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<p><font size="4"><strong><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black;">Queer Migrations and Mobilities:
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Sexuality, Gender, Citizenship, and Intimacy from a European Perspective</span></strong></span></b><font face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black;"></span></font></font></p>
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<p><font size="3"><strong><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black;">Workshop on queer migration</span></strong><font face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black;"></span></font></font></p>
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<p style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black">Date: September 11-12, 2014</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black"></span></p>
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<p style="font-size: 16px;"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black">Location: Department of Sociology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black">
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<p style="font-size: 16px;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Organizers:
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Eda Farsakoglu, Department of Sociology, Lund University<br>
Sara Ahlstedt, REMESO (Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society), Linköping University</span></b></p>
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Confirmed key participants<br>
Dr. Jon Binnie, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK<br>
Prof. Dr. Kira Kosnick, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany<br>
Dr. Tracy Simmons, University of Leicester, UK<br>
Dr. Francesca Stella, University of Glasgow, UK</font><br>
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<font size="2">Migrants seeking asylum on grounds of sexuality and gender identity persecution, individuals in transnational queer relationships who seek residency on the basis of family ties, undocumented queer migrants, as well as queer and sexually marginalized
individuals and organizations in ethnic and diasporic communities are some examples of individuals and groups who create and sustain queer migrations and mobilities in contemporary Europe.
</font></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black;">The workshop aims to bring together scholars in the field of queer migration and mobilities to focus on wide-ranging debates around these migrations and mobilities as
they pertain to a European context. It seeks to explore the ways in which these matters have been experienced, organized, and shaped by national institutions as well as a range of other actors, policy makers, and organized interests, including activists, social
workers and last but not least migrants themselves. With Europe as its empirical context, the workshop aims to explore the multiple conjunctions between migration, gender, and sexuality by using a queer and intersectional analytical framework critiquing dominant
heteronormative assumptions in migration scholarship.<br>
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The workshop will bring together 14-18 scholars (including key participants) researching international queer migration (however defined) from a European perspective. We hope papers will cover a broad range of topics related to queer migration, including but
not limited to queer refugees and asylum seekers, queer partner migration, undocumented queer migrants, queer citizenship as it pertains to migration, and queer individuals and organizations in ethnic and diasporic communities.<br>
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The hope is that the workshop will also be the starting point for a European research network on queer migration.
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Should a number of workshop participants want to continue working together in a more formalized network,
</span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">We are planning to apply for funding from e.g. the European Science Foundation and COST for such a network after the workshop.
</span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Initially, however, we are planning for a more loose-structured, information sharing network.</span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">
</span></span><span style="background:white">If you do not plan on submitting an abstract or participating in the workshop but would like to be part of the network, please let us know and we will add you.<br>
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</span>The workshop will be able to cover some or all of participants’ travel and accommodation expenses, depending on funding received. Accepted participants will receive more information.<br>
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Abstracts of 250- 300 words, together with contact details and affiliation, should be sent to
<a href="mailto:eda.farsakoglu@soc.lu.se" target="_blank">eda.farsakoglu@soc.lu.se</a> and
<a href="mailto:sara.ahlstedt@liu.se" target="_blank">sara.ahlstedt@liu.se</a> by June 1, 2014.
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