The workshop will be held at Åbo Akademi University and is created for researchers on minoritized populations in political crises, transition and unrest.
It will tackle relations of sustenance and politics-making locally and cross-border, inter- and intra-communal. Discussions will be on how minoritized populations (ethnic and religious minorities, migrants/diaspora, women and queers) experience political unrest and transition in Europe and beyond (and the entanglement between Europe and what is beyond its borders).
The speakers are Dr. Ali Ali from University of Helsinki and Åbo Akademi University (Gender studies, religion and migration) and PhD researcher Alice al-Maleh from University of Lund. Al-Maleh holds an MA in International Development Studies and Cultural Encounters.
We invite speakers and scholars on political transition and accountability in European politics and cross-border relations to states, societies and communities in the wider so-called Middle East and Africa.
Key Note by Alice Al-Maleh
Contested Syrian futures: Transnational organizing under the threat of deportation
Key Note by Ali Ali
Belonging in (non)movement: discreet politics in Arabic-speaking (social) media.
Program:
14:00 Opening words
14:15 Keynote by Alice al-Maleh
15:00 Keynote by Ali Ali
15:45 Coffee, Cake
16:15 Panel/General Discussions with Elina Sagne Ollikainen and Khushal Naik
17:00 Wrapping up and sharing notes.
Speakers will draw on their research on people’s and communities’ navigation of war, borders and state institutions that govern these, to trace political mobilization and acts of support and sustenance. We will focus on how gender and kinship figure in the politics of transition, how people – minoritized, discriminated against and terrorized by war and genocidal actors – mobilize kinship relations within their countries of residence and across borders. We also map and discuss the political mobilization that people undertake to raise international awareness and to draw the attention of European governments, populations and diasporas to take a more informed and responsible stance on internal and external politics.
Warmly welcome to the event!
Organisers:
Ali Ali (Dr.) Postdoctoral researcher in Sociology and Gender Studies (University of Helsinki and Åbo Akademi University), doing research on matters of kinship, race and citizenship in the case of exile and racialization.
Elina Sagne-Ollikainen (MA.) Masters in Healthcare and Social services, Doctoral researcher in Public International Law. Research assistant at Åbo Akademi at the Institute for Human Rights and a team member in the Åbo Akademi Minority Studies Profile.
Khushal Naik (MA.) Doctoral Researcher and lecturer in the Study of Religion and RelEx CoE Research Project
