Ambivalence as a Category for Migration Studies: Promises, Pitfalls, Ways Ahead

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Ambivalence as a Category for Migration Studies: Promises, Pitfalls, Ways Ahead

Tuesday, July 15, 2014: 3:30 PM-5:20 PM

Room: 313+314

RC31 Sociology of Migration (host committee)

Language: English

Session Organizers:

Peter KIVISTO, Augustana College, USA and Paolo BOCCAGNI, University of Trento, Italy

527.1

Feelings of Ambivalence: Ageing Labour Migrants in Vienna (Oral Presentation)
Monika PALMBERGER, Inst Study Religious & Ethnic Diversity, Germany

527.2

Older Immigrants Living in Switzerland and Forms of Ambivalence Around the Retirement Period (Oral Presentation)
Claudio BOLZMAN, Uni Applied Science Western Switzerland, Switzerland

527.3

Imagining Futures in Paper Homes. Ambivalence, the ‘Politics of Becoming' and the Everyday Life of Temporary Immigrants (Oral Presentation)
Claudia TAZREITER, University of New South Wales, Australia

527.4

Mobile Ambivalence: Turkish Alevis in Australia (Oral Presentation)
Glenda BALLANTYNE, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

527.5

Disputed Ambivalence. Berlin Hauptschüler As Strangers (Oral Presentation)
Stefan WELLGRAF, European University Viadrina, Germany

527.6

Conceptualizing Spatial Ambivalence Among Migrant Academics: The Dimension of Temporalities in Understanding Career Strategies (Distributed Paper)
Kyoko SHINOZAKI, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

527.7

How Are Social Relations and Locality Connected? New Ambivalences in the Research on Migrant Families (Distributed Paper)
Gwendolyn GILLIÉRON, University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland; Thomas GEISEN, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland