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CFP - New Racism and Migration: Beyond Colour and the ‘West’

CFP | New Racism and Migration: Beyond Colour and the =E2=80=98West=E2=80= =99 Date : 16 Jan 2020 - 17 Jan 2020 Venue :

AS8, Level 4, Seminar Room 04-04 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 119260 National University of Singapore @ KRC

Contact Person : Minghua TAY


CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE: 16 SEPTEMBER 2019

Despite the bulk of work that has established =E2=80=98race=E2=80=99 as soc= ially constructed, =E2=80=98race=E2=80=99 remains significant in the everyd= ay lives of migrants, whether it is imposed upon them or has become a form = of boundary-marking amongst them. While studies on new racism against immig= rants is growing and challenging the white-Others binary, many are still fo= cused on white people racializing others. Such studies over-racialize selec= t groups of non-whites including Asians while ignoring racialization and ra= cism by Asians and among Asians. Consequently, there has been a dearth of l= iterature on issues of racialization and racism in non-white settings.

This workshop is interested to move studies of race and migration away from= (skin) colour as well as the =E2=80=98West=E2=80=99. It suggests that a mo= re nuanced understanding of the global, context-specific processes of racia= lization and new racisms can be gained by treating the dominant =E2=80=98We= stern=E2=80=99 experiences of racialization and racism as reference points = rather than paradigms. To extend existing theories about race, ethnicity, n= ew racism and migration, this workshop calls for papers that examine the ra= cialization of migrants beyond skin colour and/or in regions other than Eur= ope and North America, including papers looking at Asian racialization/raci= sms and co-ethnic racialization/racism. It is especially interested in work= that considers intersectional dynamics such as gender, class, nationality = and sexuality and/or postcolonial dynamics. Questions to be addressed inclu= de but are not limited to the following:

  • How can our understandings of race and migration be sharpened through= an analytical focus on racialization and racisms beyond the white-others b= inary?
  • How can empirical cases of racialization and racisms in non-white-maj= ority settings extend understandings of race and migration?
  • How can the =E2=80=98invisibility=E2=80=99 of new racism such as betw= een co-ethnics be analysed?
  • How are migrants=E2=80=99 mobility implicated as difference in racial= ization/racism discourses?
  • What new concepts and methods are needed to deepen understandings of = race and migration?
  • Why are some migrants racialized more than others?
  • How do migrants resist racialization/racism? Do they racialize other = migrants?
  • How do racialization/racism discourses relate to the postcolonial con= dition, modernity and/or globalization?

SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS

Submissions should include a title, an abstract of no more than 250 words a= nd a brief biography including name, institutional affiliation, and email c= ontact. Please note that only previously unpublished papers or those not al= ready committed elsewhere can be accepted. By participating in the workshop= , you agree to participate in the future publication plans of the organizer= s. The organizers will provide hotel accommodation for three nights and a c= ontribution towards airfare for accepted paper participants (one author per= paper).

Please submit your proposal using the provided template = to Ms Tay Minghua at minghua.tay@nus.edu.sg = by 16 September 2019. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out in end S= eptember 2019. Participants will be required to send in a completed draft p= aper (5,000-8,000 words) by 6 December 2019.

CONTACT DETAILS

Workshop Convenors

Dr Sylvia ANG Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore

Assoc Prof Elaine Lynn-Ee HO Asia Research Institute, and Department of Geography, National University o= f Singapore

Prof Brenda S.A. YEOH Asia Research Institute, and Department of Geography, National University o= f Singapore

Secretariat

Ms TAY Minghua Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore E | minghua.tay@nus.edu.sg


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