9:44 a.m.
Dear colleagues
I hope you are doing well. I am sending you a Call for Papers on “Transnational Migrant
Entrepreneurship: Exploring Diverse Spatial Mobilities and Connections Across the Globe”
that we are organizing with Laure Sandoz and Natasha Webster at the 2020 IMISCOE annual
conference in Luxembourg. I ask you to please consider submitting a paper proposal and
also to be so kind and distribute the Call for Papers among your networks and possibly
interested colleagues and students
Warm regards
Yvonne Riaño
17th IMISCOE annual conference ‘Crossing Borders, connecting cultures’ (Luxembourg, 30
June – July 2, 2020)
Transnational Migrant Entrepreneurship: Exploring Diverse Spatial Mobilities and
Connections Across the Globe
Organizers: Yvonne Riaño (University of Neuchatel), Laure Sandoz (University of
Neuchatel), Natasha Webster (Stockholm University)
Contemporary social and technological transformations have greatly intensified the
cross-border movement of people, ideas, objects and capital, thus creating new
opportunities for global interconnectedness. Such profound changes generate new pathways
for migrants to organize and perform their entrepreneurial activities across transnational
spaces (cf Portes et al 2002). In this panel we interrogate the pertinence of
long-established paradigms in migration studies to capture the complexity of spatial
movements and global connections created by contemporary transnational migrant
entrepreneurs. While recognising the great potential of the 'mobilities paradigm'
(Urry 2000, Cresswell 2011) to tackle this question, we also acknowledge some remaining
challenges. First, there is an unexplored potential to uncover the diversity of spatial
mobilities and transnational connections created by migrant entrepreneurs beyond the
spatial binary 'country of origin and country of destination'. The multiplicity of
connections with different locales across the globe and the ways and forms of connection
are still poorly understood. Second, we have insufficient understanding of how social
inequalities are entangled with different capacities of spatial mobility among migrant
entrepreneurs, thus addressing the question of how and why some individuals become
transnational entrepreneurs, whereas others do not. Third, the potential of the
'intersectional' perspective, which examines how gender, class, ethnicity,
nationality, age, and migration experience shape the different capacities of spatial
mobility of migrant entrepreneurs, has not been sufficiently addressed. This panel aims at
gaining a deeper understanding of contemporary transnational migrant entrepreneurship. In
order to do so, we welcome contributions that focus on one or several of the following
topics:
* The multiple spatialities of migrants' entrepreneurial practices across local,
regional and transnational geographies
* The different kinds of mobilities embedded in migrant entrepreneurship including the
mobility of objects, bodies, capital and ideas across local, regional, and transnational
spaces
* The question of how social inequalities are entangled with different capacities of
spatial mobility among migrant entrepreneurs
* The social implications of different capacities of spatial mobility
* The role of migration and mobility policies in shaping the capacity of migrants to
transform their transnational experiences of mobility into a resource for business
* The nexus between spatial mobility and social mobility
* The ways in which the transnational spatial practices of migrant entrepreneurs are
gendered, and connected to class, ethnicity, nationality, age, and migration experience
* New methodological approaches for exploring cross-border spatial mobilities in
entrepreneurship research
Submissions
We welcome abstracts of no more than 250 words including a title, your name, email, and
institutional affiliation by 24 November 2019 at the latest. All files must be submitted
in Word format to Yvonne Riaño (yvonne.riano at unine.ch<mailto:yvonne.riano at
unine.ch>), Laure Sandoz (laure.sandoz at unine.ch<mailto:laure.sandoz at
unine.ch>) and Natasha Webster (Natasha.webster at
humangeo.su.se<mailto:Natasha.webster at humangeo.su.se>). We will inform all
authors on whether their abstract is accepted for presentation before 1 December 2018. A
definitive answer of acceptance of the panel by IMISCOE is expected by 1 February 2019.
For more information on the conference, please refer to:
https://www.imiscoe.org/news/network-news/924-cfp-imiscoe-17th-annual-confe…
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Prof. Dr. Yvonne Riaño
Institute of Geography
National Centre of Competence in Research The Migration-Mobility Nexus
University of Neuchâtel
Switzerland
http://www2.unine.ch/geographie/yvonne_riano
https://nccr-onthemove.ch/projects/migrant-entrepreneurship-mapping-cross-b…
Access my publications: https://unine.academia.edu/YvonneRiaño