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Undocumented workers’ transitions, by Sonia McKay, Eugenia Markova and Anna Paraskevopoulou has recently been published by Routledge. The book draws from the Framework Six funded project, Undocumented workers’ transitions, which WLRI worked on between 2007 and 2009.
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The Gower Handbook of Discrimination at Work, edited by WLRI researcher Tessa Wright and Hazel Conley from Queen Mary, University of London, is published this month.
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The first Global health and migration summer school will take place in July 2011 with a first week’s teaching held in Bologna and a second in Venice.
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ACAS, the conciliation and advisory service, has commissioned WLRI researcher Sonia McKay to prepare a paper on
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The first European workshop of the Media for Diversity and Migrant Integration project (MEDIVA) took place in Florence on 12 and 13 May 2011.
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MEDIVA (Media for Diversity and Migrant Integration: Consolidating Knowledge and Assessing Media Practices across the EU) is an 18-month research project funded by the European Commission Integration Fund, Community Actions 2009.
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A new book from Dr Sian Moore of London Metropolitan University’s Working Lives Research Institute tells how a new generation of activists is emerging, motivated by gender, race and ethnicity.
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The European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism Trade Unions has commissioned WLRI to carry out research on precarious work in the sectors covered by the union.
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The final seminar on the ESRC funded series, which has been running since 2009, will be hosted by WLRI and held in London on 15 July 2011.
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Sonia McKay will be giving her inaugural lecture on 11 May 2011 at the Graduate Centre, Holloway Road. To book a place, please contact: workinglives@londonmet.ac.uk
In May 2011, as part of its sociology series, Routledge will be publishing 'Undocumented Workers Transitions - Legal Status, Migration and Work in Europe', a book by Sonia McKay, Eugenia Markova and Anna Paraskevopoulou.
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In partnership with universities in Italy, Greece, Germany, Bulgaria, Spain and Turkey, WLRI has successfully won ERASMUS funding for a Summer School on Global Health and Migration which will take place in July 2011.
The WLRI is the UK partner in a new five-country year-long project starting in January 2011 that is led by the French National Agency for Improving Working Conditions (ANACT) to investigate the 'social regulation between contractors and subcontractors in the industrial sector during restructuring'.
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