Migrant Women Transforming Citizenship - Life Stories From Britain and Germany
Umut Erel (The Open University) and Eleonore Kofman (Middlesex University) discuss Umut Erel's book
Tuesday 11 May
Migrant Women Transforming Citizenship develops essential insights concerning the notion of transnational citizenship by means of the life stories of skilled and educated migrant women from Turkey in Germany and Britain. It interweaves and develops theories of citizenship, identity and culture with the lived experiences of an immigrant group that has so far received insufficient attention. By focussing on the British and German contexts, it introduces a much needed European and comparative perspective, whilst exploring the ways in which diverging concepts and policies of citizenship allow for a differentiated examination of ethnicity, gender, multiculturalism and citizenship in Europe.
The Invisible Empire - White Discourse, Tolerance and Belonging
Georgie Wemyss (Goldsmiths College) and Vron Ware (The Open University) discuss Georgie Wemyss's book
Tuesday 18 May
How have dominant and white liberal discourses maintained their hegemony in a post-colonial world? Georgie Wemyss offers a significant and original contribution to critical race theory through this anthropological acount of the cultural hegemony of the West. She demonstrates how concepts of tolerance have been substantially reproduced through time in order to accommodate the challenges of history.
Book Launch
Screening Strangers: Migration and Diaspora in Contemporary
European Cinema by Yosefa Loshitzky
28 May, 6-8pm, Senate House, University of London, Room G22/26
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Ginette Vincendeau, King’s College
Film director Jasmin Dizdar and Yosefa Loshitzky in conversation
Associated events
Launch of the Exiled Journalists' Network
4 March, 5-6.30pm, UEL
Giving Voice to the Voiceless - Portrayal and participation of asylum-seekers & refugees in theUK media
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