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CONCESSION OF NEW PROJECT FINANCED BY THE MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND INNOVATION

December 19, 2011

The Ministry of Science and Innovation has awarded the researcher Pilar Garcia Almirall, funding for the project "Evaluation of urban policies for socio-spatial integration: challenges and opportunities for the social inclusion of the immigrant population", dated 2 December 2011 and the deadline for completion is 2012-2014

MONOGRAPHIC NAME OF THE ACE JOURNAL ON "IMMIGRATION, HOUSING AND CITY"

December 19, 2011

The last issue of ACE magazine is available on the web, where a special section of "Immigration, Housing and City" is dedicated, where Pilar García-Almirall and Blanca Gutiérrez Valdivia are the special editors and present topics related to migration and dynamics urban planning, mobility, public space and residential conditions. The index of the special section is as follows:

- "Attitudes and perceptions towards the foreign population in Euskadi:
An approach to the urban perspective "Arkaitz Fullaondo, Gorka Moreno

- "The intra-urban mobility of foreigners in Barcelona" Jordi Bayona

- "Urban and socio-economic dynamics in the old city" Cristina López, Anna Alabart

- "Urban regeneration projects in Barcelona against socio-spatial segregation (1986-2009): solution or myth?" Teresa Tapada-Berteli, Sonia Arbaci

- "Urban Regeneration and policies of" Social Mixing "in British cities: a critical assessment" Clara Colomb

- "Race, space and place: lessons from Sheffield" Judith Allen

- "Conflicts in the public space and construction of otherness: a comparison between neighborhoods in Milan and Barcelona" Roberta Marzorati

- "The public space of immigrants" Jesús Leal, María Soledad Leyva

- "Migration, public space and coexistence in the Metropolitan Region of Barcelona" Blanca Gutiérrez, Pilar García Almirall, Adriana Ciocoletto

The number can be found at this link

VI DAY RESEARCH AND IMMIGRATION

June 21, 2011

Sixth Research and Immigration Day -Barcelona, June 22, 2011

Place: Institut d'Estudis Catalans
Address: C. Carme, 47 - BARCELONA

Hours: 9:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Organize:
Directorate General for Immigration of the Department of Social Welfare and Family, the General Direction of Research of the Ministry of Universities and Research of the Department of Economy and Knowledge and the Institute of Catalan Studies