MIGRATIONS - Knowledge production/Policy-making
24 - 26 June 2010, Telc, Czech Republic
Dear colleagues,
we are delighted to announce second international conference on
MIGRATIONS prepared by the Department of Sociology of Masaryk University
alongside with other co-operating institutions. Our aim is to inspire
and incite lively discussions with up-to date researchers, policy
makers and various actors in migration events. The project is here to
boost critical thinking about migrations in the contemporary world,
and to examine and re-consider politics and practices rooted in the
nation-state based legal norms and the perspective of the homesteader.
It is our pleasure to already announce the distinguished keynote
speaker Christian Joppke from The American University of Paris.
We would like to invite you cordially to participate in our conference.
Please, find enclosed the Call for Papers and announcement of the book
release of boundaries in Motion that originated from first Migrations
conference that took place in 2008 in Telc.
Abstracts from prospective participants shall be sent no later than on
15th February 2010 at [log in to unmask] You may also find all the
necessary information at http://ivris.fss.muni.cz/migrations.
The 2010 Migrations conference will be devoted to two topics:
Knowledge Production in Migration Studies - In this session we will
focus on the practices that, speaking of migrations, transform an event
into a research topic and interests that stand behind it. The production
and circulation of knowledge on migration has a differing logic in the
areas of politics, public life and the academic world. The crucial
question is what types of migration are discursively produced as normal
or deviating social process and how different discursive fields interfere.
Migrations Policymaking - Theoretical concepts and research findings are
re-defined in the political sphere and thus shape contemporary migration
events. Political players have usually only slight understanding for
broader than a national perspective - to be part of the administration
of the nation state also means in some way believing in this "real
fiction" or at the very least acting pragmatically in line with it. We
welcome contributions critically analyzing migration policies, in
particular their making, background ideas and assumptions and
legitimization discourses.
We are looking forward to hearing from you and seeing those who are
interested in our academic initiative in Telc!
We will also appreciate if you pass this information to anyone who might
be interested in the Conference and put our Call for Papers and Book
Announcement on your institutional board.
With best wishes,
Radka Klvanová, Katerina Sidiropulu Janku and Michal Vasecka
Migrations
Department of Sociology
Faculty of Social Studies
Masaryk University
Jotova 10,
602 00
Brno, Czech Republic
Conference manager: Hana Czajkowska
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http://ivris.fss.muni.cz/migrations
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