This cross-disciplinary one-day workshop brings together six invited scholars and experts (alongside the three organizers) to examine the interlinkages of migration policies and European discourses over historical memory. We interrogate how competing historical narratives (of World War II-era genocide and expulsion, postwar labor migrations, Communism, decolonization, and/or EU expansion) shaped elite and popular attitudes toward migration policy in Europe. How do current anxieties surrounding migration to Europe mirror or depart from cycles of anti-immigrant and anti-refugee backlash since 1945? Crucially, how do recent immigrants to Europe engage with, adapt, and resist dominant historical narratives in their countries of residence? The workshop invites scholarship that links migration controversies in Europe with colonial legacies and with the study of race, gender, and sexuality from an interdisciplinary focus.
This event is co-sponsored by: Center for German and European Studies, Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+, Department of History, Department of Anthropology
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