CeMig Newsletter

2 November 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

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Online Veranstaltungsreihe der interdisziplinären Forschungsgruppe:

Public Health und Migration

30.11.2023, 16:15-17:45 CET, ONLINE

Empowerment für Diversität - Diskriminierungsrisiken erkennen, Kompetenzen aufbauen, Strukturen verändern: Allianzen für eine gleich gute Gesundheitsversorgung für alle!

von Prof. Dr. Theda Borde (Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin) und Tuğba Yalçinkaya (Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin)

Weitere Informationen und die Möglichkeit zur Anmeldung finden Sie hier. 

Events of the Urban Lab – Paths Towards a Colonial-Critical City

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18.11.2023, ab 10:00 CET, Wilhelmsplatz 3, Göttingen

Über_Leben in Göttingen - ein Bildungs- und Vernetzungstag von Göttingen Postkolonial für antirassistisch und rassismuskritisch interessierte und organisierte Menschen in Göttingen und Umgebung.

Weitere Infos und Anmeldemöglichkeiten sind bald online auf: www.goettingen-postkolonial.de

30.11.2023, 15:00-18:00, CET, Wilhelmsplatz 3, Göttingen

Rassismus in Schulbüchern - Postkoloniale Perspektiven im Unterricht. Die Veranstaltung findet in Kooperation mit dem Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsmedien | Georg-Eckert-Institut statt und richtet sich insbesondere an Lehrer*innen und angehende Pädagog*innen.

Weitere Infos und Anmeldemöglichkeiten sind bald online auf: www.stadtlabor.uni-goettingen.de

11.&12.11.2023, 19:00 CET, Werkraum Göttingen

«PLANTATION #1 – nativeness» - A de-colonial theatrical-performance - guest performance at boat people project about practices of the plantation, both in relation to people and plants. Texts, sounds and body languages are interwoven to explore the question of what it means to live as non-white people in a neoliberal world that is grounded in its colonial history that reaches into the present.

In English and German/French.

Kindly find more information on http://boatpeopleprojekt.de/plantation-experi-theater

New Research Projects by CeMig Members

EU-Forschungsprojekt MORE

Motivations, Experiences, and Consequences of Returns and Readmission Policy: Revealing and developing effective Alternatives

In a research network of various university institutions and civil society associations in Europe and the UK, the EU research project MORE will analyze the developments, implementations and effects of a return-oriented policy from 01.10.23 onwards. In addition, over the next three years, projects, initiatives and approaches that (can) represent solidarity-based alternatives to return-oriented policies will be examined based on cooperation with people at risk of deportation and their advocacy groups.

It has long been known to all actors involved - from refugees and government officials to politicians - that policies focused on deportations and returns are inefficient and do not address the realities of people's lives in Europe. People become part of the societies in which they live beyond their legal residency status. Despite forced return policies, deportations, policies of deterrence and return assistance fail again and again for a variety of reasons and at a variety of levels.

In three project phases, the first step will be to examine the rationalities and justification contexts underlying the design of the European return directives at the respective national levels. In a second step, the concrete implementation will be examined in order to find alternative ways out of the return-oriented policy in a third step.

More information can be found <here>.

On Current Occassion

3rd network meeting of the DFG-funded network on migration and im/mobilities in the Global South in pandemic times.

Organizer: Heike Drotbohm, Mainz University

Venue: Library Hall, MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen

Kindly find further details on the event <here>

Kickoff Conference & Workshop:

ZiF-Research Group "Internalizing Borders"

08.11.23 - 10.11.23, 09:00 - 18:00 CET

Speakers/Convenors: Frank Wolff (Osnabrück), Dana Schmalz (Heidelberg), Sabine Hess (Göttingen), Volker M. Heins (Essen)

European borders are becoming both ubiquitous and openly violent. As border violence reportedly abounds, it becomes evident - in Europe particularly - that the new border policies conflict with liberal norms, international law and humanitarian values which constitute the historical and normative bases of the democratic nation state and the process of European unification itself. Against this backdrop, the research group "Internalizing Borders: The Social and Normative Consequences of the European Border Regime" will explore the normative and social consequences of the fortification and closing of borders for the states and societies engaged in these processes.

Two events of the conference will be open to the public and available via web-stream: 

Keynote: “State Violence and European Borders – The Performance of What Imaginary of State Sovereignty?”

08.11.2023, 18:30 - 19:45 CET 

Speaker: Elspeth Guild (Queen Mary University of London)

Discussion Panel: “How Repressive Border Regimes Threaten Us All”

09.11.2023, 10:30 - 12:30 CET 

Speakers: Elizabeth F. Cohen (Boston University) and Maximilian Pichl (RheinMain University of Applied Sciences)
Moderation: Bernd Kasparek (Humboldt University Berlin)

Please register by 7.11.2023 at the latest via sebastian.lemme@uni-bielefeld.de (Coordinator of the ZiF Research Group).

Kindly find further information on the event <here>.

Centre for Global Migration Studies (CeMig)
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37073 Göttingen
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