ESSHC Vienna: migration and ethnicy. Deadline May 15 2013.

The ESSHC is one of the most important venues for migration researchers. The next ESSHC will be held in Vienna in 2014.  http://esshc.socialhistory.org/news/call-papers
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Registration for ESSHC 2014 is now open.
The deadline for pre-registration is 15 may 2013. To go directly to the registration form click
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Ethnicity and Migration is the largest network at the ESSHC. There were over 40 sessions and 160 papers on migration and ethnicity at the last two conferences (Ghent 2010 and Glasgow 2012). We invite you to submit ideas for a session or an abstract for a paper.
A session consists of four speakers, a chair and a commentator. The chair and the commentator can be the same person. The speakers are not to come from the  same institute (best also not from the same country).

In the past organisers of sessions have successfully used H-migration for finding additional speakers, chairs and commentators.  We have a preference for the submission of complete sessions, but authors can also submit individual papers. We as network chairs will do our best to allocate them to sessions. It may not always be a perfect match.

Below please find some themes and questions that arose during the last network meeting in Glasgow. We would definitely welcome sessions and individual papers fitting in with these themes. We are going to encourage that the best sessions will lead to publications.
Your contribution might not fit into these areas, or cover very different ground. We will still consider them, since the ESSHC sessions are always open to new and exciting research and themes..
We are looking forward to your ideas and hope that with your participation the ESSHC 2014 will be as successful as the previous one.

The Chairs of the Ethnicity and Migration Network
Marlou Schrover Leiden University, History Department, m.l.j.c.schrover@hum.leidenuniv.nl // mailto:m.l.j.c.schrover@hum.leidenuniv.nl>

Dariusz Stola Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences stola@isppan.waw.pl <mailto:stola@isppan.waw.pl>

Phillipe Rygiel Université Paris I, Centre d’histoire sociale > du XXe siècle, France, prygiel@ens.fr <mailto:prygiel@ens.fr>

Per-Olof Gronberg Centre for Population Studies, Umeå University, > Sweden, per-olof.gronberg@ddb.umu.se <mailto:per-olof.gronberg@ddb.umu.se>

Suggestions for sessions:
+ The Other Europeans. Migrations to and from eastern and central Europe in  modern times
+ Forgotten makers of migrations.
Scholarly texts have for a very long time focused mainly on migrants and to a  lesser extent states as primary forces determining migration patterns and  volumes. We do however know that many other actors take part in the migration
process and sometimes greatly contribute to its forms and patterns, be they  churches, private companies, unions, and private actors providing means or  resources to migrants for various reasons. The fact however has never really  been theorized or historicized.
+ Defining the migrants
In any given context, deciding who is and who is not a migrant is a very  demanding task. For various reasons a lot of people who cross border are not  defined as such, but are called visitors, or tourists or students, or  merchants, or expatriates, or illegal foreigners. The definition of these  categories, changing over time, promises to shed light on the way state  agencies and societies define and regulate the migration process.
+ Migrations and empires
Scholarship on migrations within imperial spaces tends to be divided along  national lines (ie French, English, Portuguese, Dutch). Comparing the  different experiences would be a first
+ Health and migrations in modern times
Migration control emerges quite often from the will to avoid the spread of  diseases and uses some of the same techniques. Also, representations of  migrants, quite often insist on them as plague carriers.
+ Transnational norms and migrations. An historical look
Historiography on migrations has been very nation and state centered, and  ignored attempt to define international norms for migrations that sometimes,  through very similar bilateral agreements, can be traced back to early modern  times .
+ Public discourses, Migrations and Ethnicity
Do debates have any effect on the regulation of migration? Do they aim to?  Who are the claim makers? Who sets the agenda?
+ Children and migrations
When and why did children become a separate category of migrants
+ In defense of migrants
Anti-migrants feelings, and policies, have been flaring up in recent years  but they have also witnessed public manifestations of solidarity with  targeted migrant or ethnic groups and intense political activism emanating  from political actors defining the defense of migrants as an important part  of their political agenda. If xenophobic or anti-migrants manifestations and  activism has been well documented, the activities of their opponents has been  generally overlooked.
+ gender and migration
Studies which address gender seem to get stuck on the same issues:  trafficking, prostitution and exploitation. Furthermore, they tend address  femininity and women rather than making comparisons to masculinity and men.
+ selecting migrants
Much of migration policy today and in the past is based on the idea that it  is possible to select migrants.

Other issues we would like to see addressed:
– regulating migration: visa policies and migration control
– migration and religion
– migrant cinema
– migration and mobility
– immigration and emigration: two sides of the same coin
– migration and professional networks