Dear All,
Please find below the call for papers for our panel at the International
Conference on Anticipation in Trento, Italy. The deadline for abstract
submissions (250 words) is April 30th, 2015.
Please feel free to circulate the CFP to anyone who might be interested.
Thank you and best regards,
Paolo Boccagni (Univeristy of Trento) and Milena Belloni (University of
Trento, Italy)
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*Anticipation through Migration?*
*Migration processes and policies as a source of critical insight on
anticipation* (deadline: April 30)
Convenors: Paolo Boccagni, Milena Belloni (University of Trento)
International migration is a promising field for the development of
interdisciplinary research into anticipation, at a number of levels and on
different scales.
At a *micro* level, migrant’s life experience is a rich and complex terrain
for exploring the potential for social agents’ anticipation, as well as the
interaction between aspirations, imagination and anticipation. Migrants’
evolving constructions of their own future are revealing in both respects.
Indeed, migration is tantamount to the shift of more positive connotations
of the future onto another country, expected to provide for “better days
ahead”, economically at least. How migrants’ capabilities to anticipate
that future affect their life trajectories, and how such capabilities
evolve over the course of migration, are empirical questions, on which we
invite original contributions.
At a *meso* level, anticipation can be explored through the developmental
processes of several agencies that are involved in managing migration flows
and should somehow anticipate the underlying trends. The long-term
trajectories of institutions such as immigrant labour employers and
recruiters, agencies of border control, or welfare agencies, can be
fruitfully revisited along these lines.
Last, a *macro* level pertains to immigration and immigrant policies. This
calls for analysis of the technical and political potential to “anticipate”
the evolution of migration and refugee flows, as well as their composition
and directionalities, as a requirement for decision-making and policy
provision. Why is it that the “anticipatory potential” of migration-related
policy-making seems to fall often short of declared statements and
expectations?
How these levels of analysis and practice intersect with each other, and
how the potential field of anticipation varies accordingly, is still
another issue on which we invite theoretical and empirical contributions.
Overall, our session aims to provide an innovative map of the prospects for
anticipation and future studies to feed into migration studies, and on the
mutual connections between these two broad research fields.
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Further information:
http://www.projectanticipation.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=66&Itemid=587
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Milena Belloni
Ph.D. Student
Department of Sociology and Social Research
The University of Trento
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