cfp: Globordered Intimacies:Immigration and Gendered Labor, Family and Personal Relationships

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Call for Papers:

Globordered Intimacies:Immigration and Gendered Labor, Family and Personal
Relationships

June 16-18, 2019
Tel-Aviv University, Israel

Our era is characterized by intense voluntary and forced border-crossing.
Short and long-term immigration, for work and multitude of other reasons,
has become a part of the biographies of millions, turning "Transnational
Families", "World-Families", and "Globordered Families" – in which family
members move from one country to the other, or live in different countries
- into a significant phenomenon.

Yet, much is still to be empirically studied, culturally analyzed,
normatively discussed, and theoretically conceptualized in relation to the
intersection of immigration, families, and gender. Moreover, as the title
of this conference highlights, families are not the only gendered
intimate domain affected by immigration. For example, it has been claimed
that friendships are “taking over various social tasks, duties, and
functions, from family and kin.” (Phal 2000, 8).

These “hidden solidarities” are less visible and institutionalized than the
solidarity established in familial relations,
and are seriously understudied. Another site for the study of non-familial
solidarities is the workplace. For example, research in this field suggests
that non-traditional forms of solidarity created with others in and outside
the workplace can be crucial in the lives of migrant and other workers to
prevent severe labor market exploitation, and human trafficking.

The main questions that will be addressed during the conference are:

- How are intimate relations practiced, maintained, and evaluated in the
immigration social context? What makes someone a “good family member”, a
“good co-worker” or a “good friend”?

- How do affective relationships and various forms of solidarities and
collective actions in the globordered workplace impact working conditions,
workplace exploitation, and workers’ voice in the workplace?

- How do cultural conventions and normative expectations in relation to
intimate relationships influence immigration?

- What are the gendered implications of the impact of immigration on
intimate relations?

- How do these implications differ by place, age, economic status, sexual
orientation, labor sector, kind of relation, and other relevant variables?
Can any similarities be detected nevertheless?

-How do different disciplines study these implications, and can they
inspire each other, or even cooperate in future productive ways?

-How are these implications expressed in the cultural products (literature,
films, crafts, blogs etc.) of the immigrants’ home-communities,
new-communities, and host-communities? Can
the cultural shifts in these different communities be compared, or even
described, in terms of mutual influences?

-How should these implications be socially and normatively regulated on the
international, and
national scales?


Confirmed Keynote and Guest Speakers:

Prof. Rhacel Salazar Parrenas (University of Southern California, USA) -
Keynote

Dr. Manoj Dias-Abey (Queen’s University, Canada)

Prof. Yasmine Ergas (Columbia University, USA)

Prof. Helma Lutz (Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Germany)

Dr. Vanessa May (University of Manchester, UK)

Dr. Helen Schwenken, (University of Osnabrueck, Germany)

Dr. Inga Thiemann (University of Exeter, UK)


We will give serious consideration to all high-quality abstracts on any of
these topics, from any discipline.

Abstracts should include:

- An overview of the main question and arguments of your contribution (up
to 300 words)

- Key words

- Contact details [author(s), affiliation (including institute and
department), and e-mail address]

- Short bio of author/s (250 words, each)

- In case of advanced students, a recommendation letter from supervisor is
required.

- In cases of presenters from the Global South, modest scholarships might
be provided – please note
in abstract if financial support is needed.


Abstracts must be in English and be submitted to this email address:
[email protected]


Deadline for submission: *September 15th, 2018*


Academic Organizers (TAU):

Prof. Daphna Hacker, Law Faculty and Gender Studies Program

Prof. Adriana Kemp, Head of the Sociology and Anthropology Department

Dr. Smadar Shiffman, Head of the Gender Studies Program, Literature
Department

Dr. Kinneret Lahad, Gender Studies Program

Dr. Hila Shamir, Law Faculty


The conference is sponsored by:

NCJW Women and Gender Studies Program, The Lester and Sally Entin Faculty
of Humanities


The Cegla Center for Interdisciplinary Research of the Law,


The Buchmann Faculty of Law


Office of the Rector


Minerva Humanities Center, The Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities


The Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics, The Lester and
Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities


The David Horowitz Research Institute on Society and Economy, Gershon H.
Gordon Faculty of Social
Sciences



Kinneret Lahad

Ph.D. Senior Lecturer

NCJW Women and Gender Studies Program

Tel-Aviv University, Israel

*The free link to the open access version for A Table for One *

*http://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=635870;keyword=lahad
<http://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=635870;keyword=lahad>*

*https://162.academia.edu/KinneretLahad
<https://162.academia.edu/KinneretLahad>*

*New Publications*

Lahad, Kinneret  (2017) A Table for One: A Critical Reading of Singlehood,
Gender and Time. Manchester, *Manchester University Press  *
http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526116369/

May, Vanessa., Lahad, Kinneret (2018). The involved observer: A Simmelian
analysis of the Boundary Work of Aunthood.*Sociology*,
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0038038517746051

Taylor, Yvette, and Kinneret Lahad (Eds. 2018) Feeling Academic in the
Neoliberal University. London, Palgrave
http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319642239

Lahad Kinneret, Sabar, Galia; Sabar-Ben Yehoshua, Naama  (2018) Doing and
Displaying Gendered Boundary Work among Blended Families in Israel
*Sociology*, 52 (1): 95-110
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0038038516677220

Lahad Kinneret and May, Vanessa (2017) .‏Just one?’ Solo Dining, Gender and
Temporal Belonging in Public Spaces. *Sociological Research Online.  *22(2),
1-11 http://www.socresonline.org.uk/22/2/12.html
Yodovich, Neta and Lahad, Kinneret (2017) I don't think this Woman had
anyone in her Life': Loneliness and Singlehood in Six Feet Under *European
Journal of Women's Studies  *published online first:
http://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/MyWvu8nBCnqFvhcwSBY4/full

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