Tid: 10/03/2017 14:00 til 10/03/2017 16:15

Sted: DIIS ∙ Dansk Institut for Internationale Studier, auditoriet, Gl. Kalkbrænderi Vej 51 A (nær Nordhavn S-station) Østerbro, København

Arrangør: N/A

Bog om afrikanske migranters forhåbninger

The seminar will be conducted in English and live streamed on diis.dk

 

Participation is free of charge, but registration is required. Please use our online registration form no later than Thursday 9 March 2017 at 12.00 noon.

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Access to safe and legal migration has become one of the key axes of inequality today.

While images of the good life are circulated globally in the media and through social networks, the vast majority of people in Africa are excluded from legal long-distance migration, due to restrictive migration policies and border control.

The new book Hope and Uncertainty in Contemporary African Migration explores what this means in situations where migration constitutes an established livelihood and is perceived as a pathway to a better life.

Through a theoretical introduction and nine case studies, set within and outside the African continent, the volume explores migration aspirations prior to actual journeys, life in new or established destinations, and migrants stuck in transit zones and after deportation.

 

 

 

Hope and Uncertainty in Contemporary African Migration thereby adds a new perspective on the role of social imaginaries in African migration in a time characterized by inequality, protracted crisis and delimited access to legal migration.

At the book launch, we will present the main conceptual insights and four case studies from the book, set in respectively Cape Verde, China, Argentina and Niger. The seminar will be followed by a wine reception.

 

 

Speakers

Jørgen Carling, Research Professor, PRIO

Heike Drotbohm, Professor, Heisenberg Chair of Anthropology, African Diaspora and Transnationalism, Department of Anthropology and African Studies, University of Mainz

Heidi Østbø Haugen, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo

Nauja Kleist, Senior Researcher, DIIS

Hans Lucht, Senior Researcher, DIIS

Ida Vammen, PhD Candidate, department of anthropology, University of Copenhagen and DIIS

 

 

Programme

 

14.00-14.15

Welcome and introduction to the book

 

Nauja Kleist

 

 

14.15-14.30

How to extract hope from papers? Classificatory performances and social networks in Cape Verdean visa applications

 

Heike Drotbohm

 

 

14.30-14.45

Sticking to God: brokers of hope in Senegalese migration to Argentina

 

Ida Vammen

 

 

14.45-15.00

Prospective moments, eternal salvation: the production of hope in Nigerian Pentecostal churches in China

 

Heidi Østbø Haugen

 

 

15.00-15.15

Death of a gin salesman: hope and despair among Ghanaian migrants and deportees stranded in Niger

 

Hans Lucht

 

 

15.15-15.25

Coffe break

 

 

15.25-16.15

Discussion

 

Discussant: Jørgen Carling

 

Chair: Nauja Kleist

 

 

16.15-17.00

Wine reception

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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