37. Transnationalism and Migration: What’s Old, What’s New, What’s Policy Relevant?

SUMMARY

Organizer:

Steven Vertovec
University of Oxford
UNITED KINGDOM
steven.vertovec@anthropology.oxford.ac.uk

Description:

This workshop will explore, through extensive case studies, different kinds of transnational migrant practices that are both 'old' and 'new'. Moreover, their relationships to various policy domains will be explored in terms of 'old' and 'new' by way of (a) how changing policy regimes influence transnational migrant activities and networks, and (b) how such activities and networks themselves challenge and potentially effect change in state policies. Among the policy areas to be explored are: illegal migration and asylum-seeking, marriage and family re-unification, 'regularization' of domestic labourers, citizenship and naturalization.

Presenters

Bridget Anderson, University of Warwick, UNITED KINGDOM
Roger Ballard, Manchester University, UNITED KINGDOM
Jonathan Beaverstock, Loughborough University, UNITED KINGDOM
Khalid Koser, University College London, UNITED KINGDOM
Eva Ostergaard-Nielsen, London School of Economics, UNITED KINGDOM
Frank Pieke, University of Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM
Alisdair Rogers, University of Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM
Steven Vertovec, University of Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM (chair)

Schedule of Workshop