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Dear Colleagues,

Please consider joining our panel MIGRATION AND HOUSING IN CONTEMPORARY 
CITIES. OPPORTUNITIES TO STAY, MOVE AND SETTLE at the VIENNA 
ANTHROPOLOGY DAYS (VANDA) 2018.

The panel addresses opportunities of migrants to stay, move and settle 
on urban housing markets. Aiming at a locational analysis of migration 
and housing, the panel presents ethnographic research that considers the 
role of capital flows, public and private actors as well as immigrant 
agency for the opportunities migrants find in urban locations.

The Vienna Anthropology Days take place from 19-22 September. The 
conference seeks to bring international anthropologists to Vienna as 
well as showcase research at the University of Vienna to an 
international audience, and allows to exchange and network for potential 
future collaborations. The event is jointly organized by the Institute 
of Social Anthropology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ISA), the 
Weltmuseum Wien, and the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology 
of the University of Vienna (IKSA). This is the link to the conference 
call: 
https://ksa.univie.ac.at/institut/aktuelles/details/news/vanda-call-for-papers/?tx_news_pi1%5Bcontroller%5D=News&tx_news_pi1%5Baction%5D=detail&cHash=b55b0fc1314f815be2a77cd6bbb3a81a

In case you are interested to contribute a paper, please send us an 
abstract (max. 300 words) by June 1.

We would be very happy if you would consider joining us in Vienna in the 
fall!

Many Thanks,
Maria Schiller and Daniele Karasz

Panel details:
Migration and housing in contemporary cities
Opportunities to stay, move and settle

Panel organizers:
Dr. Maria Schiller (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Ethnic and 
Religious Diversity), Daniele Karasz (University of Vienna, Department 
of Social and Cultural Anthropology)

Short abstract
The panel addresses opportunities of migrants to stay, move and settle 
on urban housing markets. Aiming at a locational analysis of migration 
and housing, the panel presents ethnographic research that considers the 
role of capital flows, public and private actors as well as immigrant 
agency for the opportunities migrants find in urban locations.

Long Abstract
In recent years, some scholars have started talking about migration 
without taking one migrant group or the national state as an entry 
point, but location. Such literature (Glick Schiller and Caglar 2011) 
looks at the opportunities and constraints that more or less established 
residents and new migrants find in one location. We consider housing – 
its availability, condition and use – as important to understand 
dynamics of inclusion and exclusion in the context of im/mobility and 
settlement. This approach opens up several questions concerning 
migration and urban development in contemporary cities:

• What chances do migrants have to stay and what forces migrants to move 
houses? – Or, to put it in a different light – Who has the possibility 
to move houses and who is forced to stay?
• How do capital flows and economic resources inform opportunities and 
constraints for migrants on urban housing markets?
• How do private and public actors in the field of urban planning enable 
or constrain migrants to stay, move and settle?
• What agency do migrants exercise in creating housing opportunities and 
in navigating the lack of housing opportunities?

We invite papers that present an anthropological analysis of migration 
and the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion in the realm of housing. 
Aiming at empirically rich contributions, we welcome concrete 
ethnographic case studies in different cities. Contributions may focus 
on global or peripheral cities, as well as on specific neighbourhoods 
and semi-urban areas.


-- 
Daniele Karasz
Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie der Universität Wien
Rathausstraße 19/9/1/13
A – 1010 Wien
Mail: [log in to unmask]
Phone: +43-(0)699-12337032

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