second call for papers
and apologies to all for cross-posting and/or clogging up your in-box.
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RGS/IBG 2006
CALL FOR PAPERS
Joint DARG/EGRG SESSION:
Migrant workers in global cities: linking the Global South and Global North
Convenors: Kavita Datta, Yara Evans, Joanna Herbert, Jon May, Cathy
McIlwaine and Jane Wills
Outline/abstract of session
Processes of globalisation have had a significant impact upon the scale
and nature of international migration in the contemporary world. While
the movement of people within and between countries in the Global South
continues, an increasing number of people are also migrating from the
Global South to the Global North. Although under-researched, there is an
increasing appreciation that migrant workers make a vital contribution
to the servicing and reproduction of global cities. Yet, such
contributions are often marginalised, and migrants are rarely
accommodated on equal terms by host countries. At the same time, and
perhaps as a consequence of this, migrants continue to maintain a
material presence in their countries of origin and serve as a vital link
between the Global South and Global North.
Contributions from both academics and practitioners, which address one
or more of the following aspects of migration and the experiences of
migrant workers are welcome:
- Tracing the connections between the economic, social and political
conditions in the Global South which lead to emigration to the Global
North and state and societal responses to such migration in the Global
South
- Emigration experiences of migrants, the creation of obstacles or
hurdles which attempt to curb the movements of certain ‘types’ of people
and the conditions these produce in terms of insecurity and illegality
- The political-cultural-economy of the low paid work undertaken by
migrants in global cities and their experiences of the work-place
- The existence of multiple senses of belonging which connect the Global
South to the North in both imagined and material ways and which
challenge the notion that identities or citizenship are rooted in fixed
localities
- Migrant and host country responses to the fact that while migrants are
vital to the economies of the Global North, they are not accommodated on
equal terms and the implications this has in terms of new forms of
polity in both the Global North and South.
Please send abstracts to Dr Kavita Datta ([log in to unmask])
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Dr. Jane Wills
Department of Geography
Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End Road
London
E1 4NS
UK
0207 882 5414
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http://www.geog.qmw.ac.uk/staff/wills.html
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