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Migration network

Upcoming events include:

The Race and Ethnicity Reading Group
Tuesday 8th December
1-2.30pm, Rm 3.040, Arthur Lewis Building

Readings:
Bell, Vikki. "Performativity and Belonging: An Introduction." Theory, Culture & Society 1999, vol. 16(2): 1-10.
Mahtani, Minelle. "Tricking the border guards: Performing race." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 2002, vol. 20: 425-440.

Wednesday 11 November, 3-4.30pm
University Place 4.208, The University of Manchester

Readings:
Pamela Perry (2001) 'White Means Never Having to Say You're Ethnic: White Youth and the Construction of "Cultureless" Identities' Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 30(1): 56-91.
France Winddance Twine and Charles Gallagher (2007) 'The Future of Whiteness: A Map of the "Third Wave"' Ethnic and Racial Studies 31(1): 4-24.

The Race and Ethnicity Reading Group are hoping to meet monthly. The session in December will be on performativity as there was quite a bit of  interest in this. If anyone wants to propose a topic or article for future sessions, or present some of their work for comments then  suggestions are welcome. Please contact Bethan.Harries [at] manchester.ac.uk.

The migration network consists of: