21st Nordic Migration Research (NMR) Conference in Copenhagen

17-19 Aug 2022

RE:MIGRATION - New perspectives on movement, research, and society

Marta Padovan-Özdemir and Philip Dodds presented in the panel Postmigration – a new perspective to re-frame migration studies? convened by Maja Povrzanović Frykman, GPS & MIM, Malmö University and Moritz Schramm, Institute for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark.

Their paper ‘Postmigratory autoethnography – a complicit aesthetic exploration of migrant home-making’ took the postmigration argument of complicity in the dynamics of migration (Petersen & Schramm 2016) a step further and conceptualized the methodological notion of postmigratory autoethnography as a layered account (Ellis, Adams & Bochner 2011:278-9). The authors presented their exploratory postmigratory autoethnographies based on two aesthetic workshop series with artist facilitators and migrant participants in Denmark and Sweden, respectively. Their discussion centred on the implications and experiences of involving oneself as a migrant researcher in an aesthetic exploration of migrant home-making in two welfare state contexts of divergent and heated integration politics – and investigated the research contribution of complicity.