Centre for Research on Social Inclusion
Researching Migration and Transnationalism
Master class with Professor John Eade (CRONEM, Surrey & Roehampton Universities, UK)
Funded by the Australian Academy of the Humanities and hosted by
Department of Sociology and Centre for Research on Social Inclusion, Macquarie University
| Date: | 21 April 2010, Wednesday | |
| Time: | 10-1pm (followed by lunch) | |
| Venue: | Building W6A 107 |
About Professor John Eade
John Eade is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology as well as Executive Director of CRONEM (Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism) which links Surrey and Roehampton universities. After research in Kolkata (Calcutta) on the social identity of the educated Bengali Muslim middle class, he completed his PhD in 1986 on Bangladeshi community politics in Tower Hamlets. Since then he has researched the Islamisation of urban space, globalisation and the global city, travel and pilgrimage, forced marriage, black Methodists in London, and Bangladeshi identity politics. For further details see www.surrey.ac.uk/Arts/CRONEM
About the Class
During the last 20 years social scientists have been exploring the ways in which global flows of people, information, images, capital and goods operate across national boundaries through transnational networks. This approach has exposed the limitation of 'methodological nationalism' and the 'national container' model. In the US, Nina Glick Schiller and Peggy Levitt have encouraged us to go beyond a model which explores flows across national frontiers to one which focuses on a transnational social field totally independent of national boundaries.
This Master class will examine this transnational approach by locating it within a wider historical context of globalisation and considering the ways in which the transnational approach can make sense of migration flows in specific regions of the world. I will focus here on the European region and the extent to which this region is different from other regions. The intention is to open up a debate where the relevance of the transnational approach and regional developments to the Australian context can be discussed.
Format: The master class is intended to be an informal opportunity for PhD students to interact in a small group setting with Prof. Eade. The first half hour, Prof. Eade will give an overview of his work, and current research and scholarly direction. The session will then revolve around an informal Q&A type arrangement. Participating students are expected to have read the required readings and come armed with two or three questions or points for discussion.
Please prepare a ONE PAGE statement, to include a short bio and a description of your work as it relates to Prof. Eade's work. Interested PhD students should contact Selvaraj Velayutham (Raj) on selvaraj.velayutham@mq.edu.au
Please note that SPACES ARE LIMITED. Morning tea and lunch will be provided. Successful candidates will be notified via email by the 15th of April.
Required Readings:
Eade, John (work in progress) 'Representing British Bangladeshis in the Global City: Authenticity, Text and Performance'.
Eade, John. 'Introduction: The secular state and religious pluralism' in From Race to Religion: Multiculturalism and Contested Urban Space (in press)
Drinkwater, Stephen., Eade, John. and Garapich, Michal (2009) 'Poles Apart? EU Enlargement and the Labour Market Outcomes of Immigrants in the United Kingdom', International Migration Vol. 47 (1): 161-190.
M. P. Smith and J. Eade (2008) Transnational Ties: Cities, Migrations and Identities, New Brunswick, US, and London: Transaction