[Flucht-KQ] WG: Upcoming Event at Seminar Series on Forced Migration

[Ulrike Krause]

FYI

 

Von: Ana Cukovic [mailto:ana.cukovic at univie.ac.at] 
Gesendet: Montag, 8. März 2021 09:55
Betreff: Upcoming Event at Seminar Series on Forced Migration

 

Dear Colleagues,

 

You are invited to the Seminar Series on Forced Migration. This month, the
Seminar will be given by Faranak Miraftab (University of Illinois, Urbana
Champaign), titled ""We Are All Refugees": Informal Settlements and Camps as
Converging Spaces of Global Displacements". The event is scheduled for
Wednesday, March 17, 2021 starting at 5pm CET (Vienna time) and will be held
online. Everyone is welcome and you can register
<https://ksa.univie.ac.at/en/department/events/seminar-series-on-forced-migr
ation/> here.

 

The Seminar Series on Forced Migration is part of
<https://www.iwm.at/research/projects/europe-asia-research-platform-on-force
d-migration/> Europe-Asia Research Platform on Forced Migration at the
<https://www.iwm.at/> Institut für die  <https://www.iwm.at/> Wissenschaften
vom Menschen (IWM) and  <http://www.mcrg.ac.in/> Mahanirban Calcutta
Research Group (CRG); and is hosted at the Department of Social and Cultural
Anthropology at the University of Vienna.

 

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 Faranak Miraftab's presentation, and
attached is the poster. Please kindly forward to your colleagues, networks,
institutions, and those who may be interested.

 

"We Are All Refugees": Informal Settlements and Camps as Converging Spaces
of Global Displacements

This presentation draws on my co-authored paper with Efad Huq to
relationally theorize realities of those living in informal settlements and
in camps in the era of intensified global displacements. We organize this
relational analytical conversation around three themes: experiential to
highlight the precarious relationship of the two groups to citizenship and
place, what we call a state of "citizenship in wait" and "in-situ
displacement"; institutional to highlight the humanitarian matrices of care
that provide governmental structures in both contexts; and micropolitical,
to characterize dwellers' contestations with state and humanitarian
governance that constitute the processes of life-making in informal
settlements, much as in the camps. Bringing to light the comparable spatial
practices and governance among the so-called citizens and the so-called
stateless, we seek to lend a forceful voice to the mounting opposition to
the state-centered politics of citizenship that pit refugees against the
poor, and to gesture toward forging solidarities for a humane urbanism.

 

If you have any questions or require any further information, please do not
hesitate to write.

 

Sincerely,

Ana Ćuković

Coordinator for Europe-Asia Research Platform on Forced Migration at
University of Vienna

 

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