and Immigration Astrid Thors, Finland
10.30 Session 1. Documentation: Archives and Libraries
10.30 Last Chance to Rescue Our History: Identifying, Acquiring and Preparing Basque Migration and Exile Archives for Public Domain Use, Dr., Director Gloria Totoricagüena, Center for Basque Studies, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
11.00 Information Services of the Institute of Migration, Information service manager Jouni Korkiasaari, Institute of Migration, Turku, Finland
11.30 Discussion
12.00 Lunch
13.15 Session 2. Documentation: Emigrant Registers
13.15 Emigration in Port Bulletins from 1904 and 1963, Silvia Martini, International Study Centre on Italian Emigration, CISEI, Genoa, Italy
13.45 Emigrant Register and Its Services, Genealogist Elisabeth Uschanov, Institute of Migration, Turku, Finland
14.15 Discussion
14.45 Coffee
15.15 The General Assembly of AEMI
19.00 Reception of the City of Turku in Town Hall
Friday 28.9.
9.15 Session 3. Documentation: Emigrant museums
9.15 Museum Artifacts and Documents: Tapping Community Griots, Ph.D. Dolores Sandoval and Ph.D. Dorothy W. Williams, DaCosta-Angelique Institute, DAI, Montreal, Canada
9.45 Migration Museum in Paris, not confirmed
10.15 Migration Museum Network of UNESCO, not confirmed
10.45 The Finnish Emigrant Museum, Project Manager Tellervo Lahti, Finnish Emigrant Museum, Seinäjoki, Finland
11.15 Discussion
12.00 Lunch
13.15 Session 4. Research: From immigration to integration
13.15 Immigration in Europe: Good or Bad?, Professor, Director Olavi Koivukangas, Institute of Migration, Turku, Finland
13.45 Integration Policies for Immigrants in Portugal, Professor, Director Maria Beatriz Rocha-Trindade, Centre for Migrations and Intercultural Relations, University of Aberta, Portugal
14.15 The Immigration and Integration of Scottish Migrants to Ireland and the United States: the Case of the Mellon Family of Castletown, County Tyrone and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Dr., Director Brian Lambkin, Centre for Migration Studies at the Ulster-American Folk Park, Omagh, Northern Ireland
14.45 The Immigration and Integration of British Migrants to Ireland, 1607-2007, Dr. Patrick Fitzgerald, Centre for Migration Studies at the Ulster-American Folk Park, Omagh, Northern Ireland
15.15 Coffee
15.45 Session 5. Research: From immigration to integration cont.
15.45 How the New EU Member States (CEECs) Cope with Immigration: Lessons for Croatia, Sociologist-Ph.D. Candidate Snježana Gregurović, Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Zagreb, Croatia
16.15 The Study of Ethnic Entrepreneurship from a Perspective of Gender: An Analysis of the Motivations, Barriers and Impact on Immigrant Empowerment, Ph.D. Student María Villares Varela, Faculty of Sociology, University of Coruña, Spain
16.45 Emigration of Finns in the Twenty-First Century to Germany and to the United States and Finnish Emigrants as a Resource of Finland, Researcher Sirkku Wilkman, Institute of Migration, Turku, Finland
17.15 Closing session 5
19.30 Conference dinner, Restaurant Svarte Rudolf
Saturday 29.9.
9.00 Session 6. Research: From immigration to integration cont.
9.00 Integration of Immigrants into the Finnish Labour Markets, Docent, Research Director Elli Heikkilä and Researcher Maria Pikkarainen, Institute of Migration, Turku, Finland
9.30 Gendered Migration: The Case of Finnish Expatriate Women in California, Lecturer Tiina Haapakoski, University of Toronto, Canada
10.00 Socio-labour Insertion of Immigrant Women in Spain, Professor Raquel Martinez and Researcher Montserrat Golias, Faculty of Sociology, University of Coruña, Spain
10.30 From Immigration to Integration: the Case of Japan, Reseacher Krister Björklund, Institute of Migration, Turku, Finland
11.00 Discussion
12.00 Lunch
13.15 Visiting Turku Castle
15.00 Session 7. Research: From immigration to integration cont.
15.00 Youth and Migration Project 2008, Director Hans Storhaug, The Norwegian Emigration Center, Stavanger, Norway
15.30 MA Programme in International Migration Studies, Director Marina Luksic-Hacin, Slovenian Institute of Emigration Studies, Slovenia
16.00 Final Discussion and Closing of the Conference
Sunday 30.9.
Extra individual visits in Turku or to other parts of Finland, or to Estonia, Russia etc.
Departure of the Conference delegates
Further information
From Immigration to Integration– A case study in Documentation and Research of Migrant Women in Greece, Dr. Triantafillia Kourtoumi, General State Archives of Greece, University of Macedonia, Hellenic Open University, Greece (paper will be delivered; person is not coming to Finland)
Institute of Migration offers the coffees during the coffee breaks and the conference dinner. City of Turku offers the reception. Lunches will be paid individually.
As the main topic for the presentation at the Annual Meeting of AEMI (29 September-3 October 2010, Bilbao, Spain) “Migration Studies and ICTs” has been proposed for the call of papers. Deadline: May 25, 2010.
The Histories of Home Subject Specialist Network’s Second Annual Conference, Multiple Belongings: Diaspora and Transnational Homes will take place on Friday 21 May at the British Library Conference Centre in London and will bring together academics, museum professionals, librarians and archivists. Booking deadline: Friday 14th May.
