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<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:700">Symposium: Migrant Civic Practice in Times of Crisis, December 3rd, 2021</span></div>
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<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-style:italic">Borders and Diversity Research Program, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University</span></div>
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<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51)">During these times of unprecedented and intertwined global crises of health, environment and economy, there are new calls for representation
and renewed forms of political and social action forming from the margins in many countries of migrant settlement. These include crucial migrant contributions to the public sphere through volunteering, social media mobilisation and frontline medical services
amongst others. Simultaneously, rising anti-immigration politics and crises of ‘re-bordering’, like the de-regionalisation of Brexit or the COVID19 global pandemic, are dramatically impacting the lives of migrants globally and making their political action
evermore risky and their civic lives increasingly precarious. Despite this, analyses of migrant civic engagement and political practice often remain narrowly framed within specific migrant rights discourses or analyses of ‘homeland’ diaspora politics. Both
the everyday and the formalised ways in which migrants, both individually and collectively, more broadly respond to crisis, enact civic identities and reshape civic life at local, national and transnational scales often remain hidden. In the context of multiplying
and intensifying modes of global crisis, this call for papers seeks submissions that conceptually and/or empirically engage with migrant or refugee experiences of multiple forms of civic practice, broadly understood as the situated acts of participation in
a community, whether local, transnational or global. </span></div>
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<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Topics include, but are not limited to:</span></div>
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<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span>How do migrants in varied contexts participate in global social movements, and how do migrant identities and experiences condition and shape their participation? </span></div>
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<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span>What voluntary, mundane and ordinary acts of local social and community engagement may cumulatively constitute migrants’ civic lives?</span></div>
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<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span>What kinds of emergent solidarities and networks coalesce across and within different communities and different movements? </span></div>
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<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span>How do varied and hybrid cultural and religious identities shape migrant civic practices and their meanings?</span></div>
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<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span>How do different forms of media production, representation and reception create spaces and for and tensions around civic acts and community building?</span></div>
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<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span>How do governmental modes of data collection around crises factor in ethnicity and migration status and how do migrants respond to such modes of governmentality?</span></div>
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<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Symposium Date: December 3rd, 2021</span></div>
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<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Location: Hybrid Face-to-Face/Online, Western Sydney University</span></div>
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<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Abstract Submission Deadline: October 1st, 2021</span></div>
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<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Please submit an abstract of max. 300 words and author bio of max. 200 words to:
</span><span style="text-decoration:underline;font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration-skip:none"><a href="mailto:s.robertson@westernsydney.edu.au" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0">s.robertson@westernsydney.edu.au</a></span></div>
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<span style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Authors whose abstracts are accepted will be asked to submit a draft paper (5000-7000 words) by November 5th 2021 for circulation
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