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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?

Latest News

Conference: Creating Europe from the Margins

October 13th, 2023 Location: National Museum of Iceland, lecture hall 10:00-10:20    Welcome from Guðbjörg Linda Rafnsdóttir former Pro-Rector of Research, University of Iceland Welcome from Kristín Loftsdóttir, PI of Creating Europe through Racialized Mobilities 10:20-10:40    Kristín Loftsdóttir, Brigitte Hipfl and Sandra Ponzanesi, editors Creating Europe from the [...]

Creating Europe from the Margins

Routledge has published Creating Europe from the Margins: Mobilities and Racism in Postcolonial Europe, edited by Kristín Loftsdóttir, Brigitte Hipfl and Sandra Ponzanesi. This edited volume explores the idea of Europe through a focus on its margins. The chapters in the volume inquire critically into the relations [...]

Into the unknown: uncertainness as the common condition of mobilities

Kristín Loftsdottir and Ignacio Fradejas-García participated at the XVI SIEF congress (International Society for Ethnology and Folklore) in Brno, Check Republic, 7-9 June of 2023. This biannual congress meets around 1000 anthropologists, ethnologists, and folklorists from Europe and from all around the world. Kristín and Ignacio have [...]

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