Etikettarkiv: migration

Várdduo seminar with Kenna Sim

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When? Tuesday 22 August, 2023 at 13:30 – 15:00
Where? Fatmomakke floor 4 NBET / Zoom

Welcome to a Várdduo seminar with Kenna Sim

Movement is Foundational: Indigenous Perspectives on Climate Mobilities
Kenna Sim, PhD at LiU

This seminar will provide background to an ongoing PhD project aiming to explore Indigenous perspectives on mobilities in the context of climate change and the deep histories of climate mobilities, focusing on Sámi and Secwepemc contexts.

Migration and movement, including displacement, planned resettlement, and immobility, are often identified as one of the largest future impacts of climate change. In mainstream climate adaptation frameworks, climate migration is commonly perceived as a contemporary phenomenon that is severed from historical, political, social, and economic contexts, including ongoing processes of racial capitalism and colonial dispossession. Further, it has only recently been acknowledged in mainstream research on migration, resettlement, and climate change that Indigenous peoples have long-standing traditions of mobility and movement that differ from common understandings of migration.

All interested are welcome to participate!
The seminar will be held both on site in Fatmomakke NBET level 4 and on Zoom. Those who want to participate via zoom register here, link will be sent out the day before the seminar.

Rurala stannare : En studie av stannandets dynamik i Österbotten, Finland (2023)

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Rurala stannare : En studie av stannandets dynamik i Österbotten, Finland är skriven av Kenneth Nordberg, Karin Sandell och Magnus Enlund.

Att stanna på landsbygden har ansetts vara någonting passivt, i motsats till att flytta därifrån, som setts som en aktiv och mer intressant handling att studera. Den här boken belyser stannandet som en dynamisk och mycket medveten process och ger på så sätt ett nytt perspektiv på landsbygdens utveckling. Att stanna på landsbygden är en aktiv handling genomförd av människor som ofta har alternativ, där vissa faktorer avgör till stannandets fördel.

Boken omfattar fem fallstudier i österbottniska byar med målsättningen att dra mer generella slutsatser om stannade på landsbygden. Studien tar avstamp i en historisk exposé av byarna för att senare analysera de faktorer som varit avgörande för stannande under de senaste årtiondena. De här faktorerna kan ha att göra med platsens kvaliteter, som en vacker natur, tillgång till service och arbetstillfällen, eller en stark gemenskap och sociala sammanhang. Ytterligare en viktig dimension är att människors hembygdskänsla föder en strävan att göra det möjligt att stanna, något som vi ser ett flertal exempel på i bokens fallstudier.

Boken kan hittas här.

Public lecture: Migrantour – Intercultural urban routes

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Migrantour – Intercultural urban routes
Speaker: Nadine T. Fernandez

Dear all,
We are delighted to invite you to a public lecture with professor Nadine T. Fernandez.

Date: Tuesday 17 May 2022
Time: 10-12 am
Location: Hörsal (Lecture hall) 11, house F, Södra husen, Campus Frescati,
Stockholm, Sweden

This is a public event so please feel free to share this invitation widely.

Nadine T. Fernandez is a professor in Cultural Anthropology at State University of New York, Empire State College. Her research investigates gender, race, sexuality and couple relationships in relation to transnational mobility, tourism and national migration policy. The book Revolutionizing Romance (2010) analyzes younger ”interracial couples” in 1990s post-Soviet Cuba. Intimate Mobilities: Sexual Economies, Marriage and Migration in a Disparate World (2018), which Fernandez co-edited with Christian Groes (Roskilde University, Denmark), deals with transnational mobility and couple relationships across national borders. Fernandez’s own contribution to the book is about Cuban men in Scandinavia. She is involved in a European project at the intersection of migration, heritage and tourism, called Migrantours. And she is also working on a book project on gender in a global perspective, how gender and gender issues must be contextualized and understood in relation to specific places.

More information about Migrantours: http://www.mygrantour.org/en/

Kind regards,

Magnus Öhlander