Active Civic Participation of Immigrants – Mapping the European Research Landscape
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Maltaprepared by Katia Amore The general lack of research in the field of immigration to Malta, immigrants’ civic participation and civic participation in general, is a clear indication that currently these issues are not the subject of research within national institutions. What follows is a list of institutions that could be useful links for further research on immigration in Malta. The University of Malta Malta has only one university, The University of Malta, and within this institution no research has been conducted in relation to immigrants in Malta or civic participation in general. An exception is represented by the dissertation of final year students on immigration related issues that we listed in the report. However, within the university two research centres might be of interest in the future: the Workers’ Development Centre and the Mediterranean Institute. The former was set up in 1981 and organize educational activities which support the development of participation in the workplace and society at large and research on labour relations and employee participation, locally and abroad. The latter includes research in geography, anthropology and history of Mediterranean civilizations. University of Malta Msida MSD 06 MALTA
Tel: (356) 21333903-6 Fax: (356) 21336450 Workers’ Development Centre Tel: (+356) 2340 2727 Fax: (+356) 21340251 Mediterranean Institute Tel: (+356) 2340 2430 Fax: (+356) 21 320 717 National Statistics Office The National Statistics Office is an excellent source of quantitative data on Maltese society. The material on immigration is still quite basic at this stage, but further research in the future could add interesting sources of information on the issue. Moreover, in 2005 a new National Census should take place and the findings could well reflect the general changes in the Maltese population brought by the increasing immigration flow of the past few years. Valletta - MALTA Telephone: (+356) 2122 3221-5 Fax: (+356) 2124 8483, (+356) 2124 9841 Email: nso@gov.mt Research Centre Voice of the Mediterranean The Research Centre houses a number of books, reviews and newspapers on migration, both Maltese and international, and focuses especially on issues related to Maltese emigrations. It is based at Dar l-Emigrant in Valletta and in order to obtain more information, or to get any published material, it is possible to contact Fr. Lawrence Attard at the following e-mail address: mecmalta@dream.vol.net.mt Netherlandsprepared by Jessika ter Wal Active civic participation of immigrantsThe research on active civic participation of immigrants in the Netherlands is concentrated at IMES. Other important research centres in the Netherlands mainly report what has been done by this group. Besides, there are several non-academic research or knowledge centres that play an important role in the accumulation of knowledge on this topic (positioned under heading 2). IMES (Institute of Migration and Ethnic Studies) University of Amsterdam University of Amsterdam, Social and Political Sciences Oudezijds Achterburgwal 237 1012 DL Amsterdam Tel +31-20-5253627 Fax +31-20-5253628 Web: http://www2.fmg.uva.nl/imes/ Director: Rinus Penninx Since 1993 professor of 'Migration and Ethnic Studies' at the University of Amsterdam, and director of IMES. Most of his present research work relates to two topics: migration and integration policies at the EU-level, and the functions immigrant organisations. Since April 1st 2004 Rinus Penninx is coordinator of the IMISCOE-Network of Excellence:International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion in Europe Relevant researchers:
One of the five research clusters at IMES is “Citizenship in multicultural societies”. In this cluster the focus is on the working of democracy in a multicultural society. This theme is primarily addressed by studying the political participation and the political trust of migrants in various European cities. The most important variables used to study participation and trust are the civic communities of migrants and the political opportunity structures at the city level. Civic communities are defined in terms of (inter)ethnic organisations that create horizontal and vertical ties among their members, the relation between these organisations and the group's identity that is embedded in this community structure. A strong migrant community is characterised by a high number of voluntary associations, by a high degree of membership of these associations and by many ties between these organisations. Such voluntary organisations do not need to be oriented towards the political system, but may well have their own goals. These network studies of ethnic communities are embedded in an international comparative project entitled 'Multicultural Policies and Modes of Citizenship' (MPMC), in which the practice of political participation in more than 15 European cities is compared. A second research topic is the study of mobilisation against migrants with special emphasis on the study of extreme right voting behaviour in Europe. One of the projects is related to an international project entitled Mobilisation on Ethnic Relations, Citizenship and Immigration (MERCI), which allows us to study ethnic mobilisation in a comparative perspective with Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. International Institute for Study of Islam in the Modern World P.O. Box 11089 2301 EB Leiden The Netherlands Tel:+ 31 71 5277905 Fax:+ 31 71 5277906 http://www.isim.nl Academic Director: Asef Bayat The International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) conducts and promotes interdisciplinary research on social, political, cultural, and intellectual trends and movements in contemporary Muslim societies and communities. The ISIM was established in 1998 by the University of Amsterdam, Leiden University, Utrecht University, and the Radboud University (Nijmegen) in response to a need for further research on contemporary developments of great social, political and cultural importance in the Muslim world from social science and humanities perspectives. The ISIM's research approaches are expressly interdisciplinary and comparative, covering a large geographic range, which includes North Africa, the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia, South and Southeast Asia, and Muslim communities in the West. Broad in scope, the ISIM brings together all areas of disciplinary expertise in anthropology, sociology, religious studies, political science, and cultural studies. Expertise centres on multicultural society and civic participation E-Quality Postbus 85808 2508 CM Den Haag Tel.: +31-70-3659777 Fax: +31-70-3469047 Web: http://www.e-quality.nl E-Quality is an independent knowledge and expertise centre for female emancipation in a multicultural society, subsidised by the Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment. E-Quality supports the process of gender mainstreaming, and its activities focus on providing information and expertise about (intersectional aspects of) emancipation and mainstreaming to policy makers at various levels. The expertise that has been developed is characterised by analysis based on gender and ethnicity: How does a policy affect women and men from different ethnicities? Director: Joan Ferrier Instituut FORUM voor Multiculturele Ontwikkeling Postbus 201 3500 AE Utrecht Tel.: +31-30-2974321 Fax: +31-30-2960050 Web: http://www.forum.nl/engels/index.html FORUM, the Institute of Multicultural Development, is a national centre of expertise in the field of multicultural development. FORUM stands for a society in which people from various communities live together as fully recognized citizens. To help realize this objective, FORUM receives subsidies from the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport. FORUM is active in diverse fields, including communication, legislation, housing, employment, education, health care, leisure time, sport, political participation, art and culture. Director: Sadik Harchaoui Important individual researchers in the field of civic participation of immigrants Nico Landman (Utrecht University) studied the evolution of mosque and mosque communities in the Netherlands; Thijl Sunier (Free University of Amsterdam, anthropologist) studied Turkish youth and Muslim organizations in Rotterdam; Kadir Canatan (Islamic University of Rotterdam) studied shifts in religious leadership among Turkish Muslims in the Netherlands; W. Shadid is professor in intercultural communication at Tilburg University, and has published, among other things, on the representation of Islam in the Dutch public debate, together with P.S. van Koningsveld.
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