On Wednesday 4 March at 12:00 noon, the Secretary of State for Immigration and Expatriate Affairs, Consuelo Rumí, the Secretary-General of the Ortega y Gasset Foundation, Jesús Sánchez Lambas, the Director of the CIDOB Foundation, Jordi Vaquer and the professors Eliseo Aja, Joaquín Arango and Josep Oliver, all of whom are editors of the publication, will be presenting the yearbook: Immigration at the crossroads. Immigration in Spain Yearbook, 2008 edition.

On 10 February, parliamentary elections were held in Israel, an event that was marked by the effects of this winter's Israeli offensive in Gaza. The results leave the country's political future very open, and it is highly likely that they will have an impact on the peace process in the Middle East. In this workshop we will be analysing not only the actual results, but also the factors that have marked the electoral campaign, and the election's impact on relations with other international actors (USA, EU) and on Israel's role in the Middle East.

Foro de Jóvenes Investigadores en Dinámicas Interculturales

Avance de Tesina

La cultura (en sus diferentes acepciones) ha venido adquiriendo un rol tan complejo como fundamental en el desarrollo y organización de la sociedad. Así, las políticas públicas en ese campo también han cobrado una creciente importancia. Sin embargo, en muchas ocasiones no han podido o sabido responder a los dilemas, frecuentemente irreconciliables, que ese nuevo orden plantea. En este contexto, el análisis de políticas públicas culturales, descuidado en gran parte por la ciencia política, permite generar conocimiento sobre los procesos de construcción identitaria y el desarrollo de modelos de gobernanza.

Presentation and discussion of the research study “Europe-Latin America: approaches of social movements since the 1970s”, chaired by Camille Goinard, from l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques (IEP) of Lille, France.

The workshop’s content is the presentation and discussion of the investigation The Same but Different? Co-development politics and policy in France, Spain, Germany and the institutions of the European Union from a comparative perspective, conducted by Stefan Moehl, undergraduate Student of Sociology at the Bielefeld University (Germany) and current Intern at the CIDOB Foundation, Migration Programme.

Presentation and debate of the research study The representation of women in four national parliaments. The cases of Mexico, Chile, Argentina and Uruguay. Presentation chaired by Antonia Martínez, Lecturer at the University of Murcia and Director of the Mexico Study Centre at the Ortega y Gasset Foundation.

The questioning of the principle of equality in the dispute over the inherent power of the pluralism and ethnocultural neutrality of the Liberal State, the development of feminist studies and the importance of multiculturalist approaches, with their arguments in favour of recognising collective rights for social groups with specific characteristics, all mean that this issue has become a central theme in debates on the quality of political representation.

25-27 March 2009

The project has as an overall objective to facilitate a process whereby key public decision-makers in the Mediterranean region are able to motivate action to advance and protect peace and the environment at the same time.