[KS] [CFP] 2024 Situations International Conference: Minor Diasporas in Asia and Beyond (Feb. 1-3, 2024)

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*2024 Situations International Conference*

*Call for Papers*

*Korean Cultural Centre, UK*

*1~3 February 2024*



*Minor Diasporas in Asia and Beyond*



>From contemporary news media, we receive daily reminders of the current
global migration crisis. By some estimates, there are two-hundred seventy
million migrants in the world today, roughly 3.5 percent of the world’s
population. Although the most trafficked borders traversed (or not) by
migrants are well-known, standing at various points of contact between the
Global North and the Global South, some of the routes of migration are less
well documented. Examples of what Francoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih called
“minor transnationalism,” the diasporas at the end of these routes, or more
frequently these days at a midpoint along the way, in turn develop in less
familiar ways and are perhaps surprising when they emerge as objects of
focus. Take for example Zainichi Koreans in Osaka, Vietnamese refugees in
New Orleans, ethnic Bangladeshi in Detroit, the North Korean enclave in
London, Senegalese migrants in Nicaragua. Even more liminal are the
communities of migrants stalled at the border in places like Juarez,
Lesvos, and Tangier, unable to reach their desired destination. While it is
true that all diasporas by their very nature constitute a site of minority,
we may regard these examples as doubly minoritized, that is, as situated in
subordinate relation to the dominant culture in the geographies they occupy
and as well to the discourse through which diasporas become more widely
intelligible.



In this context, this conference invites papers that expand the terrain of
thought on contemporary migration by considering examples of Korean and
other Asian migrant routes and communities, past or present, that may offer
insight, by way of both similarity and contrast, into what has become one
of the defining humanitarian crises in the world today. Papers that focus
on Korean or other Asian diasporas around the world are welcome.



*Possible topics:*

North Koreans within and without South Korea

Anti-communist branding

"Minor" migrant literature, media, and art

Cultures of inter-Asian migration

Rural/urban migration dynamics

Illegality, trafficking, statelessness

Networks and loopholes

Stateless subjects and communities

State sovereignty and states of exception

Ethics of minor diasporas and minor diasporic encounters

Minor globalization, minor postcolonialism

"Minor" futures and pasts

Cartographies of minor diasporas

Visualizing border crossings



*Keynotes:*

Dr. Chris Berry (King’s College London)

Dr. Junyoung Verónica Kim (University of Pittsburgh)



Early inquiries with 200-word abstracts are appreciated. *By 15 January
2024*, *we would invite you to submit your 4,000-word Chicago-format
conference presentation with its abstract and keywords* (the acceptance of
the presentation will be decided based on the 4,000-paper). Each invited
participant is then expected to turn his or her conference presentation
into a finished 6,000-word paper for possible inclusion in a future issue
of the SCOPUS-indexed journal, *Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian
Context*. All inquiries and submissions should be sent to both
situations at yonsei.ac.kr and skrhee at yonsei.ac.kr.



Submissions should follow the Chicago Manual of Style (16th ed.), using
only endnotes.



*Venue: Korean Cultural Centre, London, UK*



*Notes:*

*We will pay for the hotel accommodation for those participants whose
papers we accept. The presenters will share twin bedrooms.*



*Cohosted by Korean Cultural Centre UK, UCI Center for Critical Korean
Studies, Yonsei University BK21 Project, Situations*
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