11:24 a.m.
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
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Looking forward to seeing you at SIEF2021!
Yours,
Triinu
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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
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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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