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International Symposium on Intersectionality and Migration
October 28, 2016 at 8:30 AM to 7:00 PM
| Location: | College of the Humanities 303PA Paterson Hall |
| Cost: | Free |
| Audience: | Anyone |
| Key Contact: | Tiffany Liu |
| Contact Email: | tliu@connect.carleton.ca |
Migration and Diaspora Studies (Carleton University) and African Centre for Migration & Society (University of the Witwatersrand) proudly support our collaborative symposium on Intersectionality and Migration
Keynote speakers: Daiva Stasiulis (Carleton University) & Luin Goldring (York University)
Exhibition: Metropolitan nomads: a journey through Johannesburg’s little Mogadishu by Salym Fayad and Nereida Ripero-Muñiz
Wine & Cheese Book launch (5:30 – 7:00 p.m.): Gender and Multiculturalism: North-South Perspectives (Kwazulu-Natal University Press, 2016) Featured authors / speakers: Gopika Solanki, Jill Vickers and Daiva Stasiulis
The continuous (re)construction of multiple social identities which informs migrants’ everyday experiences in host countries has been poorly understood in some forms of migration and diaspora studies, while richly explored in others. While there is an expansive literature on migrant domestic workers and caregivers that carefully analyses intersectionality in both power relations and social identities that structure their experiences of migration, studies of labour migration in regions like southern Africa have tended to regard the experience as temporary and male dominated. When aspects of gender have been included in some literatures of labour migration these have been limited to one-dimensional models of understanding sectoral conditions, effects of migration on family life or economic outcomes. Little attention has been paid to how migrants’ multiple identities, informed by class, age, gender, race, religion, ethnicity, and citizenship status have interested and affected their choices and experiences of work. This symposium aims to provide a critical understanding of how social identities shape migrants’ work experiences in South Africa and Canada.
Download to view our schedule and presentation topics in PDF
Please note that this event is free, and that there will be lunch and coffee breaks provided throughout the day. Please pre-register at the link below. This will help us to determine the food and refreshment quantities required for the event. http://www.eventbrite.com/e/international-symposium-on-intersectionality-and-migration-tickets-28101094129
Photo credit: Salym Fayad