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June 05th, 2018
June 06th, 2018
Conceptual, Normative and Epistemological Challenges of Migration Research
9.30 am – 9.45 am: Welcome Note by Anna Amelina, Miriam Friz Trzeciak and Jana Schäfer (Cottbus) 9.45 am – 11.45 am: Session 1 Conflicts over Classifications and Belonging in the Field of Current Migrations Chair: Manuel Peters, Cottbus
It’s Immigration, Stupid! Theorising Brexit and Conflicts over Migration, Borders and Belonging Russell King, Sussex Rethinking the Social Conflict in the Era of Global Migrations: Border Struggle, Social Practice and the ‘Inner Battleground’ Gabriele Tomei, Pisa The International Migrations in Mexico and their Conceptual Construction: Realities Represented or Obscured? Rodolfo Casillas Ramírez, Mexico City
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP Conflicts over Cross-Border Migration, Classifications and Belonging:
Arrival and Dinner at the Castle Restaurant LINARI (7.00 pm)
The Use and Abuse of Categories in Migration Research: Empirical, Methodological and Epistemological Challenges Parvati Raghuram, Milton Keynes
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CONFERENCE PROGRAM June 06 th – 07 th , 2018 Lübbenau Castle How to get there International guests travel to Berlin and take regional trains to Lübbenau. From Berlin Schönefeld take a regional train to Königs Wusterhausen and change to a regional train to Cottbus. Get off at Lübbenau. From Berlin Tegel take TXL bus to Berlin Main Station (Hauptbahnhof) and change to a regional train to Cottbus. Get off at Lübbenau.
Organized by Anna Amelina Miriam Friz Trzeciak Jana Schäfer
CONFERENCE PROGRAM 11.45am – 1.00 pm: Lunch break 1.00 pm – 3.00 pm: Session 2 Critical Tools to Deconstruct Normative and Hegemonic Discourses about Migration Chair: Miriam Friz Trzeciak, Cottbus Coloniality of Migration: Thinking Migration through the Legacies of European Colonialism/Imperialism in Migration Research Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez, Gießen Ethnographic Border Regime Analysis between Activism and Academic Knowledge Production Sabine Hess, Göttingen After the Reflexive Turn: Towards the Doing-Migration Approach Anna Amelina, Cottbus Between Pity, Empathy and Fear: The Role of Affect in Struggles over Belonging in the Context of the European ‘Refugee Crisis’ Paul Scheibelhofer, Innsbruck
Marvellous Grounds: Activist Scholarship beyond the Academic Industrial Complex Jin Haritaworn, Toronto Racialized Sexuality – What we talk about when we talk about 'our women' Jana Schäfer, Cottbus ‘Tell Us Something About You’: Reflections on Participatory Research as a Tool for a Reflexive Methodology Miriam Friz Trzeciak, Cottbus 6.30 pm – 9.00 pm: Dinner at the Castle Restaurant LINARI June 07th, 2018 9.15 am – 11.00 am: Session 4 Towards a Reflexive Conceptualization and Contextualization of Research Chair: Paul Scheibelhofer, Innsbruck
3.00 pm – 3.30 pm: Coffee break
Governance Feminism and Postcolonial Difference: Headscarf Regulations in France, the Netherlands, and Germany Gökce Yurdakul, Berlin, and Anna Korteweg, Toronto
3.30 pm – 5.30 pm: Session 3 Transforming Monologue into Dialogue: Participative and Activist Research Chair: Anna Amelina, Cottbus
Transnational Belonging Contested: Reflections on the Normativity of Return Migration in the Context of Deportation Heike Drotbohm, Mainz
Methodological Innovation in Research on Conflicts over the Politics of Belonging: Participatory Theatre with Migrant Families as Transformative Research Umut Erel, Milton Keynes
‘Open the Border’: Migrant Struggles for Freedom of Movement in the Crisis of the Euro-Mediterranean Border Regime Federico Oliveri, Pisa
11.00 pm – 11.30 pm: Coffee break 11.30 am – 1.30 pm: Session 5 Practices and Answers to Produce Critical Knowledge Chair: Jana Schäfer, Cottbus Donald Trump, the Industrial–Military Complex and the Global Space of the Mexican–U.S. Border: The Expansion of Transnational Capital Juan Manuel Sandoval Palacios, Mexico City Immigrant and Native-Born Black Healthcare Workers in the New Economy Adia Harvey Wingfield, St. Louis Who are “We”; Who are “They”? Does it Matter? Melanie Bush, New York 1.30 pm – 1.45 pm: Final Note By Anna Amelina, Jana Schäfer and Miriam Friz Trzeciak (Cottbus) 1.45 pm – 3.00 pm: Lunch 3.00 pm: End of the conference
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