CCHR network meeting Migration and/or Refugees

It is self-evident that migration and refugees are very important and sensitive topics within society, and will not disappear from either the political or social agenda any time soon. Therefore, it is foreseeable that in the coming years NWO and H2020 will announce several calls concerning this subject. Further to this, the rector has declared that from a standpoint of social responsibility this should be an important focus area for Utrecht University.

An initial investigation reveals that within UU (Humanities, Law, Social Sciences) a lot is already happening, however, there is a lack of communicative cohesion with regard to both what other colleagues are doing or may have to offer. Therefore, this meeting brings researchers together, to see whether it is useful to combine forces and expertise – also concerning future calls for funding.

(Lunch is provided)

Programme

12.00-13.30 – Introduction Rosemarie Buikema (CCHR) and Frans Ruiter (ICON)

12.10-13.40 – Pitches

• Marielle Zill

Department Human Geography and Planning  – Urban Geography

Project: Research on the influence of different types of asylum centres on the process of familiarization between asylum seekers and neighbourhood residents

• Sandra Ponzanesi

Department of Media and Culture Studies, University College

Project: ERC consolidator project, CONNECTINGEUROPE Digital Crossings in Europe. Gender, Diaspora and Belonging

• Dirk van Miert

Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies/History and Art History

Project: HERA, building digital infrastructures to study migration

• Koen Leurs

Department Media and Culture Studies – Gender Studies

Project: Veni, Young connected migrants. Comparing digital practices of young asylum seekers and expatriates in the Netherlands

• Maykel Verkuyten

Department Social Sciences – ASW Cultural Diversity & Youth

Project: Research at Ecromer

• Ester Driel

Department of Social Sciences – ASW Cultural Diversity & Youth

Project: Innovative approaches towards the integration of refugees, with a main focus on projects in Southern Italy

• Nora Stel

Department History and Art History

Project: Grassroots governance interaction between the Lebanese state and Palestinian popular committees in Lebanon

• Milica Trakilovic

Department of Media and Culture Studies – Gender Studies

Project: ERC, Bodies Across Borders: Oral and Visual Memory in Europe and Beyond (BABE)

• Andrea Meuzelaar

Department Media and Culture Studies –  Media and Performance Studies

Project: Representation of Islamic immigrants on Dutch television

• Monica Jansen, Maria Bonaria Urban & Natalie Dupré

Department of Languages, Literature and Communication, University of Amsterdam, University of Leuven

Project: The Present Italian Exodus: Transnational and Transmedial Mobilities

• Emmanuelle Le Pichon-Vorstman & Sergio Baauw

Department of Languages, Literature and Communication

Project: Education of Newly arrived migrant children

• Shalom Zuckerman & Manuela Pinto

Department of Languages, Literature and Communication

Project: NWO-Alfa Meerwaardeproject Coloring Book, vocabulary test for children with a ‘different’ language (anderstalige kinderen)

• Paola Monachesi

Department of Languages, Literature and Communication

Project: Creative migrants in the Netherlands and their online visibility

• Jacomine Nortier & Marleen Berkhout

Department of Languages, Literature and Communication

Project: Support of NT2 teachers with the help of manuals that provide background information about specific mother tongue languages

 13.40-14.00 – Discussion