Call for workshop proposals: Foreigners’ Presence, Cosmopolitanism and Social Changes in Contemporary Morocco, November 3 to 4, 2014 Organized by Centre Jacques Berque - KAS - LEPOSHS (UIR) Deadline for Abstracts: April 30, 2014 (Papers in French and English are accepted) goo.gl/A0eTIg This workshop is an attempt to bring together researchers from different backgrounds whose work focuses on or is linked in some ways to the issue of the migrants’ presence in Morocco and social changes that it implicates. The goal of this workshop is to create a space for cross-disciplinary contributions to the understanding of contemporary “cosmopolitan” Morocco. Until today, concepts and terms such as “transit”, “expatriate”, “illegal immigrant”, and “sub-Saharan populations” have gained extensive public and academic attention. However, they lack conceptual precision and need further epistemological and empirical definition Moreover, they obscure the fact that Morocco has historically always been a country of immigration. Indeed, although Moroccan society is the product of aninextricable intermingling of populations of different origins, it is only recently that it has started being perceived as such. The intent is to gather academics who elaborate on the different interpretations of the term “foreigner” in the Moroccan context, who analyze the different categorizations, and who examine the different perceptions in Moroccan society. This will enable us to tackle not only the subject of the “presence of foreigners/migrants” as such, but also that of the perceptions and reactions that emerge in Moroccan society thereof – perceptions and reactions that stem from different social, ethnic, demographic, or political contexts.
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