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SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS FOR AAG ANNUAL CONFERENCE, LOS ANGELES, 19-23 MARCH
2002
Abstracts are invited for the following paper session(s):
TRANSNATIONAL MIGRANTS: FLOWS, IDENTITIES, PLACES
Convenors: Alan Latham and David Conradson (University of Southampton, UK)
The contemporary world is an increasingly mobile world. Commentators have
drawn attention to the hyper-mobility of objects, information and people.
Focusing on these developments, researchers such as Ulf Hannerz (1997),
Aihwa Ong (1999) and Michael Peter Smith (2001) have developed the term
transnationalism. This concept seeks to capture the complex dynamics of
social relationships that are constructed through and defined by movement
across international borders, whilst recognising the continuing
significance of the nation state.
In this session we are interested in how flows of transnational migrants
are reshaping existing places and identities. Cities such as London and
Los Angeles, for example, are significantly constituted by migrant
communities whose origins lie in nations of both the so-called North and
South. Other places, such as Auckland and Mumbai, have been very much
shaped by people returning to them after periods abroad.
We would thus like to bring together researchers whose work explores the
way that transnational flows are reshaping contemporary places, identities
and economies. We invite expressions of interest addressing, but not
limited to, the following topics:
· Theorising transnationalism
· Mapping transnational flows and networks
· The practices of transnational relationships and communities
· Transnationalism, urban culture and cultural innovation
· Migration, home, belonging
· The cultural economies of transnational entrepreneurialism
· Elite/global transnationals
· Middling transnationalism (e.g. Antipodeans in London, Brits in Sydney etc)
· Transnationalism from below
· Stasis and transnational spaces
Given that much of the existing transnational research has focused on
either the so-called global elites or 'transnationals from below', we would
particularly welcome contributions that explore what might be called the
transnationalism of more 'middling' social groups. We would also welcome
contributions that move beyond the global cities where transnationalism is
most immediately evident.
Please send enquiries and expressions of interest, by 31st July 2001, to
either:
Dr Alan Latham, Department of Geography, University of Southampton,
[log in to unmask], or
Dr David Conradson, Department of Geography, University of Southampton
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David Conradson
Department of Geography
University of Southampton
Southampton SO17 1BJ
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)23 8059 4613 (direct)
Fax: +44 (0)23 8059 3295
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
WWW: http://www.geog.soton.ac.uk/
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