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Dear Colleagues,
 
We invite paper proposals for the panel:
 
Pursuing utopias / challenging realities: producing and resisting borders in
and out of Europe

To be held at the 12th Congress of the International Society for Ethnology
and Folklore (SIEF) - Zagreb, Croatia, 21-25 June 2015
(http://www.siefhome.org/congresses/sief2015/index.shtml )

About our panel:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/sief/sief2015/panels.php5?PanelID=3492

Short Abstract
This panel welcomes contributions which explore the making and/or
challenging of borders in and out of Europe, analyzing the imaginaries and
lived experiences of the different actors who implement and/or contest
borders (migrants but also civil servants, NGOs, activists, anthropologists,
etc.)

Long Abstract
One of the main side effects of the post-war utopia of a Europe of
"security, freedom and justice" (Amsterdam Treaty) is represented by the
growing relevance of borders. The dramatic reality at the borders of Europe
is thus the upshot of a political and historical process in which the
definition of a common territory and identity goes hand in hand with the
production of new mechanisms of classification and exclusion. Nonetheless,
as Balibar argues, "borders are no longer at the border", inasmuch as such
mechanisms operate well beyond the physical space of the frontier. As a
consequence, immigrants are confronted with unprecedented forms of control,
put in place by a wide range of actors and institutions, to which they
respond through strategies of survival, projects of movement and imaginaries
of endurance and struggle. This panel welcomes contributions which explore
the making and/or challenging of borders in these multiple and ambiguous
spaces of production and resistance. The aim is to analyze the relations
between imaginaries and lived experiences, specifically by comparing the
representations of the people involved, their views of the present and their
visions of the future. Contributors may explore diverse situations within
and beyond Europe, including the analysis of particular border areas, the
role of specific actors and their forms of organization, the multiple
effects of the border on people (both migrants and autochthones) and the
strategies they elaborate to cope with them.

Convenors
Francesco Vacchiano (University of Lisbon, Institute of Social Sciences)
Sebastien Bachelet (University of Edinburgh)

Please follow the link below to submit a paper in this panel:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/sief/sief2015/panels.php5?PanelID=3492

The Call for Papers closes on January 14th, 2015.
 
We look forward to receiving your proposals,
 
Francesco Vacchiano & Sebastien Bachelet

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