[Bilimsel Haber] CONF./CFP: Terrorism and Migration, University of Southampton, 17-18 November 2007

[Gonul Pultar]

  Terrorism and Migration, Interdisciplinary Conference, School of
  Humanities, University of Southampton, UK, 17-18 November 2007

*Contemporary anxieties about terrorism in the mainstream media and 
politics* have clearly articulated the war against terrorism and the 
struggle for global security to the control of immigration, as well as 
the criminalisation of Islam. As A. Sivanandan has argued in a recent 
article, 'the war on asylum and the war on terror [...] have converged 
to produce a racism which cannot tell a settler from an immigrant, an 
immigrant from an asylum speaker, an asylum speaker from a Muslim, a 
Muslim from a terrorist'. In response to the conflation of discourses of 
counter-terrorism, global security and the control of migration, this 
conference invites papers from any area of the humanities and the social 
sciences that are related to the following topics:

/- Terrorism and Migration in Literature, Film, Visual Art and Music
- Histories of migration, immigration law and political sovereignty
- Migration, Terrorism and the State of Emergency
- Ethnographies of migration and terrorism
- Terrorism, Migration and the Public Sphere
- Asylum, Imperialism and War/

Confirmed Speakers include: Margaret Scanlan, Elleke Boehmer, Ranjana 
Khanna, David Glover and Matthew Gibney.

Please submit a 200-300 word abstract via email or post to the address 
below by September 1st, 2007:

Sandy White
English, School of Humanities
University of Southampton
Southampton
S017 1BJ
E-mail: sw17 at soton.ac.uk <mailto:sw17 at soton.ac.uk>