The Europe-Asia Research Platform on Forced Migration launched by the Institute of Human Sciences (IWM) and the Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group (MCRG) is preparing the seminar Series on Forced Migration for the 2020/21 Academic Year.
The Seminars on Forced Migration aims to bring speakers from a range of disciplines and scholarship interests to discuss multiple geographical and temporal dimensions of migration. The 2020-21 talks will focus on refugees and migrants as social, economic, and political actors and in relation to the politics of austerity and the rise of populism in various countries. Topics ranging from changing regimes and forms of governance of migrants/refugees; the solidarity networks and demands for social justice entangled with increasing inequalities, austerity politics, and racism; the institutional components regulating and managing different forms of displacement; incorporation and exclusion of refugees and migrants from labor markets and protection regimes along the lines of gender, race, religion, and work will be discussed. The Seminars aim to expand current knowledge on the specificities of policies and debates on refugees and migrants in the context of forced migration and border regimes. Bringing together scholars, policy makers, and practitioners from different disciplines and regions, the platform and the lecture series as part of that platform, aspires to decenter Europe-focused scholarship, debates, and policies.
The Seminars on Forced Migration will be anchored at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna. More information is soon to come.
