(Im)mobility in left-behind areas: cross-comparing European projects (IMISCOE Workshop)
July 3rd, Lisbon, Portugal

The workshop proposal made by the Re-Place consortium was successfully accepted by the IMISCOE panel of evaluators! We are thrilled to invite IMISCOE participants to join us for a two-hour discussion on (im)mobility in left-behind areas at the beginning of July 2024 at ISCTE (Lisbon, Portugal). At this occasion, we will bring together members of relevant European research projects for a brainstorming session, including Re-Place, Whole-Comm, Welcoming Places, Vision, among others. The first moment of the workshop will be a general state of the art-presentation of the research topic, followed by a “speed dating” session where members will get acquainted with the various research schemes. After these brief encounters, we will conclude with a collective mapping of concepts and themes emerging from the discussion. We believe that this will allow for cross-fertilization among enthusiastic researchers working in areas facing similar challenges. We believe this is a very timely discussion: while IMISCOE is the biggest network of migration scholars in Europe, it has only sporadically hosted conversations related to left-behindness, peripheral, remote or “shrinking” regions/locales, and their relation with solidarity, visual narratives, gender, and the role of diaspora.
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