Final event of European Institute’s TÜBİTAK Project “Living with indeterminacy: being an undocumented migrant in Istanbul”
“Routes of hope: Transitions and destinations in global migration flows”
Date: February 8 -9, 2018
Venue: IFEA, Tomtom Mahallesi, Nur-i Ziya Sk. No:10, 34433 Beyoğlu/İstanbul
Convener: Meltem Sancak, İstanbul Bilgi University
PROGRAM
Day 1: February 8
Introduction: Migration and hope in and beyond Turkey
09:30 Bayram Balci (IFEA-Istanbul)
09:45 Ayhan Kaya (Istanbul Bilgi University-European Institute)
10:00 Meltem Sancak (Istanbul Bilgi University-EI, MPI Halle-Germany)
Central Asia(n)’s Gendered Directions of Hope
10:30 Discussion
11:00 Coffee Break
Syrian Dilemmas: Directions of hope, spaces of hopelessness
11:30 Duygu Topcu (Max Planck Institute Halle-Germany)
Re-negotiating gender roles: Syrian refugee families between hope and uncertainty
12:00 Souad Osseiran (Mercator Fell.-IPC Sabanci University, Istanbul)
Spaces of perseverance, spaces of hope: Syrian refugees' migrations to Europe
12:30 Discussion
13:00 Lunch Break
Hope and despair: Exclusion and deportation as migrant fates
14:30 Zahir Musa (Max Planck Institute Halle-Germany)
When hope turns to Despair: Narratives of Exclusion Practices of Migrants of Middle Eastern and African Backgrounds in Halle Saale, Germany
15:00 Dorte Thorsen (University of Sussex, UK)
Hope, deportation and death. Unexpected turns of migrant journeys from West Africa
15:30 Discussion
16:00 Coffee Break
Hope giver(s) in foreign land(s)
16:30 Dominik Müller (University of Zurich-ISEK)
Chancing Faces of Home-post-migrant everyday negotiations of islamic practice and belonging.
17:00 Armand Aupiais (Urmis (Paris Diderot), aMiMo (IFEA), Istanbul
Hope as a ritual device in meso-level migration institutions. International immigrants' evangelical testimonies in Istanbul.
17:30 Discussion
18:30 Dinner
Day 2: February 9
Promising Homeland(s): the case of Kazak repatriates
09:30 Peter Finke (University of Zurich-ISEK)
Diffused hopes and despairs: Kazak repatriates from Mongolia
10:00 Indira Alibayeva Max Planck Institute Halle-Germany)
Between uncertainty and hope: ethnic return migration in Kazakhstan
10:30 Discussion
11:00 Coffee Break
Regimes of undoing hope: European migration politics
11:30 Andreas Dafinger (Central European University, Budapest)
Deterrence and Disillusionment. Approaches to international migration in Hungary (and beyond).
12:00 Günther Schlee (Max Planck Institute Halle-Germany)
The Max Planck Initiative 'The Challenges of Migration, Integration and Exclusion': An Overview
12:30 Discussion
13:00 Closing remarks
The workshop requires registration. To register, please email: migrationhope@gmail.com and bring your id card with you.
