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Call for Papers / Workshop: “Ask the ‘experts’? Positionalities of researchers and public figures of migrant background in European debates about immigration” – LIMITE : 11/02/2018

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:
asktheexperts2018@gmail.com

Travel and accommodation costs are at least party covered.


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Chargé de diffusion scientifique (15 janvier 2018). Call for Papers / Workshop: “Ask the ‘experts’? Positionalities of researchers and public figures of migrant background in European debates about immigration” – LIMITE : 11/02/2018. IISMM. Consulté le 18 juillet 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/q09h


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