New Venue: 66 W. 12th St, 4th Fl, Rm. 404 Screening of “The Desert Eats Us” Presented by Kesang Tseten Award-winning filmmaker and writer from Nepal The earnings of Nepali labour sustain one out of every three households of Nepal’s 28 million; remittances prop up the country, but at a high cost. The film
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“Second Generation Memories and Stories,” Oral History workshop to be held June 16-27, 2014 at Columbia University in New York City. Sessions will explore the ways in which memories are formed and transmitted through family, cultural, political and social frames and experiences. Oral history has been a central methodology in exploring global themes of identity and post-memory through second-generation stories of
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Passage: Migration Performance Art by Ashmina Ranjit Fulbright Scholar and Internationally Recognized Artist Tuesday, Feb. 25th 5pm-6:30pm 66 W. 12th St., 5th Fl., Klein Conference Room (510) The performance aims to explore the narratives of transition and assimilation, the experiences in living in the liminal space of belonging, and the idea of prabas and prabasi, one
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The APSA Section on Migration and Citizenship welcomes nominations and self-nominations for awards for best (1) book, (2) dissertation, (3) chapter, (4) article, and (5) APSA paper. Section membership is not required for consideration (but we encourage you to become a Section member if you aren’t one already)! Details are below; this information will be added
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Tribute to Aristide R. Zolberg BY: Phil Triadafilopoulos Richard Alba Rainer Bauböck Thomas Faist Patrick Hossay Riva Kastoryano Astri Suhrke John Torpey Toby Vogel Myra A. Waterbury Migration and Citizenship Newsletter 1(2) Summer 2013. http://community.apsanet.org/MigrationCitizenship/newsletters
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Together with Dr. Tendayi Bloom of the United Nations University Institute on Globalisation, Culture and Mobility, I am putting together a panel proposal on noncitizenship for the forthcoming ECPR general conference in September. We welcome proposals for papers – please see our call below, which we hope will be of interest. The deadline to get
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A Political Sociologist’s Tribute to Aristide Zolberg Irene Bloemraad Thomas Garden Barnes Chair of Canadian Studies Associate Professor, Sociology, University of California, Berkeley As anyone who has read A Nation By Design knows, Ary Zolberg was a truly interdisciplinary writer and thinker. He took the long historical view in order to understand the politics of
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Call for Papers Clandestine Migration Routes and Human Insecurity We invite abstracts on the theme of Clandestine Migration Routes and Human Insecurity for a cross-regional comparative workshop to be held on May 17-18, 2014 at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. Please send 200-word abstracts to
Migration, Citizenship, and Development: Diasporic Membership Policies and Overseas Indians in the United States Book Launch and Discussion with Author Daniel Naujoks WHEN: Tuesday, November 12, 2013, 6-8PM WHERE: Klein Conference Room (A510), 66 W 12th St., Fifth Fl., New York, NY Welcome reception with refreshments will begin at 5:30pm. Seating is limited – please
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http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/53314 Dwelling in Diaspora – ACLA 2014 – New York University (Deadline: November 1, 2013) Elizabeth Syrkin (University of Muenster), Khachig Tölölyan (Wesleyan University) contact email: elizabeth.syrkin@uni-muenster.de American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting 20-23 March 2014, New York University Seminar title: Dwelling in Diaspora Seminar Organizers: Elizabeth Syrkin (University of Muenster), Khachig Tölölyan (Wesleyan University)
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