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SIXTH
INTERNATIONAL METROPOLIS CONFERENCE WORKSHOP 4:
Transnational Communities: Tracing new migration systems and networks Tuesday, November 27, 2001
14:00 - 15:30
ORGANIZER:
Dr Steven Vertovec
Director, ESRC Research Programme on Transnational Communities
Oxford University, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
51 Banbury Road, GB - Oxford OX2 6PE
Tel +44/0 1865 274711, fax +44/0 1865 274718
email: steven.vertovec@anthro.ox.ac.uk
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
'Transnational Communities' is a £3.7 million research programme
funded by the British Economic and Social Research Council [ESRC]. Alongside
a range of academic and policy-oriented activities, the programme is comprised
of nineteen projects engaging some sixty researchers based at numerous
British universities and research institutes around the world (see www.transcomm.ox.ac.uk).
Projects examine dimensions of 'transnational communities' conceived as
ethnic or other social groups or movements intensively connected across
the globe. Several projects involve multi-sited research concerning newly
emergent or elaborated migration networks linking sending and receiving
contexts and conditioned by a succession of policy realms and regimes.
At this Workshop, a number of projects drawn from the ESRC Programme will
be presented, following which a panel of experts (a renowned academic
and two representatives of key international agencies) will act as discussants.
Aspects to be explored are: the extensiveness of transnational migration
networks, their modes of communication and exchange, their roles in channeling
the course of individual action and community development, and their challenges
to national migration and integration policies. DURATION: one 1.5 hour
sessions PARTICIPANTS:
Papers: Katie Willis, University of Liverpool, "Gender and migration
to China"
Frank Pieke, Oxford University, "Chinese migration configuration"
Bridget Anderson, University of Warwick "Female migrant domestic
workers"
Khalid Koser, University College London "Asylum networks"
Discussants: David Ley, Univeristy
of British Columbia
Stephen Castles, Oxford University |
