LIMITS - Partners: Gächter, Maad, Lazaridis, Machado, Lindo, Najib, Salentin, Pötter

<body> <h1>August Gächter/ Scientific Coordinator</h1> <h2>Since 1991 research projects in the fields of integration, migration, work relations and development,</h2> <p>commissioned by the Austrian Science Fund, the Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture, the Chancellor's Office, the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin), the International Labour Office (ILO, Geneva), ISOP (Graz), Advisory Service for Migrants in Vienna, the Center for medical, legal and cultural assistance for foreigners in Austria (ZEBRA), the Vienna Institute for Development and Cooperation, the European Centre for Welfare and Social Research (Vienna), the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD, Vienna).</p> <p><b>University lectures on migration, integration, development theory, sociology of developing countries, world economy crisis in Africa, peasants' uprisings and preconditions of industrial development.</b> Numerous papers and panel discussions in public events, further training events and in colleges in Austria, the Czech Republic and Denmark. Research visits to the Netherlands, the UK, Ghana and the US.</p> <h1>Christa Maad/ Research Assistant</h1> <p>Since 1997 she works as sociologist at the Centre for Social Innovation (CSI), Vienna, area Equal Opportunities and Integration.</p> <h2>Her research focuses on the fields of Social integration, Gender issues, Generations; Labour market with focus on women and employment, Local Initiatives.</h2> <p>The projects cover research and application, they focus on awareness raising, implementation of basic research findings and policy advising. She carried out projects contracted by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin), several Austrian Federal Ministries and the European Commission.</p> <h2>Gabriella Lazaridis/ Senior Researcher</h2> <p>PhD in Sociology; Lecturer at the Department of Geography, University of Dundee. Research Fellow, Centre for Economic Research and Environmental Strategy (International Research Institute based in Athens, Greece). She has built (1995) and is currently the chairperson of and co-ordinates the European Sociological Association’s ‘<i>Regional Network on Southern European Societies</i>.</p> <p>She has set up and currently directs the <a class="text" href="http://www.dundee.ac.uk/politics/crespp_centre.htm" target="_blank">Centre for Research on European Societies, Politics and Policies (CRESPP)</a> – financed by and based in the Department of Politics, University of Dundee. A series of annual lectures open to the public have been launched in May 2000, the first speaker being Dave Martin, Senior Vice-President to the European Parliament. The annual lecture was accompanied by a series of seminars. Since November 2001, the centre has been reorganised as a faculty based interdisciplinary centre.<br>    </p> <h2>Fernando Machado/ Senior Researcher</h2> <p>PhD in Sociology, Professor of Sociology at the Departament of Sociology at ISCTE (Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa), a Universitary School of Social Sciences, Management and Technologies.</p> <p>Researcher at <a class="text" href="http://www.cies.iscte.pt/ingles/index.html" target="_blank">CIES (Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia)</a>, a Sociology Research Center associated with ISCTE.</p> <p>Main scientific area of research: Migration and Ethnicity</p> <h2>Flip Lindo/ Senior Researcher</h2> <p>Flip Lindo is anthropologist and a senior researcher, who wrote his PhD on the role of culture in the divergence in social mobility patterns between Turkish and Iberian migrants' children in the Netherlands. His current research focuses on Risky relations. The influence of community and neighbourhood on social deviant behaviour of young migrants is studied, with special attention to drug use and addiction. He has been involved in projects on ethnic mobilisation and local government and on "Volunteering and citizenship of immigrants" and on Dutch migrant policy in international comparative perspective.</p> <p><a class="text" href="http://www.pscw.uva.nl/imes/LINDO.HTM" target="_blank">Read more</a> about Flip Lindo and the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies at the University of Amsterdam!</p> <h2>Ali Najib/ Senior Researcher</h2> <p>M.Sc. and in 1986 Ph.D. in Economic Geography. He has worked as lecturer and senior researcher from 1992 to present. Research on international migration (socio-economic and environmental impacts on sending communities) and on ethnic entrepreneurship in Sweden from a variety of perspectives (economic, business, geographical, sociological) including aspects concerning societal well-being effects of those activities on immigrants and ethnic minority groups. His research has been influenced by sociology, ethnography, economics, management research, natural geography, and human geography, and in research collaborations he has worked with several colleagues with a background in these disciplines. </p> <p>Currently he is one of four editorial boards for the <i>Journal of Immigrants and Minorities</i>. He has served as anonymous referee and book reviewer for other journals such as the <i>Journal of Regional Sciences and Economic Geography</i> and Member of the European Council for Small Business (ECSB). Ali Najib is a member of the Executive Board of the Department of Social and Economic Geography, <a class="text" href="http://www.uu.se/" target="_blank">Uppsala University</a> (1992-to-present).<br> <h2>Kurt Salentin/ Senior Researcher</h2> <p>1983 - 1984 United Nations Volunteer in the Asia and Pacific Domestic Development Service of the United Nations Development Programme in Sri Lanka. Studies of sociology and economy at the University of Bielefeld. Diploma thesis on "Change of Labour in Rural Sri Lanka", PhD on "The social context of coping with economic hardship".<br> Research fellow in a number of projects at University of Bielefeld, <a class="text" href="http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/ikg/eng/index.html" target="_blank">Interdisciplinary Institute for Conflict- and Violence Research</a>, e.g.:</p> <ul> <li>Passages through Social Assistance (directed by Prof. H.-J. Andress)</li> <li>Coping strategies of low income households (directed by Prof. H.-J. Andress)</li> <li>Social Incorporation of Tamil Refugees in Germany (directed by Prof. Dr. Günter Albrecht)</li> <li>Ethnic Colony Formation (directed by Prof. Dr. Günter Albrecht)</li> </ul> <h2>Ulrich Pötter/ Senior Researcher</h2> <p>Doctor of Economics (Dr. rer. pol.), University of Frankfurt. </p> <p>1985 - 1990: Research Assistant, Special Research Unit 3 (Microanalytical Foundations of Social Policy, Universities of Frankfurt and Mannheim.</p> <p>1991 - 1996: Senior Researcher, Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development and Education, Berlin. </p> <p>1996 - 1997: Research Fellow, Department of Economics, University of Frankfurt.</p> <p>Since 1997 Research fellow at the Faculty for Social Science, <a class="text" target="_blank" href="http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/index_en.htm">University of Bochum.</a></p> <p>Ulrich Pötter has developed together with Prof. Rohwer the computer program <a class="text" href="http://steinhaus.stat.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/tda.html" target="_blank">TDA (Transition Data Analysis) </a>which is going to be used in the project.<br>   </p> </body>