'The new orders of difference': The Cultural Discourses and Texts of Economic Migration
Froebel College, Roehampton University of Surrey, Roehampton Lane, London SW15
14-16 July 2004
Abstracts of contributions:
The following are the abstracts of the presentations made in the London Workshop.
1. The Campaign to Close Campsfield
Teresa Hayter (author and activist, UK)2. Working through and resisting the (b)orders of difference
Nitasha Kaul (University of the West of England, UK)3. Information Services Outsourcing and Migrational Anxieties
Tope Omoniyi (University of Surrey Roehampton, UK)4. Antibodies: migration, health, and dis-ease
David Richards (Open University, UK)5. Perspectives on Cultural Diversity: a Discourse Analytical Approach
Unrike H. Meinhof and Nadia Kiwan (Southampton University, UK)6.Economic migration – who defines it? A German-Turkish exploration
Heidi Armbruster (Southampton University, UK)7. Bulgarian Immigrants in the Spanish Labour Market
Eugenia Markova (University of Sussex, UK)8. Economic Satisfaction and Nostalgic Laments: The language of the Bulgarian economic emigrants after 1989 in the websites and fora
Zhivko Ivanov (Paissij Hilendarski University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria)9. The (I)mmigrating Russian
Irina Chongarova (Paissij Hilendarski University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria)10. Paradise Lost: A Case Study on Culture Identity Problem in Beijing People in New York
Zhang Hui (Peking University, Beijing, China)11. Ghost, Demon, and the Gold Mountain -- China Men as a Text of Economic Migration
Zhao Baisheng (Peking University, China)12. Globalising Hinduism, Hinduising India: The Paradoxical Purposes of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad
Tapan Basu (Hindu College, Delhi University, India)13. Reportage on the Indian diaspora in the UK and US in Indian media
Subarno Chattarji (Delhi University, India)14. Shifting Boundaries of “Nativity” and “Modernity” in South Asian Women’s Clothes
Vinay Bahl (Pennsylvania College of Technology at Williamsport, USA)15. Dual Globalizations: Synchronic Immigration - Glocality of Iranian Society
Saied R. Ameli (University of Tehran, Iran)16. Iranian Immigrants and Social-Cultural Changes in Iran
Taghi Azadarmaki (University of Tehran, Iran)17. The transformative impact of transfer originating from migration on local socio-economic dynamics
Taofiq Agoumy (Mohammed V University of Rabat, Morocco)18. ‘Economic Martyrs’: Three perspectives on ‘Lahrig’
Taieb Belghazi (Mohammed V University of Rabat, Morocco)19. Cultural Influences of Economic Migration from Nigeria to the West
Efurosibina Adegbija (Covenant University, Nigeria)20. From Homeland to Hopeland? Economic Globalisation and Ogoni Migration in the 1990s
Cyril Obi (Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Nigeria)21. Economic Migrant or Hyphenated British? Writing about difference in London's East End
John Eade (University of Surrey Roehampton/University of Surrey,UK)