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L'Europe et ses autres : l'intégration des migrants dans la recherche et la politique
No full textAu milieu des débats houleux sur l'immigration et « l'intégration des migrants », l'Union européenne devient un acteur de plus en plus pertinent, où des ressources importantes sont affectées à la mise en œuvre de mesures d'intégration civique, ainsi qu'à la production de « preuves scientifiques » pour orienter les politiques. Simultanément, une recherche prolifique tente de comprendre, de mesurer et de comparer la mesure dans laquelle les immigrants sont « intégrés dans la société », souvent dans le but de rester « pertinents pour les politiques ». Cette étude rejoint d'autres travaux critiques qui attirent l'attention sur la manière dont l'« intégration » est débattue, légiférée, conceptualisée, contrôlée, évaluée et finalement normalisée en tant que mode de gouvernance. Située aux interstices des études sur la migration, des études européennes et des études sociales de la science, la thèse examine le rôle de a) la recherche scientifique, b) de la politique de l'UE et c) des infrastructures du savoir aux interstices de la recherche et de la politique dans l'élaboration du paradigme de "l'intégration des immigrés" en Europe. Intéressée principalement par l'intégrationnisme en tant que technique de pouvoir, j'adopte une approche décoloniale et généalogique qui situe les discours intégrationnistes dans des systèmes hiérarchiques plus larges et croisés. L'argument principal est que la politique de la recherche sur l'intégration et les arguments scientifiques dans la politique « fondée sur des preuves » se croisent pour produire « l'intégration des migrants » comme paradigme hégémonique dans la gouvernance de la diversité liée à la migration en Europe. À travers l'analyse du discours de publications de recherche, de documents politiques, de déclarations dans les médias, ainsi qu'une ethnographie virtuelle de la « science-for-policy » communauté de l'UE, j'examine : comment l'intégration en vient à être considérée à la fois comme un problème politique et un objet de fascination scientifique ; comment l'intégration est-elle réglementée au niveau supranational et par la collaboration science-politique ; et quels sont les effets de pouvoir de l'intégrationnisme, en tant que rationalité de la gouvernance, sur ses sujets cibles. En fin de compte, je soutiens que les pratiques de régulation, de gouvernance, de mesure, de théorisation et de contrôle de l'intégration des immigrés sont façonnées par des relations de pouvoir liées à la préservation de la subjectivité libérale européenne face aux changements démographiques, sociaux, politiques et environnementaux rapides.Amidst heated debates on immigration and “migrant integration”, the European Union becomes an increasingly relevant actor, where important resources are earmarked for the implementation of civic integration measures, as well as for producing “scientific evidence” to guide policy. Simultaneously, a prolific scholarship attempts to understand, measure and compare how and whether immigrants are “integrated into society”, often in the effort to remain “policy-relevant”. This study joins other critical works that draw attention to the ways “integration” is debated, legislated, conceptualized, monitored, evaluated, and ultimately, normalized as a mode of governance. Situated at the interstices of migration studies, European studies, and the social studies of science, the dissertation examines the role of scientific research, EU policy, and research-policy knowledge infrastructures in shaping the “immigrant integration” paradigm in Europe. Interested primarily in integrationism as a technique of power, I take a decolonial and genealogical approach that situates integrationist discourses within wider and intersecting systems of hierarchy. The main argument is that the politics of integration research and the scientific claims in “evidence-based” policy intersect to produce “migrant integration” as the hegemonic paradigm in governing migration-related diversity in Europe. Through discourse analysis of research publications, policy documents, media statements, as well as a virtual ethnography of the EU’s science-for-policy community, I examine how integration comes to be seen simultaneously as a political problem and an object of scientific fascination, how is integration regulated at supranational level and through science-policy collaboration, and what are the power effects of integrationism, as a rationality of governance, on its target subjects. Ultimately, I argue, the practices of regulating, governing, measuring, theorizing and monitoring the integration of immigrants are shaped by power relations linked to the preservation of European liberal subjecthood against rapid demographic, social, political, and environmental shifts
Europe and its Others: Migrant Integration in Research and Policy
No full textEuropean Joint Doctorate "Migration and Modernity: Historical and Cultural Challenges" (MOVES) Univerzita Karlova and Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 DISSERTATION Europe and its Others: Migrant Integration in Research and Policy Iva Dodevska, M.A. ABSTRACT Amidst heated debates on immigration and "migrant integration", the European Union becomes an increasingly relevant actor, where important resources are earmarked for the implementation of civic integration measures, as well as for producing "scientific evidence" to guide policy. Simultaneously, a prolific scholarship attempts to understand, measure and compare how and whether immigrants are "integrated into society", often in the effort to remain "policy-relevant". This study joins other critical works that draw attention to the ways "integration" is debated, legislated, conceptualized, monitored, evaluated, and ultimately, normalized as a mode of governance. Situated at the interstices of migration studies, European studies, and the social studies of science, the dissertation examines the role of scientific research, EU policy, and research-policy knowledge infrastructures in shaping the "immigrant integration" paradigm in Europe. Interested primarily in integrationism as a technique of power, I take a decolonial and genealogical approach that..
Europe and its Others
Get PDFThis open access book joins other critical works that draw attention to the ways integration is debated, legislated, conceptualized, monitored, evaluated, and ultimately, normalized as a mode of governance. Situated at the interstices of migration studies, European studies, and the social studies of science, the book examines the role of social scientific research, EU policy, and research-policy collaboration in shaping the ‘migrant integration’ paradigm in Europe. Amidst heated debates on immigration and ‘migrant integration’, the European Union becomes an increasingly relevant actor, where important resources are earmarked for the implementation of civic integration measures, as well as for producing ‘evidence’ to guide policy. Simultaneously, a prolific scholarship attempts to understand, measure and compare how and whether immigrants are ‘integrated into society’, often in the effort to remain ‘policy-relevant’. Interested primarily in integrationism as a technique of power, the book takes a decolonial and genealogical approach to understand how integrationist discourses that are produced at these two sites – research and EU policy – are situated within wider and intersecting systems of hierarchy. The main argument is that the politics of integration research and the scientific claims in ‘evidence-based’ policy intersect to produce ‘integration’ as the hegemonic paradigm in governing migration-related diversity in Europe. Through discourse analysis of research publications, policy documents, media statements, as well as an analysis of the EU’s science-for-policy community, the book examines how integration comes to be seen simultaneously as a political problem and an object of scientific fascination; how integration is regulated at supranational (EU) level and through science-policy collaboration, and what are the effects of integrationism, as a rationality of governance, on its target subjects. Ultimately, the book shows that the practices of regulating, governing, measuring, theorizing and monitoring the integration of immigrants are shaped by power dynamics linked to the preservation of European liberal subjecthood against rapid demographic, social, political, and environmental shifts
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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