Citizenship, Borders, and Gender: Mobility and Immobility

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Registration

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Conference Description

The movement of peoples across national borders is posing unprecedented challenges to receiving as well as sending countries. While a former generation of immigrants left their countries of origin and assumed new “national” identities, today’s migrants – whether legal or illegal – show different patterns: they may live in their host countries without ever legalizing or normalizing their status; they may engage in seasonal migratory patterns of back and forth among various countries, with the consequence that both the sending and receiving countries develop an ambiguous relation to these groups. We are seeing the ‘disaggregation of citizenship,’ a process through which national identity, continuous territorial residency and collective rights and benefits are increasingly separated from each other.

We are also interested in the ability that some have to move around the globe, the necessity that others find to move in search of work, and the fact that many people have neither resources nor capacity to change their place of residence.   Further, we are interested in how governments – and especially federations – address both the multiple affiliations of their members and their own obligations under transnational covenants.  Given the growth of transnational governance, we are intrigued by the effects of supra-national norms on the concept of the nation.

The central purpose of this conference is to situate gender within the context of these widely discussed and ascertained trends in the contemporary world. How do these trends affect women, their children, and family structures? Does a focus on immobility, as well as on mobility, alter the analyses? What effects do transnational norms of equality, mostly to be implemented through the nation state, have on understandings of citizenship and of the nation state? Does mobility across borders help or hinder women in achieving equality of status? What is the interaction between the women and children of migrant groups and the governments of their host countries? What role do transnational and international organizations play?

Schedule of Events

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Thursday, May 8^th

Registration, Opening Reception and Buffet Dinner
5:30 – 7:00 p.m., Common Room

I. Citizenship Then and Now
7:00 – 9:00 p.m., Auditorium

Moderator

• Seyla Benhabib

Speakers

• Alexander Aleinikoff
• Linda Bosniak
• David Jacobson
• Cynthia Patterson

Discussant

• Gerald Neuman

Friday, May 9^th

Breakfast
8:30 – 9:00 a.m., Common Room

II. Federated Citizenship/Multiple Allegiances
9:00 – 11:00 a.m., Room 202

Moderator

• Judith Resnik

Speakers

• Catherine Dauvergne
• Vicki C. Jackson
• Patrizia Nanz
• Aihwa Ong

Discussants

• Jay Winter

III. Mobility/Immobility: Gender and Crossing Borders
11:15 a.m. – 1:15 p.m., Room 202

Moderator

• Seyla Benhabib

Speakers

• Dilek Cinar
• Nicola Lacey
• Sarah van Walsum

Discussants

• Jacqueline Bhabha
• Alicia Schmidt Camacho

Lunch
1:15 – 2:15 p.m., Common Room

IV. Transnational Movements, Women’s Equality and Citizenship
2:30 – 4:30 p.m., Auditorium

Moderator

• Judith Resnik

Speakers

• Suad Joseph
• Angelia Means
• Valentine Moghadam

Discussants

• Linda Kerber
• Audrey Macklin
• Reva Siegel

Saturday, May 10^th

Breakfast Buffet
9:30 – 10:00 a.m., Room 202

Roundtable Discussion: Transnational Forms of the Nation-State
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., Room 202

Moderator

• Vilashini Cooppan

Commentators

• Alexander Aleinikoff
• Linda Bosniak
• Aihwa Ong

Discussants

• Robert Barsky
• Seyla Benhabib
• Judith Resnik