News and announcements
April 5, 2010
2010 Census: Despite the fact of having much to gain from participating to this census, Texans have a low participation rate to this census:
Low participation rates are recorded for counties close to the state's Western border (such as Zapata county, 18%, 04/05/2010).
There is a strong correlation between counties' participation rates to 2000 census and 2010 census (r =0.72).
Counties with higher electoral vote participation rate tend to have also higher 2010 census participation (r=0.37).
2010 census data are expected to show a significant increase for Texas population, due to international and internal migration as well as natural growth.
A large population growth leads to higher access to federal funding as well as more political power for the state.
November, 2009
Call for papers: "Whatever Happened to Hajnal's Line. 'East-European' Family Patterns, Historical Context and New Developments"
A special issue of THE JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE FAMILY STUDIES
http://soci.ucalgary.ca/jcfs/
Guest editor: Cristina Bradatan (Texas Tech University).
For more information, click here:
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171425
October, 2009
Call for Abstracts: European Population Conference 2010
The European Association for Population Studies invites contributions to the European Population Conference to be held in Vienna, 1-4 September 2010. The EPC 2010 is a general scientific conference where the theme Population and Environment will receive special attention.
The deadline for the submission of an abstract is December 31, 2009. Abstracts can only be submitted at the Conference website http://epc2010.princeton.edu/. Submissions should be made to one of the conference topics which will be developed into a series of sessions by the Convener.
At the EPC 2010 only one submission as a first author is allowed; participants may however co-author other papers/presentations. Submissions may take the form of an abstract although full papers are preferred. Authors will be informed about acceptance of their paper by March 2010.
For more information visit the website: http://epc2010.princeton.edu/
January, 2009
CfP: Special Issue of the Vienna Yearbook of Population Research: "Effects of migration on demographic change and population composition in Europe"
Vienna Institute of Demography invites you to submit a paper to the Special Issue of the Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, “Effects of migration on demographic change and population composition in Europe” planned to be published in December 2009.
The deadline for submissions is 15 April 2009. Please send your paper and enquiries to populationyearbook@oeaw.ac.at .
All submissions will be subject to international peer review.
Submissions must be original, previously unpublished, manuscripts and meet the requirements of the Vienna Yearbook of Population Research Guidelines for Authors .
CfP: IUSSP Scientific Panel on the Integration of Migrants (2007-2009)
International workshop on The Policy Use of Quantitative and Qualitative Indicators of Integration.
Organized by the IUSSP Scientific Panel on the Integration of migrants and the Institut National d'Etudes Demographiques (INED).
Paris, France, 25-26 May 2009.
For more information click here: IUSSP Call for papers
December, 2008
The Most Up-to-Date Frequently Requested Statistics on Immigrants in the United States
Aaron Terrazas and Jeanne Batalova discuss some of the most frequently requested statisics on US immigrants:
US immigrants
May, 2008
Migration: Changes in the F1-OPT regulations
USCIS announced new OPT regulations. STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) foreign students are now eligible to receive a 17-month extension of post-completion OPT.
For more information click here:
OPT changes.
Data: European Social Survey
Edition 3 of the European Social Survey integrated file is now available from the ESS website.
Data: IPUMS-USA news
The newest IPUMS-USA data release includes improvements to most datasets, many new variables, and thirteen new samples of the Puerto Rican population from 1910-2006. Details on the new release are available via the main IPUMS webpage at
http://usa.ipums.org/usa.
April, 2008
Migration: Call for papers
Forced Migration Review 32 (due out January 2009)will include a feature on statelessness. The FMR Editors are looking for practice-oriented
submissions addressing a range of questions relating to statelessness. Full details are available at http://www.fmreview.org/statelessness.htm.
Deadline for submission of articles: 6 October 2008. Maximum length: 2,500 words.
Please email the FMR Editors at fmr@qeh.ox.ac.uk if you are interested in contributing or have suggestions of colleagues who may wish to.
Scholarships: Department of Homeland Security
DHS announced the availability of Homeland Security Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (HS-STEM) Career Development Grants.
The extended deadline is May 16th, 2008.Here is the annoucement: DHS grants