Past Event

Please register at the CES website: https://carleton.ca/ces/cu-events/migration-identity-and-politics-in-europe/

Migration has played a central role in constituting Europe and facilitating European integration and identity. Most Europeans have experiences of migration in their own family histories. Yet, across Europe, we see the term “migrant” employed in public discourse as code for “foreigner” standing in opposition to “European.” In recent years, few issues have been more divisive and politicized in European politics than responses to the challenges of migration and refugees.

The Centre for Europe Studies – Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at Carleton University is organizing a one-day conference that will illuminate the nexus between migration, identity, and politics in Europe. Exploring historical and current cases drawing on disciplinary approaches from history, political science, anthropology, cultural studies, sociology and geography, this event will showcase new perspectives and approaches to European migration studies from international emerging scholars and graduate students.

Registration is required by Tuesday, February 26, 2019. See form following agenda draft.

Draft Agenda (as of February 19)

8:15   Check-in and Welcome Coffee

8:45   Welcome and Opening Remarks

Christina Gabriel (Carleton University) and Martin Geiger (Carleton University)

9:00   Keynote Lecture

           Migration in Germany’s Past, Present, and Future
           Jennifer Miller (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville)

10:00  Panel I: Identity and Culture

Chair: James Casteel (Carleton University)

• Becoming European? Non-EU migrants negotiate European identities in France, Great Britain and Spain
  Maricia Fischer-Souan (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
• ‘Not far away in the Orient’: Orientalism and Integration Policy in West Germany, 1979-1984
  Brian Van Wyck (Michigan State University)
• Memory, identity, and refugees from the Balkans in German history
  Christopher Molnar (University of Michigan – Flint)
• Evaluation of a European migrant radio relying on the normative conditions of the public sphere
  Elena Kaliberda (Carleton University)

11:30  Lunch

12:30  Keynote Lecture

           Europe and the Aerial Geography of Forced Migration 
           William Walters (Carleton University)

13:30  Panel II: Integration, Work and Exploitation

Chair: Gopika Solanki (Carleton University)

• Individual differences in immigrant employment integration
  Aliya Kuzhabekova (Nazarbayev University and Carleton University)
• Immigrant inclusion and belonging through work narratives
  Vivi Zhang (Carleton University)
• Recruitment and Retention of International Students in Denmark Upon Graduation
  Alexandra Dauncey-Elwood (Carleton University)
• Governing Victimhood: Identifying Migrant Victims of Modern Slavery in the United Kingdom
  Abbey Wright (Carleton University)
• Death in the diaspora: Migration and the necropolitics of belonging in Europe
  Osman Balkan (Swarthmore College)

15:15  Coffee Break

15:30  Panel III: Governance of Refugees and Migrants

Chair: Martin Geiger (Carleton University)

• Constructing labels for triage: the EU’s struggle to disentangle mixed migration
  Marie Walter-Franke (Freie Universität Berlin)
• Refugees welcome? Contestation over a European distribution mechanism
  Johannes Müller Gómez (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and Université de Montréal)
• Dreams of multipolarity: How Russia’s migration strategy became a tool for foreign policy
  Kyle Kostashuk (Carleton University)
• The Impact of Ukraine’s Informal Economy on Women: Mobilizing Opportunities During Crisis
  Samuel MacIsaac (Carleton University), David Carment (Carleton University), and Milana Nikolko (Carleton University)