Dear all,
We are inviting contributions to our panel "European Makings of "Good" and
"Bad" Refugees: Contestations of the Right to Have Rights" at the upcoming
IUAES conference in October 2020.
Deadline: 23 March 2020
Please submit proposals through the IUAES website:
https://iuaes2020.conventuscredo.hr/panel/panel-no-93/
Panel Abstract (P93)
While the sense of crisis and emergency in Europe concerning the Syrian
refugee crisis has wavered, the figure and presence of migrants and
refugees keep playing a significant role in European politics and policies,
public imagery and self-positioning. Scholars have pointed at the
construction of hierarchies of "deserving" people in need and
differentiations between "good" and "bad" refugees (Mavelli and Wilson,
2017). Such rankings in the political, popular and public imaginary are
often connected to gendered and religious status and particular ideas about
agency and victimhood. While certain categories such as "the persecuted
Christian", "mother and child" and refugees "waiting in camps" are
considered favourable, others are considered less favourable, for instance
when refugees take matters into their own hands by crossing the
Mediterranean. These perceptions may be at odds with or challenge existing
(inter)national migratory legislation such as the Geneva Convention. This
panel aims to examine localized and contextualized representations of
biopolitical hierarchies of the deserving and not deserving of "the right
to have rights" (De Gooyer et al., 2018). We are particularly interested in
European political and social practices and articulations. The panel aims
to interrogate the processes through which figures of the deserving and
undeserving are constructed, politically legitimized and possibly
translated into legislation. We welcome contributions from scholars working
in the fields of migration and refugee studies, public, political and state
anthropology, legal anthropology and on topics of media and public debate
and right-wing populism.
Dr. An Van Raemdonck - VU University Amsterdam
Dr. Katarzyna Grabska - Institute of International Social Studies, The Hague
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An Van Raemdonck
Postdoctoral researcher
Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV Amsterdam, the Netherlands. tel:
+31-20-5986704
Book review editor Religion & Gender <https://www.religionandgender.org/>
https://ugent.academia.edu/AnVanRaemdonck
0(032) 475 23 64 97
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