[csaa-forum] Master class with Professor John Eade

[Selvaraj Velayutham]

Researching Migration and Transnationalism 
Master class with Professor John Eade (CRONEM, Surrey & Roehampton
Universities, UK)

Funded by the Australian Academy of the Humanities and hosted by
Department of Sociology and Centre for Research on Social Inclusion at
Macquarie University.

Venue: 	Building W6A 107
	Macquarie University
Date:	21 April 2010 (Wednesday) 
Time:	10-1pm (followed by lunch)

During the last 20 years social scientists have been exploring the ways
in which global flows of people, information, images, capital and goods
operate across national boundaries through transnational networks. This
approach has exposed the limitation of 'methodological nationalism' and
the 'national container' model. In the US, Nina Glick Schiller and Peggy
Levitt have encouraged us to go beyond a model which explores flows
across national frontiers to one which focuses on a transnational social
field totally independent of national boundaries.

This Master class will examine this transnational approach by locating
it within a wider historical context of globalisation and considering
the ways in which the transnational approach can make sense of migration
flows in specific regions of the world. I will focus here on the
European region and the extent to which this region is different from
other regions. The intention is to open up a debate where the relevance
of the transnational approach and regional developments to the
Australian context can be discussed.

Bio: John Eade is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology as well as
Executive Director of CRONEM (Centre for Research on Nationalism,
Ethnicity and Multiculturalism) which links Surrey and Roehampton
universities. After research in Kolkata (Calcutta) on the social
identity of the educated Bengali Muslim middle class, he completed his
PhD in 1986 on Bangladeshi community politics in Tower Hamlets. Since
then he has researched the Islamisation of urban space, globalisation
and the global city, travel and pilgrimage, forced marriage, black
Methodists in London, and Bangladeshi identity politics.
(For further details see www.surrey.ac.uk/Arts/CRONEM)

Format: The master class is intended to be an informal opportunity for
PhD students to interact in a small group setting with Prof. Eade. The
first half hour, Prof. Eade will give an overview of his work, and
current research and scholarly direction. The session will then revolve
around an informal Q&A type arrangement. Participating students are
expected to have read the required readings and come armed with two or
three questions or points for discussion. 

Required Readings: (will send to successful participants)

Eade, John (work in progress) ‘Representing British Bangladeshis in
the Global City: Authenticity, Text and Performance’.

Eade, John. ‘Introduction: The secular state and religious
pluralism’ in From Race to Religion: Multiculturalism and Contested
Urban Space (in press)

Drinkwater, Stephen., Eade, John. and Garapich, Michal (2009) ‘Poles
Apart? EU Enlargement and the Labour Market Outcomes of Immigrants in
the United Kingdom’, International Migration Vol. 47 (1): 161-190.

M. P. Smith and J. Eade (2008) Transnational Ties: Cities, Migrations
and Identities, New Brunswick, US, and London: Transaction


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Please prepare a ONE PAGE statement, to include a short bio and a
description of your work as it relates to Prof. Eade’s work.
Interested PhD students should contact Selvaraj Velayutham (Raj) on
selvaraj.velayutham at mq.edu.au 

 Please note that SPACES ARE LIMITED. Morning tea and lunch will be
provided. Successful candidates will be notified via email by the 15th
of April.



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Dr. Selvaraj Velayutham
Lecturer in Sociology
Department of Sociology
Faculty of Arts
Macquarie University NSW 2109 
Tel: 61 2 98504426 
http://www.soc.mq.edu.au