RSVP for the Roundtable by February 6!!!
Discussion Meeting
Migration of Wealth: Mobile Cosmopolitans, Prime Real Estate, and Elite Global Cultures” with Prof. Morgan Liu
Come join us !
Reading Discussion with Prof. Morgan Liu
Associate Prof & Interim Chair, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Associate Prof, Anthropology
January 19, 2018
3-4.30pm
Research Commons,
18th Ave Library, Room 350A
We will discuss:
Laura Nader 1972, “Up the Anthropologist: Perspective Gained from Studying Up”. (email us for a copy)
and
“Stream of Foreign Wealth Flows to Elite New York Real Estate” 2015. https://nyti.ms/2kfMcjv
Please RSVP by January 16 by emailing: migrationstudiesworkinggroup@gmail.com
This event is free and open to all. Refreshments and cookies will be provided.
The Migration Studies Working Group is an interdisciplinary graduate student-led and founded organization which aims to create an inspiring and productive interdisciplinary environment for a range of migration studies scholarship at The Ohio State University.
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MSWG Spring 2018 Events
Come join us for our events in Spring 2018 at OSU.
Migration and Art
We invite you to join us for the our next event on NOV 13 on Migration and Arts.
We will discuss different art practices and projects that relate to the study of Migration from different viewpoints and disciplines.
Prof. Johanna Sellman (Department of Near Eastern Languages and Literatures) and Carolin Mueller (PhD students in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures) will lead the conversation. They will introduce two projects to the community at OSU that will highlight the relationships between the Arts and Migration Studies.
You are encouraged to bring materials from artistic projects that you know as well.
In preparation for the meeting please read/view the materials below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSWHcCsMKHQ (Banda Internationale, a musician collective working with refugees in Dresden, Germany)
The poem by Hassan Blasim: https://hassanblasim.net/
The event will take place from 3pm-4.30pm in 18th Ave Library Room 350A.
This event is free and open to all. Refreshments and cookies will be provided.
Please RSVP by Nov 12, 12pm.
Migration and Health
We invite you to join us Friday Oct 6 1.30-3pm in the Research Commons Room 350A for our next reading discussion on Migration and Health. In this session we will be discussing and critiquing one of our group members, Kelly Yotebieng, recently published agenda paper on urban migration and health – with a focus on asylum seekers and refugees):
“Health, well-being, and urban refugees and asylum seekers: an agenda paper.”
Health and well-being have been historically uncommon areas of focus in studies of forced migration within the social sciences, where the focus has more often been focused broadly on identity, liminality, and social suffering. Urban refugees have also been largely excluded from the narrative. Yet, urban refugees represent the majority of the world’s refugees, which means we are effectively excluding the majority of the refugee experience from our research. Health is often a central marker of inequality and marginalization. Understanding the entanglement of forced migration to urban areas and health bears enormous potential for policy and practice. The papers we are discussing during this meeting will outline what we know, and set an agenda for the study of urban refugee health. Many of the areas we cover will also bear resonance for others studying different types of migration.
If you are interested in this topic, you might read:
- Castaneda, H., Holmes, S. M., Madrigal, D. S., Young, M. D., Beyeler, N., & Quesada, J. (2015). Immigration as a Social Determinant of Health. Annual Review of Public Health, 36, 375–92. http://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-publhealth-032013-182419
- Venkataramani, A.S., Shah, S.J., O’Brien, R.; Kawachi, I., & Tsai, A.C. (2017). Health consequences of the US Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) immigration programme: a quasi-experimental study. Lancet Public Health, 2: e175-181.
This event is free and open to all. Refreshments and cookies will be provided. If you plan to join us, please RSVP by Oct 4 by emailing migrationstudiesworkinggroup@gmail.com.
Gender and Sexuality in Migration Studies
Dear Migration Studies Working Group, colleagues and fellow graduate students, we invite you to join us for our third reading/discussion on Gender and Sexuality in Migration Studies. We’ve chosen a few chapters from the books Against Citizenship: The Violence of the Normative and Queer Migration: Sexuality, U.S. Citizenship, and Border Crossings for this discussion. We’ve chosen these texts with the hope that it appeals to people using a range of methods and working in different regions. We’ll use these texts to guide our discussion, but please don’t let a lack of reading time keep you from joining our conversation.
We will gather from 3:00-4:30 pm on Friday, 3/3, in the 18th Ave Library, Room 350A
Border(lands)
The Migration Studies Working Group invites you to the discussion meeting on Border(lands), on February 3rd, 2017, 3.00-4.30pm, and we’d love for you to join.
We’ve chosen an article by Balibar: At the Border of Citizenship: A Democracy in Translation and select a chapter from Michel Agier, Borderlands: Toward an Anthropology of the Cosmopolitan Condition for our second discussion this semester. We’ve chosen this text with the hope that it appeals to people thinking about issues around borders and citizenship in different regions.
Prof. Shane of Moritz College of Law will be joining us briefly at the beginning of our discussion to talk about the Scholars Strategy Network, an initiative he is involved with which focuses on making academic work more accessible and effective, in terms of reaching broader audiences and impacting policy.
Ethics of Research
Our first reading discussion is coming up on 11/28, and we’d love for you to join. We’ve chosen a few chapters on ethics in migration studies from the book Values and Vulnerabilities: the Ethics of Research with Refugees and Asylum Seekers for this first discussion. We’ve chosen this text with the hope that it appeals to people using a range of methods and working in different regions.
We will gather from 3:30-5:00 on Monday, 11/28, in the 18th Street Library, Room 350A.