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****  Leverhulme Programme on Migration and Citizenship  ***

Joint Research Programme by Bristol University's Centre for the Study of
Ethnicity and Citizenship and UCL's Migration Research Unit

Post-Immigration Minorities, Religion and National Identities

14-15 November, 2008

University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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CALL FOR PAPERS

From the 1950s and early 1960s there have been migrations of people,
especially from former colonies, into the European urban centres.
Subsequently, discourses of 'assimilation' and 'integration' were opened
up, in different countries of Europe. As the idea of a multicultural
society emerged, these discourses, together with traditional ideas of
citizenship and national identity, have been challenged. Historic concerns
about class inequalities have been complicated by new policy and
legislative programmes on racial, ethnic and latterly religious exclusions.
The slow movement towards eliminating such exclusions, especially as
measured in terms of educational and economic outcomes, have raised
questions about to what extent the social capital possessed by different
groups, especially when gendered, is a determinant of social (im)mobility.
As the non-white minority populations have grown and their concentration in
certain localities has exceeded expectations, anxieties have surfaced as to
whether laissez-faire segregation will increase deprivation and/or conflict
between communities. The political assertions of minorities have produced
contested and emergent identities as mobilisations based on colour have
been eclipsed by those of ethnic origins and religion. As these groups have
struggled for respect and justice and for acceptance as British, they have
become a source of transformation but also tension about what it means to
be British today, whether the country has become 'too diverse' and whether
multiculturalism has simultaneously impeded integration  whilst devaluing
the indigenous, white majority.  Significantly, this stress is being
experienced across the political spectrum as it has come to focus on
whether Muslim identity politics is challenging the privileged position of
Christian culture and/or secularism that for many people is part of British
national identity.

The Leverhulme Programme team will address topics based on the following
themes:

    Ethnic Enclaves and Economic Integration
    Social Capital, Gender and Differential Educational and Economic Outcomes
    National Identity, Citizenship and Religious 'Difference'
    Majoritarian Identities and Resentment of Multiculturalism

Keynote speakers will address issues in relation to contemporary issues on
minority ethnicity, religion, integration and national identity, and
include:

    Professor Zygmunt Bauman (Leeds)
    Professor Craig Calhoun (New York University and President of the Social
Science Research Council)
    Professor Reina Lewis, (London College of Fashion)
    Professor Lord Bhikhu Parekh, (Westminister)

We are inviting scholars from all relevant disciplines to submit papers for
this conference that complement the above themes and topics.

Please send your abstract (no more than 250 words) to Sara Tonge
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Deadline for submissions: 9 May 2008

The Leverhulme Programme on Migration and Citizenship at the University of
Bristol and University College London (2003-08) consists of eight projects
on contemporary labour mobility, post-immigration ethnicity and challenges
to British national identity. This is the second of two conferences that
will take place in 2008 as the Programme reaches its conclusion (the first,
on Mobility in International Markets, is held on 15-16 May at UCL, London).

Further details of the Programme can be found at
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/sociology/leverhulme



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