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Previous Short Courses are listed below the current description.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

2022 APSA Short Course<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Methods Studio: Interpretive Methods in Studies of Belonging and Migration<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wednesday September 14, 2022, 9:00am-1:00pm<\/p>\n

Palais des congr\u00e8s de Montr\u00e9al, Room 522A<\/em><\/p>\n

Sponsor<\/span>: Interpretive Methodologies & Methods (IMM) Group<\/p>\n

Organizers<\/span>: Rina Williams (Rina.Williams@uc.edu<\/a>) & Crystal Whetstone (crystalwhetstone@gmail.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Short Course Chair<\/span>: Dr. Michelle Weitzel<\/p>\n

The Methods Studio<\/strong> Short Course has two parts: a workshop and an open panel discussion described below. The focus of this year\u2019s workshop (Part I) is \u201cInterpretive Methods in Studies of Belonging and Migration.\u201d Following that, the open panel discussion (Part II) will entail a panel of experts in a range of interpretive methods, who will take questions over interpretive methods in works in progress. Scholars at any stage of their research are welcome to attend.<\/p>\n

Part I<\/strong><\/p>\n

Workshop: \u201cInterpretive Methods in Studies of Belonging and Migration\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Unpacking belonging, particularly in the context of migration, was practically made to be studied using interpretive methods. To make sense of the experiences of belonging and migration in an era rife with talk of a \u201cmigrant crisis\u201d and so-called \u201cillegal migrants\u201d alongside a dramatic rise in nationalism, right-wing populism and white supremacy\u2014and to see that these parallel movements are not a coincidence\u2014takes careful introspection. How can interpretive methodologies and methods help scholars to understand the experiences of migrants, particularly their sense of belonging in their homelands and in their new locales? What does it mean to belong somewhere? Who is a migrant? Do connections between the \u201cold\u201d world and \u201cnew\u201d world of a migrant ever sever? Where is home for migrants, even second, third or fourth generations who continue to be seen as not \u201creal\u201d citizens in their native-born countries?<\/p>\n

(Registered participants can receive PDF copies of readings in advance of the Short Course by emailing the organizers, Rina.Williams@uc.edu<\/a> or crystalwhetstone@gmail.com<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Speaker 1: <\/em>Dr. Yuna Blajer de la Garza, Loyola University Chicago<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Blajer is a political theorist studying inequalities and oppression in democratic societies by focusing on the interactions between formal political institutions, the ideals that undergird them, and everyday practices and norms. In her first book manuscript, provisionally titled A House Is Not A Home: Citizenship and Belonging in Contemporary Democracies<\/em>, Blajer addresses the interplay between the institutional and the everyday by examining the tension between citizenship and belonging in 21st-century democracies through the figure of the citizen who does not belong. The manuscript draws from insights gleaned through ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Paris and Mexico City between 2015 and 2017. Mexico and France illustrate two incomplete pathways toward democratic belonging. France boasts a strong state with a reliable bureaucracy that secures legal rights, while Mexico\u2019s is beset by corruption, inequality, and inefficiency. The literature on state strength and democratization would expect France to fare better than Mexico in guaranteeing the equal standing of its members\u2014and thus their equal belonging. Counterintuitively, Blajer finds that not to be the case.<\/p>\n

References and planned course readings<\/u><\/p>\n