This event will host a discussion based on Paola Bonizzoni and Giacomo Lampredi’s article ‘Forging care coalitions through boundary work. Volunteers and professionals in the Italian refugee reception system’.

The article theorises the emergence of "care coalitions" as a product of boundary work between voluntary and professional care within the Italian refugee reception system.

Drawing on 33 qualitative interviews conducted at Italian reception facilities employing both volunteer and paid staff, the study explains why volunteers are welcomed by professionals in these settings.

Volunteers can form unique relationships with migrants, broadening opportunities for housing, employment and training, while extending care beyond the temporal and spatial boundaries of institutional reception and softening the disciplinary logic embedded in these programmes.

Authors show, however, that the boundaries between professional and volunteer care are also carefully monitored and managed to seek a mutually beneficial diversity. These efforts aim to prevent care from turning into an excessively individualized endeavour, which could undermine bureaucratic, right-based standards of equity and foster refugees’ dependency instead of autonomy.

The seminar will analyse the synergies and risks in care coalitions formed by volunteers and professionals, contributing to a deeper understanding of refugee reception systems.

Location:
Institute of Economy, Geography and Demography-Center for Human and Social Sciences- Spanish National Research Council (IEGD-CCHS-CSIC), Albasanz Street, 26, Madrid 28037, Spain.

Organisers:
Diego Ramiro-Fariñas (Spanish National Research Council, Spain).
Michel Oris (Spanish National Research Council, Spain).
Alain Gagnon (University of Montreal, Canada).

If you have any questions regarding the workshop, please contact diego.ramiro@cchs.csic.es and michel.oris@cchs.csic.es.

The organizers will be happy to provide catering and lunches, but all other costs are the responsibility of the participants.

Join this meeting, part of the U-Lead project, to explore concrete actions to create an inclusive model for unaccompanied migrant children in Florence.

The Migration Policy Centre (MPC) and UNICEF ECARO National Coordination Response in Italy have launched an initiative aimed at fostering a scalable model of inclusion and integration for unaccompanied migrant children (minori stranieri non accompagnati - MSNA) residing in Florence. The initiative's inaugural venture, a participatory research advocacy pilot project named U-Lead, is designed to establish supportive networks, open new avenues for civic participation, provide enriching learning experiences, and encourage young individuals to assume leadership positions.

The primary goal of the stakeholder meeting is to convene essential partners and community representatives to critically assess the concept, design, and execution of the pilot project. Participants at the meeting will engage in discussions about the project’s goals, planned activities, and the development of the pilot, aiming to ensure it meets community needs and achieves maximum impact. This collaborative session is intended to collect valuable insights, pinpoint potential obstacles, seek partnership opportunities, and fine-tune the project’s design to guarantee its successful rollout.

This seminar will provide an opportunity for researchers to present results from new studies on abortion (focused on incidence, safety and morbidity), propose new methodologies, assess the advantages and disadvantages of existing methodologies and help guide future work in this area. This seminar also allows for the presentation of research from a variety of contexts, ranging from those where abortion is broadly legal and safe, to those where safe and unsafe practices are both common, and those where abortion is highly legally restricted and safe abortion is extremely difficult to access.

Papers may be country-specific, comparative, or for sub-national areas and may focus on low, middle or high-income countries. This International Seminar will bring together demographers, public health specialists, sociologists and other specialists interested in measures of abortion incidence and its consequences with an interest in exchanging the latest scientific knowledge on measurement of the incidence of induced abortion, and abortion-related morbidity.

The IUSSP Scientific Panel on Abortion Research invites researchers to submit online by 10 April 2024 a short 200-word abstract AND an extended abstract (2 to 4 pages, including tables) or a full unpublished paper for consideration. To submit an abstract please fill out the IUSSP Abstract Submission Form.

Abstracts and papers may be submitted in English, French, or Spanish. However, the working language of the meeting is English, and presentations must be made in English.

The seminar will be limited to about 20 contributed papers. If the paper is co-authored, please indicate the names of co-authors on the abstract. Submission should be made by the author who will attend the seminar.

For further information, please contact Susheela Singh and Fatima Juarez (ssingh@guttmacher.org; fjuarez@colmex.mx).

Global demographic shifts have increased population diversity in advanced economies, often leading to anti-immigrant attitudes fueled by stereotypes and prejudice. This seminar will host a discussion based on a paper that studies a short educational program for high-school students aimed at promoting cultural diversity and improving attitudes toward immigration through active learning.

To identify the impact of the program, academics designed a randomised controlled trial involving nearly 4,500 students from 252 classes across 40 schools in northern Italy. The program resulted in more positive attitudes and behaviors toward immigrants, especially in classes with a higher proportion of immigrant students. In terms of mechanisms, the intervention reduced students’ misperceptions and changed their perceived norms towards immigration, while it had no impact on implicit bias, empathy, or social contacts.

Research findings suggest that anti-immigrant attitudes are primarily driven by sociotropic concerns rather than individual inter-group experience, and that educational programmes fostering critical thinking and group discussion in an issue-salient context can correct them.

The IUSSP Panel on Early Career Perspectives (ECP) is organizing an Early Career Researcher symposium at the 2024 Asian Population Association Conference in Kathmandu City, Nepal. The format of the symposium is flash sessions. The main objective of the symposium is to create a safe and welcoming environment where early career researchers can share their work (or work-in-progress) and thoughts with their peers, network, and get ready for the main APA conference. The submission does not have to be an accepted paper/poster in the APA conference. This will be an opportunity to present without worries!

The ECP panel at IUSSP establishes a worldwide forum catering to emerging scholars in population studies, encompassing individuals at various stages of their academic journey, such as master's and Ph.D students, postdoctoral fellows, early-career academics, as well as alternative academics. This platform facilitates connections, engagement, and mutual learning among these individuals. Recognizing the obstacles faced by early career researchers, the ECP panel endeavours to offer a platform that encourages global participation, fosters cross-cultural dialogues, and ensures more equitable access to expertise and methodological integration.