Mois : avril 2014
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Detroit: une ex-grande ville « déclinée »
Jadis capitale du monde de l’automobile, fleuron de la grande industrie américaine, ville construite par la voiture et pour les voitures, Detroit n’est plus que l’ombre d’elle-même. Aujourd’hui en faillite, elle est un quasi-désert économique mais aussi urbain. Ces quelques photos ont été prises dans le centre-ville en octobre 2013. Sans être sensationnalistes, elles nous…
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Steenrock
Chaque année se déroule un festival de musique en soutien aux demandeurs d’asile déboutés détenus au Centre fermé de Steenokkerzeel avant leur expulsion. Ces quelques photos datent de l’édition 2011 de ce petit festival. On y voit notamment les participants tenter d’entrer en contact avec les détenus par la voix et le geste pour leur…
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Australian diversity
Jadis un des pays ayant développé les politiques multiculturelles les plus abouties, l’Australie n’a pas résolu la question aborigène. Les premiers habitants restent peu visibles sur la scène publique. Ils continuent d’occuper une position marginale dans la diversité australienne.
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RC31, a strong and healthy Research Committee
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 of electing the new board and officials of our Research…
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After Lampedusa … Lampedusa?
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 reach the European continent. Immigration scholars are not surprised that…
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Professional sport and international migration: a complex relationship
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 League. So what? What is the link with international migration?…
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The irresistible quest for new concepts, theories and paradigms
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…
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Remembering John Rex
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…
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Europe: the return of emigration?
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…
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Towards a Visual Sociology of Migration?
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,…