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Call for Papers
Interdisciplinary workshop "Ask the 'experts'? Positionalities of
researchers and public figures of migrant background in European debates
about immigration"!
Place: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
(MPI-MMG), Department of Socio-Cultural Diversity, Göttingen
Date: June 28-29, 2018
Convenors: Sonja Moghaddari (MMG-MPG) and Sara de Jong (The Open University)
This interdisciplinary workshop explores the roles, perspectives and
positionalities of researchers and public figures (such as politicians,
journalists or artists) of migrant background, whose self-claimed or
ascribed identities are often the same as those of newcoming migrants.
Through their activities in research and media, such people become
protagonists in public debates about immigration. We consider the peculiar
place they inhabit in social hierarchies
by examining their changing identifications, as well as their engagement
with issues of representation and brokerage, research ethics and knowledge
production. The workshop seeks to contribute to the reflexive turn in
anthropology, and offer new insights into the way difference in
post-migratory Europe is confirmed, contested and (de-) constructed.
The workshop will center on two lines of inquiry: (1) reflexivity
concerning own fieldwork and (2) public figures’ positionalities.
We invite paper submissions from the fields of Sociology, Anthropology,
Geography, Political Science, Media Studies or History that elaborate on or
are inspired by the following set of questions:
What are the stakes of being granted or asserting voice in debates about
immigration? How do public figures and researchers experience and engage
with multiple identifications? How do they/we relate to and reflect on
their/our dealings with newcomers? How should we understand the roles of
othered public figures and researchers against the backdrop of historical
precedents and across different national contexts? What are the challenges
to their/our contribution to migration theory and policy? Finally, what do
our findings indicate about how perception of difference evolves in
contemporary European societies of immigration?
Registration:
This is a semi-closed workshop. If you are interested in attending, please
send an abstract (approx. 250 words) and a short bio before February 11
2017 to:
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Travel and accommodation costs are at least party covered.
Best regards,
Sonja
*Visiting Postdoctoral Research Fellow*Max Planck Institute for the Study
of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
Göttingen/ Germany
+49 15785674048
2016, "Fluid identifications and persistent inequalities: Social boundary
making among Iranians in Hamburg", *Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle
East and Central Eurasia*, 3(2): 97-119.
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