In cooperation with the Amsterdam Centre for European Studies, the Stranger Families team has organized an online lecture series titled “Race and Migration - scholarship in between, on and beyond the borders”. From January to June 2021, the series invited speakers and the audience to reflect on the historical divides and bridges between race and migration scholarship in Europe. Most of the lectures were recorded. Find more information and recordings here.
Theme
What are the points of contestation between race and migration studies in 21st century Europe? Why have these two fields developed parallel to, but not always in conversation with, each other? While the study of race- and ethnicity in Europe has historically been concerned with imperial pasts, postcolonial presents and constructions of race across the continent, migration studies has predominantly tackled issues of migrant settlement, integration and global mobilities focusing on questions of labour markets and economics, national identity and social cohesion, and state sovereignty. Over the past decades, a shift has occurred in Europe where scholars within critical race, migration, post/colonial and mobility studies increasingly have treated race and ethnicity as constitutive of migration processes.
Lectures
Fatima El-Tayeb is Professor of Literature and Ethnic Studies and associate director of critical gender studies at the University of California, San Diego, where her innovative scholarship deals with issues of migration, sexuality, ethnicity, queerness and race in Europe.
Studying Race and Migration Together: a Conversation between Amade M’charek & Tobias Hübinette. What are the obstacles to bridging race- and migration studies in Europe? In this second session, we invite Amade M’Charek (UvA, the Netherlands) and Tobias Hübinette (Karlstad University, Sweden) to tackle this question.
Race, Queerness & Transfeminism in European Migration Studies with Alyosxa Tudor. Who is a migrant in Europe? The third session of the series invites Alyosxa Tudor (SOAS) to discuss their work on migratism, racism and transfeminism in European migration studies.
Barak Kalir. In this fourth lecture, dr. Barak Kalir (UvA) will unpack how the administration of illegalized migration works as a crucial frontier for managing racism in society. The audience is warmly invited to join the discussion in a short Q&A session after the lecture.
Betty de Hart. How should we theorize race in the study of family migration in Europe? How have the history of colonialism and racism impacted the development of European family migration law, including the Netherlands? Betty de Hart (VU) will address these issues based on her recent academic work on the regulation of mixed intimacies in Europe.