May 10-11, 2012
Department of Education (former DPU), Aarhus University, Tuborgvej 164, 2400 Copenhagen NV, room C001 (below the canteen)
In relation to migration, the idea of citizenship is closely associated with newcomers being able to establish themselves, often on a temporary basis, in a country where they have no formal legal or political rights. The meaning of the term citizenship has been expanded from the conventional political science interpretation, which defines it as a set of rights practised in a vertical relationship between the state and the individual, to a more inclusive and actor-oriented understanding emphasizing how people gain membership in collective life (Kabeer 2005).
Citizenship, thus, cannot be reduced to only legal status and entitlements, given or denied by the state, but refers to a notion of societal membership, which involves both available resources and subjective experiences of belonging (cf. Rosaldo 1994).
While the relationship between citizenship and education has primarily been discussed from a normative, pedagogical perspective with a focus on the responsibility of the school in shaping future citizens of a certain kind, an anthropological perspective opens up for the many diverse, more or less formalized educational settings where citizenship formation takes place, intentionally and unintentionally (Reed-Danahay 2007).
This seminar will focus on the relationship between education, citizenship and transnational migration. More specifically, it will examine how different categories of migrants claim societal membership in new settings and how they, often through mediating institutions, learn to behave as ‘proper’ citizens without necessarily being nationals. From a cross-cultural perspective the seminar will focus on the following questions:
Thursday May 10, 2012
9.00 - 9.30 Welcome and introduction
Session I: Mobility and imperial spaces
9.30 - 10.15 Children as an “Imperial Investment”: Raising British child migrants into decent colonial citizens in Southern Rhodesia, Katja Uusihakala, Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki
10.15 - 11.00 Becoming a Respectable Citizen in British Society: The Training of Caribbean Nurses in the Post-WWII Period, Karen Fog Olwig, Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen
11.00 - 11.15 Tea/coffee
11.15 - 12.00 Unbound by other peoples’ bills: Greenlandic students in Denmark, Janne Flora, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge
12.00 - 12.15 Comments by discussant, Peggy Froerer, Department of Anthropology, Brunel University
12.15 - 13.15 Lunch
Session II: Institutional frameworks and individual expectations of citizenship
13.15 - 14.00 ‘Foreign’ in the School, but ‘Dane’ in the future? Strategies of Pan-Ethnic Solidarity and Legal Citizenship among Newly Arrived Refugee Adolescents in Rural Denmark, Birgitte Romme Larsen, Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen
14.00 - 14.45 Ideologies of mutuality, acts of hospitality: The sociable fashioning of good classmates out of foreigners’ children, Sally Anderson, Department of Education, Aarhus University
14.45 - 15.15 Tea/coffee
15.15 - 16.00 "The two most famous words in Denmark are work and bingo": Refugees encountering citizenship teaching in Danish language centers, Zacharya Whyte, Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen
16.00 - 16.45 “Learning the Danish Way”? Processes of inclusion in Somali associations in Denmark, Nauja Kleist, Danish Institute for International Studies
16.45 - 17.00 Comments by discussant, Bradley Levinson, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington
Friday May 11, 2012
Session III: Imagined and practiced ties to place: temporal aspects of migration
9.30 - 10.15 Temporality, the gift and the future return to Greenland. Citizenship formation among Greenlandic students in Denmark, Line Seier Madsen, Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen
10.15 - 11.00 “We are like them but not one of them”: Migration, sense of belonging and claiming of citizenship, Anita Ghimire, Kathmandu University / NCCR North South
11.00 - 11.15 Tea/coffee
11.15 - 12.00 Citizenship through Memoir and Collective Ritual: Learning New Forms of Affiliation among Vietnamese Americans, Deborah Reed-Danahay, Department of Anthropology, University at Buffalo (SUNY)
12.00 - 12.15 Comments by discussant, Bradley Levinson, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington
12.15 - 13.15 Lunch
Session IV: Educational migration and citizenship regimes
13.15 - 14.00 Educational Strategies among new Philippine migrants in Denmark: Tensions between Cultural and Legal Citizenship, Karina Dalgas, Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen
14.00 - 14.45 “I am not going to Denmark, I am going to Europe:”Localized strategies of migration and transnational sentiments of citizenship among Nepalese students in Denmark, Karen Valentin, Department of Education, Aarhus University
14.45 - 15.15 Tea/coffee
15.15 - 16.00 Glocal interfaces: Danish citizenship regimes and Ukrainian youth trajectories, Vera Skvirskaja, Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen
16.00 - 16.15 Comments by discussant, Peggy Froerer, Department of Anthropology, Brunel University
Arranged by Department of Education, Aarhus University and Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen.
