International conference »Spaces and locations of migration«

Slovenian Migration Institute at ZRC SAZU was one of the co-organizers of the international conference »Spaces and locations of migration« taking place at the University of Vienna on June 11 and 12. The first chapter of the three-part conference aimed at rethinking the assumptions that are at the base of migration research and assessing the effect of academic knowledge production in the formation of migration, specifically within history and sociology sciences. Martina Bofulin, a member of the program group »Heritage on the margins« presented a paper »Translocal Spaces Between China and Europe: Past and Present Mobilities of Qingtianese Entrepreneurs« that examined the legacies of Qingtianese mobilities and the various conceptualization of migration between PR China and Europe.