Dear network members,
let me inform you about the Call for papers (deadline 26 November 2020) for the 15th Congress of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (21-24 June 2021, online), with the theme Breaking the rules? Power, Participation, and Transgression (see the message from SIEF further below).
Please pay special attention to the panel Mob09 Highly skilled migrants: challenging ‘integration’ categories organised by Tytti Steel and myself -https://www.siefhome.org/congresses/sief2021/panels#9624 :
Highly skilled migrants may be relatively privileged in terms of education and employment, but they still encounter specific emotional, social, and career challenges. Research on these migrants can expose faultlines of the conventional ideas about the nature of ‘problems with integration’, that focus on employment and relate to origin and (ethnic) culture rather than to class and race. The panel sets to promote and exemplify the ways in which ethnographic research can challenge the conventional ‘integration’ categories and help advance the theoretical frameworks pertaining to manifold aspects of migrant settlement, inclusion and wellbeing.
The panel invites both theoretical and empirical contributions set to provide nuanced understandings of how education and professional experience are intersected with reasons for migration, gender, age, family circumstances, time and timing of migrancy, citizenship, employment venue, professional sector and type of contract, and how these intersections may affect the migrants’ own perceptions of ‘integration’ against the background of the given socio-economic, legal and policy context.
As the questions of exclusion and racialisation – typically raised for unskilled migrants – are relevant also to the high-skilled, we particularly welcome papers that trace the sense of exclusion and explore the tension between privilege and discrimination. They may be based on (but are not limited to) single cases or on comparisons across national origins and professions, across skills (high- and low-skilled migrants from the same country of origin), between highly skilled migrants and non-migrant professionals, or between highly skilled labour migrants and refugees.
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15th Congress of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore Helsinki, Finland 21-24 June 2021
SIEF2021 News
Call for papers and Posters is now Open!
Dear Colleagues,
The Call for Papers and Posters for Breaking the rules? Power, participation and transgression is now open and will close on 26 November. All panels, roundtables and workshops will take place virtually - SIEF2021 will be an online congress. While the organisers hoped for a long time to be able to keep a face-to-face component, the uncertainty brought on by the world-wide pandemic makes having an on-site event unfeasible on so many levels: the constant changes in travel restrictions, ensuring health and safety on the premises, differences in COVID-19 spread and management policies in different states, care responsibilities at home for those looking after the elderly, financial insecurities (including travel and other insurance policies becoming void with force majeure clauses) etc etc.
The Scientific Committee also felt very strongly that canceling or postponing the congress would be unfair. Thus it was decided that a virtual gathering would provide a way for everyone to present their scholarship and nurture professional development, encourage ongoing collaborations and create new connections. On top of that, the local organisers from Helsinki have risen to the challenge of delivering an unforgettable congress with spectacular keynotes, innovative (rule-breaking?!) events and the opportunity to experience the Arctic atmosphere through a unique music programme - all online in Helsinki.
So please do not be discouraged by the virtual format and join us. There are 116 panels to pick from that all approach the congress theme from an original angle and there’s also a poster stream to gather in visual contributions.
Please read the instructions on how to propose a paper or a poster on the Call for Papers and Posters page<https://sendy.nomadit.co.uk/l/1N4h5Mc3Ul2ENDmOPoMZgA/LFUaZ3viJPB8YaoNu5MyFA…> and then proceed to submit your contribution. All contributions must be submitted via the links on panel pages<https://sendy.nomadit.co.uk/l/1N4h5Mc3Ul2ENDmOPoMZgA/59n0TrsG18ALUgZNtyKvbA…>, none should be sent by e-mail.
Looking forward to seeing you at SIEF2021!
Yours,
Triinu
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Best wishes, hoping that everyone is safe and able to work in these challenging times,
Maja
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Maja Povrzanović Frykman
Professor of Ethnology, GPS/MIM, Malmö University, 205 06 Malmö, Sweden
Web: http://forskning.mah.se/en/id/immafr Tel: +46725466809 E-mail: maja.frykman at mau.se<mailto:maja.frykman at mau.se>
Recent publications:
Conviviality at the Crossroads: The Poetics and Politics of Everyday Encounters, https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-28979-9
Post-2015 Refugees Welcome initiatives in Sweden: cosmopolitan underpinnings, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-28979-9_9
”Only volunteers”? Personal motivations and political ambiguities within Refugees Welcome to Malmö civil initiative, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-92741-1_11
How does place matter to highly skilled migrants?, https://doi.org/10.2478/njmr-2019-0026
The importance of friends: social life challenges for foreign physicians in Southern Sweden, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13668803.2019.1599323
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* Apologies for cross-posting *
Dear colleagues,
Please find below a call for papers for the IMISCOE Migration conference in Luxembourg, on Transnational migrant entrepreneurs bridging urban, regional, national, and global spaces: A multi-scalar global perspective that might be of interest to some of you. Please be so kind and distribute it among your networks and possibly interested colleagues and students.
Kindest regards
Yvonne Riaño
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Prof. Dr. Yvonne Riaño
Chair Switzerland's National Committee for the International Geographical Union (IGU)
Project leader Swiss National Center of Research Competence 'On the Move'
Institute of Geography
University of Neuchâtel
Espace Tilo-Frey 1
CH-2000 Neuchâtel
Switzerland
Webpage: http://www2.unine.ch/geographie/yvonne_riano
Publications: https://unine.academia.edu/YvonneRiaño<https://unine.academia.edu/YvonneRia%C3%B1o>
Project page: https://nccr-onthemove.ch/projects/migrant-entrepreneurship-mapping-cross-b…
IGU: https://igu-online.org/organization/national-committees/
Transnational migrant entrepreneurs bridging urban, regional, national, and global spaces: A multi-scalar global perspective
Yvonne Riaño (University of Neuchatel, Switzerland); Ricard Zapata-Barrero (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain), Christina Mittmasser (University of Neuchatel, Switzerland); Laure Sandoz (University of Neuchatel, Switzerland)
_______________________________________________________________________________In a globalised world, the actions of groups and individuals span across multiple geographical scales. In recent years, migration researchers have called for taking multi-scalar processes more seriously (see references below). In a multi-scalar global perspective, local, regional, national, and global are not separate levels of analysis; they are mutually constituted spheres of action in which people – both migrants and non-migrants – live. This perspective allows researchers to investigate not only the different opportunities and constraints created by nation states, but also the conditions produced by urban and regional contexts within specific nation states, as well as the transnational settings in which migrants act. Some research on transnational migrant entrepreneurship does exist but studies seriously addressing the global multi-scalar perspective by examining how entrepreneurs bridge urban, regional, national, and global spaces are scant.
This session contributes to filling this research gap by examining the local, regional, national, and global contexts in which transnational migrant entrepreneurs (TME) are embedded, and how they bridge these different spaces through entrepreneurial activities and creative mobility strategies. We are interested in comprehending the diverse contexts of opportunity, or lack thereof, against the backdrop of entrepreneurship policies and mobility regimes in which cities, regions, states, and global spaces are imbricated. Understanding how transnational entrepreneurs creatively connect and transform such settings through the multi-scalar mobilities of people, goods, capital, and ideas is central. Furthermore, we are aware that these multi-scalar processes may (re)produce social, economic, and spatial power dependencies as well as social inequalities. This needs to be examined. We welcome empirical, methodological and/or theoretical contributions that focus on transnational business or transnational social entrepreneurs, from a qualitative, quantitative or mixed-methods perspective. We are especially interested in how the practices of transnational migrant entrepreneurs bridge cross-border localities, and how Covid-19 restrictions impact these practices. Finally, the potential positive impulses of TME for multi-level governance, socio-economic development and power relations.
Submissions
Please submit your abstract no later than 16 November 2020 specifying the research question, data, methods and main findings (250 words maximum) as well as title, name, email, and institutional affiliation. Please submit abstracts in Word format to Yvonne Riaño (yvonne.riano at unine.ch<mailto:yvonne.riano at unine.ch>), Ricard Zapata-Barrero (ricard.zapata at upf.edu<mailto:ricard.zapata at upf.edu>), Christina Mittmasser (christina.mittmasser at unine.ch<mailto:christina.mittmasser at unine.ch>) and Laure Sandoz (laure.sandoz at unine.ch<mailto:laure.sandoz at unine.ch>). The notification of what abstracts will be accepted for the panel will be made by 30 November 2020 (innovative, scientifically solid, fit call for papers). We expect IMISCOE's answer by 1. February 2021.
References
Glick Schiller N., and A. Caglar (2011). Locating Migration: Rescaling Cities and Migrants, Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Glick Schiller N. (2015) "Explanatory frameworks in transnational migration studies: the missing multi-scalar global perspective", Ethnic and Racial Studies, 38:13, 2275-2282.
Zapata-Barrero, R. and Rezai, S. (Eds) (2019) "Diaspora governance and transnational entrepreneurship: the rise of an emerging social global pattern in migration studies", Special Issue of Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (JEMS), 46 (10).
Dear all,
A team of Swedish ethnologists has a new open access publication that may be of interest to you:
Öhlander, M., Wolanik Boström, K. and Pettersson, H., 2020. Knowledge Transfer Work: A Case of Internationally Mobile Medical Professionals. Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 10(2), pp.36–49. DOI: http://doi.org/10.33134/njmr.136
This study is a part of the research project ‘What is the use of internationalization for transfer of knowledge and professional status? A case of highly skilled international returners in the medical field’, financed by the Marcus & Marianne Wallenberg Foundation.
Best wishes,
Maja
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Maja Povrzanović Frykman
Professor of Ethnology, GPS/MIM, Malmö University, 205 06 Malmö, Sweden
Web: http://forskning.mah.se/en/id/immafr Tel: +46725466809 E-mail: maja.frykman at mau.se<mailto:maja.frykman at mau.se>
Recent publications:
Conviviality at the Crossroads: The Poetics and Politics of Everyday Encounters, https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-28979-9
Post-2015 Refugees Welcome initiatives in Sweden: cosmopolitan underpinnings, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-28979-9_9
”Only volunteers”? Personal motivations and political ambiguities within Refugees Welcome to Malmö civil initiative, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-92741-1_11
How does place matter to highly skilled migrants?, https://doi.org/10.2478/njmr-2019-0026
The importance of friends: social life challenges for foreign physicians in Southern Sweden, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13668803.2019.1599323
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