CFP: Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, San Francisco,
USA, April 17-21, 2007.
Rethinking Social and Spatial Integration, Multiculturalism and
Multicultural Citizenship
Sponsored by the Citizenship and Belonging Research Cluster, School of
Geography, University of Leeds, UK.
Convenors: Dr Deborah Phillips and Dr Louise Waite (University of Leeds, UK)
The social and spatial integration of new migrants and established ethnic
minority groups has become a highly politicised and sensitive issue for
many nation-states. Political discourses expose anxieties about the
apparent failure of some groups to follow normative social and spatial
trajectories towards assimilation/integration and the potentially divisive
effects of living with ‘difference’, especially in the context of the ‘war
on terror’. As state sponsored multiculturalism falters, new questions
surrounding the possibilities of ‘multicultural citizenship’, the
consequences of entrenched ethnic segregation, the (re-)construction of
boundaries between ‘self’ and ‘others’, and the meaning and expression of
national identity, citizenship and belonging have all been brought to the
fore.
This session will reflect on shifting conceptualisations of social and
spatial integration, citizenship and belonging in the twenty-first century
and will explore the implications of this for diversity, identity, equality
and the lived experience of citizens in multicultural societies. We welcome
papers which engage with these issues, particularly in relation to:
•Multicultural citizenship
•Reconceptualising the link between ethnic residential segregation and
integration
•New forms of cosmopolitanism
•The significance of precarity for migrants’ integration
•The meaning of integration and its implications for lived experiences and
everyday life
•Intercultural experiences in the multi-ethnic neighbourhood,
Please send paper titles and abstracts (of no more than 250 words) by
October 16th to Dr Deborah Phillips ([log in to unmask]) or Louise
Waite ([log in to unmask]).
For AAG abstract specifications, see
http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/SF2007/call4papers.cfm
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