Giving History its Place in Migration and Refugee Debates and Research

Giving History its Place in Migration and Refugee Debates and Research

Organizer
Jan Willem Duyvendak, Institut d'études avancées de Paris / Christophe Bertossi, Institut francais de relations internationales
Venue
Location
Paris
Country
France
From - Until
23.06.2016 - 24.06.2016
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Jan Willem Duyvendak

In the current debates concerning refugees, we observe, in some European countries, at least three ways in which history tends to 'disappear': (1) the past is either absent because it is unknown (it thus looks as if we have never dealt with refugees before...); (2) actual developments are put in a quasi-historical perspective, by claiming that certain countries have always known certain types of policies, resulting in a rather static and a-historical picture as well; (3) migrants are urged to leave their histories home.

This seminar will look into ways to do 'justice' to history, both in the political debate and in scholarly work.

Programm

Thursday 23rd June
9:30 Arriving, coffee and welcome

10:00 -12.00
Jan Willem Duyvendak (Amsterdam / Paris IEA): Remembering migration past in Amsterdam and the Netherlands
Discussant: Paolo Boccagni

Christophe Bertossi (Paris): History and moral boundaries in contemporary debates about French citizenship
Discussant: Catherine Perron

12:15 Nancy Foner (New York): The US as a classic immigration country: the uses and abuses of history
Discussant: Tibor Dessewffy

14:30 - 17:45
Paolo Boccagni (Trento): Giving migrants' biographical history its place - through home studies. A case-study from Italy
Discussant: Paul Mepschen

Yannick Coenders (Amsterdam): Disconnecting uncomfortable pasts: explaining the blackness of blackface in the Dutch Sinterklaas tradition
Discussant: Olivier Esteves

Tibor Dessewffy (Budapest): Dreaming homogeneous – the alternate currents of history in Hungarian public discourse
Discussant: Christophe Bertossi
General discussion

Friday 24th
9:30 - 13:15
Oliver Esteves (Lille): The centrality of the American ghetto motif in British race relations debates: a confusing continuum
Discussant: Yannick Coenders

Paul Mepschen (Leiden): The genesis of Dutch autochthony. Displacement, nostalgia and respectability
Discussant: Nancy Foner

Catherine Perron (Paris): Baden-Württemberg, ein Einwanderungsland ? Uses and absuses of the history of emigration and immigration to South-West Germany
Discussant: Jan Willem Duyvendak

14:30 Lecture by Nancy Foner:
"The Not So Good Old Days: How the US Became a Multicultural Society”

Contact (announcement)

Institut d'études avancées de Paris
Hôtel de Lauzun
17 quai d'Anjou
75004 Paris
Email: information@paris-iea.fr


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Published on
03.06.2016
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