From: RPlatkin@aol.com Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 03:05:56 -0400 To: revs@csf.colorado.edu, PSN@csf.colorado.edu Light@soc.sscnet.ucla.edu, JC007SXXI@aol.com, preich@law.whittier.edu, RSSO314@uvm.haifa.ac.il, ida@cats.ucsc.edu, Ct20001@aol.com Subject: Resource for Ethnic Studies (Forward) Subject: NEW URL and greatly expanded WWW V-lib Migration and Ethnic Relations! From: ajkosten@xs4all.nl (Arthur Kosten) Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 17:15:30 GMT To all of you interested in migration and ethnic relations, ERCOMER - the European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations has always been very keen on developing the principle of networking as a major way of collecting and distributing information. The MERGER Newsletter is one of our networking tools. Before the next issue of MERGER will be published, we want to inform you of another major networking initiative that you might be interested in: our World Wide Web Virtual Library on Migration and Ethnic Relations. This Virtual Library is built to enable easy access to major Internet resources in the field. It can be thought of as a catalogue of Internet resources on migration and ethnic relations. In order to catch up with the spectaculair growth of the Internet, a new and greatly expanded version of the WWW Virtual Library Migration and Ethnic Relations has been made available now. In addition to the existing list of resources, a number of seperate documents are offered that provide detailed descriptions of major online resources in the Virtual Library. At the moment, the Virtual Library provides access to over 180 online resources on Migration and Ethnic Relations. In addition, an Interactive Migration and Ethnic Relations Information Board is available on which information requests and announcements can be posted. As the Virtual Library receives more than 1000 visitors each week, messages on the Interactive Information Board are sure to catch the eye of a large, targeted and mostly professional audience. Future additions that are planned include: an index to online resources classified by subject; searching the virtual library by keyword; a mailinglist announcing new sites that have been included in the virtual library; and much more. The New URL is: http://www.ruu.nl/ercomer/wwwvl/index.html The old URL will continue to exist as a complete but concise list of resources at URL: http://www.ruu.nl/ercomer/wwwvl/wwwvlmer.html A What's New list with recently added resources is included at URL: http://www.ruu.nl/ercomer/wwwvl/new/index.html Please visit the WWW Virtual Library and bookmark it for future reference. You are encouraged to send your feedback by e-mail to ajkosten@fsw.ruu.nl, or to the Interactive Information Board in the Virtual Library. New additions in the Virtual Library this month: Research Centers * SSIRC - Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center (Augustana College, Rock Island, IL, USA) * William Monroe Trotter Institute (University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA) Academic Departments and Courses * American Ethnic Studies (Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA) Journals and Newsletters * IRL - International Refugee Law (Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK) * RSQ - Refugee Survey Quarterly (Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK) * Rural Migration News (Philip Martin, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of California, Davis California, USA) Conferences and Meetings * World Conference on Remedies to Racial and Ethnic Inequality, Minneapolis, USA, May 16 - 19, 1996 (The Roy Wilkins Center for Human Relations and Social Justice Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, USA) Government and International Bodies * US Department of Justice - Immigration And Naturalization Service (US Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, USA.) Topical Information * Integrating the East: The Labor Market Effects of Immigration (Paper by Bauer, T. and K.F. Zimmermann, CEPR Discussion Paper Series, No. 1235) * Ethnic Mosaic of the Quad Cities (Augustana College Library, Rock Island, IL, USA.) * Network Migration of Ethnic Germans (Paper by Bauer, T. and K.F. Zimmermann published in Muenchener Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Beitraege, No. 95-16) * The Migration Decision with Uncertain Costs (Paper by Bauer, T. published in Muenchener Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Beitraege, Nr. 95-25) Other Sources of Information * Ethnic World Survey (CIEMEN - Centre Internacional Escarre per a les Minories Etniques i Nacionals, Barcelona, Catalonia) Regards, Arthur. _________________________________________________________________ Arthur Kosten P.O. Box 80.140 ERCOMER - the European Research Centre 3584 CS Utrecht on Migration and Ethnic Relations The Netherlands Utrecht University e-mail: ajkosten@fsw.ruu.nl Phone:+31 30 539220 ajkosten@xs4all.nl Fax: +31 30 534733 WWW: http://www.xs4all.nl/~ajkosten/ Home: +31 71 143920 _________________________________________________________________