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IKD Workshop: Financialization-Personal Finance-Migration Linkages: the Case of the UK

Fri, 19 February 2021, 10:00 to 16:00

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The aim of this IKD workshop is to set an agenda for future research exploring the linkages between financialization, personal finance and migration with specific reference to the UK BME communities, an under-researched area. In this, we adopt a postcolonial perspective, for example in prioritising the lived experience of the particular communities concerned.

Confirmed speakers are as follows: Professor Kavita Datta (Development Geography), QMUL; Dr Vincent Guermond (Economic Geography), RHUL; Dr Ariane Agunsoye (Economics), Goldsmith’s; Dr Ryan Davey (Social Anthropology), Cardiff; Dr Rajiv Prabhakar (Personal Finance), FASS-OU; Dr Neeta Shah (Accounting), Uni. of Westminster.

Leading the discussion will be Pauline Gleadle, Visiting Professor (FASS, Open University), Professor Susan Newman (Economics), FASS will act as discussant and Professor Sharon Collard, Research Director of the Personal Finance Research Centre, Bristol will contribute to the discussion.

AGENDA:

Workshop moderated by Visiting Professor (FASS), The Open University, Pauline Gleadle.

Aims of the workshop

Pauline Gleadle:’ Introduction to the workshop’ 10.00-10.15.

Overview of key literature

Professor Kavita Datta, (Development Geography), Queen Mary University of London: ‘Migrants’ money practices in the financialized city of London.’ 10.15-10.45.

Dr Vincent Guermond, (Economic Geography), Royal Holloway University of London: ‘Remittance-scapes: Migrants’ money and the contested geographies of remittance management.’ 10.45-11.10.

Virtual coffee break  11.10-11.20.

Looking at the associated issues through different lenses:

Ethnicity:

Dr Rajiv Prabhakar, (Personal Finance), FASS, The Open University: ’Financialization and the ethnicity wealth gap.’    11.20-11.40.

Dr Ariane Agunsoye (nee Hillig), (Economics), Goldsmith’s University of London: ‘I’d love to have savings-negotiating norms of asset accumulation.’ 11.40-12.00.

Social class:

Dr Ryan Davey,(Social Anthropology), Cardiff University: ‘Indebted subjectivity and class relations in the UK.’ 12.00-12.20.

Autoethnography

Dr Neeta Shah (Accounting), University of Westminster: ‘The potential of autoethnography for this research theme.’ 12.20-12.40.

12.40-1.10 Virtual lunch break.

1.10-2.30 Reflections

a) Professor Susan Newman (Economics, FASS, The Open University): reflections on the day’s presentations, including  from a financialization perspective.

b) Professor Sharon Collard, (Director, Personal Finance Research Centre, Bristol University): reflections and suggestions for further research, including from a personal finance perspective.

c) Open debate: where do we go from here?

Thematically: More focus on the UK where there is plenty of scope for the study of specific migrant communities; focus on the particular dimensions of social class, gender etc.; adopting an intersectionality perspective? Research into issues around the day’s theme in other countries with significant migrant populations from their former colonies e.g. Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium?

Practically: theme for next online workshop for 2021? Bid for a stream at an international conference? Journal special issue; if so, which one? Funding opportunities?

d) Wrap-up for today: Pauline Gleadle.

To register for this workshop please email: FASS-Collaboration@open.ac.uk and join using this link: Click here to join the meeting

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