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Dear Colleagues,

Please consider joining our panel MIGRATION AND HOUSING IN CONTEMPORARY CITIES. OPPORTUNITIES TO STAY, MOVE AND SETTLE at the VIENNA ANTHROPOLOGY DAYS (VANDA) 2018.

The panel addresses opportunities of migrants to stay, move and settle on urban housing markets. Aiming at a locational analysis of migration and housing, the panel presents ethnographic research that considers the role of capital flows, public and private actors as well as immigrant agency for the opportunities migrants find in urban locations.

The Vienna Anthropology Days take place from 19-22 September. The conference seeks to bring international anthropologists to Vienna as well as showcase research at the University of Vienna to an international audience, and allows to exchange and network for potential future collaborations. The event is jointly organized by the Institute of Social Anthropology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ISA), the Weltmuseum Wien, and the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Vienna (IKSA). This is the link to the conference call: https://ksa.univie.ac.at/institut/aktuelles/details/news/vanda-call-for-papers/?tx_news_pi1%5Bcontroller%5D=News&tx_news_pi1%5Baction%5D=detail&cHash=b55b0fc1314f815be2a77cd6bbb3a81a

In case you are interested to contribute a paper, please send us an abstract (max. 300 words) by June 15.

We would be very happy if you would consider joining us in Vienna in the fall! Many Thanks, Maria Schiller and Daniele Karasz

Panel details: Migration and housing in contemporary cities Opportunities to stay, move and settle

Panel organizers: Dr. Maria Schiller (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Ethnic and Religious Diversity), Daniele Karasz (University of Vienna, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology)

Short abstract The panel addresses opportunities of migrants to stay, move and settle on urban housing markets. Aiming at a locational analysis of migration and housing, the panel presents ethnographic research that considers the role of capital flows, public and private actors as well as immigrant agency for the opportunities migrants find in urban locations.

Long Abstract In recent years, some scholars have started talking about migration without taking one migrant group or the national state as an entry point, but location. Such literature (Glick Schiller and Caglar 2011) looks at the opportunities and constraints that more or less established residents and new migrants find in one location. We consider housing – its availability, condition and use – as important to understand dynamics of inclusion and exclusion in the context of im/mobility and settlement. This approach opens up several questions concerning migration and urban development in contemporary cities: • What chances do migrants have to stay and what forces migrants to move houses? – Or, to put it in a different light – Who has the possibility to move houses and who is forced to stay? • How do capital flows and economic resources inform opportunities and constraints for migrants on urban housing markets? • How do private and public actors in the field of urban planning enable or constrain migrants to stay, move and settle? • What agency do migrants exercise in creating housing opportunities and in navigating the lack of housing opportunities?

We invite papers that present an anthropological analysis of migration and the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion in the realm of housing. Aiming at empirically rich contributions, we welcome concrete ethnographic case studies in different cities. Contributions may focus on global or peripheral cities, as well as on specific neighbourhoods and semi-urban areas.

-- Daniele Karasz Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie der Universität Wien Rathausstraße 19/9/1/13 A – 1010 Wien Mail: daniele.karasz@univie.ac.at Phone: +43-(0)699-12337032 ////\\////\\////\\////\\////\\////\\////\\////\\

EASA Anthropology and Mobility Network (ANTHROMOB) http://www.easaonline.org/networks/anthromob/

For further information please contact any of the following:

Valerio Simoni The Graduate Institute Geneva (Switzerland) vals_sim@yahoo.com

Anna Lisa Ramella Universitt Siegen anna.ramella@gmail.com

Noel Salazar KU Leuven noel.Salazar@kuleuven.be

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