IRM - INSTITUT FÜR REGIONAL- UND
MIGRATIONSFORSCHUNG
MIGRATION RESEARCH
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Call for Papers(due by: 10. December 2005, requirements: short abstract of the topic of presentation [maximum 150 words], short biography [maximum 10 lines])
International ConferenceThursday 6th July until Friday 7th July 2006, Trier, Germany
"Migration, Education and Social Change""Migration, Bildung und sozialer Wandel"
organisers:Institute for Regional- and Migration research (IRM)(Trier, Germany)
language: German and English
Information and contact:www.irm-trier.de; Tagung2006@irm-trier.de
Processes of migration are in close relationship with processes of communication and education. They impact not only the immediate life-sphere of the migrants but the life-world as a whole is being changed. As 'newcomers' the migrants are confronted with altered challenges with regard to living and creating their everyday-life and thus have to open up new perspectives.
However, the 'indigenous' population is being presented with new challenges as well because their 'settled ways', their life-spheres, too, are being altered with the newcomers. Thus the processes of migration entail hopes and opportunities as well as fears and worries. The structures of communication and negotiation of day-to-day life are impacted by this, as are newly developing exposures of problems and conflicts.
In debates about processes of migration, which are being had in the society, processes of communication and education are being discussed mostly within the context of interculturality or intercultural communication. As a starting point for this debate is often a term for culture that not only assigns a specific culture to the people involved in the exchange but it also 'fixes' them with ethnic, stereotypical or racial patterns of perception and description.
In the framework of the seminar the following questions shall be focused on: 1) How do processes of communication and education develop within culturally heterogeneous societies of immigration? 2) Of what significance are processes of ethnicisation and of racisms for the processes of communication and education of the participants? In what way do they structure and impact the processes of communication and education? 3) Which impacts and effects are resulting from the current societal processes of modernisation, for example through the instabilisation and flexibilisation of work-conditions or through reform processes in the welfare state? 4) Which gender-specific differentiation can be discerned from heterogeneous and culturally differentiated societies? What effect do they have on the communication and education processes? 5) In which way are processes of communication and education analysed within migrant-contexts? Which conceptual questions and problems are resulting from this?
Of special interest are papers on empirical work and theoretical expositions as well as pedagogical thoughts and approaches with a critical engagement with individual and cultural forms of education and communication within migration processes. The conceptualisation of culture that forms the basis of these considerations should be beyond a static concept of culture as well as beyond ethnocentric ideas of 'normality'. Instead new phenomena of modern societies should be approached as well as perspectives beyond the deficient interpretations should be critically examined. Those interested in giving papers are asked to write an abstract of 150 words with title, short biography as well as contact address (email, telephone and postal address). Please follow the pro-forma below!)
Please note: the abstract should be handed in with the pro-forma given here (page three), as this forms the basis of the conference notification on the IRM web site.
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