Fwd: Call for Papers: Immigration to Europe: Inclusion, Exclusion, and Differential Incorporation
Matt Wade
“Immigration to Europe: Inclusion, Exclusion, and Differential Incorporation”
Abstract Deadline – Friday, January 27, 2017
Conference Date – Thursday, April 20, 2017
The UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies (IES) and the Social Science Matrix are pleased to announce its second annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference. The conference provides doctoral students from a wide range of disciplines a forum to put their research into conversation around a unifying theme.
The topic of this year’s conference is “Immigration to Europe: Inclusion, Exclusion, and Differential Incorporation.” Not least since the onset to the so-called refugee crisis, immigration and the politics of belonging have risen to renewed centrality in Europe. The French “Burkini” debate and the fence between Hungary and Croatia, but also older preoccupations such as the emergence of urban ‘parallel societies’ and discussions about ‘Leitkultur’ (‘Guiding Culture’) mirror European anxieties about immigration. By investigating different areas of inclusion and exclusion – the legal apparatus and policing, educational and professional spaces, private and domestic spheres of life, etc. – this graduate conference seeks to engage a variety of perspectives on the differential incorporation of immigrants and colonial subjects in Europe since the mid-twentieth century.
Papers from the humanities and social sciences are welcomed, including but not limited to anthropology, literature and languages, linguistics, philosophy, law, public policy, history, political science, sociology, geography, and economics.
Please consider the following themes a guide for your paper topics, but certainly do not feel constrained by them:
Anti-racism/xenophobia/Islamophobia: activism, solidarity, and new social movements;
Media representations of migrants and refugees in Europe;
Perspectives on multi/interculturalism in contemporary Europe;
New media and the transnational practices of immigrants;
Militarized borders, policing, and the shifting confines of Fortress Europe;
Labor markets, informality, and migrants’ labor organizing;
Geographies of refugee resettlement, (peri)urban space, squatting, spatial segregation;
The resurgence of far-right, ethno-nationalist, and neo-fascist movements and parties;
Post- and de-colonial perspectives on immigration to Europe;
Neoliberalism and political economies of migration;
Gender, sexuality, and queer diasporas;
Critical pedagogy and alternative perspectives on “integration.”
We invite anonymized abstracts of 250-300 words that briefly outline the content and arguments of a proposed 20 pg (maximum) paper. The deadline for submitting abstracts is Friday, January 27th, 2017. Abstracts should be sent as a Microsoft Word attachment to ies.berkeley.gradcon@gmail.com and should include your name, departmental or program affiliation, and the best e-mail contact information. Please use this e-mail address to direct any questions you may have or to receive further information regarding the graduate conference.
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University of California, Berkeley
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University of California, Berkeley
+1 707.372.3467 (USA/Whatsapp)