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26 Nov Call for abstracts 23-24 April 2020, Sibiu (Romania) 7th International Seminar: Migrations, Agriculture and Food Sustainability: The challenges to manage migration for agricultural work

Conference venue: Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Sibiu, Romania

Organizers: Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu (ULBS) and Research Institute for Quality of Life, Romanian Academy (ICCV)

Center for Social Research, Street: Lucian Blaga, No. 2-4, Building: A, 3^rd Floor

After the events in Bergamo (2013), Murcia (2014), Athens (2015), Madrid (2017), Marseille (2018) and Agadir (2019), the 7th international seminar of AGROMIG Network will be organized in Sibiu (Romania), on the 23th and 24th of April 2020, under the coordination of Alin Croitoru (ULBS), Monica Șerban (ICCV) and Yoan Molinero (IEGD - CSIC).

04 Dic Attirer les « meilleurs » étudiants étrangers : genèse d’une politique sélective

La « stratégie d’attractivité pour les étudiants internationaux » présentée par Édouard Philippe le 19 novembre 2018 a suscité beaucoup de réactions dans les milieux universitaires et associatifs, à juste titre. Le premier ministre prétend « gagner la bataille de la concurrence internationale entre nos systèmes d’enseignement supérieur et de recherche » en augmentant fortement les frais de scolarité concernant les étudiants hors de l’Union européenne afin d’accueillir les « étudiants les plus brillants et les plus méritants ».

08 Nov Call for abstracts 21-23 March 2019, Agadir (Morocco) 6th International Seminar: Migrations, Agriculture, Food and Sustainable Development: Africa and Europe (and beyond) facing the new challenges of globalization

After the seminars organised in Bergamo (2013), Murcia (2014), Athens (2015), Madrid (2017) and Marseille (2018), the 6th international seminar will be organised in Agadir from the 21st to the 23rd March 2019 by the Laboratory on Migrations, Spaces, Cultures and Societies of Southern Morocco in partnership with the Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences of Agadir from Ibn Zohr University, the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), LabexMed (Marseille/France) and the Association of Researchers in Migrations and Development (ACM - Agadir /Morocco).

30 Ago Germany looks to foreign workers to tackle labour shortage

Hiring skilled labourers from outside the EU is politically fraught. Herbert Striebich runs a freight company near Rastatt, south-west Germany, that suffers from an increasingly common problem: too much work and not enough workers. 

23 Ago Almost half a million Ukrainians visited Europe visa-free since June 2017

Almost half a million Ukrainian nationals have traveled towards Europe taking advantage of the visa-free deal of Ukraine with the EU, since June 11, 2017.