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Routes, roots, and rumours: tracing migration and tourism imaginaries
Start date:2008-10-01
End date:2011-09-30
Project Acronym:MIGRATOURIMA
Project status:Completed
Coordinator
| Organization name:KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Johan |
Oude Markt LEUVEN BELGIQUE-BELGIË Region:VLAAMS GEWEST VLAAMS BRABANT Leuven |
| Tel:+32-16-325494 | |
| Fax:+32-16-325902 | |
| E-mail:Contact | |
| URL:http://www.kuleuven.be | Organization Type: |
Description
Objective:
The objective of this anthropological research is to study empirically how imaginaries of tourism to and immigration from the South (Africa, Latin America, and Asia) are interlinked and what this tells us about multiculturalism and representations of otherness. The main hypothesis is that prevailing images and discourse represent travel to and from the South in ways that seem disconnected from the lived present but connected with an imagined past. This proposition will be analyzed through an in-depth study of how people in Brussels, Belgium, imagine and represent tourism to and migration from Indonesia, Tanzania, and Chile.
The research will employ a mixed-methods approach, involving observation, interviews, archival research, and the collection of images and discourse from secondary sources (TV, advertising, printed press, digital media, cinema, photography and exhibitions). The ethnographic perspective will provide a close-grained analysis of the cultural practices and social relations that (re)produce globally circulating imaginaries of mobility and the implications this has for people s lives. The project adds to existing research in two ways. In the study, imaginaries (representational systems that mediate reality and form identities) are operationalized as real practices: through the ethnographic method we can assess how imaginary activities, subjects, and social relations are materialized, enacted, and inculcated.
Thematically, the research analyzes how widespread imaginaries and personal imaginations about mobility are interconnected and contradicting each other. The study links strongly between the social sciences and the humanities, drawing on the need to bring together aspects of anthropology, sociology, psychology, history, and geography.
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Project Details
Start date:2008-10-01
End date:2011-09-30
Duration:36 months
Project Reference:230892
Project cost:75000 EURO
Project Funding:75000 EURO
Programme Acronym:
FP7-PEOPLE
Programme type:Seventh Framework Programme
Subprogramme Area:Marie Curie Action: "International Reintegration Grants"
Contract type:International Re-integration Grants (IRG)
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Subject index:Scientific Research, Coordination, Cooperation
Other Indexes:Migration,Anthropology,Tourism,Cultural anthropology,Social anthropology,Ethnography,Imaginaries
Results for this Project
| Periodic Report Summary - MIGRATOURIMA (Routes, roots, and rumours: tracing migration and tourism imaginaries) | 26/04/2012 |
Other participants
Record control number:88729
