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08.10.2015 - 09.10.2015 | Essen

Conference: Measuring Ethnicity and Migration

International Conference at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen (KWI) on Classification and Statistical Representation of Ethnicity and Migration in Academic Research and Administration.

Diversity that counts is increasing in complexity. Official statistical categories are developed dynamically to capture and appropriately represent ethnic, religious, and language diversity. Ten years ago, the concept ‘persons with a migration background’ was introduced to official statistics in Germany. School administration additionally operates with the concept of ‘non-German language of origin’ for some time now, and in 2011, a question on religious beliefs was included in the German census of population, especially with a view to counting German Muslims.
Other countries like Canada, the Netherlands, or the United Kingdom also see dynamic changes and proliferation of their statistical classifications capturing ethnic, religious, and language diversity. National statistical practices show a confusing diversity of ways to count that poses enormous methodical challenges to systematic comparisons and to the merging of national datasets on a European and international level.
At this conference at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen (KWI), we want to explore and discuss official and academic practices of statistical data collection and representations of migration and ethnicity. Official statistics offer an instructive description not only for administration and government, but also for producers of scientific knowledge who participate in the production and improvement of statistical representations or use them for their research.
We invite researchers from various disciplines in the social sciences and humanities to this meeting and aim for exchange and debate between methodologies (quantitative/qualitative). We explicitly welcome social statisticians from public administration, as well as agents from NGOs and civil society who may want to comment on the available data on migration and ethnicity and its classifications from the perspective of data users.

Concept and Organisation:
Linda Supik, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Essen
Norbert Cyrus, German Sociological Association’s section on Migration and Ethnic Minorities
Anja Weiß, Institute of Sociology, University Duisburg-Essen

Hinweise zur Teilnahme:
Conference languages will be English and German.

Participation is free but binding registration is required. There will be a limited number of seats for audience. Please register with your name and institution at maria.klauwer@kwi-nrw.de by Friday, September 18 the latest.

Dinner buffet on Thursday night and refreshments in between will be provided, participants should take care of their own accomodation and breakfast.

Termin:

08.10.2015 ab 13:00 - 09.10.2015 16:00

Anmeldeschluss:

18.09.2015

Veranstaltungsort:

Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen (KWI)
Gartensaal
Goethestraße 31
45128 Essen
Nordrhein-Westfalen
Deutschland

Zielgruppe:

Journalisten, Wissenschaftler

E-Mail-Adresse:

Relevanz:

international

Sachgebiete:

Gesellschaft, Kulturwissenschaften, Politik, Religion, Sprache / Literatur

Arten:

Konferenz / Symposion / (Jahres-)Tagung, Seminar / Workshop / Diskussion

Eintrag:

05.08.2015

Absender:

Helena Rose

Abteilung:

Pressestelle

Veranstaltung ist kostenlos:

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Textsprache:

Englisch

URL dieser Veranstaltung: http://idw-online.de/de/event51569

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