Tag: migration

• May 12, 2018

  “City, Street and Citizen The Measure of the Ordinary” by Suzanne Hall

  How can we learn from a multicultural society if we don’t know how to recognise it? The contemporary city is more than ever a space for the intense convergence of diverse individuals who shift in and out of its urban terrains. The city street is perhaps the most prosaic of the city’s public parts, allowing…

• September 30, 2014

  The academic positions I’ll apply for…some day

  PROFESSOR (W2) OF SOCIOLOGY /URBAN AND REGIONAL STUDIES The Ruhr-Universität Bochum – faculty of Social Sciences invites applications for the position of a Professor (W2) of Sociology /  (successor Prof. Strohmeier) starting the earliest possible date.  The Chair represents urban and regional studies from a broad spectrum. Applicants are required to have their main emphasis…

• April 1, 2014

  The Fraga Family: example of visual data and ethnography based research project

    ABOUT THE PROJECT When I got to New York, I briefly documented the lives of many Galician families there. At the same the time I was looking for a project to document more widely during the year. I photographed life in the Bronx, street parties, the subway, and it was not until I visited…

• February 11, 2014

  Example of explanatory research by mean secondary data

  A referendum to limit migration from European Union countries took place on 10th February of 2014 in Switzerland. In the score of such event, Alexandre Afonso (2014) and Paul Haydon (2014) did a simple analysis of correlation between the share of migrants population per canton and the share of yes to anti-immigration initiative, based on the results…