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The IIIS would like to welcome Dr Patricia Gonzalez Aldea, International Journalism, Carlos III University of Madrid. who will be visiting the Institute until 31st of July. Dr Gonzalez Aldea will be working on a project entitled ‘Perception and self-perception of immigrants from Eastern Europe in Ireland’. Dr Gonzalez Aldeas' is based in room C6.009 in the IIIS and can be contacted at pgaldea@hum.uc3m.es and to read more about her project please go to the IIIS visitors page at http://www.tcd.ie/iiis/people/research-visitors.php#PatriciaGonzalezAldea
- 12-14 September 2013 Conference: International Working Party on Labour Market Segmentation 34th Annual Conference
- 16th September 2013 Symposium: New European Mobilities: education, migration and employment
- PostGraduate Research Day: Call For Papers A one day, inter-disciplinary postgraduate research conference November 15, 2013
International Working Party on Labour Market Segmentation 34th Annual Conference
'Austerity without end? European employment in the crisis'
Date: 12-14 September 2013
The International Working Party on Labour Market segmentation is an inter-disciplinary and informal network of scholars and researchers concerned with work, employment and the labour market. Members often work together on research topics of shared interest, However, our main activity as a group is the annual conference. Each year's conference has a broad theme and is organised by a local team. This year's conference is in Dublin.
For more information please visit the Conference Website here
SYMPOSIUM
New European mobilities: Education, migration and employment
About the symposium
Between 2004 and 2008, nearly half-a-million European nationals arrived in Ireland from the new member states (NMS) of the EU. Many of these were young Poles joining the Irish labour market at a time when economic opportunities were limited ‘at home’. Importantly though, a history of mobility is an historic part of the Polish story, with an established transnational record of migration. The story of movement for work overseas, to pursue lifestyle opportunity and to enhance professional goals is a familiar part of the Irish story, including amongst the Irish graduate population. The mobility evident amongst high-skilled Polish nationals in the 2000s and an Irish graduate cohort in 2008-2013, reveals an opportunity to capture movement within the broader context of intra-EU and transnational mobility. The Learning from Poland project examined the implications of Polish migration to Ireland for contemporary Irish emigration and the lessons for wider European and transnational mobility today
The symposium will address questions about this new mobility context discussing new forms of mobility including lifestyle migration; education and the relationship with employability and mobility, the need for portable social protections and the impact on national welfare systems. It will feature findings from the Learning from Poland project and international speakers to contextualise Irish and Polish experiences of mobility and ultimately evaluate national and European policy implications of the new mobilities.
Date: Monday 16th September 2013
Venue: Trinity College Dublin
For more information and to download the programme please visit the Symposium Website here
Registration: The event is free but places are limited. Please register here (please note registration will close when full capacity is reached)
Hosted By: The Employment Research Centre ERC in association with the Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS)
Contact: iiis@tcd.ie
ESRI Seminar
ESRI Seminar "Electricity Market Designs with Renewable Energy"
Venue: The ESRI, Whitaker Square, Sir John Rogerson's Quay, Dublin 2.
Date: Monday 23/09/2013
Time: 1 pm.
Steve Beuning, Director, Market Operations at Xcel Energy and President of the Utility Variable-Generation Integration Group).
Stephen Beuning will provide an overview of his utility experience with renewable integration in the United States. All Welcome. No booking required. More ..
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Britta Berghofer, Brian Lucey
IIIS Discussion Paper No. 433 - What do the Irish Know about Economics?
Michael Daly, Brian Lucey
IIIS Discussion Paper No. 432 - The Troika:
The Interlocking Roles of Commission v Luxembourg & Belgium, Van Gend en
Loos, and Costa v Enel in the Creation of the European Legal Order
William Phelan
IIIS Discussion Paper No. 431 - Full list of all Discussion Papers
The Rise of the Brics in Africa: The Geopolitics of South-South Relations
by IIIS Research Associate Padraig Carmody
A little over a decade ago Africa was being spoken of as the 'lost' or 'hopeless' continent in the media. Now it has some of the fastest growing economies in the world, in large part because of the impacts of a group of large developing countries - the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa). In this first book to be written about the BRICS as a collective phenomenon, Carmody reveals how the BRICS powers' engagements with Africa, both individually and collectively, are often contradictory, generating new inequalities and potentialities for development. Crucially, Carmody shows how the geopolitics of the BRICS countries' involvement in Africa is impacted by and impacts upon their international relations more generally, and how the emergence of these economies has begun to alter the very nature of globalization, which is no longer purely a Western-led project.
A path-breaking examination of Africa's changing role in the world.