Inimkond: Dr Mari Korpela - 'Western' Lifestyle Migrant Children in Goa, India

Our next Inimkond seminar will be held by Dr Mari Korpela from Tampere University, Finland, and is titled Experiences of mobility, definitions of home and belonging. "Western" Lifestyle Migrant Children in Goa, India.

The seminar will take place on Wednesday, March 11th, from 6 to 8pm in room M-342 (Tallinn University Mare building). You are cordially invited to attend!

See also the Facebook event.

Abstract
Increasing numbers of "Western" families are involved in a lifestyle where they spend several months a year in Goa, India, and the rest of the time in the parents' native countries and possibly also in some other places. This presentation focuses on the children's experiences. I first describe the different kinds of research material that I collected during my fieldwork. I then discuss the children's experiences of their transnationally mobile lifestyle, arguing that mobility is a state of normality for them. I also elaborate on their notions of home. Eventually, I reflect my material in regard to "the national order of things" and "methodological nationalism".

Bio
Dr Korpela is a postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at the Univ of Tampere.
She is currently working on an EU 7th Framework Programme funded project that deals with transnational migration and has been visiting scholar in the Dept of Sociology in the University of Goa, India as well as in the Centre for Migration Research at the Univ. of Sussex. She is a board member of the Finnish Anthropological Society and vice-chair of the IUAES Commission on the Anthropology of Tourism.

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This seminar series features speakers from anthropology and related fields, and fosters discussion of their research with a transdisciplinary audience. It aims to contribute to the culture of academic scholarship and debate at Tallinn University. Speakers include both local researchers and guests from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds and with various takes on anthropological theory and methods. Presentations in the seminar series will be of interest to staff and students in anthropology, cultural theory, sociology, and history, among others.