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Revue en ligne RELA (Research on the Education and Learning of Adults)Migration changes lives. Conditions of globalization have created new and radical challenges for contemporary societies.”‘New societies” emerge in part through migration. The ‘indigenous’ find themselves with new neighbours. Situations of migration create tensions within host societies, governments react in diverse ways and educational institutions and individual citizens develop coping strategies.In studying migrating populations in the USA and Europe, Thomas and Znaniecki reported in the 1979s that a society in which “emigration had appeared ceased to be as cohesive as it used to be before it commenced” (1976, p.21). Particularly in Europe where modernization has been advanced historically through the construction and consolidation of nation states, the belief in the uniqueness of members (their qualities, culture, history, principles and values) and the sense of unity rooted in citizens’ solidarity has been at once constructed and challenged. Consequently, models of citizenship, democracy and social participation have mutated. Identities associated with nations have been both reinforced and dissolved into hybridity. A primary cause of the cultural and political change observable in current European societies is perhaps that of migration and migration effects. (...)Lire la suite : Call for papers Migration - final editedSubmission deadline: October 15, 2013