Diasporas, Migration and Identities: Crossing Boundaries, New Directions
'Diasporas, migration and identities' has been the subject of a major national research programme funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) in the UK since 2005. Its central concerns have also been at the heart of the work of the Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism (CRONEM). The aim of this international conference is to examine the past and present impact of diasporas and migration on nation, community, identity and subjectivity, culture and the imagination, place and space, emotion, politics, law and values.
Confirmed speakers:
Ato Quayson, Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada
Robin Cohen, Professor of Development Sociology, University of Oxford / Honorary Professor at the University of Warwick
We invite abstracts that address the following themes in the UK and beyond:
- Migration, settlement and diaspora: modes, stages and forms
- Representation, performance, discourse and language
- Subjectivity, emotion and identity
- Objects, practices and places
- Beliefs, values and laws
- The role of youth in relationship to diasporas, migration and identities
- Diasporic economics and labour markets
- The recognition of multiple origins and mixedness
- The politics of immigration and integration
- Public opinion and public policy
- Ethnic identity politics