CeMig Newsletter

5 April 2023

This is the newsletter of the Centre for Global Migration Studies (CeMig). It provides regular information about events, research projects and publications on the subject of migration at Göttingen Campus and within the region.

CeMig Events

Save the dates:

Online Veranstaltungsreihe der interdisziplinären Forschungsgruppe:

Public Health und Migration

11.05.2023, 16:15-17:45 CEST, ONLINE

“Gesundheitsversorgung für Migrant*innen: Zwischen Ausgrenzung, Integration und Ökonomisierung”

von Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Gerlinger (Fakultät für Gesundheitswissenschaften, Universität Bielefeld)

01.06.2023, 16:15-17:45 CEST, ONLINE

"Ökonomisierung im deutschen Gesundheitswesen und Auswirkungen auf die Versorgung von Migrant*innen"

von Dr. phil. Nadja Rakowitz & Karen Spannenkrebs (Verein Demokratischer Ärzt*innen)

06.07.2023, 16:15-17:45 CEST, ONLINE

"Vielfalt und Anti-Rassismus im Gesundheitswesen. Strukturelle Maßnahmen und institutionelle Ansätze"

von Dr. Sidra Khan-Gökkaya (Vorstandsbeauftragte für Migration, Integration und Anti-Rassismus UKE-Konzern)

Weitere Informationen und die Möglichkeit zur Anmeldung finden Sie hier. 

Education

Summer Term 2023

The summer term starts on 11th April 2023. Here you can find an overview of Bachelor and Master seminars and lectures on the topic of migration at the Göttingen Campus.

New Publications by CeMig Members

On Current Occassion

Öffentliche Ringvorlesung der Universität: 

"Was Gesellschaft über Diskriminierung wissen kann…"

11.04.2023, ab 18:15, Aula am Wilhelmsplatz

"Diskriminierung, Stereotype, Vorurteile. Ein Beitrag aus der Sozialpsychologie."

von Prof. Dr. Margarete Boos (CeMig Mitglied & Georg-Elias-Müller-Institut für Psychologie)

02.05.2023, ab 18:15, Aula am Wilhelmsplatz

"Rassismus als deutsche Geschichte: Wie an Rassismus und Kämpfe dagegen erinnern?"

von Prof. Dr. Sabine Hess (CeMig Mitglied & Institut für Kulturanthropologie/ Europäische Ethnologie) 

Weitere Vorlesungen und Informationen zur Ringvorlesung finden Sie hier. 

CeMEAS Reading Group:

Labor and Migration in Guangzhou

13.04.2023, 13:00 - 15:00 (EST), KWZ 0.701

by Prof. Nellie Chu (Duke Kunshan University)

The reading group is an exclusive opportunity to delve into migration and labour research in South China. Reading and discussing research together will give you new ideas, perspectives and information and will greatly enrich your knowledge! Up to ten MA and PhD students can participate in the Reading Group and are kindly asked to read the two papers (see information below or weblink) in advance and prepare questions for discussion. 

Please register by email to Ms Lu Cai: assist@cemeas.uni-goettingen.de

More information about the event can be found here. 

CeMEAS Lecture:

Precarious Accumulation: Fast Fashion Bosses in Transnational Guangzhou, China

13.04.2023, 16:00 - 18:00 (EST), KWZ 0.602

by Prof. Nellie Chu (Duke Kunshan University)

This presentation traces the emergence of migrant “bosshood” across China, West Africa, and South Korea fast fashion commodity chains in Guangzhou. It is part of a larger book project that analyzes the global fast fashion industry as a historical movement in transnational capitalism that is tied to China’s post-socialist transformations of land, labor, and personhood. At the heart of these transformations is the emergence of the small-scale migrant “boss,” a figure of labor and livelihood that hovers between boundless riches and merciless ruin in southern China’s “workshop of the world.” While West Africans forge ties with Chinese manufacturers, South Korean bosses collaborate with members of the Chinese-Korean ethnic group to capitalize on the rise of K-pop trends and fashion around the globe. The rise of these migrant bosses engenders forms of governmentality that materialize through practices of criminalization, racialization, and policing. The disparagement of African and Chinese migrants by local officials and urban residents as “criminals” and “counterfeiters,” for instance, demonstrates the unequal access that aspiring entrepreneurs have to the state-sponsored welfare services and legal protections that are necessary for capital accumulation. In place of security and protection, nationalism, racism, and the policing of migrants have fueled a secondary economy of predation, rent seeking, and extraction.

More information about the event can be found here.

MPI-MMG in Dialogue:

Superdiversity and the dynamics of diversification - An event marking the launch of Steven Vertovec’s new book

19.04.2023, 16:00 - 17:30 (CEST), Livestream

Superdiversity is a concept referring to societal diversification and the complex, emergent social patterns that, in many places, now supersede prior forms of diversity. The concept of superdiversity has been adopted by scholars across the social sciences in order to address a variety of processes, modes and outcomes of diversification. “This takes many forms, manners, and courses,” writes Vertovec in his new book, “indeed, we might best talk of many overlapping, entangled and mutually determining diversifications”. Such processes directly entail features of migration and mobility, are deeply entangled with social inequalities, and are especially manifest in cities of both the lobal North and South. Diversification – leading to conditions of superdiversity – is thus one of the foremost social transformations of our age, impacting politics, everyday social interactions, and individual identities.

Stimulated by Vertovec’s Superdiversity: Migration and Social Complexity, this ‘In Dialogue’ event considers the concept of superdiversity alongside a look at diversification processes and their effects across contexts worldwide.

Chair: Megha Amrith (MPI-MMG)

Participants: Dr. Junjia Ye (Nanyang Technical University, Singapore), Dr. D.V. Darshan Vigneswaran (University of Amsterdam), Prof. Dr. Peter Scholten (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Steven Vertovec (MPI-MMG)

More information about the event can be found here.

Public lecture at the Göttingen Diversity Research Institute: 

Paradoxes of knowledge and positionality in critical diversity research. A feminist-activist perspective.

19.04.2023, 11:00 - 13:00 c.t., VG 2.101

by: Prof. Amalia Sa'ar (University of Haifa)

In the current neoliberal moment, calls for diversity and inclusion typically represent the notion that better accommodation of social, ethnic, racial, and gender heterogeneity will benefit both democratic resilience and economic prosperity. Economists and politicians tend to celebrate diversity as a ‘win-win,’ quintessential capitalist solution to social inequality: for members of marginalized groups, it creates new venues for economic success and social inclusion; for the different industries and the economy at large, it offers a growth engine through widening the supply of talents and creativity. This perspective fits the late-capitalist habitus, in which political-economic histories of violence and usurpation are repressed and repackaged as freely chosen individual identities. For critical scholars like myself, who are also engaged social activists, this idea of diversity is challenging. On the one hand, I approach it with suspicion. Well-aware of late-capitalism’s tendency to increase class, ethnic, and racial polarization, I aim to unravel diversity’s underlying, self-denied assumptions, to explore the gaps between its overt discourse and actual consequences, and to dwell on its deeply paradoxical nature. On the other hand, as a feminist activist committed to minority rights and inclusion, I cannot readily dismiss the idea of diversity, for I can see that it has created new opportunities for women and minorities, and has mainstreamed some measures of tolerance towards Others. The talk will address the dilemma of critical, engaged diversity research, using feminist intersectionality theory and examples from the Israeli case. All those interested in the social sciences are cordially invited. This lecture is supported by the Olav Brennhovd Stiftung.

More information can be found here.

MPI-MMG Book Talk:

Migration, Diversity and Inequality in Later Life: Ageing at a Crossroads

26.04.2023, 14:30 - 16:00 (CEST), hybrid: Library Hall & Zoom

Migration, mobilities and ageing are defining trends of our time. But how do these experiences intersect? How do they shape one’s life prospects? Migration, Diversity and Inequality in Later Life: Ageing at a Crossroads (Global Diversities, Palgrave Macmillan) sheds light on these complex crossings. The book provides a comprehensive ethnographic study of the diverse and uneven living and ageing experiences of three groups of older migrants – return, lifestyle and ageing-in-place labour migrants – from a comparative perspective. Situated within debates of the ageing-migration nexus, the book explores distinct, overlapping, and life course-contingent migration motivations, ageing experiences and life aspirations. The research takes place in the Portuguese islands of the Azores in the North Atlantic, a crossroads for various kinds of mobilities, everyday life encounters, and unfolding life possibilities. Through an interdisciplinary approach to translocal embodied and emplaced experiences of ageing, the book weaves together contrasting motivations, experiences and aspirations of various groups of later-life migrants who are united in a shared desire to live a ‘good life’ but have unequal resources to achieve this.

Discussants: Dr. Aija Lulle (Loughborough University), Dr. Dora Sampaio (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity), Mika Toyota (Max Planck Institute for Human Development)

More information about the event can be found here.

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