Rethinking Integration in Migration Scholarship
You are cordially invited to the Inaugural Lecture of Professor Karolina Barglowski who joined the Department of Education and social Work at the University of Luxembourg in October 2022.
Presentation
In her inaugural lecture, titled “Rethinking Integration in Migration Scholarship,” Prof. Karolina Barglowski explores the evolution of migration studies and its connection to integration. Analyzing shifts in the field, she addresses integration’s limitations – stigma, oversimplification, and neglect of power dynamics – and proposes a reimagining rather than dismissal. Embracing a reconfigured integration concept, she suggests constructive solutions. The lecture concludes by urging refined sociological inquiries that view migration, settlement, and community-building as intricate components of ‘integration making’.
About the speaker
Before coming to Luxembourg, Prof. Karolina Barglowski was Junior Professor at the TU Dortmund University, and obtained her PhD at Bielefeld University. She previously held various academic positions, among them at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Ethnic and Religious Diversity and the University of California in Berkeley. She has published extensively on theories of migration and transnationalism, social inequality and social protection.
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PROGRAMME
17:00 Welcome speech
Prof. Claude Houssemand, Head of DESW, Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences
17:10 Lecture “Rethinking Integration in Migration Scholarship
Karolina Barglowski, Professor in Sociology, Social Interventions and Social Politics
18:00 Cocktail
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PRACTICAL INFORMATION
- Date: Monday, 25 September 2023
- Time: 17:00-20:00
- Place: Belval Campus – MSH, Blackbox, 11, Porte des Sciences, L-4366 Esch-sur-Alzette
- Pictures: Pictures will be taken during the event. If you do not wish that your picture is taken, inform the organisers upon arrival