Kanaris lecture theatre, Manchester Museum
About this Event
The migrant body has long been a site of struggle and activism. Only recently, however, has it become the focus of sustained migration research. Research conducted so far also tends to prioritise migrant experiences in Europe and the US, meaning analysis of migration within the Global South is both urgent and necessary.
This conference has two aims. At the conceptual level, it aims to advance an intersectional understanding of the migrant body that considers how gender, race, sexual identity, and other social and political categories interact to shape migrant experiences. To achieve this, the conference will bring together a range of disciplinary perspectives, including geography, anthropology, development studies, and the visual arts.
At the empirical level, the presentations and complementary visual programme will consider migrations that take place within or between regions of the Global South. We will bring together emerging and established scholars from both the Global South and the Global North to explore the potential of the migrant body as a starting point for analysing how migrants encounter and navigate various forms of (dis)advantage throughout their migration journeys, including the migrant body as a site of resistance.
With the generous support of the British Academy Conference Grants and the University of Manchester Hallsworth Conference Fund.
Convenor
Prof Tanja Bastia, University of Manchester
Photo competition jury
Dr Erika Busse, Associate Professor, Sociology, Macalester College
Dr María Calderón Muñoz, Independent Researcher
Dr Verónica Castro, Visual Anthropologist and Film Director
Photo exhibition, The migrant body in South-South migration
Curated by Dr Verónica Castro
Premiere film screenings
MIGRANT BODY: ABDULAI and ELHADJI, BINTA, AND AWA / Cape Verde
Film produced and made by Verónica Castro and Helena Inverno
MIGRANTS: We Cannot Be Sad Here and In Plain Sight/ Malaysia
Directed by Sheril A. Bustaman
Showcase: supporting migrant women through art therapy, by Sofía Calderón, Women’s Federation Sucumbíos, Ecuador. There will be a cloth/ textile exchange and we will exhibit products made by migrant women in Ecuador.
Confirmed speakers
Keynote: Nina Glick Schiller, University of Manchester, UK
Aija Lulle, University of Eastern Finland, Finland
Amira Ousaifi, Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences in Sousse, Tunisia
Anand Panamthottam Cherian, George Mason University, US
Andrea Cortes Saavedra, Universidad de O'Higgins, Chile
Andrea Souto García, Universidade da Coruña, Spain
Ayesha Pattnaik, University of Oxford, UK
Jasmin Lilian Diab, Lebanese American University, Lebanon
Lorena Izaguirre, UCLouvain, Belgium
Luis Eduardo Perez Murcia, Global Development Institute, UK
Marcia Vera Espinoza, Queen Margaret University (MVE), UK and Vania Reyes Muñoz, Centro COES (VRM), Chile
Marielys Padua Soto, The American University in Cairo, Egypt
Marzana Kamal, Stefy Joseph, Susmita Paul, Rishvanth Mucheli, Liverpool Hope University, UK
Mayssa Joabli, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Murtaza Mohiqi, University of Agder, Norway
Nay Myo Htet, University of Manchester, UK
Suzana Ramos Coutinho, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, US
Valentina Biondini, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas / Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Valquiria Almeida, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Yiqiu Huag, the University of Hong Kong
Yvonne Riaño, University of Neuchatel / Bern, Switzerland
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Manchester Museum, The University of Manchester , Manchester, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
