MSCA Staff Exchanges

International Network for Comparative Analysis of Social Inequalities (INCASI 2)

The overall objective of the INCASI 2 project is to establish a global cross-sectoral network of experts working on a joint research programme aimed at building a new analytical model of socioeconomic inequalities in order to:

• Produce effective advances in the understanding of the complex phenomena of socioeconomic inequalities creating a fresh analytical framework at a comparative and interdisciplinary level in a context of societies in "permanent crisis".
• Construct an innovative multidimensional measure (DYSIC: Dynamics of Socioeconomic Inequality in Comparison) adapted to the new realities shaped in this context that is global, more comprehensive and realistic in the comparative analysis of inequalities between Europe and Latin America & the Caribbean, and to monitor the situation and evolution of inequalities. We consider 3 DYSIC variants: 1) including 3 main dimensions as a base (education, occupation and income), 2) adding gender dimension and 3) adding dynamic trends.
• Create the INCASI Living Lab to elaborate diagnoses, contribute to informed decision-making and the design of public policies. It is designed to enhance the innovation process by embracing three core principles: fostering a collaborative open innovation strategy, utilizing a methodology centred on promoting the quality of life for individuals, and creating an environment for interdisciplinary thinking and action that enables the participation of diverse socioeconomic, political, and scientific agents.

These objectives will be achieved with a collaborative work of an interdisciplinary, intersectoral and international network for Comparative Analysis of Socioeconomic Inequalities (INCASI) with 29 organizations: 14 EU universities from 6 countries, 11 universities and 4 non-academic organizations from 7 LAC countries and the USA, in order to face one of the most relevant problem in our societies: socioeconomic inequalities, and promote European values of social justice.

Coordinator: UAB. CRIS Investogator: Ettore RECCHI. Term: 01/11/2023 - 30/10/2027.

Partners: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Universitat de Barcelona, Universidad de Sevilla, Universidade da Coruna, Universidad de Complutense de Madrid, Universidad de la Laguna, Universita degli studi di Milano, Universita della Calabria, Université de Toulouse II - Le Mirail, Tampereen Korkeakoulusäätiö SR, University of Amsterdam, Middlesex University Higher Education Corporation.

H2020-MSCA-IF-2020

Immigrant Imaginations: Comparing North Africans in Montréal and Marseille (Im.magine)

Im.magine, "Immigrant Imaginations: Comparing North Africans in Montréal and Marseille" draws on migration research which is attentive to human agency in global mobility processes and the growing interest in 'migratory imaginations'. There is an unfortunate tendency in the migration literature, however, to emphasize the perceptual dimension of the imagination at the expense of its action-oriented one. This hinders the imagination's conceptual and empirical potentials, not least where the particularly active' imaginations of immigrants are concerned. We know, for instance, that migrants are likely to develop multiple place affiliations and cultural identifications by virtue of their exposure to several environments. Yet little is known about the sociocognitive frameworks that foster these multipolar orientations. Im.magine addresses this gap by treating international migration experience as an 'extreme life event' that expands the imagination through combined material and symbolic processes. 

On a theoretical level, Im.magine underscores the crucial elements of relational and reflexive thinking, which are visible in foundational sociological and geographical conceptions of the imagination, yet frequently overlooked in research on migration-related imaginations. It offers an empirical application of reflexive imaginations by means of comparative case studies of North Africans living in Montréal, Canada, and Marseille, France. 

Through a triangulated use of official and literary discourse as well as first-person oral, visual, sensory, and digital migration narratives, it will help open up the 'black box' of immigrant imaginations. Specifically, by casting migrant biographies onto multiscalar and inter-connected spatiotemporal frames, the project will advance our understanding of complex place affiliations and identifications, thus illuminating the very real impacts of the imagination on mobility processes.

Main Investigator: Maricia Fischer-Souan (post-doc). Term: 01/10/2021 - 30/09/2024
Partners: Université de Montréal, Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, Sciences Po Aix.