organisé par le laboratoire MIGRINTER – Maison des Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société (99 avenue du recteur Pineau, Poitiers) les 27 et 28 avril 2010.
PROGRAMME
Tuesday, April 27th
10.00 – 10.15 : Opening session
10.15 – 12.30 : Session 1 : Identity, settlement and transnational strategies
10.15 – 11.00 : Philippe Venier (MIGRINTER, Poitiers)
Indians in the UAE and Kuwait: the construction of a sense of belonging?
11.00 – 11.45 : Radhika Kanchana (Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris)
Indian expatriates in Qatar and UAE: Comparative profile of the Keralite and Andhrite communities especially in entrepreneurial and white collar occupations.
11.45 – 12.30 : Ginu Oommen (FMSH-MIGRINTER, Poitiers)
The Evangelical Revivalism among the Syrian Christians of Kerala in Kuwait.
12.30 – 13.45 : Lunch
13.45 – 16.00 : Session 2 : Gender perspectives on South Asian migration
13.45 – 14.30 : Bindhulakshmi P. (TISS, Mumbai)
Women, illegality and Mobility: Indian women domestic workers in the labour market of UAE.
14.30 – 15.15 : Marie Percot (LAU/IIAC, Paris)
Masculinity in transnational migration: Malayali nurses’ husbands in Ireland.
15.15 – 16.00 : Souleye Hassane (MIGRINTER, Poitiers)
Shaadi.com: Matrimonial strategies, immigration and the new technologies.
16.00 – 16.30 : Tea/coffee break
16.30 – 18.00 : Session 3 : Tamils in France
16.30 – 17.15 : Anthony Goreau-Ponceaud (ADES, Bordeaux)
Sri Lankan Tamils in France: a recent visibility in the public space.
17.15 – 18.00 : Sreeleikha Nair (CWDS, New Delhi)
The Nation on the Move: A Narrative of Migrant Tamil Women’s Lives in Paris.
20.00 : Dinner
Wednesday 28th
09.00 – 10.30 : Session 4 : Old and new routes
09.00 – 09.45 : Eric Leclerc (AILLEURS, Rouen)
Brickfields (Kuala Lumpur): a old hub for the new transnational strategies of Indian IT engineers.
09.45 – 10.30 : Julie Baujard (IRSEA, Marseille)
Afghan refugees in Delhi: When religion determines the scale of the migration.
10.30 – 11.00 : Tea/coffee break
11.00 – 11.45 : Tristan Bruslé (HIMALAYA, Villejuif)
Nepalese workers in Qatar.
11.45 – 12.30 : Mary E. Breeding (Georgetown University, Washington D.C.) (to be confirmed)
Migrant Labor and Regional Policy Initiatives: Recruitment Agencies as Information Brokers.
13.45 – 15.15 : Session 5 : Socio-cultural implications of the international migration
13.45 – 14.30 : Manja Bomhoff (University of Leiden)
A long term cultural perspective on mobility: older persons in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
14.30 – 15.15 : Ester Gallo (Centre for South Asian Studies, Edinburgh University)
Migration and Privilege in Kerala. Elites Discourses on International Mobility.
15.15 – 16.15 : Concluding session
This event is organized with the support of MIGRINTER (UMR 6588, CNRS – University of Poitiers), the University of Poitiers, and the Fondation de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (Paris).
For any query contact the organizors: Aurélie Varrel aurelie.v@gmail.com ; Philippe Venier (+33) 05 49 45 46 84