Previous MIGLOBA feedback sessions

The first semester feedback session will take place on Monday 24/11 (11h30-12h30) at Room S.Sj.115 (Het Brantijser).

In this session, Gabriele Vitale shared a brief overview of the project “The world behind a word. An anthropological exploration of fascist practices and meanings among European youth. (F-WORD)”, hosted by University of Torino and funded by the European Research Council (ERC).

Presentation summary: Drawing from his  ongoing fieldwork, enquire youth participation in nationalist spaces of cultural reproduction that are often labelled externally as “far-right” or “fascist”. How do participants define their engagement? Through which trajectories did they became passionate about the Flemish Movement? How do they relate to the history of the Movement and to its fascist permutations? How are history and memory used as heuristic devices to read the contemporary and give meaning to old and new practices of participation?

In this feedback session MIGLOBA researcher Anna Rajkowska presented an article entitled "From the Darkness of Blasphemy to the Light of Revelation:" Women-Only Spaces as Crucibles for Islamic State Mobilization in Turkey"on the role of women-only spaces in shaping women’s pathways to global jihad, focusing on Turkish jihadi women who joined the Islamic State (IS) and the localized IS networks responsible for their preparation. she argued that these spaces play a critical role in the shift from local to global mobilization, serving as environments where women assert their agency. Specifically, the study investigates a jihadi community in Istanbul, which functioned as a gateway to IS until 2015, providing both ideological preparation and logistical support. Drawing on fieldwork in Istanbul, including interviews, focus groups, participant observation, court case analysis, and biographical lenses to explore women's militant trajectories, this article locates women's agency in counterintuitive militant spaces.

​

Giovanni Penna will shared a working paper entitled "Unfixable errors? Paperwork mistakes in refugee family reunification and their implications". 

In this feedback session Dr. Lena Richter shared her book proposal on nonreligious minority strategies in navigating a religious majority context, with a particular focus on migration as a coping strategy. The book draws on long-term fieldwork in Morocco and among the Moroccan diaspora in Europe and explores five strategies: Activism, adaptation, living a double life, finding allies, and migration.

In this feedback session, Daniela shared an article that she's been co-writing, related to her research on "The Population Census in Portugal: Mapping Controversies and Registering Ethnocultural Difference in the Portuguese Empire". 

In this feedback session, Irene shared some of the methodological issues that emerged during her fieldwork, such as how to get in contact and manage relationships with different communities.