32. Facing Distance and Proximity: Migration,
Translocalities and the Nation-State (Invited Workshop)
Convenors:
Sabine Strasser, University of Vienna
Krystyna Romaniszyn, Jagiellonian
University
Discussant:
Nadje
Al-Ali, University of Exeter
n.s.al-ali@ex.ac.uk
This
workshop explores the interrelations between the nation-state on the one hand,
and translocalities, transnational social spaces, migrants’ connectedness
and their loyalties on the other. EmerGhent translocal and transnational social
and political formations have put the sovereignty of the nation-state under
threat and thus questioned the dominant spatial organization of modernity. New
forms of belonging, new relations between identity and territory, and new
interpretations of loyalty confront the identity of the nation-state and call
for serious and intense debate. This workshop invites both empirically driven
and theoretically informed papers, which address the relations between
nation-states and new translocalities. We particularly wish to examine how
translocalities challenge the nation-state and what the different responses to
this challenge look like. Papers which explore the following themes are
especially welcome:
-
Conceptualizing translocalities: connectedness, disconnectedness, and the
meaning of borders
-Constructing
proximity: new forms of deterritorializing state strategies
- Facing
distance and proximity: gendered migration to distant households and
"forced" transnational spaces
- Working
for proximity: the role and impact of transnational politics "from
below" and intercultural mediators
Disconnecting place
Yngve.Lithman@sfu.uib.no
”There Once Was an Ant Who Decided to Run Around
the World” Sentiments of ”betweennes” and joking among the
northern Moroccan border crossers
Marko Juntunen, University of
Helsinki
Near and
far? Transnational Democratic Values and Welfare in the Post-socialist
Transformation of Serbia and Montenegro
Jelena Tosic, Austrian
Academy of Sciences
Becoming
East European in Denmark. Gender and National Identity of Czech
Émigrés.
Lenka Skodova, University of Copenhagen
Changing ethnic and political boundaries: new
borderlines in Central Asia
Tsypylma Darieva, Max Planck
Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale
Labour Migration
from East to West: Some Pressing Contradictions