Canadian Anthropology Society/American Ethnological Society Joint
Meeting University of British Columbia, Vancouver, May 13-16, 2009
Organizers: Pauline Gardiner Barber (Dalhousie University) and Winnie
Lem (Trent University)
This panel problematizes migration by using the analytics of a
critical political economy. A central concern of the papers is to
explore the formation of class in an engagement with the ?migration
question? and they do this by emphasizing processes of class
formation, reformation and differentiation under historical and
contemporary capitalisms. While retaining a commitment to exposing
the fundamentals of the political and economic forces of change under
capitalism, the papers move beyond orthodox, reductionist and also
static tendencies in some materialist approaches to illuminate the
complexities of migration. While questions of class and its
formations are common to all papers, we are also concerned with
methodologies for class analysis in migration, and the articulations
of power that inform the lives of migrants and that may condition
different forms of migration. Together the papers will explore
questions of migration in relation to economy, gender, culture,
production and consumption, habitus, hegemony and history, as well as
the politics of migration.
Please send title and abstract (100 words) to pgbarber@dal.ca and
wlem@trentu.ca by December 30th. Include name, institutional
affiliation and email address. A volume based on selected papers is
planned.
