Lay and Social Science Discourses on identity, migration and citizenship (LSSDMIC)
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The LSSDMIC project aimed to examine the ways in which the principles used in the social sciences to explain the social world might interact with the interpretative resources that are used by lay social actors to make sense of this world. The project aimed to examine this by focusing on the underlying processes of interaction between social scientific and everyday lay discourses: the different ways in which social-scientific discourses are synthesized, how these discourses are filtered back to lay discourses, and how these discourses are taken up by lay social actors. The topics selected to probe into these issues are identity, citizenship and migration as there have been global developments in these areas since the 1990s and there has been a proliferation of both social scientific and lay discussions concerning them. The interaction between social scientific and lay discourses has been studied by conducting a systematic review of social science texts on identity, citizenship and migration and by interviewing immigrants and locals in Central Macedonia, Greece. The ways in which these social science texts and interview data correspond in terms of the themes they emphasise and the arguments that are developed, has been the object of scrutiny of the project. The role of policy has also been considered for how it is manifested in those discourses. The project emphasised the role of discourse in constructing social reality and the notion that discourse is distributed across different settings.
As the project draws onto a close, the conference on Identity, Otherness and Citizenship in Contemporary Europe is held to address these issues beyond the disciplinary, epistemological, methodological and spatial confines of the project. The conference brings together contributions from social psychology, social anthropology, sociolinguistics, history and law to discuss identities and intergroup relations in educational contexts, the relationship between citizenship, multiculturalism and integration, the implications of representations of extremism and of racist discourse on identities, intergroup relations and citizenship, social accounting for new identities, migration and citizenship, dilemmas of national identity and citizenship, the functions of deprivation of citizenship, lay theories of citizenship for the study of residential mixing, and the relationship between otherness and hospitality. The contributions are based on studies in Greece, the UK, Northern Ireland and Australia and draw on accounts of Greeks and immigrants in Greece, Greek emigrants in Melbourne, long-term residents and recent incomers in Belfast, parents, school governors, teachers and politicians in the UK.
The conference aims to promote a dialogue and produce insights on identity, otherness and citizenship in contemporary Europe from these different settings and approaches in relation to identities, inclusion/exclusion, intergroup relations and integration regimes.
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The LSSDMIC project aimed to examine the ways in which the principles used in the social sciences to explain the social world might interact with the interpretative resources that are used by lay social actors to make sense of this world. The project aimed to examine this by focusing on the underlying processes of interaction between social scientific and everyday lay discourses: the different ways in which social-scientific discourses are synthesized, how these discourses are filtered back to lay discourses, and how these discourses are taken up by lay social actors. The topics selected to probe into these issues are identity, citizenship and migration as there have been global developments in these areas since the 1990s and there has been a proliferation of both social scientific and lay discussions concerning them. The interaction between social scientific and lay discourses has been studied by conducting a systematic review of social science texts on identity, citizenship and migration and by interviewing immigrants and locals in Central Macedonia, Greece. The ways in which these social science texts and interview data correspond in terms of the themes they emphasise and the arguments that are developed, has been the object of scrutiny of the project. The role of policy has also been considered for how it is manifested in those discourses. The project emphasised the role of discourse in constructing social reality and the notion that discourse is distributed across different settings.
As the project draws onto a close, the conference on Identity, Otherness and Citizenship in Contemporary Europe is held to address these issues beyond the disciplinary, epistemological, methodological and spatial confines of the project. The conference brings together contributions from social psychology, social anthropology, sociolinguistics, history and law to discuss identities and intergroup relations in educational contexts, the relationship between citizenship, multiculturalism and integration, the implications of representations of extremism and of racist discourse on identities, intergroup relations and citizenship, social accounting for new identities, migration and citizenship, dilemmas of national identity and citizenship, the functions of deprivation of citizenship, lay theories of citizenship for the study of residential mixing, and the relationship between otherness and hospitality. The contributions are based on studies in Greece, the UK, Northern Ireland and Australia and draw on accounts of Greeks and immigrants in Greece, Greek emigrants in Melbourne, long-term residents and recent incomers in Belfast, parents, school governors, teachers and politicians in the UK.
The conference aims to promote a dialogue and produce insights on identity, otherness and citizenship in contemporary Europe from these different settings and approaches in relation to identities, inclusion/exclusion, intergroup relations and integration regimes.