Migration Gender Politics

26/02/2016

07/04/2015

We are happy to announce our next conference:

Structures and Dynamics in Migrant Families – Transnational Processes and Global Challenges

24 to 25 April 2015 (Fri – Sat)
University of Oldenburg, Germany
Conference languages: English and German

The conference aims at scrutinizing representations of migrant families in both research and civil society. It includes the discussion of diversities of migrant families and dynamics of change, as well as individual and collective challenges, strategies and agencies.
Results of current research will be discussed with respect to their implementation, and practice-related approaches will be related to their impacts on research.

Keynotes will combine theory-, research- and practice-related perspectives. A forum for practitioners (including input presentations) and the introduction to the concept for an information handbook for migrant one-parent families offer space to discuss and link theory and praxis.

More information: http://almin-projekt.de/conference/

Conference █ German version below █ International Conference Structures and Dynamics in Migrant Families – Transnational Processes and Global Challenges 24 to 25 April 2015 (Fri – Sat) University of Oldenburg, Germany Conference languages: English and German The conference aims at scrutinizing repre…

13/12/2014

European Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations
Apply now for the 2015 intake!
www.emmir.org

Application deadline for scholarship applications is 15 Dec 2014
(special scholarship windows for applicants from Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, South Africa, the Caucasus, the Gulf countries, Egypt and Tunisia)

Self funded applications are accepted until 5 July 2015 – early admission possible!
See APPLICATIONS for deadlines

EMMIR is the European Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations. It is the first African-European Erasmus Mundus Master Course in Migration Studies. The first cohort set out to study in September 2011; since 2013 the programme is fully accredited by the national agencies as part of the Europea…

28/11/2012

We are constantly posting PhD opportunities, summer school options, etc. at our blog. New info: London Critical Theory Summer School 2013

19/11/2012

12/11/2012

"We chart how maps have transformed the way we look at the world with Simon Garfield and Jerry Brotton" - Interesting talk about the defining power of maps produced by Claire Armitstead and Tim Maby. Please find the direct link to the guardian podcast here: bit.ly/WJ5P3a

We chart how maps have transformed the way we look at the world with Simon Garfield and Jerry Brotton

12/11/2012

(current events:) Keynote by Nancy Fraser in Berlin, November 21 19:00 (Supermakt, Brunnenstr. 64, Berlin): From Crisis to Change?

Keynote and public debate with Nancy Fraser, Einstein Visiting Fellow and Professor of Political and Social Science at the New School for Social Research, New York

-registration required-

Having started as a housing slump in the United States, the crisis finally spread from the markets to the everyday life of people around the globe. Einstein Visiting Fellow Nancy Fraser offers an explanation for the devastating consequences of the financial crisis: In reference to the Hungarian economist Karl Polanyi (1886-1964), she makes the pe*******on of the markets into all areas of our life responsible for the extent of the crisis. What we need, in her opinion, are realms of sociality that follow their own logic – the logic of justice, for instance.

But is the theory of Polanyi still up-to-date after all? And is Nancy Fraser’s solution convincing? What are the obstacles for a balance between economy and justice? After a keynote speech, Nancy Fraser discusses these questions with scientists and prominent experts from Berlin.
Panel Participants

Rahel Jeaggi // Humboldt University of Berlin
Alexander Nützenadel // Humboldt University of Berlin
N.N.

More info: http://www.einsteinfoundation.de/de/meetingeinstein_nancyfraser.html

Geförderte Meeting Einstein Lectures

30/10/2012

(current events:) Migration//Movement in Dialogue * Presentation of the International Theater Workshops at Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art

We cordially invite you and your friends to join us in Oldenburg at Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art !

Puppeteer and storyteller Hubert Mahela Katemba from Kinshasa and performer Barbara Loreck from Berlin will present their art and theater workshops on migration experience that they hold with Master students of Erasmus Mundus Master of Migration and Intercultural Relations this week !

The event will take place in the conference room of the Edith Russ Site for Media Art on Thursday, 01 November, 19 o'clock

Description available in German:
In dieser Woche haben 10 Studierende des Europäischen Master-Studiengangs EMMIR (Migrationen und interkulturelle Beziehungen) der Universität Oldenburg die Möglichkeit, sich in szenischem Spiel mit dem Thema Migrationserfahrung auseinanderzusetzen. Der Workshop nähert sich diesem globalen und vielseitigem Erfahrungshorizont Migration in differenzierter Weise über Erzählungen, gemeinsames Brainstorming zum Thema und vor allem über Körpererfahrung und die Animation von Alltagsgegenständen. Begleitet werden die Studierenden von Hubert Mahela, der als Mitbegründer des Kulturzentrums Espace Masolo in Kinshasa Ausbildungen zum Puppenspieler und zur Musiker_in in einem Blechblasensemble für ehemalige Kindersoldaten und Straßenkinder durchführt.
Am Donnerstag um 19 Uhr wird der Veranstaltungsraum des Edith-Russ-Hauses für Medienkunst zum Ort der work-in-progress Präsentation der intensiven Zusammenarbeit innerhalb des 3-tägigen Workshops. Kreative Ausdrucksformen der Studierenden und ihre Erzählungen mit dem eigenen Körper und animierten
Objekten führen den Besuchenden erlebbare Zugänge zum komplexen Thema der Migrationsbewegungen vor Augen.


Thanks to EDITH-RUSS-HAUS for Media Art
Info: http://www.edith-russ-haus.de

Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst

30/10/2012

(current events:) Panel discussion: "Concepts and Narratives of (IN)security", 07.11.2012, 19.00 h

The Mittelmeer Institut Berlin (MIB) invites all interested scholars to take part at the project : "Concepts and Narratives of (IN)security - the EU Migration Policy and Change in the Arab World"

Speakers:
Viola von Cramon, Speaker for EU-Foreign Relations, Delegate of B90/ Die Grünen

Dr. Mechthild Baumann, Head of Institute for Migration and Security Studies (IMSS)

Heba Ahmed, Organisation for Human Rights in the Arab States (OMRAS)

Andreas Scheu, Former Military Attaché in Tunesia, Federal Ministry of Defense

Dr. Steffen Angenendt, Foundation Science and Policy (SWP), Federal Ministry of economic cooperation and development

Presenter: Dr. Isabel Schäfer, Head of Project Mediterranean Institute Berlin (MIB)

Where: Institute for Social Sciences, Humboldt University Berlin, Universitätsstraße 3b, Raum 002.

Please register by November 5 via E-Mail:
[email protected]

Thanks to Isabell Schäfer and the Mediterranean Institute Berlin for the Info!

30/10/2012

(currrent events:) Lecture today in Berlin: Trystan Cotten talks about political alliances betweeen people of colour and q***r people as part of the exhibit "trans*_homo, von lesbischen trans*Schwulen und anderen Normalitäten"

@ Schwules Museum, Mehringdamm 61, 19:00h

A talk about alliances, particularly between blacks and q***rs, and how we do transformative work around racism in q***r communities and work to transform black communities of homophobia in the US. How are the tensions between blacks and q***rs maintained and even magnified, which keep them from doing coalition work? What's going on in Kreuzberg with tensions between the Turkish locals and artists and lgbt communities? Coalition alliances: what does and doesn't work from a historical and sociological perspective.

Trystan Cotten is Associate Professor of Gender Studies at California State University, Stanislaus where he teaches and conducts research on race, gender, sexuality, migration, and diaspora. He has published several books in Gender and Ethnic Studies with his latest two being Transgender Migrations: The Bodies, Borders, and Politics of Transition and Hung Jury: Testimonies of Ge***al Surgery by Tr*******al Men. He is Founder and Managing Editor of Transgress Press, a social entrepreneurial publishing firm that promotes transgressive ideas in the academy and works to benefit trans and q***r communities. Trystan is currently working on an ethnographic study of trans male and masculine people in the African Diaspora, Middle Passages: Race, Space, and Migration in the African Trans Diaspora, and editing a related collection of criticism, Queering Africa, Trans-ing Diaspora: Geographies of Multiple Movements and Morphings, which puts African/Diaspora Studies in critical dialogue with q***r and trans theory. He is also writing a critique of q***r and feminist theory entitled Second Thoughts: Autobiographies of Former Lesbian/Feminists by using the autobiographical narratives of tr*******al men who had lived as le***an feminists before transitioning.

Info: http://www.schwulesmuseum.de/

Das Schwule Museum in Berlin. Ausstellungen, Archiv und Bibliothek zum Thema Homosexualität.

30/10/2012

After a week of refugees hunger strike at Brandenburger Tor (Berlin), Senator of Health Mario Czaja is criticising the humanitarian conditions. Background: the police took away blankets of protesters in winterly streets of Berlin.

Berlin - Berlins Gesundheitssenator Mario Czaja (CDU) hat die Situation von Flüchtlingen bei der Mahnwache vor dem Brandenburger Tor in Berlin kritisiert. «Ich will klären, ob das Vorgehen des Bezirksamts aus humanitären Gesichtspunkten zu rechtfertigen ist», sagte er am Montag. Die Demonstranten mu...

29/10/2012

(Please spread!) The Centre for Refugee Studies at York University is offering a Summer Course on Refugee and Forced Migration Issues from May 13 - May 19, 2013.

** REGISTRATION NOW OPEN! **

The Summer Course on Refugee and Forced Migration Issues is an internationally acclaimed seven-day, non-credit course for academic and field-based practitioners working in the area of forced migration. It serves as a hub for researchers, students, practitioners, service providers and policy makers to share information and ideas. The Summer Course is housed within the Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS), York University. All participants who complete the full course receive a York University Centre for Refugee Studies Summer Course Certificate.

2013 Summer Course topics will include:

Forced displacement: International case studies
Legal approaches to refugee studies
UNHCR, the Convention and the International Refugee Regime
UNRWA and Palestinian refugees
Refugee resettlement policy
Urban refugees
Internally displaced populations
Age and gender mainstreaming in forced migration
Sexual minority refugee determination
Environmentally-induced displacement
Externalization of asylum
Transitional justice
Humanitarian crises
Securitization of migration
Refugee education

For more information, and to apply, please visit our website at
http://crs.yorku.ca/summer/

The Summer Course on Refugee and Forced Migration Issues is an internationally acclaimed seven-day (May 13-19, 2013) non-credit course for academic and field-based practitioners working in the area of forced migration. It serves as a hub for researchers, students, practitioners, service providers an...