EVENTS
Migration and Global Change, Tallinn, Estonia, August 19-23, 1993.
Conference on the influence of the new immigration movements on states and societies, convened by the International Council on Communication and Migration in co-operation with the Estonian Academy of Sciences in Tallinn, Estonia. The main aim of the conference will be to follow up on developments since the 1988 conference held under UNESCO patronnage in Lausanne on "The Role of Information in the Realization of Human Rights of Migrant Workers".
For more information contact: Esta Ivalo, Conference Secretary, Estonian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Law, 7 Estonia blvd., Tallinn, Estonia, Tel: 3722 454139, Fax: 3722 446608.Control as Enterprise: East and West - XXIth annual conference of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control, Prague, August 29 - September 1, 1993.
The introduction of Western market economics into the East and the expansion of market principles to ever increasing areas of life in the West is generating an enterprise culture throughout Europe in economic, politic and social fields. A key example of this process is the marketing of Western crime control systems and ideologies by a growing number of experts who visit the East to advise on social problems and social policies. A number of these systems and ideologies are now being adopted in the East.
Initially, the enterprise culture was seen by the East as the way forward, but now there is increasing disillusionment as the range of social problems grows. Similarly, market principles are creating difficulties in the West. The problems, changes and uncertainties associated with the universalisation of the market are producing a crisis of identity for individuals and communities in both East and West. One outcome of this is the renewed interest in old identities in respect to citizenship, nationhood and ethnicity, identities which are having a strong impact on policy developments and social order, in particular, they are affecting migration policies, reinforcing social divisions and creating new groups of excluded people.
Some of the key themes of the Conference: Crime control as industry; Expert and sale of expertise; Regulation and deregulation; Transferring criminology; Destruction and reconstruction of identities; Controlled freedom and migration policies; The social production of moral indifference in control; Colonization of the mind; Bureaucratization of control and associated concepts of rationality and efficiency; Constructed loyalties and allegiances.
For more information contact: Karen Leander, Dept. of Criminology, Stockholm University, Fax: +46/8 7906869, Tel: +46/8 7906866 or 7835002.