HERMES: An Annual Workshop for Research in Migration, Culture and Politics

• In-person event
• 2017 , Dunton Tower , Carleton University
• 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6
• Cost: Free

• Contact
• victoriasimmons@gmail.com

Program

10.45 – 11.00 — Welcome remarks – Anne-Marie D’Aoust, (Université du Québec à Montréal) and William Walters (Carleton University)

11.00 – 12.30 — Panel A: THE POLITICS OF CARE AND PROTECTION

Suha Diab, Carleton University
Refugee Resettlement and the Political Economy of Humanitarianism: the Case of the Ugandan Asian Resettlement

Victoria Simmons, Carleton University
Protecting Migrants and Securing Territory: The Case of Grupos Beta in Mexico

Geneviève Piché, Carleton University
Pastoral power at sea: the captain as shepherd in maritime migration incidents

Discussant: James Milner, Carleton University

12.30 – 1.30 — Lunch

1.30 – 3.00 — Panel B: HISTORICIZING MIGRATION AND ITS OTHERS

Anne-Marie D’Aoust, Université du Québec à Montréal
A Labor of Love: Marriage Migration and the Love/Money/Citizenship Nexus

Christophe Sévigny, Carleton University
From ‘Shovelling Out the Paupers’ to the ‘Strategic Use of Resettlement’: Toward a Genealogy of Palliative Displacement

Jiyoung LeeAn, Carleton University
Social Integration Strategies of Korean Government and Citizenship Negotiation of Marriage Migrants in South Korea: A Case of Marriage Migrants Who Acquire Permanent Residency

Discussant: Daiva Stasiulis, Carleton University

3.30 – 5.00 — Panel C: MIGRATION, CONTROL, AND CONTESTATION

Giada de Coulon, Université de Neuchâtel
Recovering a Bound Freedom: Ethnographic Inquiry on the Complex Relationships Connecting Failed Asylum Seekers to Domestic Authorities in Switzerland

Martina Tazzioli, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Counter-mapping political and colonial geographies of migrations: Tunisian migrants’ spatial insistences and spatial upheaval

Martin Geiger, Carleton University
EU-rope and its ‘Problematic’ East: The Production of a Safe Neighborhood and the Disciplining of International Mobility

Discussant: Alison Mountz, Wilfrid Laurier University

Sponsored by Migration and Diaspora Studies, the Department of Political Science, and the Institute of Political Economy, Carleton University