Papers by Karim Zafer
Flucht - Familie - Soziale Netzwerke: Forschungen mit Geflüchteten in und um Köln. Ergebnisse des Lehrforschungsprojekts "Ethnographie vor der Haustür" der Universität zu Köln
Das Themenheft „Flucht – Familie – soziale Netzwerke“ ist aus dem Lehrforschungsprogramm „Ethnogr... more Das Themenheft „Flucht – Familie – soziale Netzwerke“ ist aus dem Lehrforschungsprogramm „Ethnographie vor der Haustur“ des Instituts fur Ethnologie und des Orientalischen Seminars der Universitat zu Koln erwachsen. Im Jahrgang 2017/18 fokussierte das Programm auf das Thema „Flucht und Familie“. Die Teilnehmer*innen untersuchten u.a. wie sich familiare Konstellationen und Rollen nach der Ankunft in Deutschland veranderten, mit welchen Kommunikationsmitteln Gefluchtete transnationale Kontakte zu Familienmitgliedern halten, wie neue Freundschaften und soziale Netzwerke geknupft werden und welche Perspektiven gefluchtete Eltern und Jugendliche in Bezug auf Schule und Zukunft haben. In diesem Themenheft werden die Ergebnisse der Forschungen von Emily Davis, Nicola Deuticke, Hannah Monninger, Yannick von Lautz und Karim Zafer prasentiert. Die Beitrage sind in Deutsch oder Englisch sowie in arabischer Ubersetzung abgedruckt, um die Ergebnisse der Forschung einem akademischen Publikum sowi...
Flucht-Familie-soziale Netzwerke: Forschungen mir Geflüchteten in und um Köln, 2020
Flucht-Familie-soziale Netzwerke: Forschungen mir Geflüchteten in und um Köln. Ergebnisse des Leh... more Flucht-Familie-soziale Netzwerke: Forschungen mir Geflüchteten in und um Köln. Ergebnisse des Lehrforschungsprojekts "Ethnographie vor der Haustür" der Universität zu Köln.
Conference Presentations by Karim Zafer
Boasblog, 2025
Photograph by Marissa Macipe y del Amo. From an old market hall in Frankfurt, "Ausländische Spezi... more Photograph by Marissa Macipe y del Amo. From an old market hall in Frankfurt, "Ausländische Spezialitäten" (foreign specialities), which could also be a good description for Anthropology.
Un/commoning migration: Do we still need migration studies as we share a common planet? Towards decolonising migration research through new vernaculars and theories
Dear Colleagues in Working Group Migration,
We hereby send you the Call for the roundtable that ... more Dear Colleagues in Working Group Migration,
We hereby send you the Call for the roundtable that the Working Group Migration is organizing at the next DGSKA conference in Cologne (29.9 to 2.10.2025). We kindly ask you to widely circulate the Call in your networks. The deadline for application is January 15th. Applications should directly be submitted via this link: https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/dgska2025/p/16058.
Please also have a look at DGSKA-rules for proposing a paper: https://tagung.dgska.de/en/rules-infos/
We wish you Merry Christmas and Happy New year
Karim Zafer, Souleymane Diallo & Friedmann Yi-Neumann
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Title: Un/commoning migration: Do we still need migration studies as we share a common planet? Towards decolonising migration research through new vernaculars and theories
Over the last decades, one of the most discussed questions in social sciences has been what does decolonising knowledge production means and how we can achieve this. Following the overarching theme of (un)commoning, we believe that sharing a common planet should “utopiacally” mean abolishing migration studies since without borders, there will be no migration, only mobility (De Genova 2017). However, doing away with migration studies is not a new argument, as dominant patterns in the field (un)consciously frame migrants and refugees as a crisis. Additionally, anthropologically speaking, (illegalized) migrants and/or refugees per se should not be an anthropological inquiry, as this could lead to dehumanising and dehistoricising them (Malkki 1995, De Genevo 2007). Yet, recent migration patterns, violence induced displacements as well as current and anticipated environmental crises leading to (forced) (im)mobilities, keep migration studies on the top of the agendas of social scientists, state- and non-state actors. It is therefore needed to develop new answers to these challenges.
We are inspired by attempts at proposing new concepts and theories from the South striving for creating a global conversation on social theory which should be multilingual (Menon 2022). We ask how should migration studies look like? How narratives of migration challenge each other? What analytical and methodological approaches do vernacular concepts/terms about migration offer us? What do we learn from these to promote a multilingual and decolonial approach in migration research?
We invite migration researchers to this roundtable to address these questions in situated empirically grounded arguments.
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Papers by Karim Zafer
Conference Presentations by Karim Zafer
We hereby send you the Call for the roundtable that the Working Group Migration is organizing at the next DGSKA conference in Cologne (29.9 to 2.10.2025). We kindly ask you to widely circulate the Call in your networks. The deadline for application is January 15th. Applications should directly be submitted via this link: https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/dgska2025/p/16058.
Please also have a look at DGSKA-rules for proposing a paper: https://tagung.dgska.de/en/rules-infos/
We wish you Merry Christmas and Happy New year
Karim Zafer, Souleymane Diallo & Friedmann Yi-Neumann
Call
Title: Un/commoning migration: Do we still need migration studies as we share a common planet? Towards decolonising migration research through new vernaculars and theories
Over the last decades, one of the most discussed questions in social sciences has been what does decolonising knowledge production means and how we can achieve this. Following the overarching theme of (un)commoning, we believe that sharing a common planet should “utopiacally” mean abolishing migration studies since without borders, there will be no migration, only mobility (De Genova 2017). However, doing away with migration studies is not a new argument, as dominant patterns in the field (un)consciously frame migrants and refugees as a crisis. Additionally, anthropologically speaking, (illegalized) migrants and/or refugees per se should not be an anthropological inquiry, as this could lead to dehumanising and dehistoricising them (Malkki 1995, De Genevo 2007). Yet, recent migration patterns, violence induced displacements as well as current and anticipated environmental crises leading to (forced) (im)mobilities, keep migration studies on the top of the agendas of social scientists, state- and non-state actors. It is therefore needed to develop new answers to these challenges.
We are inspired by attempts at proposing new concepts and theories from the South striving for creating a global conversation on social theory which should be multilingual (Menon 2022). We ask how should migration studies look like? How narratives of migration challenge each other? What analytical and methodological approaches do vernacular concepts/terms about migration offer us? What do we learn from these to promote a multilingual and decolonial approach in migration research?
We invite migration researchers to this roundtable to address these questions in situated empirically grounded arguments.