[Euromixproject.rch] Intimacy, Racialization and Affect in Contemporary Migration Politics (IntRA)

[Laura Odasso]

Dear all,
I wanted to share with you  the call for papers for the workshop 'Intimacy,
Racialization and Affect in Contemporary Migration Politics'.
The deadline to apply is approaching 25 January 2023.
The entire call in French and English is available HERE <http://Intimacy,
Racialization and Affect in Contemporary Migration Politics (IntRA)>
Here below you find a presentation.

Do not hesitate to propose a contribution even and especially if it is in
the making !

We are looking forward to receive your abstracts,

Best wishes,

Laura Odasso and *Sonja Evaldsson Mellström *


*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).

*Deadline abstract submission: January 25th, 2023: 23.59. * to
laura.odasso at college-de-france.fr et a.s.s.evaldssonmellstrom at uva.nl
<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.

*Laura ODASSO*

*Temporary Lecturer, Université Paris Cit**é a.a. 2022-23*
*Collaborative Institute on Migration Fellow, Paris*
*Researcher, Chaire "Migrations et Sociétés", Collège de France, Paris*
*Research Associate at MESOPOLHIS, Aix-Marseille université-Sciences Po Aix**,
Aix-en-Provence, and at GERME, **Université** libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.*
*Tel : +33 (0)6 47 37 19 27 / +39 3713905424*
*Page*: https://lauraodasso.wordpress.com


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