Detalles del evento

The WZB Berlin Social Science Center will be hosting a conference on “Causes and consequences of immigration and citizenship policies” on June 26- 27, 2014.

Over the last decade, researchers have started to quantify admission, integration and naturalization policies and to build indices that aim at measuring the restrictiveness of formal regulations. The developments in the citizenship and immigration fields have however taken place mostly independently from each other. The aim of this conference is to bring together political scientists, sociologists, economists and others who work on policy indices in these two fields. Moving beyond descriptive comparisons and conceptual discussions, the second aim of the conference is to explore ways to analyse causes and consequences of immigration and citizenship policies. How can we explain differences across countries and changes across time? Are policies effective and do they influence naturalization or immigration rates and the integration of immigrants?

From the WZB itself, Ruud Koopmans and his team will present their Indices of Citizenship Rights for Immigrants (ICRI), and Marc Helbling and his team will present their Immigration Policies in Comparison (IMPIC) Index. Other speakers include Thomas Janoski (University of Kentucky), Richard Johnston (University of British Columbia), David Leblang (University of Virginia), Margaret Peters (Yale University), Maarten Vink (Maastricht University/EUI), Sara Wallace Goodman (University of California, Irvine), Tom K. Wong (University of California, San Diego).

If you would like to present your ongoing research at this conference, please send a short abstract before January 31, 2014 to indexconference@wzb.eu. In case of successful application, the WZB will cover travel expenses and accommodation in Berlin.

For more information, visit: http://www.wzb.eu/en/research/migration-and-diversity?s=26284