CONFERENCES

My selected conferences and meetings include:

22-26th September 2010: (With E. Marmer) African Childhood, Age and Development in Context of Migration. Case of Senegalese and Gambian children in Spain, 1st Global Congress on Maternal and Infant Health, Barcelona, Spain.

19-21st July 2010: (With E. Marmer) Racism in German School and the Image of Africa in German Textbooks, 10th International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations, Belfast Northern Ireland.

23rd and 24th October 2009: (With R. L. Alissoutin), ICT and codevelopment in Senegal and Catalonia, Paper presented in the Conference on Development and Information Technologies, Open University of Catalonia, Castelldefels, Spain.

2nd October 2009: (With E. Marmer) Different perceptions of Mental Health from African immigrants in Europe, Paper presented in the Symposium of Salud Mental y procesos migratorios. Nuevas realidades, nuevas propuestas, Barcelona Spain.

2nd of October 2009: (With E. Marmer) Violence, Mental Health, Migration and Human Rights, Workshop directed in the Symposium of Salud Mental y procesos migratorios. Nuevas realidades, nuevas propuestas, Barcelona Spain.

17th to 19th September 2009: (With R. M. Alegret and A. Mas), Foreign Immigrants’ Integration in the United Kingdom and Spain. A Comparative Approach on Participation in Traditional Cultural Organisations, Paper presented in the VI Conference on Migration in Spain, in La Corunya.

3rd-5th September 2009:Cultural differences, role and Function of age groups in an immigration context. Non-Medical Approaches to Male Health among Senegalese and Gambians in Spain, Paper presented in The Second European Congress on the Ageing Male, in Budapest, Hungary.

29-30th June 2009: Management of remittances and family compound by the First spouses. Evidence from Gambians and Senegalese women. Conference on African Transnational and Return Migration for Homeland Development from the Perspectives of Euro-African Relations and Latin American Experience, University of Warwick, UK.

15th of May 2009: African aged Men versus African aged Women in Context of Immigration: Between Medicalization and “Fresh Blood”?in Symposium Anthropology of Men, Masculinities and Health, Freie Universität, Berlin.

13th June 2006: Emancipation or Marginalization: The Dilemmas of Aging Gambian Women in Spain, Paper for the European Population Conference, Liverpool (With Caroline Bledsoe).

30th September 2005: Immigrant Status and Fertility Outcomes in Spain, at Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, (With C. Bledsoe and R. Houle).

22nd-26th of September 2003: Transnationalization of the Móodu-Móodu in Catalonia (Spain), Paper given to the International Summer School on Transnationalism Theory and Empirical Findings, Universität of Bochum, Germany.