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Dear colleagues,

We would like to invite you to submit your paper to our track at EURAM 2011 to be held in Tallinn, Estonia 1^st-4^th June 2011.

Deadline for online submission of papers to EURAM is 17^th January 2011 (2:00 pm Brussels time).

For more details regarding the conference and submission you can check the EURAM conference website:

http://www.euram2011.org/r/default.asp?iId=EJKMHG

Happy festive season and best wishes.

TRACK 12: Migration, equality, and diversity: understanding migrants' cultures and gender in organisations

Track Chairs:

Abstract:

The aim of this track is to advance knowledge on migration in the context of management and organisation studies. We welcome papers on migration, equality and diversity in the context of migration from all areas of the world. We are particularly interested in understanding migrants' culture and gender in organisations. Migrants' international mobility could be undertaken on temporarily or permanent basis. Migrants could be skilled or unskilled. We encourage contributions from scholars from a broad range of disciplines: organisation studies, management, human resource management, psychology, gender studies, sociology, and economics. We welcome studies of single countries and/or comparative research. Papers could focus on micro-individual and/or meso-organizational, and/or macro-contextual levels of analysis.

Management studies have focused on the problems that migrants face in the context of host countries' organisations such as discrimination and barriers to their career development. Regardless of this attention, understanding migrants' culture and gender in the context of organisations remains under-researched in management studies. For example, we know little about the strategies that migrants use by leveraging their cultures and gender in managing their careers and confronting the experiences they encounter. Furthermore, the role that organisations and government institutions play in the valuing and mediating the influence of migrants' culture and gender remains largely unexplored. Culture could represent values, beliefs, strategies, goals, norms, traditions, behaviours, and philosophies (non-exhaustive meanings) that may be useful for migrants, organisations, and countries in order to achieve successful and sustainable development. This call for papers seeks submissions which investigate this under-developed area.

Papers are invited which focus on empirical, conceptual and/or practical contributions. We encourage papers to bring a special attention to the role of history and national as well as international contexts in influencing the experiences of migrants.

Keywords: Migration, Culture, Gender

Track co-chairs:

Dr Akram Al Ariss

Assistant Professor of International Human Resource Management

Champagne School of Management (ESC Troyes), France

Dr Luisa De Vita,

Research Fellow in Sociology of Labour and Organisations

Faculty of Sociology, University of Rome "Sapienza", Italy

Dr Cynthia Forson,

Principal Lecturer in Human Resource Management,

Business School, University of Hertfordshire, UK

Dr Gözde İnal,

Lecturer in Business Management

Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences,

Department of Business

Professor Mustafa F. Özbilgin, Chair in Human Resource Management,

Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia (UEA), UK

Organisational Coordinator:

Dr Cynthia Forson,

Principal Lecturer in Human Resource Management,

Business School, University of Hertfordshire, UK

Telephone: +441707285780

c.a.forson@herts.ac.uk

Akram Al Ariss, PhD

Head of the HRM Department

Tél.: +33 (0)3.25.71.22.66

Fax: +33(0)3.25.49.22.17

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Groupe ESC Troyes

217, avenue Pierre Brossolette - BP 710

10002 TROYES Cedex

France

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