MIGRANT COMMUNITIES AND URBAN SPACE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN PORTS, 17TH-19TH CENTURIES
Delphine Cavallo
Calenda
http://panelmigrantspaceghent2010 .blogspot.com/
29 septembre 2009
Appel a contribution
Communautés migrantes et espace urbain dans les ports de la
Méditerranée, XVIIe-XIXe siècle
Dixième conférence internationale d’histoire urbaine, Gand, 1er-4
septembre 2010
Migrant Communities and Urban Space in the Mediterranean ports,
17th-19th centuries
Tenth International Conference on urban History, Ghent 1st-4th
September 2010
Publié le mardi 29 septembre 2009 par Delphine Cavallo Résumé
Recent research on migrant communities has witnessed a clear shift
towards a more sophisticated understanding of the variety of bonds
that link minority groups to the society they live in, as well as to
their places of origins. Yet, when it comes to the understanding of
past migrations, historical discourse still depends in many ways on
traditional categories of analysis, that often poorly reflect the
profound originality of the situations under study. This session
is an attempt to challenge traditional and "ready-to-go" views on
the organization of community life among migrants who lived in the
Mediterranean port-cities during the late modern period (17th to
19th centuries).
Annonce
10th International Conference on urban History, Ghent 1st-4th September
2010 Main session
"Migrant Communities and Urban Space in the Mediterranean ports,
17th-19th centuries"
Recent research on migrant communities has witnessed a clear shift
towards a more sophisticated understanding of the variety of bonds
that link minority groups to the society they live in, as well as
to their places of origins. Yet, when it comes to the understanding
of past migrations, historical discourse still depends in many ways
on traditional categories of analysis, that often poorly reflect the
profound originality of the situations under study.
This session is an attempt to challenge traditional and "ready-to-go"
views on the organization of community life among migrants who lived
in the Mediterranean port- s effect, the session will address the key
issue of "minority spaces", namely of urban spaces that were socially,
architecturally or culturally formed and shaped by the presence of
migrants and foreigners. It will also consider the way such spaces
were perceived by the local population, as well as the role played by
urban space as a stake within broader patterns of social coexistence
or exclusion.
Following the idea that routes of commerce were also the major routes
of emigration, the session will focus primarily on Mediterranean
port-cities, but will also consider cities located on other types of
commercial crossroads. Conceived as minorities, foreigners’ groups may
include the so-called Diaspora groups such as the Jews, the Greeks,
and the Armenians, but also the other "nations".
Favoring principally papers with a comparative approach, the session
aims to approach the theme of "migrant spaces" from the point of view
of both the community studies and the urban studies. Comparison can in
turn be approached both on a theoretical level and through different
case studies.
Session Organizers
* Dr. Heleni Porfyriou (Senior Researcher, CNR-Italian National
Research Council- ICVBC, Rome, Italy) [email protected] ,
[email protected] * Dr. Athanasios Gekas (Lecturer,
Manchester University, UK) [email protected] * Mathieu Grenet
(PhD Candidate, European University Institute, Florence, Italy)
[email protected]
Deadline
Paper proposals have to be submitted on the conference website
() between 1 October and 1 December
2009. Session organizers have to decide which papers they accept,
and they should inform the speakers and the organizing committee
about their decision (deadline: 1 February 2010). In April 2010 the
final program will be available on the website.