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This event launches the Special Issue of Citizenship Studies "Migrations through Law, Bureaucracy and Kin: Navigating Citizenship in Relations" (Vol. 26, No. 6). The editors and contributors will present the Special Issue and individual articles exploring the ways in which migrants’ (de-)kinning practices and their struggles of ‘doing family’ constitute navigations of citizenship. Followed by a discussion and Q&A.
To read the Special Issue, please visit: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ccst20/26/6
Speakers
| Magdalena Suerbaum is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies at Bielefeld University, Germany. Her research interests are on displacement, gender, mothering practices, legal precarity, belonging and racialization, with a current focus on parenting practices and intergenerational transmission of knowledge among Syrians residing in Berlin and Istanbul. She has conducted extensive periods of ethnographic fieldwork with migrants in Egypt, Germany and Turkey. She is the author of “Masculinities and Displacement in the Middle East: Syrian refugees in Egypt” (I.B. Tauris, 2020). | |
| Sophie Richter-Devroe is Associate Professor in the Women, Society and Development Program at the College of Humanities and Social Science, Hamad Bin Khalifa University. Sophie's broad research interests are in the field of everyday politics and women's activism in the Middle East. She is the author of Women's Political Activism in Palestine: Peacebuilding, Resistance and Survival (University of Illinois Press, 2018) which won the National Women's Studies Association/University of Illinois Press First Book Prize. The book analyzes Palestinian women’s creative and often informal everyday forms of political activism after the Oslo Accords. | |
| Hilal Alkan is a researcher at Leibniz Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin. Her research centers around the themes of migration, care and gender. Her current research is about human-plant relations in migration. Her articles appeared in the American Ethnologist, Citizenship Studies, Migration Letters and in other collections. She has co-edited Urban Neighbourhood Formations: Boundaries, Narrations, Intimacies (Routledge, 2020) and The Politics of the Female Body in Contemporary Turkey: Reproduction, Maternity, Sexuality (IB Tauris 2021). | |
| Margarida Farinha is a co-founder and the research and community lead at Statefree, a non-profit with the mission to empower stateless people. She earned a M.Sc. in Cultural and Social Anthropology from the University of Amsterdam, where she was also a junior lecturer from 2020-2022. Her research interests include political subjectivity, the state and citizenship. |
Discussant
| Hatim Rachdi is a master’s student in the Women, Society, and Development program at HBKU. He graduated from Northwestern University in Qatar (NUQ) with a BS in Media Industries and Technologies and minors in Middle East Studies and Business Institutions. He is invested in thinking critically about the nexus migration, sexuality, and health. This past summer, he interned at the Feminist Autonomous Research Center (FAC) in Athens, Greece, where he conducted his thesis ethnographic research with queer refugees. Previously, he worked on Amazigh indigenous alternative Media in Morocco. |
Chair/Moderator
| Majdoulin Almwaka holds an MA in Women, Society, and Development from the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and currently works as research assistant in the College. Her thesis was entitled "#PriorityToo Deyman Wa’ata: The Politics of Crisis, State-Sanctioned Gendered Violence, and Guardianship". Her research interests are in the field of gender politics and feminist movements in the MENA region, indigenous and feminist solidarities, feminist pedagogy, gendered and sexual violence, and legal reforms. |
