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.
The recent ‘Managed Migration’ conference (19 May 09) organized by inside government took place in the plush surroundings of a central London hotel. As I was looking for the hotel, I mused about how the choice of location, a hotel in transnational ownership hints at transnational mobility, though in this case of capital.
Marina Barbosa de Almeida, a Doctoral Student in Literature based at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil, will be Visiting CCIG Fellow from September 2009 - 2010, supervised by CCIG members Dr Gail Lewis and
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.