Prioritization 45 promoting thematic excellence

PRIORITIZATION
45
Promoting Thematic Excellence through Social Relevance 45
REMESO - Setting and Cooperation 45
Strategy for Stimulating the Development of Research Environments 45
Processes for Support & Actions for Monitoring Management of Initiatives 46
The following applies generally to the REMESO application at LiU: 46
Dissemination 47
Capacity building 47
SECTION V
:
ORGANISATION AND MANAGEMENT
49
SECTION VI
:
THE REMESO RESEARCH SCHOOL ON
MIGRATION
,
ECONOMY
,
AND SOCIETY
51
The Research School and REMESO 51
Background and platform for the research school 51
Organisation 51
Curriculum and activities 52
The aims of the research school 52
Funding 52

Section I
GENERAL OUTLINE OF THE PROJECT AND THE RESEARCH PROGRAMME

1. Overall rationale
and executive
summary
Issues of international
migration and ethnic
relations need to be
moved to the front stage of
social research on
economic globalisation, on
the restructuring of labour
markets and welfare
regimes and on changing
frameworks of citizenship.
Mainstream Swedish and
European social science
research in economy,
labour market, welfare and
public policy studies still
insufficiently reflects that
Sweden and the European
Union have become multi-
ethnic societies
increasingly shaped by
global migration. There is
still an inadequate focus
on ethnic segmentation of
labour markets and the
implications of new
migratory movements for
economic and social
change and for the future
of the welfare state (Cross
and Moore 2002). On the
other hand specialised
Swedish research in the
field of international
migration and ethnic
relations (IMER) has not
developed adequate
theoretically grounded
analyses concerning
changing economic and
institutional contingencies
of ethnic diversity and
equal opportunities in
contemporary welfare
states, in the European
Union, or in the global
theatre of our current
‘great transformation’
(Schierup 2006a).
Merging these two, often
separated, perspectives
has been a central
objective for the FAS
sponsored long term
research programme on
Citizenship, Work and
Welfare in Multiethnic
Europe (CWW).
1
The
1
For a detailed outline of this
FAS-programme, see
12001.pdf .
programme has been
developed by LiU in
partnership with the
National Institute for
Working Life (NIWL)
2
in
Norrköping, 2000-2006,
involving scholars in
sociology, political
science, history, social
anthropology, political
economy and education
(Sect. II). The institutional
setting of Linköping Uni-
versity’s (LiU) twin-city
campuses of Linköping-
Norrköping (Sect. III) has
proved a fruitful setting for
innovative approaches
and interdisciplinary
research. With CWW as
the nodal point LiU and
NIWL have developed a
fruitful complementary
partnership in the context
of a number of long-term
research projects (Sect.