Call for Papers
IASFM Proposed Panel: Situating Refugee and Forced Migration Narratives: Process, Products, and Power
As part of the new IASFM Working Group for Refugee and Forced Migration Narratives, we are organizing a panel for the 16th Conference of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM), hosted by the Centre for Migration Studies, the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, and the Faculty of Law and Public Administration at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland from July 12-15, 2016.
Co-Organizers: Anita Fábos (Clark U) and Dianna Shandy (Macalester Coll)
Deadlines:
December 30, 2016: Deadline for abstracts to the panel
February 1, 2016: IASFM submission deadline for papers and panels
Panel Abstract
Narratives have long been central to the work of refugee and forced migration scholars, practitioners, activists, and affected populations themselves. This panel considers the ways in which stories are told by, for, and about forced migrants and, critically, also the institutions that shape these migrations. Explicitly, or more often, implicitly, the experiences of refugees and forced migrants and their retelling are central to the domains of law, policy, history, anthropology, and any other discipline that seeks to harness the power of the story to bear witness, to change behavior, or to inform. By situating refugee and forced migration narratives within the framework of multiple and competing power relations, papers explore both the process of producing narratives and the outcomes of these situated narratives for individuals, institutions, and the state. We seek original papers and presentations on better understand the use and power of narrative and storytelling approaches in diverse settings. In particular, we encourage submissions that explore or incorporate technological advances in digital media and digital storytelling and its power to engage and influence audiences.
Paper proposers might consider addressing the following questions:
How can we capture refugee experiences of movement, mobility, and multiplicity? Do we need new methods, and what would those new methods look like?
What are the politics of testimony in individual narratives? In state narratives? And what is the interplay between the two?
Where are the dominant and hegemonic narratives of refugees and forced migration located? Where have alternative or counter-narratives in pursuit of a liberating and emancipating agenda been situated?
Is there a particular ethics of narrative work with refugees and forced migrants?
What methodological opportunities or pitfalls do new technologies offer?
How do new technologies (e.g. social media, interactive digital storytelling) influence narrative outcomes?
In what ways do narrative and storytelling approaches contribute new knowledge to forced migration studies?
What are the outcomes for refugee and forced migration studies of narratives in interaction?
We especially encourage papers and presentations from new and emerging scholars, practitioners, activists, and members of affected populations.
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Visit the IASFM Working Group for Refugee and Forced Migration Narratives at our website: https://sites.google.com/a/macalester.edu/refugee-and-forced-migration-narratives/
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Anita Fábos
Associate Professor of International Development, Community, and Environment
Clark University
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Dianna Shandy
2015-16 Executive Leadership Fellow
Center for Integrative Leadership, University of Minnesota
and Professor of Anthropology
Macalester College
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