'Home, migration and the city: new narratives, new methodologies', Linköping, Sweden
6 August 2010 - 6 August 2010
Sweden
A conference on the theme of 'Home, migration and the city: new narratives, new methodologies' will take place from 6 to 10 August 2010 in Linköping, Sweden.
With an increase in studies that focus on migration as a social, political, cultural and material process, there has been a realisation that the issue has importance for the social and cultural meanings of home and belonging.
Migration brings about a material change in the places and locations through which notions of identity, individual expressions and belonging are transformed. Through the movement of people, for instance, cities, homes and localities become re-narrated through migrants' stories, photographs, music, artwork and films. This is specially true for cities in particular. As places of origin and (re)settlement, they become key sites of migrants' experiences of 'home'.
The event will be an opportunity to bring these social, spatial, material and technological facets of migration together - to consider migrants' identities and experiences of homes and cities, and the material, aural and visual landscapes of mobility and movement.
Thematically, 'narratives' - broadly defined as stories, diaries, myths, photographs, music, films, media images and representations of movement - will be taken as the analytical starting point for new research on migration. Discussions will then proceed along several dimensions which are inherently part of these narratives.For further information, please visit:
http://www.esf.org/index.php?id=6500(opens in new window)
With an increase in studies that focus on migration as a social, political, cultural and material process, there has been a realisation that the issue has importance for the social and cultural meanings of home and belonging.
Migration brings about a material change in the places and locations through which notions of identity, individual expressions and belonging are transformed. Through the movement of people, for instance, cities, homes and localities become re-narrated through migrants' stories, photographs, music, artwork and films. This is specially true for cities in particular. As places of origin and (re)settlement, they become key sites of migrants' experiences of 'home'.
The event will be an opportunity to bring these social, spatial, material and technological facets of migration together - to consider migrants' identities and experiences of homes and cities, and the material, aural and visual landscapes of mobility and movement.
Thematically, 'narratives' - broadly defined as stories, diaries, myths, photographs, music, films, media images and representations of movement - will be taken as the analytical starting point for new research on migration. Discussions will then proceed along several dimensions which are inherently part of these narratives.For further information, please visit:
http://www.esf.org/index.php?id=6500(opens in new window)