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Creating Europe through Racialized Mobilities (CERM) is an umbrella project for different case studies and publications relating to research on racialized (im)mobilities in Europe.

As a contested site of imagination, Europe is fraught with internal differentiation and hierarchies. Some parts of Europe are perceived as inhabited by more proper European subjects, while others are perceived as ‘less developed’ or ‘failed.’ Still others are excluded from the space of Europe.

Recognizing (Im)mobilities as strongly differentiated on lines of class, race, and gender, this platform draws on interdisciplinary perspectives from anthropology, decolonial and postcolonial theories. The research theoretical orientation can be simplified into two interlinked themes: The racialization of mobility within and across Europe, and mobility and Europe from the margins.

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The project is led by Dr. Kristín Loftsdóttir, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Iceland, and funded by the Icelandic Research Fund (grant no. 207062-051) and University of Iceland Research Fund.

The key research questions are:

  1. How do racialization, gender, and class intersect in the life of mobile subjects in and across Europe? What do interlinked mobilities say about the creation of particular Europeans as racialized subjects?
  2. How does mobility at Europe’s margins work toward generating understandings of ‘Europe’? How can mobilities at Europe’s margins can be used to explore the idea of Europe as created through discourses about external and internal others?

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Panel at Conference: Iceland as a Space of Exceptionalism

The panel “Iceland as a Space of Exceptionalism” was held at the Annual Conference American Anthropological Association, Praxis, 20.-23. November 2024. The panel was organized by Kristín Loftsdóttir and focused on the concept exceptionalism in relation to Iceland. Kristín Loftsdóttir, University of Iceland, gave the paper on [...]

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