[ecrea] Call for Papers - The Broken Other: New Faces of Nationalism and Immigration during the European Economic Crisis

> Call for Papers - The Broken Other: New Faces of 
> Nationalism and Immigration during the European Economic Crisis
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> Institute of Contemporary European Studies 
> (iCES) and iCES Ethnography Research Group 
> announces a call for paper for a conference on the theme of:
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> Economic Crisis, Nationalism and the Broken 
> Other: new faces of nationalism and immigration 
> during the European economic crisis.
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> The current economic crisis in Europe has 
> instigated a new wave of ethnic violence, racism 
> and political aggression towards collectivities 
> perceived as non-indigenous; 'the Other'. This 
> has been materialised in France through the 
> 'Roma issue' and in Italy with violence towards 
> North African immigrants. The United Kingdom has 
> implemented new immigration caps and across 
> Europe the general rise in petty crime since the 
> crisis began is attributed to 'foreign' 
> populations; in extreme cases resulting in the 
> revocation of citizenship and eventual 
> deportation. In Greece, Albanian immigrants have 
> left en-mass due to the economic situation. Even 
> in Germany potent political rhetoric has 
> questioned what it is to be a national citizen 
> during the economic crisis. In these cases there 
> is a divergence from classic theories of 
> nationalism as the Other is framed as 'food', 
> 'money' and 'security' rather than solely 'Albanian', 'African' or 'immigrant'.
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> The new framing of the Other is similar to the 
> category of 'threat to state' by 'non-state' 
> actors against which state-endorsed violence is 
> enacted and justified. Even the US 'war on 
> terror' has been linked to controlling economic 
> competition and resources. Immigration is 
> publicly perceived as a category of threat in 
> the current economic circumstances. Clamping 
> down on immigration is a way of preventing the 
> resolution of the tensions of post-colonial 
> economic competition as markets and mobility of 
> people means a divergence on how markets move 
> and are controlled. However, messy economic 
> competition, like unchartered immigration, is 
> something that states require in order to 
> maintain ambiguity and distract attention from 
> the actual tensions of economic competition. Yet 
> the concept that economic tensions can generate 
> economic solutions is difficult to communicate 
> to national citizens at times of economic 
> turmoil. Immigrants are an economic risk, they 
> are part of the capitalist strategy; the so-called 'casino capitalism'.
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> Throughout Europe there appears to be a wave of 
> 'econo-nationalism'; the rise of political 
> nationalism through official and unofficial 
> routes, from governmental policies to sporadic 
> anarchistic extremism. The renewed sense of 
> nationalism has been triggered by the economic 
> crisis. Even liberal governments change their 
> policies in accordance to public fears towards 
> groups that are perceived to be in competition for employment and welfare.
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> At this fascinating time in the socio-economic 
> history of Europe we invite papers that address 
> issues of social, economic and political 
> tension, immigration, political policy, 
> citizenship, crisis, ethnic violence and 
> nationalism within the context of the current 
> European economic crisis to partake in an 
> interdisciplinary and anthropological conference 
> at Regent's College, NW1 4NS, London 12 May 2011.
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> Please contact: (triasiva /at/ regents.ac.uk) for any further information.
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> Dr Ã?ngels Trias I Valls
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> Senior Lecturer in Anthropology
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> Institute of Contemporary European Studies
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> Regent's College, London
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> NW1 4NS

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