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Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies, 2021
This article explores how young Paraguayan migrants, returnees, and not-yet migrants negotiate co... more This article explores how young Paraguayan migrants, returnees, and not-yet migrants negotiate contradicting aspirations and desperations that they attach to urban and rural spaces in the present and future. While a protracted crisis of small-scale agriculture in Paraguay increases pressure to migrate, the economic crisis in Argentina challenges the established migration trajectories between rural Paraguay and Buenos Aires. The article shows how young adults continuously weigh up current living conditions and future prospects both “here” and “there” and are torn between leaving, staying, or returning. Based on multi-sited ethnographic field research, it reconstructs the ways in which they navigate between four ambiguous aspirations: security, advancement, belonging, and attachment. Whereas rural out-migration of young people is often interpreted as a yearning for modern city life, the analysis reveals that both rural and urban areas are linked with aspirations as well as desperations.
PERIPHERIE – Politik • Ökonomie • Kultur, 2019
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2017
A growing number of so-called indigenous ‘Jumma’ people from the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in ... more A growing number of so-called indigenous ‘Jumma’ people from the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in Bangladesh are migrating to New York City (NYC) in search of a ‘better life’, an attempt to escape from a situation defined largely by deprivation and exclusion. This paper asks how these migrants navigate the new terrain, which often does not comply with their expectations but instead fuels a deep sense of disappointment. It will be shown that their transnational practices and belonging are not only extensions of the global ‘Jumma’ network, but also that the formation of a diaspora community and the maintenance of cultural boundaries simultaneously create attachment to NYC. Making NYC a home is shaped by their dreams and aspirations, and by the ambiguous ways in which they relate to both the CHT and NYC, places where they find themselves torn between feelings of longing and detachment.
Conference Presentations by Corinna Land
10th CEISAL International Conference, 2022
Struggles for Hope: Negotiating the Future in Times of Global Crises, 2022
Making Home, Doing Belonging: Mobilities and Immobilities in Experience, Theory and Policy , 2021
IV ISA Forum of Sociology, 2021
7th PhD Conference on International Development, 2018
24th European Conference on South Asian Studies , 2016
Conference Calls by Corinna Land
Fulda International Autumn School, 2022
We live in an increasingly mobile world: People, imaginaries, knowledges, objects, and capital ar... more We live in an increasingly mobile world: People, imaginaries, knowledges, objects, and capital are on the move. Fuelled by new technologies and globalisation, they cross political, social, and cultural borders and create global nets of connections. Spatial movements often go along with social mobility of individuals or groups of people, resulting in changes of economic positions and social status. However, not everybody and not everything is spatially or socially mobile. Disconnections and exclusions are created by structural and legal constrains as well as discourses of foreclosure, or norms of sedentary lives.
The workshop invites to explore the diversity of visions and practices of future-making in the gl... more The workshop invites to explore the diversity of visions and practices of future-making in the global, multifaceted crisis of capitalist modernity. We seek to illuminate social contestations over collective futures: What kind of future is likely, what is desirable, what are possible ways to shape tomorrow's society? What are people's hopes, fears, ideas and strategies for a social transformation? The workshop promotes the exchange between research on everyday future-relations of nonactivist populations and utopian thinking and prefigurative practices of social movements. Confronted with capitalist crises, climate change, pandemics, political violence, oppression, or war, people all over the world reflect on and struggle for a different future. On the one hand, a sense of rising threats and uncertainty spurs anxieties and apocalyptic visions. On the other, moments of crisis may open the space to renegotiate social change and to (re)create diverse hopes for the future. Against this background, research on the future gains new momentum in sociology and anthropology (Bryant and Knight 2019; Kleist and Jansen 2016). How people relate to the future in the here and now (Hage 2016) is a crucial lense to make sense of political practices, to understand who is struggling for what, who remains silent, and how people understand their own role in bringing about the future.
Fulda International Autumn School, 2021
Our world is divided by deep social inequalities, aggravated by contemporary challenges such as e... more Our world is divided by deep social inequalities, aggravated by contemporary challenges such as economic crises, climate change, and a global pandemic. While the unprecedented wealth of our times is under control of a few, poverty and precarity affect more and more people. While a part of the world's population enjoys social and political rights, others face institutional discrimination or persecution. While some have the freedom to move or to stay at home, others are forced to seek refuge or stay in places where they are not considered as equals. During the Autumn School, we will explore how intersecting dimensions of global inequalities shape societies and people's everyday lives and discuss ways to confront them.
Forced migration has taken center stage in public and academic discourse over the last years. Giv... more Forced migration has taken center stage in public and academic discourse over the last years. Given its contemporary relevance, familiar as well as novel theoretical and methodological approaches to migration studies gain momentum. Multifaceted and controversial debates reveal various transitions concerning empirical dynamics and approaches to address forced migration as well as theoretical, methodological and legal challenges to grasp the complex phenomenon. Exploring these transitions, the conference will provide a space for interdisciplinary debate as well as exchange between academia and practice. It aims at stimulating a discussion between scholars of humanities and law and representatives of civil society, governments and international agencies. The conference will encourage scholars to reflect on the real-world outcomes of their research and animate practitioners to scrutinize their day to day work. In four consecutive workshops, we will analyze transitions of concepts, perspectives, law and civic spaces.
Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies, 2021
This article explores how young Paraguayan migrants, returnees, and not-yet migrants negotiate co... more This article explores how young Paraguayan migrants, returnees, and not-yet migrants negotiate contradicting aspirations and desperations that they attach to urban and rural spaces in the present and future. While a protracted crisis of small-scale agriculture in Paraguay increases pressure to migrate, the economic crisis in Argentina challenges the established migration trajectories between rural Paraguay and Buenos Aires. The article shows how young adults continuously weigh up current living conditions and future prospects both “here” and “there” and are torn between leaving, staying, or returning. Based on multi-sited ethnographic field research, it reconstructs the ways in which they navigate between four ambiguous aspirations: security, advancement, belonging, and attachment. Whereas rural out-migration of young people is often interpreted as a yearning for modern city life, the analysis reveals that both rural and urban areas are linked with aspirations as well as desperations.
PERIPHERIE – Politik • Ökonomie • Kultur, 2019
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2017
A growing number of so-called indigenous ‘Jumma’ people from the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in ... more A growing number of so-called indigenous ‘Jumma’ people from the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in Bangladesh are migrating to New York City (NYC) in search of a ‘better life’, an attempt to escape from a situation defined largely by deprivation and exclusion. This paper asks how these migrants navigate the new terrain, which often does not comply with their expectations but instead fuels a deep sense of disappointment. It will be shown that their transnational practices and belonging are not only extensions of the global ‘Jumma’ network, but also that the formation of a diaspora community and the maintenance of cultural boundaries simultaneously create attachment to NYC. Making NYC a home is shaped by their dreams and aspirations, and by the ambiguous ways in which they relate to both the CHT and NYC, places where they find themselves torn between feelings of longing and detachment.
10th CEISAL International Conference, 2022
Struggles for Hope: Negotiating the Future in Times of Global Crises, 2022
Making Home, Doing Belonging: Mobilities and Immobilities in Experience, Theory and Policy , 2021
IV ISA Forum of Sociology, 2021
7th PhD Conference on International Development, 2018
24th European Conference on South Asian Studies , 2016
Fulda International Autumn School, 2022
We live in an increasingly mobile world: People, imaginaries, knowledges, objects, and capital ar... more We live in an increasingly mobile world: People, imaginaries, knowledges, objects, and capital are on the move. Fuelled by new technologies and globalisation, they cross political, social, and cultural borders and create global nets of connections. Spatial movements often go along with social mobility of individuals or groups of people, resulting in changes of economic positions and social status. However, not everybody and not everything is spatially or socially mobile. Disconnections and exclusions are created by structural and legal constrains as well as discourses of foreclosure, or norms of sedentary lives.
The workshop invites to explore the diversity of visions and practices of future-making in the gl... more The workshop invites to explore the diversity of visions and practices of future-making in the global, multifaceted crisis of capitalist modernity. We seek to illuminate social contestations over collective futures: What kind of future is likely, what is desirable, what are possible ways to shape tomorrow's society? What are people's hopes, fears, ideas and strategies for a social transformation? The workshop promotes the exchange between research on everyday future-relations of nonactivist populations and utopian thinking and prefigurative practices of social movements. Confronted with capitalist crises, climate change, pandemics, political violence, oppression, or war, people all over the world reflect on and struggle for a different future. On the one hand, a sense of rising threats and uncertainty spurs anxieties and apocalyptic visions. On the other, moments of crisis may open the space to renegotiate social change and to (re)create diverse hopes for the future. Against this background, research on the future gains new momentum in sociology and anthropology (Bryant and Knight 2019; Kleist and Jansen 2016). How people relate to the future in the here and now (Hage 2016) is a crucial lense to make sense of political practices, to understand who is struggling for what, who remains silent, and how people understand their own role in bringing about the future.
Fulda International Autumn School, 2021
Our world is divided by deep social inequalities, aggravated by contemporary challenges such as e... more Our world is divided by deep social inequalities, aggravated by contemporary challenges such as economic crises, climate change, and a global pandemic. While the unprecedented wealth of our times is under control of a few, poverty and precarity affect more and more people. While a part of the world's population enjoys social and political rights, others face institutional discrimination or persecution. While some have the freedom to move or to stay at home, others are forced to seek refuge or stay in places where they are not considered as equals. During the Autumn School, we will explore how intersecting dimensions of global inequalities shape societies and people's everyday lives and discuss ways to confront them.
Forced migration has taken center stage in public and academic discourse over the last years. Giv... more Forced migration has taken center stage in public and academic discourse over the last years. Given its contemporary relevance, familiar as well as novel theoretical and methodological approaches to migration studies gain momentum. Multifaceted and controversial debates reveal various transitions concerning empirical dynamics and approaches to address forced migration as well as theoretical, methodological and legal challenges to grasp the complex phenomenon. Exploring these transitions, the conference will provide a space for interdisciplinary debate as well as exchange between academia and practice. It aims at stimulating a discussion between scholars of humanities and law and representatives of civil society, governments and international agencies. The conference will encourage scholars to reflect on the real-world outcomes of their research and animate practitioners to scrutinize their day to day work. In four consecutive workshops, we will analyze transitions of concepts, perspectives, law and civic spaces.