INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
MIGRANT DESCENDANTS AND “HOMELAND RETURNS”:
MIGRANT DESCENDANTS AND “HOMELAND RETURNS”:
IDENTITY, BELONGING AND TRANSNATIONAL MOBILITY
May 21 - 22, 2015
Institute of Social Sciences (ICS), University of Lisbon, Portugal
PROGRAMME
THURSDAY,
MAY 21st
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9:00-9:30:
Registration
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9:30-9:45 Welcome
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João Sardinha (CEMRI-UAb), David Cairns (CIES-IUL) and
Sofia Afonso (CEHUM-UM)
José Luís Cardoso (Director of ICS)
9:45-10:45 Keynote
Presentation 1
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Anastasia
Christou (School of Law, Middlesex University, UK) – Despicable Diasporics and
Dialogic Pedagogies: Subjectivity, Social Pain and Critical Social
Science
10:45-11:00 – Break
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11:00-13:00 Panel
1: Citizenship and politics of return
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Peter
Finke (Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, University of
Zurich, Switzerland) – Re-migration in
Central Asia: the Case of the Kazak oralman
Christin
Hess (School for Languages and Social Sciences, Aston University, UK) – Why do ‘reverse’ diasporas form among return
migrants from the former Soviet Union?
Selma
Porobic and Sara Saljic (Centre for Refugee and IDP Studies, Institute for Social Science Research,
University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina) – The (un)wanted, forgotten and invisible – paradoxes of the
international returnee politics, social marginalization and psychosocial
reality of forcibly displaced in a post-Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ana Irene
Rovetta Cortés (University of Padova, Italy) – "I
am a sui generis, I am something new": “return”, migration and
belonging(s) among “Argentinean” migrant families in the regions of Galicia
(Spain) and Veneto (Italy)
Larisa
Lara (URMIS - Universités Paris Diderot, France) – Living as a quasi-citizen in Japan: the Brazilian Nikkeijin
13:00 -14:30 –
Lunch
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14:30-15:30 Keynote
Presentation 2
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Russell
King (Sussex Centre for Migration Research, University of Sussex, UK) – The Quest for a Better Life:
Second-Generation Turkish-Germans ‘Return’ to ‘Paradise’ (co-authored with
Nilay Kilinc – University of Surrey, UK)
15:30-15:45 – Break
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15:45-17:30 Panel
2: Return as a transnational cultivator
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Sofía
Laíz Moreira (Equipo de Sociología de las Migraciones Internacionales, Universidade
da Coruña, Spain) – The "diffuse
invisibility" and the paradigmatic transnational heritage of Argentinian
roots' migrants settled in Galicia (Spain)
Jade
Cemre Erciyes (Sussex Centre for Migration Research, University of Sussex, UK /
Centre for Strategic Studies under the President of the Republic of Abkhazia,
Republic of Abkhazia) – Dual-transnationalism
between the diaspora and the homeland: The Adyge-Abkhaz return migrants’ transnational
ties
Helia
López Zarzosa (Independent researcher, Chile) – “Allá
and acá (there and here): descendants of Chilean exiles, 1978-2004”
Pamela
Kea (Department of Anthropology, University of Sussex, UK) – Cultivating Transnational and
Intergenerational Ideals: The Exchange of Photographs between Migrant Parents
in Britain and their Children in The Gambia
20:00 – Conference
dinner
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FRIDAY,
MAY 22ND
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9:30-10:30 Keynote
Presentation 3
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Zana
Vathi (Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Edge Hill
University, UK) – Educational experience
and performance of Albanian-origin children upon their families return to
Albania
10:30-10:45 Break
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10:45-12:30 Panel
3: Negotiating belongings and identities through return
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Nina Clara Tiesler (Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany /
Instituto de Ciências Sociais – Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal) – Ethnoheterogenesis – an alternative model
for the analysis of shifting modes of belonging
Ramos
Muanamoha and Inês Raimundo (Department of Geography and Centre for Policy Analysis,
Mondlane University, Angola) – Migrant
descendants living in multiple borders: the dilemma of belonging
Marcin
Gonda (Institute of Sociology, University of Lodz, Poland) – Educational mobility as a means of return
migration: the case of Polish-born students from the post-Soviet states
Sofia
Afonso (Centro de Estudos da Humanidades da Universidade do Minho – CEHUM, Universidade
do Minho, Portugal) - “Returning home” is
not like being home. Return as an exercise of expanding sense of belonging
12:30 -14:00 Lunch
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14:00-15:00 Keynote
presentation 4
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Maria Beatriz Rocha-Trindade (Centro de Estudos das Migrações e das
Relações Interculturais – Universidade Aberta, Portugal) – Ascendants and descendants within the frameworks of Portuguese
emigration and return: routes, projects and accomplishments
15:00-15:15 Break
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15:15-17:00 Panel
4: From desired to tested to failed returns
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Isabelle
Simões Marques (Universidade Aberta / CLUNL-FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)
& Michele Koven (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) – “Bonnes vacances et vive le Portugal!”: the
holidays as required return for migrant descendants
Rachael
Owhin (School of Anthropology and School of International Development,
University of Oxford) – Move Me Back:
Negotiating “homeland returns” among Nigerian migrant descendants in London
Melissa
Blanchard (Idemec, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, France) and Francesca Sirna
(CNRS-Urmis, Nice, France) – Analyzing
“return migration” as a way of testing the migration project: “culture of
mobility” and/or failure of the original plan? Alpine migrants from 1970’s
crisis until today
João
Sardinha (Centro de Estudos das Migrações e das Relações Interculturais –
Universidade Aberta, Portugal) – The
returns we share: researching the ancestral homeland return and re-return
trajectories of Portuguese migrant descendants from Canada through an autoethnographic
lens
17:15
Documentary Film Presentation
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Regressa Urgente (Return Urgent) by João Sardinha and António João
Saraiva (Centro de Estudos das Migrações e das Relações Interculturais
– Universidade Aberta, Portugal) (52 min.)
18:20-18:30 Closing
session
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