Diaspora, Migration and the Media: Useful Links

Here you will find a list of useful links particularly relevant for young scholars like websites, research, funding, courses, trainnee programmes etc. all addressing the field of Diaspora, Migration and the Media. Please do not hesitate to contact me for inquiries!

SUMMERSCHOOLS
http://www.soziologie.uni-freiburg.de/Personen/kruse/
Summer school and methodology training for german-speaking
young scholars: practical introductions in qualitative research methods given
by Dr. Jan Kruse.

LINKS
http://www.olmcm.org/
Online/More Colour in the Media (OLMCM) is a european network of
minority organizations and multicultural NGO’s, local and national broadcast
media, training institutes and media education organizations, aiming to improve
the representation of ethnic minorities in the media.
Although not very up to date, the Website offers useful information about EU-funded projects but also research papers and relevant links
to partner organisations.

http://www.mira-media.nl/index.asp
The dutch NGO has a wide influence in empowerment of migrant
media producers and gives an example of an actor on european multicultural
public spheres and media landscapes.

http://www.transcomm.ox.ac.uk/research.htm
The Website of the britain based Transcomm project offers a
wide variety of links, publications and summaries relevant to the subject of
Diaspora, Migration and the Media. Especially the working papers are a very useful source of information: http://www.transcomm.ox.ac.uk/working_papers.htm

http://www.integration-in-deutschland.de/SubSites/Integration/EN/00__Home/home-node.html?__nnn=true
The German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees offers
a Newsletter and recent news and research about immigration acts and
integration

http://www.cestim.it/08media.htm
Dottoressa Anna Marchi has collected links to european key
research in Diaspora, Migration and the Media in italian and english language.

ONLINE REPORTS AND PUBLICATIONS
http://www.olmcm.org/dbData/Resources/More_Colour_in_the_Media.pdf
"More Colour in the Media - Employment and access of ethnic
minorities to the television industry in Germany, the UK, France, the
Netherlands and Finnland", 1999
Not up to date but a still relevant summary of (non)-access to TV in european contries. Full report available.

http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/EMTEL/reports/georgiou_2003_emtel.pdf
Dr. Myria Georgiou: Mapping Diasporic Media across the EU
http://www.ida-nrw.de/html/Re-Praesentationen.pdf
Anne Broden and Paul Mecheril (Ed.): Re-Präsentationen.
Dynamiken der Migrationsgesellschaft. (A German/English Reader)

DIRECTORIES

The Islam Research Directory offers various frames to search
for relevant scholars, experts, institutions, documentation centres etc. active
in various focal points worldwide, such as Anthropology or Media and
Communications Studies in relation to Islam and Muslims.
http://www.islamresearchdirectory.org/en/

FUNDING
www.promovieren.gew.de http://www.wissenschaft.gew.de/PostDocs.html

http://www.kisswin.de/?camp=promotion.newsletter.zeit.de.luf.2008-11-06
This online-platform has been implemented by the German
Federal Office for Education and Research and offers post-graduates useful
links for funding opportunities and foundations and further information about
planning a career path in research and teaching.

http://www.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/content.php?nav_id=195&language=en
The Gerda Henkel Foundation offers a „Special Programme Islam, the modern nation
state and transnational movements“ and supports
research projects under the following five headings: 1. Historical and present day Islamic systems of
society and state 2. The concept of nation, national movements and
nationalism in Islamic civilisation 3. Islamic fundamentalism or Islamic emancipation? 4. Civil society movements in the Islamic world 5. Islamic states in the international world system