Make it in Berlin - Selective Inclusion through labour and unemployment agencies

Make it in Berlin – Selective Inclusion through labour and unemployment agencies

by Felix Marlow, Sabrina Apicella, Hannah Schultes, Katharina Schoenes, Noel Nicolaus, Nikolas Schall, and Mira Wallis (Humboldt University, Berlin) ‘We cordially invite you to shape your future in Germany, at the heart of Europe. Come and be part of the…

Knowledge production and the politics of ‘integration’ in contemporary Europe: challenging the depoliticisation of (anti-)racism

Knowledge production and the politics of ‘integration’ in contemporary Europe: challenging the depoliticisation of (anti-)racism

by Silvia Rodríguez Maeso Coordination: This seminar will discuss the enduring difficulties of addressing racism as a political phenomenon that shapes the normal functioning of institutions and everyday social relations within the so-called democratic societies. It will focus on the…

Regimes of Exclusion and Inclusion: Migrant Labor, Education, Life and Death in China

Regimes of Exclusion and Inclusion: Migrant Labor, Education, Life and Death in China

by Ralph Litzinger This paper addresses the lives and struggles of rural migrants in urban fringe spaces in the People’s Republic of China. This is part of a larger book project that tracks a seemingly disparate range of discourses, policing…

We are All Migrants: Expanding the Margins under the Condition of Migrant-hood

We are All Migrants: Expanding the Margins under the Condition of Migrant-hood

by Gregory Feldman This paper argues that the categorical distinction between the “migrant” and “citizen” collapses under careful scrutiny. Rather than signify different subject-positions, the migrant and the citizen are subject to highly similar conditions of existence that 1) impair…

Why Should we Go back to the Histories of Immigration of Late and Early Twentieth Century?

Why Should we Go back to the Histories of Immigration of Late and Early Twentieth Century?

by Ranabir Samaddar