Transnationalisation, Migration and Development
Friday, 28 October 2011
13.30-18.30
Venue: Department of Development Studies,
Seminar Room 1/Seminarraum 1, Sensengasse 3, 1090 Vienna
13.30-15.00
Maren Borkert, Department of Development Studies, UoV:
Welcome to the workshop, introduction and technicalities
Topic 1: Global Diasporas and their Impact on ‘Development’
Petra Dannecker, Department of Development Studies, UoV:
Beyond economic transformations: return migration and social change in Bangladesh
Oliver Bakewell, International Migration Institute, University of Oxford
Diasporas and development: a marriage of convenience or true love?
Ibrahima Amadou Dia, Department of Sociology, University of Geneva
Transnationalism and development: some lessons from the skilled Indian, South African and Colombian international migration
Chair: Eileen Smith
15.00-15.30 Coffee Break
15.30-17.00
Topic 2: Global Diasporas in the Light of Development Studies
Hanna Stepanik, Department of Development Studies, UoV:
Consequences of ‘Development‘ and Globalization in Cape Verde: On Aspects of Exclusion and ‘Identity Construction’
Elisabeth Lang, Department of Development Studies, UoV:
Cape Verdean Diaspora in a multilingual context (Luxembourg)
Eileen Smith, Department of Development Studies, UoV:
How safe are your online friends? The role that transmigration plays in linking cybercrime and human trafficking.
Chair: Maren Borkert
17.00-17.15 Coffee Break
17.15-18.30
Topic 3: Transnational Migration and Social Fields in Europe
Maren Borkert, Department of Development Studies, UoV:
The transnationalisation of social fields: implications for migration studies in Europe
Ayse Caglar, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, UoV:
Locating Hometown Associations: Migrant transnational networks and the urban scale
Steffen Angenendt, German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development:
Transnationalisation and Development Policy in Europe and Germany
Chair: Eileen Smith
Saturday, 29 October 2011
14.00-16.00
Venue: Alois Wagner Saal,
ÖFSE - Austrian Research Foundation for International Development (C3), Sensengasse 3
Workshop Wrap-Up of all Workshops held at the Conference
Birgit Englert, Department of African Studies, UoV:
Wrap-Up of the Workshop ‘Transnationalisation, Migration and Development’ (10 minutes)
Chair: Wolfram Schaffar
About the research group Transnationalisation and Development:
The research group, which was established in early 2011, focuses on the observation and analysis of transnationalisation processes in time and within specific social-spatial areas as well as their implications for development and social change. What networks and transnational spaces are and have been created by historical and current migration movements and relationships? How do migrants, for example, constitute transnational spaces and what role do they play in everyday (inter)actions? In what ways do national borders and regulations affect the formation and shape of transnational spaces and what is their impact on national-minded borders? While financial and social transfers (remittances), particularly in discourses on migration and development, have become the bearer of hope for the fight against poverty and global inequality, the question of how transnational activities and power structures embedded in transnational spaces affect societal transformations is rarely asked.
In this sense, transnational spaces are an interesting phenomenon not only for the (social) sciences, but they are equally relevant to economics, culture and politics. As a theoretical concept, they offer a new approach to exploring and understanding social textures and transformation processes that go beyond national borders.
The (female) researchers who have come together in this group combine different disciplinary backgrounds and research interests, with a common interest in cross-border mobility and its effects and reciprocal relations. In the current discussions, the primary issue is to what extent the approach or approaches used to conceptualize transnational spaces can be used and further developed towards a common framework of analysis.
The research group ‘transnationalisation and development’ includes (in alphabetic order): Maren Borkert, Petra Dannecker, Birgit Englert, Bea Gomes and Eileen Smith.
For more information please visit: http://ie.univie.ac.at/en/research-areas/transnational-space/
If you are interested in joining the group, please contact any of the group members.