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UID:labour-migration-diversity-and-inequality-and-imaginaries-of-the-future-in-southeast-asia-1
SUMMARY:Labour Migration: Diversity and Inequality, and Imaginaries of the Future in Southeast Asia (1)
LOCATION:Room 1.103
DESCRIPTION:This panel has two interconnected sessions. The first is concer
 ned with diversity and inequality, and the second focuses on imaginaries of
  the future. The first session invites 3 young scholars to join.\n\nThe fir
 st session explores issues of labour migration and diversity in Southeast A
 sian cities and beyond. This session aims to disrupt the framing of migrati
 on in terms of flows and laws, globalisation and development, or ‘push’ and
  ‘pull’ factors. Instead it seeks to explore the on-the-ground, day-to-day 
 experience of migrants in Southeast Asian cities and beyond. Ethnographic a
 nalysis of the everyday, fleshy experiences of people defined as migrants h
 elp understand the production of difference and inequity in culturally dive
 rse ‘host’ cities and states.\n\nEthnographic analyses underline the multip
 le and simultaneous subjectivities of migrants – for example, as workers wh
 o are also family members of students, or as foreigners who are also lovers
  – and their different locations on intersecting axis of power including et
 hnicity, gender and social class. What can we learn from analysing the expe
 riences of migrants through a lens of positionality and intersectionality? 
 What can we learn from migrants’ experiences about bordering practices, the
  production of Others, and the production and maintenance of inequity in co
 ntemporary Southeast Asian cities and elsewhere? How do processes of belong
 ing and solidarity intervene in practices of difference and inequality? We 
 invite in particular young scholars who have started to explore this field 
 of ethnographic research to share their fieldwork experiences and to raise 
 and discuss questions in this panel.\n\nThe second session focuses on imagi
 naries of the future Migration studies see the concept of wellbeing confine
 d to purely material wealth, while the notion of future is usually taken-fo
 r-granted. Both terms tend to be abstract and indifferent to cultural frame
 works, and engage insufficiently with the rapidly changing social environme
 nts in which migration is situated. Scholars have however increasingly emph
 asized the importance of widening the attention to how different human indi
 viduals and societies organize and engage their own future (Appadurai 2013;
  Robbins 2013). In refiguring the future within specific cultural systems, 
 we will be better able to place more particular ideas about well-being. The
  panel suggests to explore how ideas of well-being and future shape particu
 lar forms and experiences of migration in Thailand, Laos and Myanmar. It wi
 ll do so by teasing out how these ideas play out at different moments in mi
 gration: pre-migration, in migration, and through return migration. We seek
  answers to the following questions: How do people understand their wellbei
 ng and future? How do such imaginaries shift over the migration life course
  and inform migration practices? How do people living in different societie
 s strive to create the good in their migratory projects? How do understandi
 ngs of “well-being” change overtime and across contexts? What are the impli
 cations of migration on well-being of families and communities?
URL:https://euroseas2019.org/program/panels/labour-migration-diversity-and-inequality-and-imaginaries-of-the-future-in-southeast-asia
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190912T133000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190912T150000
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DTSTAMP:20260406T060400
UID:labour-migration-diversity-and-inequality-and-imaginaries-of-the-future-in-southeast-asia-2
SUMMARY:Labour Migration: Diversity and Inequality, and Imaginaries of the Future in Southeast Asia (2)
LOCATION:Room 1.103
DESCRIPTION:This panel has two interconnected sessions. The first is concer
 ned with diversity and inequality, and the second focuses on imaginaries of
  the future. The first session invites 3 young scholars to join.\n\nThe fir
 st session explores issues of labour migration and diversity in Southeast A
 sian cities and beyond. This session aims to disrupt the framing of migrati
 on in terms of flows and laws, globalisation and development, or ‘push’ and
  ‘pull’ factors. Instead it seeks to explore the on-the-ground, day-to-day 
 experience of migrants in Southeast Asian cities and beyond. Ethnographic a
 nalysis of the everyday, fleshy experiences of people defined as migrants h
 elp understand the production of difference and inequity in culturally dive
 rse ‘host’ cities and states.\n\nEthnographic analyses underline the multip
 le and simultaneous subjectivities of migrants – for example, as workers wh
 o are also family members of students, or as foreigners who are also lovers
  – and their different locations on intersecting axis of power including et
 hnicity, gender and social class. What can we learn from analysing the expe
 riences of migrants through a lens of positionality and intersectionality? 
 What can we learn from migrants’ experiences about bordering practices, the
  production of Others, and the production and maintenance of inequity in co
 ntemporary Southeast Asian cities and elsewhere? How do processes of belong
 ing and solidarity intervene in practices of difference and inequality? We 
 invite in particular young scholars who have started to explore this field 
 of ethnographic research to share their fieldwork experiences and to raise 
 and discuss questions in this panel.\n\nThe second session focuses on imagi
 naries of the future Migration studies see the concept of wellbeing confine
 d to purely material wealth, while the notion of future is usually taken-fo
 r-granted. Both terms tend to be abstract and indifferent to cultural frame
 works, and engage insufficiently with the rapidly changing social environme
 nts in which migration is situated. Scholars have however increasingly emph
 asized the importance of widening the attention to how different human indi
 viduals and societies organize and engage their own future (Appadurai 2013;
  Robbins 2013). In refiguring the future within specific cultural systems, 
 we will be better able to place more particular ideas about well-being. The
  panel suggests to explore how ideas of well-being and future shape particu
 lar forms and experiences of migration in Thailand, Laos and Myanmar. It wi
 ll do so by teasing out how these ideas play out at different moments in mi
 gration: pre-migration, in migration, and through return migration. We seek
  answers to the following questions: How do people understand their wellbei
 ng and future? How do such imaginaries shift over the migration life course
  and inform migration practices? How do people living in different societie
 s strive to create the good in their migratory projects? How do understandi
 ngs of “well-being” change overtime and across contexts? What are the impli
 cations of migration on well-being of families and communities?
URL:https://euroseas2019.org/program/panels/labour-migration-diversity-and-inequality-and-imaginaries-of-the-future-in-southeast-asia
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190912T153000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190912T170000
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