XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology (July 15-21, 2018)

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Social Inclusion in a Context of Global Migration

RC31 Sociology of Migration (host committee)
TG03 Human Rights and Global Justice

Language: French and English

This session will examine social inclusion in a larger context of global international migration.  With over 244 million international migrants in 2015, we have seen a 41 percent increase in the number of international migrants over the last 15 years.  Focusing on ‘migratory status,’ the United Nations views international migrants and refugees as ‘vulnerable’ and has resolved to treat their social inclusion as a human right and an explicit point of analysis within the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Agenda. This session seeks to include research that will profile involuntary exclusion from society’s political, economic, and social processes, and it will provide a venue to examine social inclusion as a human right for international migrants and those of immigrant descent.  Social inclusion and exclusion measures are written into policy, and they play themselves out in the social experiences and structural realities of international migrants as well as those who oppose them in the majority population of receiving countries.  This session seeks papers that explore civic engagement, socio-economic and cultural incorporation, and the relative openness of attitudes toward international migrants from three vantage points: 1) the majority population, 2) the foreign-born and/or immigrant descent population and 3) public policies that shape immigrant integration.  This session also seeks empirical findings from papers that have policy implications for nation states, international human rights agreements, and the UN SDG 2030 Agenda as tools to promote social inclusion.