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CALL FOR PAPERS NOW OPEN - SIEF 2023 - BRNO Czech Republic:7-10 June = 2023

Dear all,=20

Only 1 week is left to submit your paper for SIEF 2023! Please, consider submitting a paper for the panel BODY02=C2=A0The Body = of Migrants: How Migration Shapes Human Bodies = organized by = Gianmarco Marzola (ICS-ULisboa), Isabel Pires (ICS-ULisboa) and Mustafa = Abdalla (Freie University Berlin). Please circulate to anyone who might be interested. The call ends on January 10th!!!!

Kindly,=20 Jan, Isabel & Mustafa.

More details: SIEF = or email us (Gianmarco or Isabel = ) .

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The Body of Migrants: How Migration Shapes Human Bodies=20

Short Abstract: Drawing from academic debates, political discourses and cultural = representations, this panel seeks to inquire into the transformations = that human bodies undergo in contemporary migratory phenomena.

Long Abstract: In the last decades the body of migrants has gained attention within a = wide range of academic and political debates. It underwent processes of = victimisation in humanitarian discourses, it has been described as a = national threat in state politics. Being continuously reframed in = aesthetic imaginaries the migrant body has also been object of = eroticisation and exoticisation. In this depictions, post-colonial power = relationships, hierarchies of privileges and global inequality play a = major role, being both reason and product of these cultural = representations. In this panel, we invite contributions that building = upon relevant debates on these topics can see beyond the dichotomy = between agency and sociocentric representations of the migrant body and = can shed a new light upon migration as a constant transformative process = and lived experience. Encouraging an ethnographic-based analysis, we = seek to discuss how strategies and practices that start from the = physical body are enacted by migrant individuals or how, on the = contrary, the body is marked by the migratory process.=