Roundtable: The making of disability / the making of migration
- Date
- Monday 27 May 2024
- Time
- Address
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Pieter de la Court
Wassenaarseweg 52
2333 AK Leiden - Room
- 1A11
This roundtable brings together scholars working on the social production of migration and/or the social production of disability, to explore what a shared research agenda might look like, and bring us. What histories of knowledge production are we coming from, how should we relate to the knowledge produced by state authorities and likeminded scholars, what alternative approaches may we resort to? How might the ‘social model of disability’ inform the study of ‘migranticization’, and vice versa, and what might we learn from studying the social production of different figures of the ‘disabled migrant’, such as the ‘traumatized refugee’, or the ‘healthcare migrant’? How do the method of tracing the trajectories of disabled people through healthcare and the method of tracing migrant journeys relate to one another? How may activism and scholarship in these fields relate to one another? How to put an ethic of ‘nothing about us without us’ into practice? How to be a migranticized and/or disabled scholar? How to be more an ally, or more?
You are cordially invited to address these questions, ask additional questions, and/or to just listen. Please register by sending an e-mail to Wiebe Ruijtenberg. If you already know you will want to make an intervention too, please let him know also.
This roundtable is made possible by the interdisciplinary programme Social Citizenship and Migration of Leiden University.
Programme
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Walk-in and coffee |
| 15:00 – 16:00 | Presentation of Research Projects |
| 16:00 – 16:15 | Short break |
| 16:15 – 17:30 | Discussion of general themes |
| 17:30 | Drinks at the Anthropology Department |
Speakers
Rebecca Yeo
Rebecca Yeo’s has explored the causes, impact and possible ways to address intersectional injustices associated with disability and forced migration in the UK for over twenty years. In this roundtable, she will share insights from her forthcoming book Disabling Migration Controls: Shared Learning, Solidarity, and Collective Resistance, which is coming out later this year with Routledge (open access).
Paul van Trigt
In historical research projects with and about disabled people, Paul van Trigt increasingly tries to address how the marginalization of disabled people is comparable with and/or intersects with the marginalization of people with a migrant background.
Suzan Abozyid
In her PhD-project, Suzan Abozyid studies how classed constructions of the anti-social poor of the 1950s figure in later constructions of the migrant other in integration policies, In this roundtable, she will reflect on the role of social scientists in configuring both constructions, and thus in producing the more general amnesia on questions of class, and legitimizing racialization.
Dawit Haile & Joris Schapendonk
For his Ph.D. project, Dawit combines an ethnographic approach with archival research to explore the construction of 'abnormality' in migration control and governance. Joris Schapendonk has long explored mobility regimes from the ethnographic vantage point of those disadvantaged by them. In this roundtable, they will share preliminary insights emerging from their joint project on the socio-legal constructions of deportability/abnormality in so-called return migration.
Wiebe Ruijtenberg
In his current project, Wiebe Ruijtenberg brings his previous research on the production and reproduction of figures of the migrant through Dutch migration policies to bear on the production and reproduction of the psychiatric patient through police, healthcare, and social work.
Charlotte van der Veen
In recent years, service providers in the Netherlands are increasingly supposed to deploying ‘experts-by-experience’ and ‘key-persons’, to help services become more user-friendly respectively unlock allegedly hard-to-reach (racialized) communities. Charlotte van der Veen studies these experts by experience and key-persons in action, in order to explore how authority, expertise and hierarchy are rearticulated.
Bridget Anderson
Bridget Anderson has written extensively on the social production of migrants, most recently through her notion of ‘migranticization’. In this roundtable, she will act as a discussant.