Migration and Discipline: Civic Fostering of Gender, Sexuality, and the Body
Welcome to the University of Gothenburg and the online mini conference "Migration and Discipline: Civic Fostering of Gender, Sexuality, and the Body". During January 27-28, 2022 we will seek to address and critically pursue how issues around gender, sexuality and the body are exceedingly used in mobilizing discourses of “the good citizen” in immigrant policies and processes.
In recent years, an increasing number of nation states have directed their focus towards civic fostering in the process of receiving refugees and migrants. This has led multiple receiving countries to develop programs with the purpose of educating migrants to become “good citizens”. The motivation behind such programs often rests on both good intentions and care as well as oppressing xenophobic ideologies. In such approaches gender, sexuality, and the body play an important role when teaching proper attitudes and behavior. This conference seeks to address the new turn and critically pursue how issues around gender, sexuality and the body are exceedingly used in mobilizing discourses of “the good citizen” in immigrant policies and processes. The conference will showcase ongoing transnational and cross-disciplinary research with a focus on Scandinavian contexts. Scandinavia represents an interesting empirical ground for understanding dynamics of civic education since all Scandinavian countries have developed particular programs but based on very different political histories and trajectories.
Nadine El-Enany
Reader in Law, Birkbeck School of Law and Co-Director of the Centre for Research on Race and Law.
Nadine teaches and researches in the fields of migration and refugee law, European Union law, protest and criminal justice. Her current research projects, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, focus on questions of race and justice in death in custody cases, and the role of law in addressing health inequalities arising from environmental harm. Her book, (B)ordering Britain: law, race and empire (2020) is published by Manchester University Press.
David A.B. Murray
Professor of Anthropology and Sexuality Studies at York University, Toronto, Canada
David is the author numerous books and edited volumes including "Real Queer? Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Refugees in the Canadian Refugee Apparatus" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2015), and “Living with HIV in ‘Post-Crisis’ Times: Beyond the Endgame” (Lexington Books, 2021).
Jaana Vuori
Professor of Gender Studies, University of Eastern Finland
Jaana works as a professor in Gender Studies and responsible professor in Cultural Studies at the University of Eastern Finland. Vuori’s research focuses on migrant integration work, especially public service interpreting. Additionally, Vuori researches how parenting and the family are framed in relation to categories of gender and sexuality. Methodologically, Vuori specializes in in qualitative research methods, among these discourse analysis and ethnography.
Thomas Wimark
Senior lecturer and associate professor at the Department of Social and Economic Geography at Uppsala University
Thomas is a senior lecturer and associate professor at the Department of Social and Economic Geography at Uppsala University. His research interests include migration, urban planning and marginalised groups. In his academic work, he mainly interrogates how normative views of sexuality, gender and race affects (queer) individuals that migrate within and between countries. His publication list includes contributions in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Social and Cultural Geography, and Housing studies. He is on the editorial board of Gender, Place and Culture.