Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research, London South Bank University
Thursday 18th and Friday 19th September 2014
Confirmed keynote speakers
Professor Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, University of Southern California
Professor Eithne Luibheid, University of Arizona, U.S
Professor Ann Phoenix, Institute of Education, London
Professor Hirokazu Yoshikawa, New York University
Call for papers
This international multidisciplinary conference engages with perspectives from cultural studies, cultural geography, sociology, migration studies, and the creative arts to explore how migrant mothers realise and problematise their role in bringing up future citizens in contemporary societies, which are increasingly characterised ethnic, racial, religious, cultural and social diverse. It will ask important questions about the processes that shape migrant mothers’ cultural and caring work in enabling their children to occupy a place as future citizens. It also interrogates how immigration and integration policies produce particular obstacles and limitations for migrant families and children. In considering migrant women’s caring, cultural and social practices as interventions into citizenship the conference aims to find out what we can learn by understanding transnational social and cultural resources of care, and also the inter-relationship between motherhood and nationhood.
We welcome proposals for papers, workshops and panels from academics, practitioners and policymakers. We encourage papers including, but not limited to the following issues:
- Mothering and citizenship practices at local, national and transnational levels
- Migrant mothers’ care and cultural work in bringing up future citizens
- Parenting, citizenship and the politics of difference
- Immigration and integration policies’ effects on migrant families
- Effects of hetero-normativity and homo-nationalist governmentality on migrant mothers, children and families
- Racialised, ethnicised and classed constructions of motherhood and nationhood,
- Arts-based practices, participatory and creative methods exploring and generating new knowledge on migrant mothers’ and families’ citizenship
- Role of NGOs, Third Sector and public sector agencies in negotiating integration, belonging participation
Please send your 300 word abstracts, panel or workshop proposals with a brief bio. and contact details to Kerry.Lawrence@open.ac.uk. The deadline for submissions is 1 April 2014. Limited Bursaries are available for postgraduate and early career researchers and academics based in resource-poor countries. Please email umut.erel@open.ac.uk to apply for a bursary by 30 April 2014.