Jointly organized by the Migration Clusters at the Asia Research Institute, and Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore.
Intersecting in/outflows of migrants from diverse cultural and national origins present an opportunity to probe, not only how the past shapes contemporary migration experiences in urban spaces, but also how the city constitutes postcolonial difference through migration. In one respect, past and contemporary migration converging in such cities manifest aspects of ‘super-diversity’ that precipitate new spatial struggles even as colonial legacies continue to inform the knowledge construction of ‘race’ and culture, skills and class, and other axes of postcolonial difference. Further, assumptions of periodised knowledges and centre-periphery relations remain to be interrogated more carefully in such discourses of postcolonial difference despite the more multifarious global power geometries observable in our world today. This roundtable event invites participants to reflect on how ‘unfinished pasts and unstable presents’ (Raghuram et al, 2013:124) collide during postcolonial migration and through urban encounters?
CHAIRPERSONS
Prof Brenda Yeoh | Asia Research Institute & Department of Geography, NUS
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSANTS
Dr Michiel Baas | Asia Research Institute, NUS
Dr Peter Dirksmeier | Geographisches Institut, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Assoc Prof Daniel PS Goh | Department of Sociology, NUS
Assoc Prof Elaine Ho | Department of Geography, NUS
REGISTRATION
Kindly email fassmigration@nus.edu.sg to register.
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