Rethinking Diaspora

30 June - 2 July, 2013
St. Annes' College, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HS

This conference is jointly organized by COMPAS and the Oxford Diasporas Programme.

The Oxford Diasporas Programme draws together a number of projects looking at the social, economic, political and cultural impact of diasporas through a range of disciplinary perspectives and research methods.

The programme identifies three fundamental dynamics relating to the formation, maintenance, and impacts of diasporas:

Connecting: the way that diasporas create networks encompassing those back home, others in diaspora and, more widely, their imagined communities based on co-ethnicity or other identities.
Contesting: the contradictory processes of inclusion of diasporas within and exclusion from territorially-bound communities, and the emergence of potentially conflicting identities.
Converging: the way in which diasporic communities de-emphasize their origins and blend with indigenous or other migrant communities to create new social formations, cultures and practices.
This conference aims to integrate humanities and social science perspectives in order to investigate the impacts of these three dynamics of diaspora.

Many more to come?

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MIGRALAC in Oxford

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Humanist perspectives

Michaelmas term 2014

Migration Film Showings

Tuesdays, Hilary Term 2014

Decade of Migration

Decade of Migration

21 - 22 February 2014

Keywords in Diaspora

Keywords in Diaspora

Tuesdays, Michaelmas Term 2013

Rethinking Diaspora

Rethinking Diaspora

30 June - 2 July, 2013

8th TurkMiS Seminar

8th TurkMiS Seminar

26 April 2013

Migration Film Showings: Journeys

Migration Film Showings: Journeys

Thursdays, Michaelmas Term 2012

No Way Out, No Way In

No Way Out, No Way In

25 June 2012

Migrants at Work

Migrants at Work

22 June - 23 June 2012

Citizenship and its Others

Citizenship and its Others

12 - 13 March 2012

Book Launch

Book Launch

17:00 - 18:30, Thursday 9 February 2012

Learning, citizenship and integration

Learning, citizenship and integration

Thursday 17 November 2011

COMPAS DPhil Workshop

COMPAS DPhil Workshop

12:00 - 18:00, Friday, 17 June 2011

Diaspora Studies: Past, Present and Promise

Diaspora Studies: Past, Present and Promise

17:00 - 20:00, Thursday 2 June 2011

Launch of the Migration Observatory

Launch of the Migration Observatory

18:00 - 20:00, 29 March 2011