Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance
The Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG) is a University designated Centre of Research Excellence
The workshop is funded by the European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop programme. It brings together researchers from Europe whose work addresses issues of care, migration and gender from varying disciplinary and thematic perspectives, in particular including early career researchers.
Dr Nicola Yeates, Director of CCIG's Mobilities Programme, has completed a major work with Globalising care economies and migrant workers: explorations in global care chains (2009 on Palgrave).
In Migrant Women Transforming Citizenship (2009 on Ashgate), CCIG Fellow Dr Umut Erel develops new insights into the notion of transnational citizenship by
The workshop is funded by the European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop programme. It brings together researchers from Europe whose work addresses issues of care, migration and gender from varying disciplinary and thematic perspectives, in particular including early career researchers.
'Race' and Feminism will be the topic of a forthcoming panel to be held at Birkbeck, University of London on Friday, 3 July 2009, which will form part of a colloquium on the work of Prof Avtar Brah.
Does motherhood change a woman's identity? How does becoming a mother differ from how it did a generation ago? And how do such changes differ depending on a woman's ethnic background? While much research has been done on the transition to motherhood, little is known about how ethnicity and 'race' differentiate the process of becoming mothers.
In addition to an exploratory conversation between the Intimacies and Publics Programmes, and a two-paper Mobilities seminar, CCIG Forum 4 represented the launch of our new CCIG website.