GeMIC: gender, migration, and intercultural interactions

GeMIC 3rd steering committee meeting

The 3rd GeMIC steering committee meeting took place on 15-16 April 2010 at the Kostis Palamas building, Akadimias 48 & Sina (map).

The agenda of the meeting is available here.

On April 16, GeMIC organised a public lecture by Sandro Mezzadra on “Movements and Struggles of Migration in a Postcolonial Europe”.

Sandro Mezzadra – Movements and Struggles of Migration in a Postcolonial Europe.

Romania – Report on National Identity and the Media

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The main focus of the surveyed corpus – films and written press – has been on Romania as a migrant-sending society, though films (both feature and documentaries) have touched at times upon its different status as a destination or transit society primarily for citizens from the Republic of Moldova, as well. With the exception of O, the one feature film that juxtaposed pre- and post-1989 migration patterns, the rest of the analysed texts registered in their discursive fabric major post-communist and post-integration Romanian migratory trends.

Research Design – Education

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Our goal is to deconstruct essentialist understanding of culture and assimilationist understandings of cultural change, to explore whether intercultural interactions in schools create possibilities for the performative destabilization of gender norms and ethnic boundaries, more.. »

Bulgaria – Report on Religion

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The goal of the present study is to investigate the relationship between migration, religion and gender in the case of Muslim immigrants in Bulgaria. The importance of such study in the context of Bulgaria is related to the specific position of the country with regard to migration. Located on the transit routes between Asia, Africa and the rest of Europe Bulgaria has become an entry gate to the European Union and gradually emerges as a new country of immigration. The study aims to investigate the process of negotiation of religious and gender identities in the context of migration and to analyze the role of religion in the adaptation of Muslim immigrant women in the secular society of Bulgaria.

Synthesis report – Invisible Engines of Change and Self-sacrificing Tradition-breakers: Mixed and Transnational Families in Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey

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The research on mixed families in Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey has presented a rather gloomy picture of societies in all three countries, marked by the low levels of acceptance of otherness, sometimes latent and sometimes openly displayed racism and xenophobia, and widespread stereotypes and prejudices against the immigrants. On the personal level, there is a problem of (at least initial) rejection of the mixed family by the parents and relatives. more.. »

Spain – Report on Urban Spaces and Movements

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The purpose of this research is to analyse the role of urban public spaces in the creation of intercultural and social inclusion/exclusion relations. We focus on the use and appropriation of these spaces from a gender approach that considers specifically the experiences of migrant families. Besides, we use the feminist concept of positionality to understand how the social situatedness of migrants conditions their practices of citizenship (gender, ethnicity, education, immigration status, social class, age and generations, length of stay, and migration experiences).

Romania – Report on Intercultural Violence

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The report focuses on issues related to violence in the context of migration and intercultural relations with the aim of underlining its impact on the gendered and national identity of the victims as addressed to in different types of discourse. Taking interest in the conceptual apparatus provided by scholarly discourse on violence, on the victims’ silenced voices as well as on different forms of cultural and social blindness to their trauma, the report juxtaposes and examines aspects of a) the mainstream discourse on migration, in general, and trafficking, in particular, and b) the personal accounts of victims who have been subjected to gendered and intercultural violence.