[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Migration Matters: Immigration, Homelands, and Border Crossings in Europe and the Americas (Netherlands) (11/15/07; 6/25/08)

[Gonul Pultar]

6th MESEA Conference
The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas

June 25-28, 2008, Leiden University, The Netherlands

   Call for Papers

"MIGRATION MATTERS: IMMIGRATION, HOMELANDS, AND BORDER CROSSINGS IN 
EUROPE AND THE AMERICAS"

Largely driven by economics, migration today is a global and globalizing 
phenomenon that renders national borders obsolete and calls into 
question the viability of nation states and national identities. Yet 
precisely because it undermines national structures, migration also has 
contributed to the reinvention of the historically highly problematic 
concept of "homelands" and the reconstruction of increasingly 
impenetrable borders. It is, moreover, in local situations and contexts 
that the impact of global migration is experienced, debated, and 
contested most directly and urgently. This conference, then, aims to 
focus on the ways in which migration matters locally as well as 
transnationally and globally, in the realms of politics and culture, 
history and sociology, economics and law, language, literature and the 
arts in Europe and the Americas. The following list of topics is meant 
to be suggestive rather than restrictive:

Migration and the reinvention of (national and transnational, real and 
imaginary) "homelands" and/or the reconstruction of (external and 
internal, national, ethnic and racial, cultural and mental, political 
and economic) borders

Global migrations and fluid geographies in terms of physical mappings 
and shifting populations

Migration and national/ethnic/cultural/aesthetic border crossings

Migration and modernization

Immigration debates in various national contexts

Images of the host countries in countries/continents of migratory origin

Immigration restrictions and human rights; legal and extra-legal status 
of immigrants

Circulation and impact of migrant peoples and cultures in specific rural 
and urban spaces; cultural diversity in local societies

New immigrant literatures as world and/or national literature; 
representation in and impact on regional cultures, literatures, media, 
and arts

Macrosociological analyses of migration and globalization processes; 
rethinking the sociology of literature

Cultural production (literature, film, visual art, performance, music, 
blog-culture, web-art) by or about migrants

Migration and the reinvention of religious identities

Emerging identities/identity fashioning; ethnic refashioning: conflict 
and/or reconciliation

Historical case studies of migrancy and diaspora; evolving diaspora 
cultures

Migration and gender

Migration and race/racialization

Forced migration and historical/contemporary slavery or bonded labor

Migration and linguistic diversity

Immigration and educational reformation(s)


  Please submit three hard copies of a 300-word abstract (including a 
maximum of five keywords) or full panel proposals (including a 
description of the panel, chair, respondents, and individual abstracts) 
as well as an electronic copy to MESEA's Program Director, Yiorgos 
Kalogeras, Department of English, Aristotle University, 54124 
Thessaloniki, Greece by November 15, 2007: (kalogera at enl.auth.gr). 
Inter/transnational and inter/transdisciplinary proposals and panels 
will be given preference. Note that MESEA will award two Young Scholars 
Excellence Awards.
For more information: http://www.mesea.org

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