SSIIM - Urban Policies And Practices - Unesco Chair

NEWS

• VISITING SCHOLARS - LECTURES
  

  SSIIM Unesco Chair, in collaboration with Iuav PhD School presents the lecture:
  NEW URBAN FRONTIERS
  Periurbanization and (Re)territorialization in Southeast Asia
  By Prof. Michael Leaf
  School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP)
  University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada

  Wednesday 26 of May 2010 - 3.00 pm
  aula Consiglio, Ca’ Tron
  Santa Croce 1957
  30125 Venezia
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• SSIIM Paper Series Vol.4
  

  SSIIM Unesco Chair published the forth volume of SSIIM Paper Series “Contribuciones para una teoría de la segregación residencial y los mercados étnicos de los inmigrantes en ciudades de América Latina“, by Tito Alegría.
  In the last decades many cities in Latin America have received a growing number of international migrants, mostly from neighboring countries. Inside [...]

  
  
• SSIIM Paper Series Vol.3
  

  SSIIM Unesco Chair published the third volume of SSIIM Paper Series “Practice of citizenship, practice of resistance: Mozambicans in Johannesburg, South Africa“, by Elena Ostanel.
  With the end of the apartheid regime and despite the strict immigration policies introduced since 1994, the number of foreign workers in Johannesburg, South Africa, has increased significantly up to approximately [...]

  
  
• SSIIM at WUF5
  

  SSIIM Unesco Chair contributes to the 5th World Urban Forum within the framework of
  Dialogue 1: Taking Forward the Right to the City
  Tuesday, 23 March 2010
  Room: W4-1
  09:00 - 18:30

  
  
• SSIIM Paper Series Vol.2
  

  SSIIM Unesco Chair published the second volume of SSIIM Paper Series “Conexiones translocales y formación de territorios migratorios. El caso de los cochabambinos de Bérgamo“, by Dr. Mirko Marzadro.
   
   
  This paper focuses on the trans-local migration processes from Cochabamba (Bolivia) to Bergamo (Italy). It explores a deep rooted and complex international migration system which led to [...]