[Euromixproject.rch] Intimacy, Racialization and Affect in Contemporary Migration Politics - Paris, 11-12 May 2023

[Laura Odasso]

*Dear all, we are happy to share with you the call for abstracts for a
collaborative workshop about intimacy, racialization and affect in
contemporary migration that will be held in Paris on 11-12 May 2023. Do not
hesitate to spread the call among interested scholars, and to submit your
proposal!You can find the full call in English and in French online HERE
<https://www.icmigrations.cnrs.fr/2022/12/14/aac-workshop-intimacy-racialisation-and-affect-in-contemporary-migration-politics/>
and
in attachment.Best wishes,Laura Odasso and Sonja Evaldsson Mellstrom*

*Workshop 11-12 May 2023*

*Intimacy, Racialization and Affect in Contemporary Migration Politics
(IntRA)*

A collaborative Anglophone/Francophone workshop organized by the Institut
Convergences Migrations, le Centre de recherches sociologiques et
politiques de Paris (CRESPPA) & University of Amsterdam (UvA)

The topic of intimacy has long been central to feminist and queer
scholarship on nation, empire, mobility and migration. While largely
eluding definition, feminist- and queer scholars understand intimacy beyond
the personal, the body and the household. These scholars  have theorized
intimacy as an important site of population control, intersecting with
other categories of subjectification such as gender, sexuality, religion,
race, age and class (cf. Amphoux et Mondada, 1989; Berrebi-Hoffmann,
2009; McClintock,
1995; Oswin N. and Olun, 2010; Stoler, 1995; 2002; Yuval-Davis, 1997).
Exploring the concept beyond the private-public divide has allowed
feminist- and queer scholars to conceptualize the politics of intimacy as
foundational to both colonial- and contemporary politics of citizenship. As
such, intimacy has been theorized as imperative to contemporary politics of
belonging, and an important site of critiquing the boundaries of liberal
subjectivities (Evans, 1993; Lister, 1997; Luibheid, 2008; Plummer, 2003;
Sabsay, 2016; Saleh, 2020).  Intimacy has in parallel become central to
migration scholarship, particularly for scholars interrogating the politics
of family- and queer migrations (see ex: Giametta, 2017; Mai & King, 2009;
White, 2014). Within this literature, scholars have theorized intimacy in
relation to how migrants and support networks negotiate agency relative to
state migration institutions, and explored intimate relations as an
important site of state interventions (see ex: Odasso & Salcedo, 2022;
Schmoll, 2021; Bonjour et de Hart, 2021). Building on this scholarship, the
IntRA workshop aims for a transnational, bilingual, reflection on how
intimacy is articulated in contemporary migration politics in relation to
processes of racialization and affective economies across- and beyond
Europe.

The two days international/collaborative workshop invites scholars to
explore how the “intimacy-racialization-affect” nexus, in relation to other
vectors of oppression/privilege, such as sexuality, gender, age, class,
nationality, shape power dynamics that structure encounters between
individual subjects (migrants, non-migrants, support networks, families)
and state actors in citizenship- and migration processes.

*Detailed in the attached call for papers, we invite abstracts that explore
the “intimacy-racialization-affect” nexus along the following three axes*
*1. Nation, kinship and family  *
*2.* *Asylum and affective relations *
*3. Intermediaires, brokerage and activism *

*Contributions -* in French or English - should state which theme is aimed
by the contribution (or mention a preferred theme). Contributions are
welcomed in the form of a (max) 250-word abstract, alongside a list of
keywords, a short bio of the researcher (100 words max), a brief
introduction to their research and themes addressed in their work (200
words max).
*Please submit these documents byJanuary 25th, 2023: 23.59. *
Laura Odasso laura.odasso at college-de-france.fr
Sonja Evaldsson Mellstrom a.s.s.evaldssonmellstrom at uva.nl
*Deadline presentation submission: April 30th, 2023. *
*Funding*: Upon request, funding (for transportation and/or accommodation)
is available for researchers without funding to finance their travel to and
stay in Paris.

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