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• 07 Jan 2018

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Youth, ethnicity and school policies: a cross national approach in France and in Italy

  Italian Journal of Sociology of Education (HCERES 70e)

  In order to guarantee the same chances of success for all students, irrespective of their origins and belonging, the management of cultural and religious pluralism is one of the most important challenges of education systems today. In the European context, France and Italy represent two interesting and even emblematic case studies because of the differences in educational policies for the reception, insertion and management of immigrants and immigrant children’s. Despite these disparities, one element which is common to these two countries is the difficulty to manage this cultural pluralism, both from an individual point of view (representations, success rates, strategies of choice of pupils but also educational eams) who could trigger mechanisms of discrimination, and from the point of view of collective actors and institutions (school policies, public and private schools, government services). 

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• 15 Oct 2015

  Rome

  Call for papers - Geography

  The Mediterranean: young people, migrations and development

  The aim of the international conference on youth, migrations and development around the Mediterranean, is to highlight the new interdisciplinary research perspectives that are currently emerging on these issues. The conference seeks to bring together members of the scientific community as well as civil society and institutional actors who are interested in the relationship between young people, migrations and development in the Mediterranean area. More specifically, its main objective is to provide a broad overview of the current state of research on three specific populations: descendants of migrants (the so-called “second generation”); children of refugees; unaccompanied minors.

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