Dear colleagues,
please consider contributing to our panel at the Biennial Conference of the
Finnish Anthropological Society, On Time (Helsinki, August 29-30, 2019):
Panel Title
Out of place, out of time: Rethinking liminality and stuckedness in
experiences of migration
Convenors
Francesca Morra (Oxford Brookes University)
Francesca Meloni (Northumbria University)
Abstract
Many scholars in anthropology and other disciplines have emphasized how
migrants’ lives have increasingly shifted from experiences of mobility to
conditions of immobility (Carling, 2002; Salazar & Smart, 2011). Migration
policies, deportability and racial discrimination can confine migrants in
an existential and temporal condition of indefinite waiting, liminality and
stuckedness (Hage, 2009; Willen, 2007). Scholars have often described this
liminal condition as detrimental to one’s sense of security and wellbeing,
or as a failure to become ‘incorporated’ and to fully belong (Gonzales,
Suárez-Orozco, & Dedios-Sanguineti, 2013; Sommers, 2012). In this panel, we
seek to conceptualize and rethink the ways in which different temporal
breaks and continuities affect migrants’ experiences of mobility and
immobility, belonging and intimacy, in relation to the multiple factors and
constraints shaping migrants’ possibilities of making a viable life. We
particularly seek papers that draw on ethnographic engagements exploring
migrants’ experiences of time that are in contrast, or misaligned, with the
linear and progressive temporality of neoliberal societies – that is, the
expected trajectories towards citizenship, social incorporation, and
independence. For instance, how do migrants themselves understand dissonant
experiences of time and emplacement? How do these understandings shape
different experiences of im/mobility and imaginations of possible futures?
What kinds of temporalities are possible, or are hindered, in migration?
And how are these influenced by policies, and neoliberal imaginations of a
‘good life’?
Please send a short abstract of your contribution (max 250 words) to
Francesca Morra ([log in to unmask]) and Francesca Meloni (
[log in to unmask]) by 1st April 2019.
More information on the conference:
http://www.antropologinenseura.fi/en/events/anthropology-conference-2019/
List of panels and the call for papers:
http://www.antropologinenseura.fi/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Call-for-papers.pdf
.
Best wishes,
Francesca
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Francesca Meloni, PhD
Lecturer
Department of Social Work, Northumbria University
T: +44 (0) 1912156319
E: [log in to unmask]
T: @francesca_mel | W:
https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/m/francesca-meloni/
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