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The Intersections of Tourism, Migration, and Exile - IUAES2019 CFP deadline 15 February

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Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to submit paper proposals to the IUAES 2019
panel on "THE INTERSECTIONS OF TOURISM, MIGRATION, AND EXILE". The
deadline is soon - 15 FEBRUARY 2019.

CONVENORS

Kathleen M. Adams (Loyola University Chicago, USA)

Natalia Bloch (Warsaw University, Poland)

Adriana Piscitelli (State University of Campinas/ UNICAMP, Brazil)

SHORT ABSTRACT

The panel's aim is to explore the intersecting terrain between the
varied forms of spatial mobility in order to problematize the
seemingly-fixed boundaries separating tourism, migration, and exile. We
invite scholars to discuss how these mobilities intertwine, overlap, and
influence one another.

LONG ABSTRACT

The aim of the panel is to explore the intersecting terrain between the
varied forms of spatial mobility. Our goal is to problematize the
seemingly-fixed boundaries separating tourism, migration, and exile. We
invite scholars interested in discussing how these mobilities
intertwine, overlap and influence one another. Such intersections are
multidimensional and multidirectional: migrants and established exiles
can act as tourists; refugee communities might be the tourist
attractions; migrants often work as laborers and entrepreneurs in the
tourism sector; tourists, on the other hand, turn into
migrant-entrepreneurs in the tourism sector or combine tourism with
work.

While tourism, migration and exile are usually researched and theorized
separately, we believe that transcending the categorical boundaries
within the anthropology of mobility and considering how differentiated
distributions of power permeate them will contribute to social critiques
of the way various forms of mobility are conceptualized in public
discourses related to gender, class, ethnic, racial, and global
inequalities (e.g. tourists from the Global North as cosmopolitan nomads
versus migrants from the Global South as intruders). We hope that
through deconstructing the conceptual foundations of these moral
valorizations of people's movement will enable us to built world
solidarities with those whose movement is restrained.

We are interested in both empirical case studies and discussions
exploring how the above intersections enable us to deconstruct
dichotomous classifications within mobility studies (tourists vs.
migrants, migrants vs. refugees, leisure vs. work, voluntary vs. forced
migration, etc.).

KEYWORDS: tourism, migration, exile, mobility, conceptual boundaries

PAPER SUBMISSION: https://www.iuaes2019.org/paper-guidelines/

Deadline: 15 FEBRUARY 2019

General information about the IUAES 2019 Inter-Congress:
https://www.iuaes2019.org/

Best regards,

Natalia Bloch

Assistant Professor

Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology

Warsaw University/Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland
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