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Migration and Latinos

Research workshop at the NOLAN Conference

The common theme of the workshop is the Latino communities in the United States. Within a transnational framework we include a broad range of themes relating to migration, ethnicity and social change. The transnational focus makes it possible to analyze the socio-cultural and political connections between the societies and nation states involved within multiple dimensions and localities.

The transnational relations seem to have an increased significance in terms of economic, political and cultural ties to at least two different countries. In this sense, transnationalism has led to social and political changes within Latino communities, for example in terms of organization and norms concerning democracy and rights. At the same time, the political focus on migrants in the US from Latin America has lead to very different reactions and changes both within the Latino communities and in other groups in the US.

We welcome traditional research papers as well as methodological considerations from multiple disciplinary, theoretical, historical and geographic perspectives.

All proposals are welcome, but we are particularly interested in research papers that focus on transnational identities and fall within one or several of the following areas:

• Economic, social and cultural relationships between immigrant sending communities in Latin America and Latino communities in the US

• Social, political, and cultural interactions of Latinos with other ethnic and racial groups in the US, including different Latino communities

• Cultural and artistic representations of Latino experiences in between the US and the sending communities

• Latino political mobilization and participation in the US

Please email max 300-word proposals as Word attachment, together with one-page CVs, 
to Dr. Helene Balslev Clausen; helenebalslev@hotmail.com or/and Dr. Anne Magnussen, magnussen@hist.sdu.dk

by 1st of August, 2010.

Successful participants will be notified of acceptance via email by 19th of August, 2010.

Keynote by Professor Jonathan Fox, Ph.D. i Political Science, Professor in Latin American and Latino Studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US. Keywords: Latin American and Latino politics, including issues of democratization, accountability, social movements, transnational civil society, social and environmental policy, and immigration. Please see http://lals.ucsc.edu/directory/details.php?id=5 for more information