Changing population: migration, reproduction and identity

The social sciences have long debated the use of racial, ethnic and national categories in analyzing processes of collective identity construction. Sociology and Anthropology have both contributed to uncovering the implicit essentialism underlying the racial and cultural definitions of difference conventionally used to identify, subdivide and classify human populations. At the same time, contemporary processes of social and cultural interconnection, fueled by intense global mobility, are challenging, bridging and overturning institutional boundaries of identity and belonging.
This conference aims to establish a space for international and interdisciplinary dialogue on contemporary socio-demographic shifts.
We propose to focus in particular on the biopolitics of reproduction put in motion by both national governments, as they distinguish between citizens and non-citizens, and migrants and their descendents, as they affirm, negotiate or refrain from constructing their own definitions of family, kinship, genealogy and belonging.

Registrations are open
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Local Scientific Committee:

• Francesca Decimo
• Alessandra Gribaldo
• Paolo Boccagni
• Serena Piovesan

Scientific committee:

• Paolo Boccagni
• Francesca Decimo
• Alessandra Gribaldo
• Nicholas Harney
• David Kertzer
• Bruno Riccio
• Giuseppe Sciortino

Keynote speakers:

• David Kertzer
• Pnina Werbner

Speakers:
Marianna Agoni, Maurizio Ambrosini, Barbara Bertolani, Sara Bonfanti, Paola Bonizzoni, Yaqoub BouAynaya, Adriana Capuano de Oliveira and Ana Keila Mosca Pinezi, Viola Castellano, Anouk de Koning, Thomas De Vroome and Marc Hooge, Jeroen Doomernik, Michael Eve with Flavio Ceravolo and Maria Perino, Vanessa Grotti, Zithian Guo, Yang Hu, Claudia Lintner, Rosalia Lombardi, Katia Lotteria, Milena Marchesi, Aurora Massa, Ann Morning, Laura Morosanu, Serena Piovesan, Chiara Quagliariello, Bryan R. Roberts, Alice Rossi, Arianna Santero, Monica Schupun, Tobias Schwarz, Rita Sobczyk, Miras Rosa Soriano and Antonio Trinidad Requena, Inese Šūpule and Evija Kļave, Alissa Tolstokorova , Magdalena Zadkowska, Katarina Zajacova, Dorothy Zinn.

Organized by:
The study unit SMMS (Migration scenarios and social changes), Department of Sociology and Social Research

In collaboration with:
School of Social Sciences

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