Seminarium naukowe IEiAK UW - 25.05.2016, godz. 10:30, sala 108
Serdecznie zapraszamy wszystkich zainteresowanych na seminarium naukowe IEiAK UW, podczas którego Dr Frances Pine (Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London) wygłosi wykład pt.: Reconceptualising the household in the age of migration. Środa, 25.05.2016, godz. 10:30, ul. Żurawia 4, sala 108
This paper is about shifting contexts of east-west European migration, from the points of view of both sending households and individual migrants. I draw on my own ethnographic data from Poland, spanning the past 30 years, and on other material. The lives many migrants imagine before they leave their homes and the ones in which they find themselves on arrival often starkly diverge. I consider the conundrum of time as it plays out in complicated life courses that take people on journeys across borders and often continents, putting their present time, and the emotional, economic, and social relationships which comprise it, on hold in search of a promised ‘better’ time in the future. I argue that in many cases migrants’ journeys must be considered as outcomes of complex negotiations with household members and other kin, friends and peers, and as risks taken at least partly consciously. What is being gambled is the challenge of present hardship against the imagination of a better future. Drawing on scholars such as Massey, Harvey, Guyer and Jackson, I argue that the spatial fragmentation of migrant journeys is paralleled by temporal fragmentation, where an imagined future is weighed against an existing but non-viable (economically, politically, socially) present. The migrant’s lived world is difficult and often painful, but in the imagination it is marked by hope. It facing outwards, towards a better future, which rather ironically is often situated/imagined back in remembered past, home, place of origin. The tragedy in many migrants’ stories is that it is difficult ever to return home again – the remembered past has changed beyond recognition, and the dreamed-of future in this past cannot be realised.
Dr Frances Pine has been conducting research in eastern Europe for the past 3 decades. Her field work has been located in the Polish Tatra Mountains, the countryside of eastern and central Poland, and the cities of Lublin and Lodz. She has worked on kinship and gender, place, history and memory, work, markets, informal economy, unemployment and restructuring, and migration and emerging inequalities.
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