The Struggle for Home in a Time of Dispossession and Mobility: What Migration Tells us about Scales and Spaces of Belonging
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square
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The Struggle for Home in a Time of Dispossession and Mobility: What Migration Tells us about Scales and Spaces of Belonging
Speaker: Dr. Ben Gidley, Department of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck, University of London
Chair: Dr Jasmine Gideon, Department of Geography, Birkbeck, University of London
This event, with the presentation from Dr Ben Gidley, marks the launch of the new BISR Working Group on Home and Exile.
Free event open to all: First come, First seated
The Home and Exile Working Group focusses on migration. Globalisation has increased flows of people and ideas across the world. While some traverse a shrinking planet with ease, paying £10 fares to cross from one side of Europe to the other or, indeed, little more to move from Europe to North Africa, others pay thousands of pounds to traverse similar distances in the opposite direction and face perilous, and often tragic journeys, to do so. The debate on these unequal mobilities is couched in terms of 'migrants', as if this is a category of person: one always on the move. This working group tries to think about migration in a different way, as a loss of homeland but also the making of a new home and asks, what makes it possible for people to feel at home in exile and, how can academics intervene in the conversation about immigration in ways that produce new discourses that resist racism through insisting on the right of people to feel at home in the world.
More information about the Home and Exile Working Group
Contact name:
Madisson Brown