LASA Section on International Migrations

Dear colleagues,

We are very happy to invite you to be part of the new LASA Section on 

International Migrations. We will have our first Business Meeting in LASA 

Congress in Washington D.C. and we hope to see many of you there.

Our LASA Section on International Migrations promotes networking and
dialogue related to academic work and debates on immigration from, to and
within Latin America and the Caribbean among researchers, professors,
students, and activists. We are already looking into 2014 where we are
planning a pre-conference and, awards for scholarly work among its
members.

Our section’s life and success depends on our members and their ideas,
initiatives and research. For those of you working on the topic of
migration broadly defined, we invite you to register to our International
Migrations Section as you register for the upcoming LASA Conference.

We kindly ask you as well to share these news with your colleagues.

We look forward to hearing back from you with any questions or comments
and hopefully meeting many of you in Washington D.C. for a fruitful
dialogue.

Best regards,

Sara Poggio at poggio@umbc.edu
Maria Amelia Viteri at maviteri@flacso.org.ec
Alice Colon at colonal@coqui.net

LASA 2013 is getting closer! 

There is still time to present in a panel... keep reading 

Our section is formally sponsoring one panel, and has helped to organize another two:

Re-conceptualizing and measuring decentralization (sponsored panel)
Thu, May 30 - 8:30am - 10:15am

Public policy design and implementation in multilevel systems
Thu, May 30 - 1:00pm - 2:45pm

Consequences of electoral strategies and coalitions in federal countries

Thu, May 30 - 5:00pm - 6:45pm

We still have a few spots available, due to cancellations. Please contact the section officers Laura Flamand (laura.flamand at gmail.com) or Lorena Moscovich (lorenamoscovich at gmail.com) by Monday, March 18th at the latest if you are interested in joining any of the panels.

We will consider the submitted papers under a "first come, first served" rule. Recall that LASA policy indicates that you can only present one paper at the conference, and that you should renew your membership by March 29th.

Decentralization and Sub-national Governance Section, Business meeting

LASA 2013

Please mark your calendars for Thu, May 30 - 7:00pm - 8:45pm

LASA Mellon Seminar Fund

We are glad to announce that a research project co-organized by Lorena Moscovich (Universidad de Buenos Aires) and Richard Snyder (Brown University) has been awarded the LASA Mellon seminar fund. 

Moscovich, co chair of the section, and Snyder coordinate the research initiative “Federalism and Inequality in the Global South”. Their goal is to bring together senior and promising young social scientists from Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, India, Nigeria and South Africa to present papers exploring the relationship between political institutions, especially federalism, and socioeconomic inequality. Other members of the section such as Laura Flamand, co-chair, Gabriel Cepaluni, Mariana Prats and Natalia Del Coglinano are also involved in the project.

The LASA/Mellon fund is thus sponsoring an international conference at Brown University and the publication of a book drawing on a cross-country set of the papers presented at the conference. The conference will be held at the Watson Institute at Brown University on May 22 and 23, 2013. Participants will also present their research at the 2013 LASA Congress in Washington, D.C, in a special panel sponsored by LASA-Mellon.

APPLY NOW: EURAC Federal Scholar in Residence Programme 2014

The EURAC-Institute for Studies on Federalism and Regionalism now accepts applications for becoming EURAC’s Federal Scholar 2014!

To be considered eligible, applicants must hand in an unpublished manuscript in either English, Italian, German, French or Spanish by 1st July 2013. 
More info below or at www.eurac.edu/federalscholar

Publius: The Journal of Federalism 

Advance Access Alert 

20 February 2013 to 13 March 2013

http://publius.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/recent?papetoc

Conference Meeting and Officers for 2012-2013

The DSNG section had a successful LASA 2012 in San Francisco, having sponsored two panels and organized a third.  At the business meeting, the section elected Laura Flamand as the new section chair. Laura will be assisted by Lorena Moscovich and outgoing officers Julian Durazo Herrmann and Tyler Dickovick.

Also at the meeting, it was announced that Imke Harbers had earned the section's best paper award for the previous LASA conference, for her paper entitled "Public Funding and the Dynamics of Electoral Competition in Mexican States".   

Our current section membership is at just over 50 members, which means the section is entitled to a single panel at LASA 2013.  Several current members, including those listed above, will be working to encourage new and former members to register.  A total of more than 75 members results in a section having two sponsored panels at the (now annual) LASA conference.  

Members can reach the section by contacting Laura directly (see webpage at left) or by writing to lasa.dsng@gmail.com.  Many thanks for your continued interest and participation.