New Migration in Industrial Cities and Regions of Europe
13 & 14 September 2010
University of Li̬ge CEDEM РTRICUD
PROGRAMME
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Historically, many European Regions gained prosperity through heavy industrialization since the first industrial Revolution. The need for labor force attracted workers, first from adjacent rural areas and then from foreign countries. Many old industrials regions of Europe only realized that they had structurally become regions of settlement when the expected return of migrants to their home country did not happen after the first oil crisis in the mid-seventies.
These old industrial regions were severely hit by unemployment. Some managed to move to the post-industrial economy rather smoothly. Some haven’t yet completed their economic transition. In any case, most of the regions are now characterized by new migration flows. They are very different for the traditional guest workers migration and are increasingly diversified both in terms of countries of origin of the new migrants, their mode of entry, level of education, their patterns of integration etc.
Are new migrants assets for the economic redevelopment of old industrial regions? What is their cultural contribution to their new cities? How do they interact with old migrants? How does the local population perceive them? How do they manage to fit in a complex labor market?
Liège being a typical example of an old industrial region, we would like to take advantage of having the IMISCOE conference in the city to raise these issues in a comparative perspective and to discuss more generally the importance of new migration and new migrants in the local change at the economic, social, cultural and political level.
14 September 2010 (16:00-18:00)Workshop TRICUD : Migration & Changehttp://www.imiscoe2010.org/Workshops.html
University of Liège, Building A1, local to be confirmed
