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.
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.
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:
- 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?
- 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
Published article: Fifteen percent of the nation
The article “Fimmtán prósent þjóðarinnar. Frá Íslandi til Kanaríeyja/Fifteen percent of the nation: From Iceland to the Canaries” has been published in Ritið. The article is authored by Kristín Loftsdóttir, and is in Icelandic. The article gives insights into the mobilities of Icelandic people to the Canary Islands, [...]
Chapter on Coloniality and Europe at the Margins
"Coloniality and Europe at the margins” – The open access chapter focuses on analysis of racism in countries in Europe that have historically perceived themselves as on the margins of Europe, asking how decolonial theory can help to analyse how racism and colonial innocence is expressed. The [...]
Speculating about the migration crisis
The article Speculating about the migration crisis: Acting from above and below on the Canary Islands route has been published in may issue 2024 in Third World Quarterly, written by Ignacio Fradejas-García & Kristín Loftsdóttir. In the article they asks what kinds of speculation the proclamation of a migration crises [...]
