The language of difference: mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion of migrants 1945-2005, January 14 and 15 2010, Leiden University

The language of difference: mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion of
migrants 1945-2005, January 14 and 15 2010, Leiden University, The
Netherlands.

If you want to participate or want more information about the
conference, please send a message to Marlou Schrover
M.L.J.C.Schrover@hum.leidenuniv.nl with as subject 'Leiden conference
2010'.

Costs: 80 euro for two days, or 40 for one.

Programme

Thursday January 14 2010

9.00-9.30 Willem Schinkel, Introduction

9.30-13.00 Session 1: Unauthorised, irregular or undocumented migrants:
constructions of illegality
commentator: Willem Schinkel

Corrie van Eijl, 'Deportability' and the construction of migrant
illegality in the post-war decades in the Netherlands

Nicolas Fischer, Thresholds of Exclusion. Legal and Medical Experts, and
the Management of Illegality in a French Immigration Detention Centre

Nicholas De Genova, Spectacles of migrant "illegality": The scene of
exclusion, the obscene of inclusion

13.00-14.00 Lunch

14.00-17.30 Session 2: Defining the refugee
commentator: Nicholas De Genova

Tycho Walaardt, Quietly giving in. Inclusion tactics in the 1970s by and
for Portuguese and Turkish asylum seekers

Baldwin Van Gorp, Images and words as framing devices to represent the
asylum seeker, the refugee, and the undocumented immigrant

Leah Bassel, The Moral Grammar of Refugee Women's Claim-making

17.30 Drinks and conference diner

Friday January 15 2010

9.00-13.00 Session 3: (Trans)nationalities and loyalties
commentator: Leo Lucassen

Nadia Bouras, Constructing contacts with the country of origin. Moroccan
immigrants and their accessibility to 'transnational' practices

Patricia Ehrkamp, Migrant transnationalism and the politics of
citizenship

Mark I. Choate, Emigration as "economic development," immigration as
"foreign aid": Representations of transnational citizenship,
remittances, and trade



12.30-13.30 Lunch

13.30-17.30 Session 4: Repatriates or migrants? Postcolonial migrants in
Western-Europe
commentator: Mark I. Choate

Charlotte Laarman, Strangers returning home

Bernd Reiter, Framing Non-Whites and Producing Second-Class Citizens in
France and Portugal

Guno Jones, Dutch politicians and the dynamics of citizenship in a
'postcolonial' context, 1945-2008

Madeleine Dobie, Immigration, Integration and the Politics of the
Literary Field

17.30-18.00 Marlou Schrover, concluding remarks

18.00 Diner