CFP: Migration and Gender :
relationships, economic resources and institutions in historical perspective
(15th-20th centuries)
University of Cambridge (UK)
8-9-10 November 2018 (tbc)
Migration and mobility were
common experiences among individuals of the past. If for a long while the young
male has epitomised “the migrant”, since the 1980s, a new wave of studies
pointed out the relevance of women. In addition, the notion of gender has called into question traditional female and
male roles. Nevertheless, many key issues of the history of migration have not
been considered according to a gendered perspective, and in turn, many crucial
topics for gender history have been overlooked when studying migrants and
mobile people.
This workshop aims to bring
together researchers working on migration according to a gendered perspective
and to a micro-historical perspective from the late Middle Ages to the early
nineteenth century. Its purpose is to encourage a more incisive dialogue
between migration studies and gender studies, taking into account the fact that
female and male roles were, and are, the result of social, cultural and
economic construction. Together with gender, proposals might consider how
marital status, age and ethnicity shaped migration and settlement patterns in
specific economic, cultural and political contexts.
In this workshop, migration is
not exclusively understood as a lineal process, but also as result of multiple
intermediary steps. At the same time, the achievement of permanent settlement
was not necessarily the (first) aim of the movement. For all these
historiographical questions, a gendered approach has not yet been sufficiently
developed: we invite therefore papers taking into account all kinds of mobility and migration, i.e. temporary or seasonal
mobility, economic, political or religious migration, domestic/international migration and mobility between the town and
its outskirts.
A first group of
questions concerns the material and
economic resources mobilised by migrants. Proposals might investigate what
means women and men used to move and settle down or might study how they manage
to maintain – or abandon – assets and/or relationships in their birth community.
From another point of view we need to
know more about places where newcomers met other people and/or were able to
find useful information (i.e. inns,
taverns, lodging in private houses etc.).
A second bundle of questions concerns the
nature and the extension of social
resources newcomers were able to mobilise, to build and to use in migration
and/or settlement paths or, at least, during their temporarily stay in the
town. Research might investigate how these ties – made up by professional
intermediaries, individuals or institutions -
influenced, successfully or not, the daily life, the research for a job
or a house, the access to credit networks, to poor relief or to other urban
resources etc...
A third bundle of questions concerns laws and customs, and more generally
authorities and institutions (guilds, charity institutions, citizenship etc…)
monitoring and regulating the presence of newcomers. Proposals might consider
whether these norms existed, whether they had a gendered impact on the behaviour
of migrants, and what where the factors at stake (marital status, age, specific
economic sectors etc...).
Please
submit an abstract in English (500 words maximum) to bz268@cam.ac.uk by 15th July 2018 with
MIGRATION AND GENDER WORKSHOP 2018 in the subject line.
The selected authors will be required
to present their research in a 20 minutes presentation. The language of the
workshop is English.
After the workshop a selection of
papers will be considered for publication. Some funds will be available for the
translation in English of the selected articles.
Accommodation in Cambridge, a dinner
and refreshments will be provided by the organisation. Limited funds for
travels will be available.
This workshop benefits of funds from
the Horizon European Union's research and innovation programme under the Marie
Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement N. 703737.
For further enquires please do not hesitate to write to
Beatrice Zucca : bz268@cam.ac.uk.
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