[Flucht-KQ] Invitiation to Seminar Series on Forced Migration

[Ulrike Krause]

FYI nachstehend

 

Weitergeleitete Nachricht

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Dear Colleagues,

 

You are invited to the Seminar Series on Forced Migration hosted by the
University of Vienna Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, as part
of the Europe-Asia Research Platform on Forced Migration launched by the
<https://www.iwm.at/> Institute of Human Sciences (IWM) and the
<http://www.mcrg.ac.in/> Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group (MCRG).

 

The inaugural lecture, “Migration, borders and technologies: an introduction
to techno-borderscapes” will be given by Giorgia Doná (University of East
London Centre for Migration, Refugees and Belonging) and held online on
November 11, 2020 starting at 5pm CET. Everyone is welcome and registration
can be found here
<https://ksa.univie.ac.at/en/department/events/seminar-series-on-forced-migr
ation/> . 

 

The Seminar Series brings speakers from different disciplines to discuss
topics ranging from changing regimes and forms of governance of
migrants/refugees; the solidarity networks and demands for social justice as
entangled with increasing inequalities, austerity politics, and racism; the
institutional components regulating and managing different forms of
displacement; incorporation and exclusion of refugees and migrants from
labor markets and protection regimes along the lines of gender, race,
religion, and work. 

 

Below, you will find the abstract for Prof. Giorgia Dona’s presentation and
attached is the flyer. We kindly ask that you forward this event and flyer
to your colleagues, networks, institutions, and those who are interested in
these topics.

 

Abstract:

Giorgia Dona (UEL)

Migration, borders and technologies - an introduction to techno-borderscapes


In this presentation, I discuss the relationship among migration, borders
and technologies by examining the role of mobile digital devices in the
everyday lives of migrants in transit and their encounters with state
agents, humanitarian actors and activists at the border. The concept
techno-borderscapes is introduced to rethink transit zones as sites of
embodied and virtual interactions that highlight the connections among
digital securitisation, humanitarianism and activism. Confronted with
increased border securitisation, migrants use mobile technologies to bypass
borders, create new forms of migrant-to-migrant protection and assistance,
and articulate their political voice. Border spaces are not just
‘in-between’ zones along a unidirectional migratory trajectory but rather
transformative and transforming techno-borderscapes.

 

Looking forward to seeing you on November 11 and please do not hesitate to
write with any questions or requests for more information.

 

Sincerely,

Ana 

 

 

 

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