Seminar Series Michaelmas 2010

Interrogating Integration: Discourses, Policies and Everyday Practices

Thursdays 14.00 - 15.30
Seminar Room, Pauling Centre, 58a Banbury Road, Oxford

Convened by: Ben Gidley, Nando Sigona, and Mette Louise Berg

“Integration” is a term that is used in many different places and contexts and is increasingly prominent within public debates about migration in the UK and elsewhere in the West. ‘Integration’ remains vague in definition, which is perhaps one reason it can be useful in many varying contexts. Is it a new assimilationism, a reactionary retreat from multiculturalism, or a progressive, dynamic model for thinking about diversity? How does it relate to cohesion, to transnationalism and to cosmopolitanism? Can – and should – it be measured and monitored? How is it framed in relation to the different scales of governance and belonging, from the neighbourhood to the “super-diverse” city to the nation-state? This seminar series brings together scholars working ethnographically on everyday practices of integration with scholars working on the production, reproduction and contestation of integration discourse.

Seminars

14 October

The national integration paradigm: where are we now?

Adrian Favell, Aarhus University, Denmark

21 October

Gender and interventions in integration

Eleonore Kofman, Middlesex University

28 October

Numbers and Needs – the urban and the rural: Immigrant settlement in Shropshire and Tower Hamlets

Anne Kershen, Queen Mary University, London

04 November

Class, Nation and 'Race'. Migrants, Hegemony and the Cultural Politics of the State

Davide Pero, University of Notthingham

11 November

Immigrant Integration and Human Rights: Lessons from the US-Mexico Border

Neil Harvey, New Mexico State University

18 November

Making Brick Lane: pasts, presents, futures

Claire Alexander, London School of Economics and Political Science

25 November

The Janus face of integration and diversity discourses and strategies

Floya Anthias, Roehampton University

02 December

'Integration' as Illiberal Exceptionalism in Migration Law: The Role of the European Union

Sergio Carrera, Centre for European Policy Studies

Climate Migrants

Hilary 2022

Gender, Love and Migration

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Talking Oxford

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Migration Research – where next?

Michaelmas Term 2016

Wellbeing and Migration in the UK

Michaelmas Term 2015

Arrival Cities

Michaelmas term 2014

Borders of the welfare state

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Boundaries of Freedom

Hilary term 2014

Rethinking Migration

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Migration Journeys

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Everyday multiculturalism

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Gender, Migration and Citizenship

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Immigration and Low-wage Labour Markets

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Migration, Welfare and Inequalities

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Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2008

Migration and Cultural Production

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Critical Epistemologies of Migration

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New Trends in Contemporary Migration

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Perspectives on African Migration

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States and Emigrants

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Racism and the new immigration: theories and practices

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The Anthropology of Migration and Multiculturalism

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